Ruby Granger

[et5]

She seems to be spending a lot of time discussing uni work with her flat mate, it’s like she can’t talk about anything else. But with the notes thing, I tend to make brief notes on the reading and points I might want to talk about and then ‘neat’ notes after the discussion with everything together. It seems like Ruby makes it harder for herself by making multiple sets of notes when really at the most you need messy class notes and neater notes written up later.

Completely agree, surely your time with your flatmate is a chance to unwind from uni work but I guess it's good she's found someone like her to hang out with. Surely she's going to crumble with the pressure in her final year which will have a higher workload if it takes her this long to read each book and make notes?

 

[JellyWobbles]

Rubys insta story - talking about A level results in what I'm assuming is a paid ad and how there are always options regardless of A level result etc etc

idk I feel it kind of poor taste to talk about how disappointed she was in her A in Religious Studies. A lot of people were downgraded so much they lost out on a university place, I've seen people online who have been rejected from all 5 they applied to because they were downgraded so much. Some people were predicted As and got Cs. I've seen people being given Us.
An A will still get you into most unis. I understand her being disappointed when she was aiming for an A* but I don't think now is the time to talk about that when there are people out there having to rethink their futures. Seems a tad out of touch in my opinion...

Very out of touch, naively insensitive i think

 

[Lola123]

I half thought she switched courses because she felt like with RS she didn’t do as well as she wanted so tried english to ensure she graduated with a first (I don’t doubt she’s academic), and part of me though she might have wanted to redo first year to try and make more friends (I don’t follow her closely so don’t know how many uni pals she’s actually got)

 

[Ripley Rose Kat]

Very out of touch, naively insensitive i think

I agree that's very insensitive.

Most people would kill for an A especially with everything that's going now.

 

[Gingerella]

I THINK she abandoned English because it’s what she’d wanted to study at Oxford, and at the time was of the frame of mind that if she couldn’t do English at Oxford, she didn’t want to do it anywhere.

Then the remorse set in.... I’ve wondered why an atheist would ever apply for a theology degree since I started watching her Bit like someone who has horrendous airsickness studying be a pilot...

 

[Kcn]

actually, she did chemistry a-level! i can't say why, i remember she explained in a video that there was some sort of relation between english lit and chemistry (??), but yeah, she did chemistry, religion studies and english

Ahh my bad sorry!! I didn’t realise! She never struck me as a chemistry person!

 

[whatshesaid123]

Ok I had to rewatch the video because I was convinced she only moved to English in January but it was Oct 2019?!

Anyway you’re right, this is her third year at uni and second as an English student

She does seem immature still for someone in their third year at uni

 

[onlyusedthisonce]

I think her mother cuts her hair, I got a feeling that it's a regular thing rather than a pandemic solution but I'm not sure. She has gorgeous hair imo but could do with some better cut/styling, even if she wants to keep it very long.

Yes! Her hair looks so healthy and when she curls it, it really suits her. I just feel she could style her hair more often or cut it a lot shorter to make her look older/more mature. Then again, if she likes her hair how it is, then who's to stop her- it's still really pretty.

 

[lilamay]

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writing gifted so small you can barely see it is so irritating, check your privilege Ruby and be grateful to the company gifting you items. Be transparent and stop trying to hide it. Twat!

Wow, that's really lowered my opinion of her. I thought she had more integrity than the rest of them but this is one of the worst examples of tag hiding I've seen.

 

[lemonlime]

I think she gets really into what she’s studying and forgets everything else I’ve said this before but I’m part of her book club on Facebook and she’s just kind of abandoned the group. Like she said we’d all do a zoom call to discuss the books but nothing happened. She hasn’t been on there for months and the moderators run it now cos they can’t get in touch with her.

Oh dear, that's not great. I always feel like Ruby likes the idea of being productive and busy but actually has appalling time management skills. The need for control aside, if she needs to factor in the slightest little task on her to-do list, I wonder how well she would do without one. She must overestimate the amount of commitments she can handle. Her mentality of "work hard, not smart" isn't the best way to go. If she doesn't try to fix that now, she'll be in deeper shit after uni, if she gets a regular job. My employers don't care if I have spent x amount of time on research with meticulous footnotes; they are pretty much only interested in the end product. And it's rare that you get to be so flexible with how well you plan your day. With her privilege she may not ever have to deal with this but the amount of stress she causes for herself with the unnecessary extra work hours must be hard on her mental health too.

I know. I'm saying that in Latin it would be aca-day-mia, and that both are now in common usage. Much like everyone says Mo-ay when it should be M-wet - we assume the word is French, and pronounce accordingly when it is actually Dutch. However, both are now right because language evolves and moves.

Are they both 'right' though? Just because something is commonly used, doesn't make that usage right. I feel like language evolving is more than "if you can understand what I mean, then how I choose to say what I say is still correct".

Off topic but I couldn't understand what you meant by "it is actually Dutch". Moët is for Claude Moët, the French founder of the brand.)

Edit: I checked the etymology and origin of Moët and I get what you mean. However the pronounciation is still M-wet like you said! The "French" pronounciation doesn't/shouldn't change. I guess people assume so because of the French language rules but that doesn't make the silent T necessarily correct. Just makes it a common use.

 

[tsuyu]

I do think he hair looks a little heavy so some layers might be nice, but I'm definitely jealous of her length and how thick her hair is!

When she curls it and has it up, it looks sooo nice, wish she'd do it more

 

[YellowLadybird]

They can afford to be accommodating because the likelihood is that they expect everyone they offer will come to them. So say they have 100 places, they might make 105 offers to allow for a few dropouts.

Most uni's will seriously over offer because they know historically what percentage of offers actually enrol. So maybe they made 200 offers to fill 100 places based on historical figures. They wouldn't have space to take all 200 students plus the Office for Students has introduced student number control again this year so uni's can't suddenly up their numbers.

So if you've made 200 offers but you can only take 100 students what's the fairest way to pick those 100? That's the dilemma. Oxbridge is in an almost unique situation of only offering the number of places available so it's not hard for them to make that decision to allow everyone a place. Plus they know their students are highly likely to succeed. The majority of uni's are not in that privileged position.

University of Leicester did the same though, and they're only really a mid-ranked uni. Definitely within the 'average' bracket.

This might be ignorant of me, so apologies if I come off as shallow but did she pick RS as an A level subject and then Theology as her first degree because she's religious? I vaguely remember her mentioning she's an atheist but I don't know if I made this up.

This isn't to judge her either way, it's not my business at all, but I found it interesting that she's chosen these in the past as focus points as a person who doesn't seemingly practice religion apart from her academic studies.

She's agnostic/atheist and comes from a non religious family. I'm not sure what prompted the interest, being as she didn't go to a particularly religious school either. I wonder if there's anything in the wider family to explain the interest!

 

[Silentcritique]

What about Ruby Granger #2 'It's wingardium l-ay-viosaaaaa'

 

[Ripley Rose Kat]

My theory is that she's still very obsessed with Hermione Granger and wants to be like her in everyway. Possibly because she's not comfortable with who she is as a person, I could be wrong though. I do remember her early content was almost entirely focused on Hermione.

Is her surname actually Granger or is that because of Hermione as well? Not hate, just curiosity!

 

[candlecandy]

I hope she realizes her attitude. She is already in her second year of university and will soon be 21 years old. I hope she realizes that she IS GROWING.

 

[Thedudeabides]

Eh, her reaction really isn't that different to most other young people that I've seen on my instagram. A lot of people over here are celebrating because the US has beaten Trump and I think for a lot of young people (without getting too political) it signals a possibility that maybe we can also beat our own questionable government.

The same questionable government that she readily took money from recently..? It is actually bad news for privileged families like hers as the trade agreement with the US will be much less favorable to Brexit UK.

 

[emmer_moans]

I sensed Ruby was getting stressed at not meeting her own schedule for the day. Not reading enough of this, not making notes on that. She seemed really stressed.

 

[not fussed at all]

I think some of you are reading into her too much. She's being a bit obsessive about exercising but she's obsessive about everything, that's just her personality tbh. I don't think she has an ED, she looks healthy to me. If she was overexercising and undereating so much she would have lost a significant amount of weight but she hasn't.

even if it's not an eating disorder, I still think that exercising that much is unhealthy. I used to be a national level athlete and only trained a bit more than she did some days. Far as I'm aware, it was supposed to be a hobby for her, not going out so much during the day on runs and cycles etc. People are allowed to be concerned, and I think there's reason to be. Just my opinion, Ruby is a young woman (despite acting like a 13 year-old) and can decide for herself what she deems healthy for her own body. As an outside perspective though, I don't think it's good for her.

 

[SunshineSally]

I could see Ruby as a primary school teacher, maybe even a good one if she didn't fall too much to the strict teacher side because that's her Victorianised idea of teaching, and I think she would be good at encouraging a love of reading, but she'll always have negative associations with high school due to her own experiences not fitting in.

I don't know if she could cope with the constant scrutiny, knowing that your very best is never good enough, constant teacher bashing and the very fact that the government has zero faith in your abilities.

 

[Deeznutslol]

If shes writing a new book I’d be very curious to see how it compares to the one she wrote before, I know she was young when she wrote it but it was absolutely shockingly bad. It’d be interesting to see how her writing has changed and improved since being at uni