of course, the sad truth is, she will pass. Even at a place like Oxford failure rates are kept artificially low to keep the customer happy
Ruby Granger #45 "Um" -- Ruby Granger, 2023
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As is she were actually shoving pastries and mochas down her throat 5 minutes before the formal dinner. Just say that you spilled something on your favourite skirt and move on, why does everything have to be a lie or a twisting of the truth? She was never going to go to the formal dinner in that outfit and clunky trainers. Still hammering on about Oxford beig a traumatic place. I know this is Ruby's thread but Jade is insufferable jfc.
How could we forget… she got this dress in ITALAY with her BAST FRAND!! SO THEY COULD BE TWINS!!
Boo hoo so STRASST, I love my dissertation topic but will not tell you what it is (even though we can all reasonably guess it has to do with constructions of childhood, probably GARLHOOD, in Early Modern literature). I tried to look up when dissertations are due, all it says is ”early June” and a mention of how it’s possible to ask for an extension. So possibly the end of this week. (I do kind of feel for her, crunch time is stressful whether or not you’re smart/stupid/pretentious/realistic/lazy/a perfectionist to begin with… it’s universal.) (edit: however, the rest of us aren’t monetizing our eye bags on social media)
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Tbf, isn't it more honest and real for a studytuber to show those moments where they get super tired and have extreme eyebags? If she only ever showed herself happy and pretended she wasn't stressed, it would be a terribly false construction of student life for her younger audience (Ruby is guilty of doing this at times). I'd rather pics of her eyebags and acknowledgement of stress, than her showing herself twirling on her countryside estate and then later quietly admitting to hating her time as a student, like she did with Exeter...
She has a strong tone of finality when Oxford is mentioned lately, so it's seeming less and less likely that she'll be staying to get her DPhil. I do wonder if potentially not having secured a position on the DPhil at Oxford is making getting through this last stretch harder? All of the hard work might feel kind of futile, from her perspective, if she doesn't have her next dream position lined up. I at least hope that she realises, by virtue of being there, that Oxford isn't the be all and end all.
She has a strong tone of finality when Oxford is mentioned lately, so it's seeming less and less likely that she'll be staying to get her DPhil. I do wonder if potentially not having secured a position on the DPhil at Oxford is making getting through this last stretch harder? All of the hard work might feel kind of futile, from her perspective, if she doesn't have her next dream position lined up. I at least hope that she realises, by virtue of being there, that Oxford isn't the be all and end all.
You’re right (and I agree with your speculation), and I’m not criticising the eyebags so much as I’m just finding it amusing that she will tell us she loves her diss topic yet not tell us what it is. She’s an enigma shrouded in mystery wrapped up in a question mark, for sure.
I've always felt like the reasoning behind Ruby not sharing the topic of her thesis is twofold. One, because she doesn't want anyone else to steal it and is over protective. She steals from others. She has others do her work, and so she thinks everyone else will do the same. The second reason is because she knows there are a lot of viewers who, as soon as she announces it, will suggest things, books, discuss the topic, and she will see how many who aren't even going for their Masters are far more knowledgeable on the subject and more widely read. It would be embarrassing and certainly humiliating for her to be reminded, yet again, of her failures. As for the circles under the eyes, she looks like she punched herself to make them look weary. I never looked like that. Of course, I didn't waste my uni days running to get cafes and switching around libraries or trying to write a book and take selfies in a lift for social media. I was busy studying across the semester, not waiting to the last moment to clinch a subject and write a dissertation in the last few weeks. I can't wait to hear her litany of excuses of how education and degrees are not important to be a productive human being. Her future is so vague and pointless right now.
And she looks so happy on the first pic of that swipe...
THAT.
I never understood the trend of 'studying' in coffeeshops, known as busy and noisy, where you can easily ruin your computer or books by spilling your drink. There's libraries, and free wifi on the campus if people want to study elswhere than their own room, which I can understand. And for the other customers who actually want to eat and drink in the coffeeshop when all the students are here, it's litteraly impossible. I remember the starbucks near my work place, it was just impossible. And most of the time they weren't eating, drinking or even studying, they were just here, chatting.
Just like the jeans, she used to wear jeans almost all the time, then suddenly Miss Patina offers her clothes and just at this moment "I never liked jeans." Yeah ok Ruby, were you forced by mother granger to wear it?
Or the coffee when she tried to look like a writer and just by magic suddenly loved drinking coffee, while she never did it before. Is there even something authentic about this girl?
And the worst is that the message itself ( not the one about the jeans) could be good, it's true that you don't need a degree to be a productive member of society. But claimed by a person who based her entire persona on studying and getting A+ grades? Lol. Just said that you're failing at something, it's ok, it happened to everyone.
Tbf I always study in coffee shops. I can't concentrate in libraries. Oxford doesn't really have many study spaces beyond silent libraries...
YES whenever i see someone studying in a coffee shop i assume they’re being performative or procrastinating because i refuse to believe that’s conducive to any decent work being done
seems very pretentious to me
Oh some people just like background noise and a not so sterile/new environment. Doesn’t mean you should hog tables for hours though 
Many cities now have co working spaces which you can go to.
Hogging a table in a coffee shop; many of which are struggling financially, is just rude tbh unless you’re getting several drinks and sandwich to justify your extended time
Hogging a table in a coffee shop; many of which are struggling financially, is just rude tbh unless you’re getting several drinks and sandwich to justify your extended time
Ruby interestingly doesn’t seem the type to be stimulated by coffee shop noise- she seems more introverted. Surprised she likes working in coffee places- guess she’s trying to make it part of her personality 
At my university there is a starbucks in all of the main study places including the library. I go to a very large university where even in the "quiet" parts of the library it can still get kind of loud. I have adhd though and I find it easier to stay on task when other people are watching me even if it's strangers
Sadly most of them don't do that. And the employees don't dare to disturb them because well, they don't want themselves being in trouble if a client isn't happy so... And Ruby is the perfect illustration of the "I want to be seen 'studying' in a coffee shop just to look cool'.
This is so annoying. You're allowed to change your mind about things! No one is going to call her out for being a fake fan of skirts because she used to wear jeans. You can discover a new interest without retconning that you've actually been obsessed with it since you were 4.
You’re not wrong, but also we’re talking about a person who deadpan asserted she ”never wears jeans” while having worn at least three different pairs of jeans in videos posted around the same time. Having one’s interests change is normal, blatantly lying about something as trivial as jeans just to project a certain image is childish and awkward.
I loved going to coffee shops whenever I had to do monotonous or boring tasks. Things that needed to be done, but don't take to much brain power to complete, like writing study cards, cleaning up data or organising literature. Sometimes I also went there on days I felt particularly unmotivated and it was either go to a café and get some cake or rot in bed the whole day lol.YES whenever i see someone studying in a coffee shop i assume they’re being performative or procrastinating because i refuse to believe that’s conducive to any decent work being done
But for ruby I feel like it's mostly performative.
Also I used it to get some motivation. Like when I had a hard time to drag myself out of bed. It was an easier goal, and I had to get dressed, I’d go grab a coffee get some semi productive time in, but felt so much better and then moved to the library often for hours of productive work.
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