Ruby Granger #35 Hello, it's Flu-bee!

[gossip_guy]

Her TikTok seems to become even more of an utter mess of disorganised nonsense every time I look at it.

I tried to parse what the hell she's thinking with her upload schedule and I just can't. She's uploaded a bunch of January reading vlogs which feel completely unmoored from reality and any concept of time.

Vlog 1 - Ruby pretends to spend a day in a van with Blakeney reading FOIYVE SURVOYVE - a book that she was supposed to read in December.
Vlog 2 - Ruby pretends to read THARRTEE PAYGES of Spare and paint her nails, all in TWANTEE MINUTES. Utter horseshit.
Vlog 3 - "Book One of TWANTEE TWANTEE THRYEE." Ruby pretends to read WOTHERING HOYTS. She also says this is vlog 2 of 4.
Vlog 4 - "Book Nine of TWANTEE TWANTEE THYREE - THE FAMILY CUSSFIELD NYOTEBOHKS." It's like 4 pages long. #AD
Vlog 5 -

"Hallo children and walcome tyooo LARRNING TOIYM WITH RYOOBEE! The number 4 is spelled F O R. Now let's count to tan! One, nine, three, for...I forget the rest, syooo...class is over for today boht oiy hyope yoo have a prodocktive wyeek."

 

[CatCafe234]

Haha that made me laugh but it's so true. She made a big mistake with her revision folders. A much better preparation would have been to choose a poem at random, give herself 5-10 mins to annotate it, answer questions from a teacher/parent, then research the poem to see if her points are supported by the info that's online. That way she'd get used to analysing new literature under timed conditions. Idk why she did it in such a rigid way.

I was surprised that she never seemed to do this. Even if her school didn’t have much in the way of Oxbridge support, information about the format of an English Lit. Oxbridge interview is easily available online and practicing a response to unseen poetry or prose would have been much better preparation, like you say. I don’t know if things have changed but unseen texts were definitely part of my A-Level English Lit. exams, I have a vague memory of mine being something from F. Scott Fitzgerald …

I think Ruby thought that if she read lots and lots of analysis and papers she’d be able to dazzle her interviewers with the breadth of her knowledge, but then when the interview came she couldn’t link her research to the text and it completely threw her. It’s like revising for an exam by writing your own questions and then getting confused when the real ones are different, it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

 

[StatusWoe]

Her TikTok seems to become even more of an utter mess of disorganised nonsense every time I look at it.

I tried to parse what the hell she's thinking with her upload schedule and I just can't. She's uploaded a bunch of January reading vlogs which feel completely unmoored from reality and any concept of time.

Vlog 1 - Ruby pretends to spend a day in a van with Blakeney reading FOIYVE SURVOYVE - a book that she was supposed to read in December.
Vlog 2 - Ruby pretends to read THARRTEE PAYGES of Spare and paint her nails, all in TWANTEE MINUTES. Utter horseshit.
Vlog 3 - "Book One of TWANTEE TWANTEE THRYEE." Ruby pretends to read WOTHERING HOYTS. She also says this is vlog 2 of 4.
Vlog 4 - "Book Nine of TWANTEE TWANTEE THYREE - THE FAMILY CUSSFIELD NYOTEBOHKS." It's like 4 pages long. #AD
Vlog 5 - View attachment 1903598

"Hallo children and walcome tyooo LARRNING TOIYM WITH RYOOBEE! The number 4 is spelled F O R. Now let's count to tan! One, nine, three, for...I forget the rest, syooo...class is over for today boht oiy hyope yoo have a prodocktive wyeek."

I'm surprised she's reading Spare. I guess she's jumping on the popular book bandwagon, but it's still nothing like her usual reading material. It's also not what I expected from Ruby, girl who tries to avoid all controversial opinions.

 

[emmer_moans]

I'm surprised she's reading Spare. I guess she's jumping on the popular book bandwagon, but it's still nothing like her usual reading material. It's also not what I expected from Ruby, girl who tries to avoid all controversial opinions.

I bet she only reads the first chapter then pretends it is amazing.

 

[CatCafe234]

She’s probably reading Spare because she has a vague memory of there being a younger sibling somewhere and she’s wondering what it’s like …

 

[sunniva]

So glad I stumbled across this thread because her videos used to be suggested to me maybe 3 years ago or a bit more, when she was just first at uni or maybe even applying?

Even back then it struck me as EXTREMELY odd that an 18 year old would be so preoccupied with this formal sort of ‘studying’ in a way that seemed very GCSE to me. She reminded me of boring girls at school who posed as academic in a very morally superior way… but they had all pretty much grown out of it by 6th form. So to see somebody go to uni like that was very weird andI icky to me. At the time I wondered if it was just an Oxbridge thing lmao.

Sad to see she’s still stuck in that GCSE special academic wonder girl mindset at what? 22? Pathetic. I hope she gets help honestly, but there’s something genuinely sickening about grown women pretending to be 14.

 

[marcelprout]

And even then, Ruby doesn't make it easy for herself. If her undergraduate is anything to judge by, she applies to the top, oversubscribed colleges who have the pick of the litter. If you don't have the strongest application but you really want to attend Oxford, you should apply to one of the smaller, more modern Oxford Colleges because your chances of admittance would improve tenfold.

This strategy might work in undergrad admissions, but on postgrad level you apply for the course within a specific faculty/department. Once you've been admitted to a course, a College will basically "pick you" by offering you a place, and you usually don't even know what College you'll go to for the first few months after you've been accepted into a programme (and just sort of wait around to be emailed). They try to pick their postgrads according to their personal statements and their specific topics of interest within a field. It really is a much more student-specific experience. You can always state your College preference on the application itself, of course, but it is in no way a guarantee you'll actually be placed there and it has no influence on your "admissibility".

Based on my experience, she should know the results of her application by mid-February, so if she yet again turns suspiciously anti-grades and "the formality of learning in academia" we'll know what's up

 

[xoxoxo13]

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... Now I understand why it was so hard for her to eat that ahliv

My german is still very limited, but did ruby like the video?

 

[vwxyz]

It’s not any more expensive than any other university in the UK. It’s the same price as every other uni, fees are 9k a year across the board. Some courses that are very niche might have a lower calibre of students solely because not many people apply to them, so people who have their heart set on oxford rather than on a specific subject will strategically apply to those niche subjects (like vee khativu randomly studying ancient history and archaeology despite having no apparent interest in it). But that has nothing to do with paying your way in..
If your friend just did a summer course there then that would offer no real benefit in the job market. Those courses are just money rackets for wealthy foreign students.

He actually did a Bachelor and Masters, but I think he meant that summer course when he talked about that "pay yourself in" method. His degrees were nothing but hard work. With the fees I didn't know that it's always the same as I'm not from the UK.

My german is still very limited, but did ruby like the video?

Yes, she did

Do we know if she only applied to Oxford and nowhere else? That would really make me worry

 

[gossip_guy]

"LAT'S GAT RADDY FWORE WAHHRK..."

"It's moinuss SIX tyoday, syo at the myoment oiy'm wahrring moiy THICKEST Carloiylse jompah. Boht oiy can't waahr this to waahrk."

Wait, hold up, gonna have to stop you there Rubes... No way is this first thing in the morning and no way did you get fully dressed just to choose a work outfit to get dressed into. Your room is lit by bleeping beaming midday sunshine. What the duck kind of slack-ass, show-up-whenever-you-want school job do you expect people to believe you have that you don't even have to start getting ready until like 1 in the afternoon?

Also the only time it hit -6 degrees in Ruby's town this month was yesterday. A Sunday. Y'know, the day when no schools are open.

"Oiy'm ACTUALLY BOZZING FWORE TYODAY AS WAHL."

Yeah, no tit, it's a Sunday and you don't have to leave your bedroom, and you've found another excuse to lie your ass off on the internet, no wonder you're excited.

And, naturally, she settles on an outfit that just looks like a school uniform with an undeclared ad for MISPAH TEENAH, and just ends the video mid-word.

 

[emmer_moans]

She always looks like she has slept in her clothes.

 

[theMoth]

what's wrong with the jumper? why can't she wear it to work? because it doesn't scream "OY AM A SCHOOL YUNIFOOAM!"?
(I'm not good at that Ruby-accent)

 

[VallegGirl]

Haha that made me laugh but it's so true. She made a big mistake with her revision folders. A much better preparation would have been to choose a poem at random, give herself 5-10 mins to annotate it, answer questions from a teacher/parent, then research the poem to see if her points are supported by the info that's online. That way she'd get used to analysing new literature under timed conditions. Idk why she did it in such a rigid way.

I have a couple of ideas why Ruby does things in the very rigid way she does. (a) I think that is a learning style that has been successful for her in terms of getting good grades. So it is a case of continuing with what has worked (b) Ruby sees failure as not knowing an answer or a response. In this way her learning style is very formulaic (c) Ruby hasn't made the cognitive link between her inability to critically analyse new information [in an original and creative manner] and her failure to get into Oxford. With the 'pick of the bunch' I believe Oxford are looking for 'out of the box' thinkers. Ruby is a very much 'in the box thinker'. This takes me back to point (b) in that she views things as having a right or wrong response or answer. My ideas may be way off. I'd be interested in others views though.

 

[YellowLadybird]

Oxford Colleges also have internal reputations, which you'll only know if you've been there or know someone who has done so in the recent past. My partner went there and informs me that Wolfson has a reputation for being where all the gay guys go... which sounded ridiculous to me until I looked up who went there from my school, and found nothing to counter his assertion! I can't remember the others he's told me, but the reality isn't always obvious from the outside!

 

[emerald]

I've been watching her old videos (like receiving her A level exam results time period) and she seemed a lot happier and very cheerful then. She just seems very subdued and sad now. I think the passion for youtube AND learning AND reading has gone.

 

[irunforfun]

I've been watching her old videos (like receiving her A level exam results time period) and she seemed a lot happier and very cheerful then. She just seems very subdued and sad now. I think the passion for youtube AND learning AND reading has gone.

It’s what happens when you realise that you’d been a big fish in a small pond and are now a mere tiny fish in a very big pond.

 

[Whisper2Me]

Is there a strict dress code for teachers at her school? The whole uniform look is giving me Miss Trunchbull vibes. Is this what her life is going to be all about? She was the so-called bullied child, so now she is going to take revenge on innocent younger school kids for the kicks of it? Because that is literally what I am picking up here. I still cannot understand why, if she was bullied so badly in school, she would actually want to teach at the same place. You disassociate with negative places and move on. You don't go crawling back for more.

 

[DrinaM]

A much better preparation would have been to choose a poem at random, give herself 5-10 mins to annotate it, answer questions from a teacher/parent, then research the poem to see if her points are supported by the info that's online. That way she'd get used to analysing new literature under timed conditions. Idk why she did it in such a rigid way.

This is an actual great tip. And so much simpler. Ugh. No busy work needed,.

Yes. That giant folder she created for her interview was so stupid. If she followed your tip, she might have expanded her vocab and also been able to work around not knowing what the word 'brine' means. I feel a bit bad tbh but I still laugh about her asking 'what does brine mean?' in the Oxford undergrad interview. It kinda reminds me of something I was scared I would do in an oral examination, but thankfully I survived

 

[bananapeel]

Oxford Colleges also have internal reputations, which you'll only know if you've been there or know someone who has done so in the recent past. My partner went there and informs me that Wolfson has a reputation for being where all the gay guys go... which sounded ridiculous to me until I looked up who went there from my school, and found nothing to counter his assertion! I can't remember the others he's told me, but the reality isn't always obvious from the outside!

Indeed. There is one college at Oxford where lots of Welsh students go (learned this from a Welsh friend) and at Cambridge, King's is a bit of a communist hub. Trinity College is the one for private school graduates.

 

[Natash]