Ruby Granger #37 You can still get one while you can

emmer_moans · Mar 23, 2023

inyo said:
Even paying £9,250, my lecturers have said the uni makes a loss on each home student and that we're all subsidised by international students. It's crazy though what universities tend to waste money on, so I take them with a pinch of salt when they say that.

I work for a uni, a LOT of the money goes on heating, lighting, aircon and operational costs. I did not realise how much, until we got an email one year saying that running the estate costs hundreds of thousands and almost millions per year. During the pandemic they saved hundreds of thousands on energy costs, as you can imagine

Plus the wage bill to be fair, most universities employ admin staff, technicians, cleaners etc in addition to all the lecturer and researchers.

International students are definitely part of balancing the books, the operational costs of a university are huge.

That said, it still feels a lot for students to pay, especially for Humanities courses where you are not using specialist spaces or having as much contact time.

opal73 · Mar 24, 2023

DrinaM said:
Lol her latest TikTok has ghastly audio. Her audio on all vids across all platforms is actually terrible. The 'birdsong'? I can barely hear her voice over the wind. One commenter sums it up nicely:

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This is a weird angle, her forehead looks massive

DrinaM · Mar 24, 2023

opal73 said:
This is a weird angle, her forehead looks massive

Yeah I noticed the angle too haha. I am pretty sure her hairline is receding, wonder what is causing that to happen?

she does brush her hair quite aggressively...

slamvs27 · Mar 24, 2023

Blueglacier said:
I'm wondering if the card is like a manifestation card?
You know how people write to themselves as sort of a future letter but also manifestation?

Nah seems more like a Jade move.

DrinaM said:
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God her hairline is that of a 40 year old man's...

gossip_guy · Mar 24, 2023

DrinaM said:
Yeah I noticed the angle too haha. I am pretty sure her hairline is receding, wonder what is causing that to happen? she does brush her hair quite aggressively...

Malnutrition. Her hair's been getting worse and worse since she went all in on starving herself to try to look TWALVE.

Deeznutslol · Mar 24, 2023

Is she even starving herself at this point though? She went through a period of obviously being quite underweight during the pandemic but she looks to be a normal weight for her height right now imo and doesn’t seem to be showing any of the physical signs of malnutrition that she was before.
I think the hairline is mainly due to genetics tbf, she has shared images of herself as a kid before and the forehead has always been pretty big.

pinkmug · Mar 24, 2023

DrinaM said:
Lol her latest TikTok has ghastly audio. Her audio on all vids across all platforms is actually terrible. The 'birdsong'? I can barely hear her voice over the wind. One commenter sums it up nicely:

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She's starting to look like Megamind.

donny345 · Mar 24, 2023

not that I expected anything less kweens but just wanted to say how astounded I am by the accuracy of the detective work on this thread…

bookworm39 · Mar 24, 2023

Ilaariaa said:
In my country nowadays you don't see many rich people pursuing PhD's. PhD students are essentially State employees earning €1200 euros a month for at least four years after getting their Master's degree. If you have any other source of income you lose your stipend. Post-doc doesn't pay much better and researcher and teaching positions are terrible in terms of job security, career options and pay. My boyfriend is a PhD student and he's seriously reconsidering his choice of pursuing a doctorate despite the fact that he's, like, the definition of a scholar in his field of study.
Basically if you're rich and you have connections and a degree, you don't go into academia here. Much easier and more rewarding to find a cushy job in the private sector or in public governance thanks to daddy's connections than to go through decades of hard work that pays almost nothing. Or if they really want to go into academia they use their parents' money to move as far away from Italy as possible and go to uni abroad.

Same in Germany. Academia only starts being worth it financially once you've got yourself a tenured professor's job. Before that it's just lots of hard work, unpaid overtime and getting paid pennies, most likely on a fixed-term contract. No wonder there's a shortage of junior researchers thinking about a career in academia. There's also a serious teacher shortage because of the crap working conditions.

Juniper-S · Mar 24, 2023

gisellejoly said:
IDK why you think her parents should have got her a tutor for her dissertation. She clearly didnt struggle with her dissertation that much, she got a first in it. Writing a dissertation is stressful and its not unusual for students with mental health problems to fail, drop out, or have to repeat it and she successfully completed it. Her grades were also excellent throughout university (even in first year/two, she finished with a good first before she even knew Blakeney). From what I have seen of Blakeney, she seems like a driven, honest and successful woman who wouldn't let Ruby take advantage of her.
Sometimes in this thread it feels like people are just a bit bitter that Ruby is well-off and has money and resources but doesn't use them to her advantage - and that's understandable. She has been given privileges that most people aren't. But let's be honest, doing an English degree is not rocket science like many people on here seem to act like it is. A lot of students rely heavily on secondary readings to make their arguments. It's extremely common. Ruby is very neurotic and socially inept, but she's not a total idiot. She didn't cheat.

She is able to live a stress-free existence knowing she can do whatever she wants and not have to worry about a roof over her head of feeding herself - that's the main support that her family offers her and it makes a considerable difference in someone's life. Privilege allows people like Ruby to do things that very special people from ordinary backgrounds have to work extra hard to achieve. She will get stressed out because master's are stressful, but ultimately she will do just fine at Oxford.

I'm not bittter at all, and I've been lucky enough to have all the resources I needed to succeed in my own studies. I have two masters actually, so nothing to be jealous about, you know. And I didn't struggle like she seemed to do when I wrote my own dissertations. And yes, in my opinion she struggled with it because the frantic re-writing she did a few hours before submission was sheer panicking. Having a good grade for a dissertation is great, but being confident enough of what you wrote in it not to correct it fifty times before submitting it is better. I may be wrong, though, and once again that's my own (humble) opinion.

In my original comment, I was just pointing the fact that I doubt Ruby will change her routines and behaviour and that both these won't help her in Oxford or in any Master program.
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irunforfun said:
I think there will be a huge shock to her ego and sense of “highly gifted child” identity at Oxford. The more she talks in class, the more she’ll face critical analysis by others and that will feel hard.

Imagine the face of the professor (and maybe the other students' faces too) if she opens her mouth to talk about Plato's Sympsonium

Thehogonthelog · Mar 24, 2023

I know that we have focused on Ruby getting into Oxford, but isn't it weird that her latest videos have higher downvote ratio than usual?

Juniper-S · Mar 24, 2023

Thehogonthelog said:
I know that we have focused on Ruby getting into Oxford, but isn't it weird that her latest videos have higher downvote ratio than usual?

Well her titles are a bit cheesy, but they usually are (until she changes them several times) so I don't know if it can explain the downvotes.
It seems to me that a lot of people are becoming aware that Ruby has build a character that isn't the "real her" if you see what I mean). Someone published a screenshot of a user asking her why doing your bed and preparing lunch count as being productive (which is something I always wondered when watching her "productivity" videos), and this shows that there are now people out there who aren't ready to believe everything that Ruby claims in her videos.
Or maybe that TikTok cartoon stuff did something wrong to her image? Her followers on that platform seemed to enjoy the strangeness of her "personality" and maybethe fact that she tried to do something trendy disappointed them? Once you displease people on one single platform, it shows on the other means you are using to share your content.

gossip_guy · Mar 24, 2023

Deeznutslol said:
Is she even starving herself at this point though? She went through a period of obviously being quite underweight during the pandemic but she looks to be a normal weight for her height right now imo and doesn’t seem to be showing any of the physical signs of malnutrition that she was before.
I think the hairline is mainly due to genetics tbf, she has shared images of herself as a kid before and the forehead has always been pretty big.

There's been a lot of times lately where it looks like her hair has thinned on the sides and crown, too, and it's always looks so unhealthy and straw-like.

She still never shows herself eating anything but tiny portions of the same three bland foods, water and tea. As recently as her last few videos she's still complaining about how cold she always is regardless of the weather, and has said or shown how fucked her attention span, memory and physical coordination are, how she can't keep a healthy sleep pattern, how exhausted she gets after doing anything for more than 15 minutes when it's not being faked, she always looks pale and tired and she's lost a tooth apparently.

All that combined along with everything we know about Ruby's relationship with food and weight and I'd say she's still avoiding eating what she should and is intentionally malnourished.

She might have maintained a consistent weight, but I don't think that's any indication that she's eating healthily. It seems like her body's crying out for a decent meal and a regular diet of vitamins and nutrients.

inyo · Mar 24, 2023

emmer_moans said:
I work for a uni, a LOT of the money goes on heating, lighting, aircon and operational costs. I did not realise how much, until we got an email one year saying that running the estate costs hundreds of thousands and almost millions per year. During the pandemic they saved hundreds of thousands on energy costs, as you can imagine

Plus the wage bill to be fair, most universities employ admin staff, technicians, cleaners etc in addition to all the lecturer and researchers.

International students are definitely part of balancing the books, the operational costs of a university are huge.

That said, it still feels a lot for students to pay, especially for Humanities courses where you are not using specialist spaces or having as much contact time.

Yeah, it's definitely fair that there are a lot of costs that don't come to mind at first. Maybe it's more a reflection of my uni which loves constructing new vanity buildings and giving away free things.

LitNerd · Mar 24, 2023

Right I’ve really fallen off keeping up with these threads recently and I was scrolling through her TikTok to see the congratulations comments and saw her response video to her cartoon trend video? Kinda annoyed I missed Ruby actually getting criticism on something

if anyone could either do a recep or just let me know what pages it was talked about on greatly appreciated!

gossip_guy · Mar 24, 2023

LitNerd said:
Right I’ve really fallen off keeping up with these threads recently and I was scrolling through her TikTok to see the congratulations comments and saw her response video to her cartoon trend video? Kinda annoyed I missed Ruby actually getting criticism on something if anyone could either do a recep or just let me know what pages it was talked about on greatly appreciated!

Basically Ruby posted that cartoon and the combination of it being a really weird uncanny valley trend that looked a bit creepy, it being yet another TikTok trend that didn't really suit Ruby's brand and felt out of place on her feed, and mainly Ruby trying to turn doing a trend video that's identical to everyone else's into another 'I'm not like other girls!' bit of attention-seeking got a lot of laughs from people in the comments.

The "negative" comments were all really tame and there were substantially more positive comments than roasting comments.

She made that response video and it made the situation look even more embarrassing. It was a classic example of Ruby getting a tiny bit of minor criticism and her fragile ego being unable to take it. So she made a huge deal out of it just to play the victim and activate her legion of fans to come tell her she's very brave and very special and everyone's just bullying her because they're jealous.

She got what she wanted and her rabid fans flooded her comments to heap praise on her and defend her, but making a video just to say how unbothered by the situation she was only made her seem even more thin-skinned. Her pulling the 'I WAS BOLLIED AT SCHYOOWL' lie card yet again and claiming that she was now being bullied for being unique and different to other people when she was getting roasted in a trend video that was literally identical to countless other people's was just the icing on the cake.

Mr.Mistoffelees · Mar 24, 2023

Ruby getting into Oxford cured my impostor syndrome, not gonna lie.

If Ruby, who can't string a coherent sentence together to save her life or write an Instagram caption without making a dozen spelling mistakes, is on her way to getting an English-related degree at Oxford, then anything is possible for us!

Dream big, Tattlers!

Hannahebee · Mar 24, 2023

I find it interesting that in the comments someone has asked her how she normally travels to work and Ruby has said that she either gets a lift or a taxi to work however she has also revealed that she is learning to drive. Again, I find it interesting how she can claim that she didn't notice that the card was on the table when it is very obvious that she put it there, she says that she will share the news probably soon but doesn't want to share it too soon. This tells me that she is still unsure about whether or not she wants to go to Oxford and is having second thoughts as she seems to not want to share it whereas when she does other things she always seems to share them on her Instagram account or her TikTok page, yet for some reason she seems very unwilling to share the fact that she has been accepted at Oxford. The whole thing just seems very strange.