My Life Is Ruined Yay

Just wondering

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Here’s an easy resolution: This stuff is all free as long as you have access to a computer, and the skills you learn will be invaluable in your career, and/or life in general. 

1. Become awesome at Excel.

Chandoo is one of many gracious Excel experts who wants to share their knowledge with the world. Excel excellence is one of those skills that will improve your chances of getting a good job instantly, and it will continue to prove invaluable over the course of your career. What are you waiting for?

2. Learn how to code.

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Perhaps no other skill you can learn for free online has as much potential to lead to a lucrative career. Want to build a site for your startup? Want to build the next big app? Want to get hired at a place like BuzzFeed? You should learn to code. There are a lot of places that offer free or cheap online coding tutorials, but I recommend Code Academy for their breadth and innovative program. If you want to try a more traditional route, Harvard offers its excellent Introduction to Computer Science course online for free.

3. Make a dynamic website.

You could use a pre-existing template or blogging service, or you could learn Ruby on Rails and probably change your life forever. Here’s an extremely helpful long list of free Ruby learning tools that includes everything from Rails for Zombies to Learn Ruby The Hard Way. Go! Ruby! Some basic programming experience, like one of the courses above, might be helpful (but not necessarily required if you’re patient with yourself).

4. Learn to make a mobile game.

If you’re not interested in coding anything other than fun game apps, you could trythis course from the University of Reading. It promises to teach you how to build a game in Java, even if you don’t have programming experience! If you want to make a truly great game, you might want to read/listen up on Game Theory first.

5. Start reading faster.

Spreeder is a free online program that will improve your reading skill and comprehension no matter how old you are. With enough practice, you could learn to double, triple, or even quadruple the speed at which you read passages currently, which is basically like adding years to your life.

6. Learn a language!

With Duolingo, you can learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or English (from any of the above or more). There’s a mobile app and a website, and the extensive courses are completely free.

Full disclosure: BuzzFeed and other websites are in a partnership with DuoLingo, but they did not pay or ask for this placement.

7. Pickle your own vegetables.

Tired of your farmer’s market haul going bad before you use it all? Or do you just love tangy pickled veggies? You too can pickle like a pro thanks to SkillShare and Travis Grillo.

8. Improve your public speaking skills.

You can take the University of Washington’s Intro to Public Speaking for free online. Once you learn a few tricks of the trade, you’ll be able to go into situations like being asked to present at a company meeting or giving a presentation in class without nearly as much fear and loathing.

9. Get a basic handle of statistics.

UC Berkeley put a stats intro class on iTunes. Once you know how to understand the numbers yourself, you’ll never read a biased “news” article the same way again — 100% of authors of this post agree!

10. Understand basic psychology.

Knowing the basics of psych will bring context to your understanding of yourself, the dynamics of your family and friendships, what’s really going on with your coworkers, and the woes and wonders of society in general. Yale University has its Intro to Psychology lectures online for free.

11. Make your own music.

Step one: Learn how to play guitar: Justin Guitar is a fine and free place to start learning chords and the basic skills you’ll need to be able to play guitar — from there, it’s up to you, but once you know the basics, just looking up tabs for your favorite songs and learning them on your own is how many young guitar players get their start (plus it’s an excellent party trick).

Step two: A delightful free voice lesson from Berklee College Of Music.

Step three: Have you always thought you had an inner TSwift? Berklee College of Music offers an Introduction to Songwriting course completely for free online. The course is six weeks long, and by the end of the lesson you’ll have at least one completed song.

Step four: Lifehacker’s basics of music production will help you put it all together once you have the skills down! You’ll be recording your own music, ready to share with your valentine or the entire world, in no time!

12. Learn to negotiate.

Let Stanford’s Stan Christensen explain how to negotiate in business and your personal life, managing relationships for your personal gain and not letting yourself be steamrolled. There are a lot of football metaphors and it’s great.

13. Stop hating math.

If you struggled with math throughout school and now have trouble applying it in real-world situations when it crops up, try Saylor.org’s Real World Math course. It will reteach you basic math skills as they apply IRL. Very helpful!

14. Start drawing!

All kids draw — so why do we become so afraid of it as adults? Everyone should feel comfortable with a sketchbook and pencil, and sketching is a wonderful way to express your creativity. DrawSpace is a great place to start. (I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if you can drop a few dollars for a used copy.)

15. Make your own animated GIF.

BuzzFeed’s own Katie Notopoulos has a great, simple guide to making an animated GIF without Photoshop. This is all you need to be the king or queen of Tumblr or your favorite email chains.

16. Appreciate jazz.

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Have you never really “gotten” jazz? If you want to be able to participate in conversations at fancy parties and/or just add some context to your appreciation of all music, try this free online course from UT Austin.

17. Write well.

Macalester College’s lecture series is excellent. If you’re more interested in journalism, try Wikiversity’s course selection.

18. Get better at using Photoshop.

Another invaluable skill that will get you places in your career, learning Photoshop can be as fun as watching the hilarious videos on You Suck At Photoshop or as serious as this extensive Udemy training course (focused on photo retouching).

19. Take decent pictures.

Lifehacker’s basics of photography might be a good place to start. Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production. If you finish that and you’re not sure what to do next, here’s a short course on displaying and sharing your digital photographs.

20. Learn to knit.

Instructables has a great course by a woman who is herself an online-taught knitter. You’ll be making baby hats and cute scarves before this winter’s over!

21. Get started with investing in stocks.

If you are lucky enough to have a regular income, you should start learning about savings and investment now. Investopedia has a ton of online resources, including this free stocks basics course. Invest away!

22. Clean your house in a short amount of time.

Unf$#k Your Habitat has a great emergency cleaning guide for when your mother-in-law springs a surprise visit on you. While you’re over there, the entire blog is good for getting organized and clean in the long term, not just in “emergencies.” You’ll be happier for it.

23. Start practicing yoga.

Most cities have free community classes (try just searching Google or inquiring at your local yoga studio), or if you’re more comfortable trying yoga at home, YogaGlohas a great 15-day trial and Yome is a compendium of 100% free yoga videos. If you’re already familiar with basic yoga positions but you need an easy way to practice at home, I recommend YogaTailor’s free trial as well.

24. Tie your shoelaces more efficiently.

It’s simple and just imagine the minutes of your life you’ll save!

LEARN SOME STATS!!!  STATS ARE SO GREAT EVERYONE!!

In addition to the link above, statisticshell.com is a FANTASTIC intro stats site, which is course material and links to lectures from Andy Field, who wrote the most understandable stats textbook ever! The book itself is fantastic, but unfortunately, the opposite of free. :)

Happy stats!

This is so lit

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Sure, as a shepherd he definitely has a lot on his plate that he should worry about. But the thing is, that didn’t hinder the manga nor the game from showing that they both care equally for each other. For example, in both the game and manga, Sorey practically told and insulted Mikleo to sit pretty in the kitchen because he didn’t want him to get hurt. Sure, that was a bit mean of him but the whole break up/make up scenario showed the viewers that Sorey really cares about Mikleo (albeit expressed in a suboptimal way) and Mikleo too cares a lot about Sorey. This point is driven home even more in the manga where Sorey’s reason for deciding to first armatize at that instant was because Mikleo got hurt.

On the other hand, the anime after episode 7 kinda…disappointed me somehow? First of all, I was slightly disappointed that they never had the break up/make up scenario. Sure, we ended up getting a ton of Sormik moments in that episode too, but I feel like afterwards the impact isn’t as great as it would have been had they gone through with showing that Sorey is actually concerned about Mikleo’s well-being so much that he was willing (for a short while) to go on a journey without him.

I also find it a bit unsettling how Sorey seems to take Mikleo’s concern for granted? When Sorey asked Mikleo if he was alright (during the episode when they both reached Lady Lake), Mikleo reassured him that yes, he’s doing just fine. Whereas lately in these past two episodes, we’ve seen Mikleo come to Sorey’s side countless of times, shouting his name in distress, to make sure that he’s not hurt too badly. Sorey’s response every single time is to just run off and go do ~whatever the fuck, leaving Mikleo to play catch-up/running after him, Mikleo’s calling out for his name falling to deaf ears.

Of course, situationally and considering their roles in the story, Sorey is the main character/the person that the other seraphs, including Mikleo, support. Mikleo is of a supporting role for him and as a result it does make some sense that Mikleo is more Sorey-centric than vice versa, because our shepherd has other obligations. That was why coming into this big first cour finale I was hoping that it would end with Sorey losing his resonance because then Sorey is at least being put in a situation where it can be shown to the viewers – especially the non-game/non-manga audience – how greatly it affects him that he cannot see Mikleo, his best friend, his supposedly most important person. But as we all know, that did not happen. I’m also “???” at the very het-baity Sorey & Alisha moment somewhere in the middle there that I was itching to delete my old post about how I was happy ufo didn’t put in ship tease between Sorey and Alisha in the anime.

We’ve seen so far how angry/protective Sorey could be of Alisha (e.g. Lunarre, this episode, the dragon tornado encounter, during the shepherd ceremony) whom he just met. We all know how the game and manga ended, and it’s also been mentioned multiple times throughout different forms of media that Mikleo is the most important person/being/whatever to Sorey, so I felt a bit disappointed that this was only shown very few times from his end – even shown with less intensity than how he cares about Alisha – whereas it’s been shown time and time again that everything Mikleo has done was all for Sorey.

tl;dr I was really excited when Zesty’s anime first aired but lately, and especially today after the end of the first cour, I can’t say I’m too pleased. It feels like though Alisha and Rose definitely got better characterization, the seraphs in the party got shafted as a result and to me there hasn’t been enough internal conflict either between the parties or within Sorey himself. Personally, it also gives off the vibe that there is an imbalance in which Mikleo cares way more about Sorey than the other way around. I feel a bit sad.

Well, that’s my very long two cents. I’ll be more than happy to hear your thoughts?

Cosigned, especially after today’s episode. I might be overreacting a bit, (since I just watched the episode and am just going off of gut reaction here) but seriously, what the actual fuck at the eyes Sorey and Alisha were making at each other at the end there? Like no. Just. No.