Ruby Granger #26 Ruby Granger is a bad writer

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so I just spotted Contrapoints in Rhubarb's study notes and I want to gatekeep so much right now I am shaking.
(then again there is a lot Roobli could learn from Natalie, especially when it comes to content quality)

 
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StatusWoe said:
I love Contrapoints!! She's one of the best YouTubers IMO. How is this relevant to Ruby's degree, though?
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Yes! I love her too and I have probably watched each of her videos a hundred times by now.
Apparently, from what I can tell by her notes this is about Butler and gender, probably came up in one of her modules?
 
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opal73

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I try not to wish failure on anyone but I really hope she gets a third and realises she's not special
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Her video quality has become worse (worse than normal) the closer we're getting to her dissertation being due. I think she's really nervous about it. We'll know she did poor if she doesn't upload an OTT video reacting to her dissertation results. Or she'll make one that's obviously fake to appease her audience. She needs a third to humble her though.
 
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The irony of this uni lecturer giving advice about answering the question, not giving unwanted opinions and engaging with critics beyond just parroting their views and Rubert replying ‘thanks!’ when we know she’ll 100% be doing those things in her dissertation
 
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rubysdeadfly

She looks like she's been crying in her most recent videos, could be the sun but her eyes look super glassy. Tbf though whenever she does a timelapse of her 'studying' she looks like she's on the verge of floods of tears
 
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morganmichelle

Could someone please post a screenshot for those of us who don't watch her videos anymore? Thank you! x
 
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Ruby: "Thanks syo moch for sharing this!"
Also Ruby: (Continues to write a labyrinthine mess of unrelated dead-end tangents and insane nonsense which has no relation to her degree.)

I'm sure her own dissertation supervisor has been telling her the exact same thing. Unfortunately, Ruby won't listen and can't answer the question asked because she never came up with an essay thesis.

New video is titled "a productive study day #2". Ruby was too busy being JANUINELY VARRY PRODOCKTIVE to finally learn capital letters and how they work. There is also no video on her channel titled "a productive study day #1", so what's this the sequel to?



"the world is looking so beautiful!" she slaps on-screen, and as always, she hasn't considered that there's a world beyond the bedroom and back yard where she'll spend the next several years.

"I started off byyy dyoing some overflow tahhsks for moiy dissertation."

There should be no "overflow tasks" for your dissertation, Ruby. Write it. Edit it. Reference properly. Then get it printed and bound to hand in. That's it.



Anyway, Ruby's definition of "overflow tasks" is as confused and wrong as her definition of "admin".

"I'm basically dyoing the same koiynd of thing I was dyoing yassturday--YASSTURDAY I focused on restructuring and gyowing through and making toiynee edits," she says, stating that she's doing the same today with a different chapter.

This isn't "overflow tasks", this is the core work for the dissertation,. Ruby's utterly moronic method of turning even the most straightforward task into a multi-tiered project of busywork, splitting off essential components and giving them daft and nebulous task names to make it seems like she's endlessly multitasking and therefore more productive...it's the dumbest shit in a swamp of dumb shit.

The work she's doing is just as much of an unstructured, unfinished mess as ever, judging by the work she shows (conspicuously not written on the PONKIN' PRODURTVITY notebook which she claims to ALWAYS use).



Ruby has another matcha latte instead of food. There's a huge hair trailing out of it, so I guess Ruby thought garnishing her drink with her own eroding wig would add some nutritional value?

She rambles that she's focusing on the parts she's less confident in to prioritise these, as though being far from confident in two thirds of your whole dissertation at the 11th hour, after two years of work and 7+ drafts is the most natural thing in the world and nothing to be worried about.

"It makes syoo moch sense to put the toiyme into things you knyow you need to improve on," says Ruby, who constantly wastes all her time and never improved at anything.



"just tidying my desk a little bit" - no need for caps or punctuation for this Literature-studying wunderkind. By "my desk", she means "my windowsill". And by "tidying", she means "throwing away two burnt matchsticks, but leaving a third there for sentimental reasons or something". Her candle is leaning as far as possible, to distance itself from her stupidity.



Ruby says she's going to file away some notes in her compendium of degree-related lecture notes and general, redundant wastes of paper. She even mentions that she's already duplicated this crap in Notion and is weeks away from finishing her degree, so this is an especially pointless thing to do.

There's stray hairs trailing all over this, too, as Ruby's malnourished scalp is apparently ejecting hair faster than a Husky shedding its summer coat.



CHOMPCHOMPCHOMP.

Reminder: This is a liquid. There should be no chewing. Between this habit and the last video, where she was chewing thin air on multiple occasions, her body's apparently so starved that she just chews anything or nothing in lieu of food.



The insanity continues as Ruby claims her critical ass-ay for her other module is all finished, but again she's decided to essentially copy the entire thing by hand to a notepad to "write out the logical structure and make sure everything made sense". Always a good sign.



No closer to a completed dissertation and with no signs of anything approaching a coherent thesis or sensible work plan, Ruby dresses up like a child and heads to the theatre with her mum and sister. There she'll distract the cast on stage with the light reflected off her bright red receding fivehead.

She tosses in another lip-service disclaimer to say you should ALWAYS make time for breaks, but misses the point entirely.

According to Ruby, study breaks are essential to "keep you motivated and keep you enjoying your wahhrk". No, Ruby. A break shouldn't just be a compliment to your studies. A break is supposed to be essential time away from your study and should be enjoyable in its own right. Studying should not be the centre of your life. It shouldn't be the thing that all other things take a backseat to or supplement.

And this latest half-assed disclaimer rings especially hollow as Ruby continues to refuse to tear herself away from her laptop to even drink something, and the last few videos she's shown herself positioning drinks between her arms so she can sip from them hands-free and not have to stop typing.




She's learned absolutely nothing.
 
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StatusWoe

That GIF of her chewing the tea...wut? Hair on the matcha latte made me wince. It seems as though she's molting.

Oh look, more green. At least it's not vegetable porridge. Has anyone ever tried a 'matcha rose latte' before? Is it a nice drink?



I have never felt this confused by anyone's dissertation process. What on earth is she doing? Floundering, probably, but she seems pretty relaxed so who knows.
 
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emmer_moans

Why do I get the feeling she’ll run out of time to get the thing finished, bound and handed in? Back when I had to do mine, there was a wait-time on the binding because one little copy shop in the campus was trying to do everyone’s binding all at once. I think I did mine a few days before and there were queues even then. Surely with all those revisions Ruby is doing she’ll leave no time to actually get the thing bound, unless it’s a digital submission?
 
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ECH

She's probably got digital submission, most unis changed to that during covid and haven't changed back. Can't be certain about Exeter, but I know it's true for the majority of unis I've worked with since the pandemic.
 
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Ilaariaa

At my uni we submitted our dissertations digitally last year
 
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emmer_moans

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She's probably got digital submission, most unis changed to that during covid and haven't changed back. Can't be certain about Exeter, but I know it's true for the majority of unis I've worked with since the pandemic.
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Ilaariaa said:
At my uni we submitted our dissertations digitally last year
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Thanks, makes sense, I suppose! I’m a dinosaur who submitted mine a few years ago now

Even so, I have image of her with papers strewn all over her floor hours before the deadline, still crossing words out to get the count down For someone who makes to-do lists every day and time blocks her day, she’s really not been organised at all with this dissertation. At this stage she should be checking for typos for the last time and submitting it.
 
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Ilaariaa

Yeah like I get that some people are just like that (my boyfriend is a grad student in Mathematics and he always always procrastinates till the last minute to do stuff, I get anxious for his assignments before he does lol)
But I really don't think Ruby is one of those people
 
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Griftwood

I think she secretly is. That’s why she has more than one video about ”how I stopped procrastinating” - because she hasn’t managed to do it.
 
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