LOL I Like The Fact That In Yoojin's Official Character Bio, It Mentioned That He Finds Hyunjae Annoying

Early scenarios joongdok dynamic 🔥🔥🔥

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50 Things that Top Students Do

Listen to everything they’re taught, not just hearing

Take notes

Listen to opinions they don’t like

Be open to having their minds changed

Don’t listen to music with words when studying

Practise

Commit

Keep a regimen of self-discipline even in the face of a lack of motivation

Take breaks

Sleep regularly and more than expected

Work very hard during the day

Exercise

Plan in advance

Get small tasks done when there isn’t time to do bigger ones

Engage

Take failures as a learning curve

Think positively

Do their best work at the start of the year so they get more slack later

Talk to those who teach them

Debate

Do a little every day instead of all at once

Ask for help

Help others

Drink water

Work hard but work smart

Know what study setup is their most productive

Hold themselves accountable

Figure out which work is a priority

Don’t waste time re-reading as a form of studying

Find out things they don’t understand

Test themselves frequently

Work backwards through things to understand why something works

Learn more than they need

Have more interests and hobbies than just academics

Find out the most important concepts in a course

Learn the most important 20% of the course to get 80% of the grade

Don’t complain

Tailor their courses to focus on what interests them the most

Play hard after working hard

Read in advance

Know how to say no but don’t say no unless they have to

Take every opportunity they can

Eat well

Defend their personal beliefs

Don’t use other people’s successes/failures as an excuse for anything they do

Don’t let studying become the main part of their life

Understand that everything is temporary

Set goals, short- and long-term

Put their phones away/on silent when studying

Don’t expect any results immediately

Few teachers have the energy or will or funds to even change things. One, job's overtime. Two, job's funds are low. Three, with standardized tests parents only care about their children passing tests not being actual decent human beings and if children finds anything unsatisfying about us and dares to say a word to their parents and their parents go to the principal, goodbye to this shitty job that at least has steady paycheck and roof over heads.

There's at least 27 more reasons, go.

Some favorite things from the FMA light novels:

Ed being a ridiculously good librarian

Roy getting “encouragement letters” aka chewing out from higher-ups in Central, which he and Havoc used to make paper airplanes, testing the hypothesis that the higher the rank of the officer who sent it, the further it flies

Havoc and friends starting a ghostbusting team

The time Ed and Al were supposed to be figuring out to do about the Tringham bros but Ed went off on a completely different train of thought and wound up just daydreaming about himself at age 19

Izumi gave Al a comic book! So sweet

KIP, MY BELOVED SON. SO GOOD. SO GOOD

Izumi told Ed to fix a broken radio without using alchemy, so he karate-chopped it. It broke even more, obviously

In an age before cell phones and computers, Roy needed a way to track down the ever-wandering Elric brothers, so he closed Ed’s bank account in order to force him to come to HQ and talk to him

Ed wanted to piss Roy off, so while he was flirting with some women, he ran up and started calling him dad. He then got kidnapped by people who believed him to be Roy’s actual son, and nobody was really concerned, in fact they mostly felt sorry for the kidnappers and debated sending flowers.

Al locating Ed in an unfamiliar building by whispering “Hey, bean sprout!” and listening for the rampage from 3 floors above them

Al had an entire subplot about learning to accept himself as he is and understanding that he’s not a lesser person for not having a body, and that he can actually live a good life as he is. His final conclusion was “Yeah there’s nothing wrong with me and I could keep living like this, but fuck it, I don’t feel like it”

The time as kids when Ed and his friend Pit threw pillbugs at the girls in their school, obviously causing them to freak out… Except for Winry, who quietly picked up every last pillbug and later stuffed them down Ed and Kip’s shirts.

ROY DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO PEEL CARROTS

One of the most subtle ways that SHJ and HYJ show they matter to each other is that their words are never forgotten. Call them petty bitches if you will (which they totally are), but HYJ asked SHJ to make one promise to him once, and SHJ brings it up for the next 700 chapters. One offended comment of “I’ll give you about a day to hide” is brought back up like 500 chapters later as they’re in the middle of an intense fight.

They remember every little petty snark because everything the other person says is important to them.

TSCIR is like an essay on how to love someone without saying “I love you”. “I remember the promise”. “I’ll keep my word.” “The things you say are important to me. Even the most inane, trivial ones.”

@enigmaris if i've gotten you mixed up with somebody else at tired-o'clock at night i apologize but

team nirvana, huh?

“Now you, like most people, are probably aware of people’s body language on a subconscious level. Human beings are social creatures. They are made to detect faces and expressions on instinct. Emotions are also something you are sensitive to. A change in your fellow humans’ expression can indicate any number of things. From fear to anger to attraction, detecting the subtle differences can make the difference in survival, hence why it exists as part of your identity.

Interestingly, there have been studies showing that human beings’ instinctive expressions are consistent throughout the entire human race. A person here will facially express anger the same way as someone in Canada or Nigeria would. This implies that showing emotion is instinctual rather than learned. Language, on the other hand, is something that’s learned and is constantly evolving and changing. We’ll focus more on that when we have our lesson on language, but I find the difference neat. It seems as though expressions were the universal language first and vocal communication just followed for convenience sake.”