*wiggles eyebrows in response* I need to finish the game however.
All of you just need to let your chain hang low
Cam is the false prophet. Praise aiight.
If you keep your enthusiasm as much as you can, you will have a better chance of reaching your goals. The others have provided some extremely sound advice and I have faith you will survive excellently, friend. The other things I can add, especially considering your future aspirations in regards to post-secondary, are to look beyond school and do things in a community. Make a name for yourself in the school but involve yourself in your actual community as well. Embrace new, positive experiences, ones that will better you as a person. Start and create new things. Innovate. One of the biggest things to learn as you step forward is time management. Use these years to train you and train you well, because proper time management is a major pathway to making your school life smoother while simultaneously achieving the goals you desire. Take it slowly, pace yourself, and train yourself to your ability to manage your time well. It will most definitely help in the long run. Finally, your goals -- especially for post-secondary -- may indeed require quite a bit of mathematical focus. But it is absolutely achievable, and I am immensely proud that you are taking on such an assertive role with learning it yourself! Many people find math abstract at times, so if you ever feel frustrated, remember well that there are hundreds of resources to teach you on the internet and elsewhere that can help you, whether they are books or videos or even people. If you want something slightly more applicable to direct work, focus on strengthening what you already know but still feels a bit fuzzy in your brain. Solidify the foundations, for foundations are what all math builds upon, and it becomes just a bit easier to understand something when you know the why behind math. Makaze's link is an excellent source. You are ready.
The most noticeable changes to the muscles after death are an extreme stiffness that one would not necessarily expect from a cadaver, termed rigor mortis. Ordinarily the dead body by itself would have generally locked up a bit due to the shutdown of all systems, but speaking specifically of changes in the muscles, they essentially become extremely "tense" (used loosely) before loosening prior to putrefaction and decomposition. Your body utilises oxygen for the cellular respiration of its cells, the system of which creates, in basic terms, a chemical "token" that is used as the "currency of energy". When the body ceases to function, this "token" stops production, and therefore the lack of energy being transferred among the cells ceases general movement in the body. One use of the "token" is in the "pumps" that are involved in the ions needed for muscle contraction, done by the muscle cells. Without the "token" being produced and used as a source of energy, the ion concentration of the muscle cells moves in such a way that the muscle cells take a permanently "contracted" state. This is the stiffness you feel in the muscles of someone who has been dead for approximately 12 hours. Beyond this point, chemical decomposition kicks in and the body's structures begin to decay further, "loosening" the muscles.
I'M NOT GONNA STOP THAT'S WHO I AM I'LL GIVE IT ALL I GOT THAT IS MY PLAN WILL I FIND WHAT I LOST YOU, KNOW YOU CAN BET ON IT BET ON IT BET ON IT BET ON IT
Do you hear the members sing Singing a song of unbanned men It is the music of a people Who will not be grey again
The horror comes more at the end. And if you played Mogeko Castle, it is a similar breed, perhaps a bit more high intensity. You shall be alright...
(I never knew anybody knew that these games existed)
PLEASE PLAY IT.
It is a response to the perpetrator, Elliot Rodger, of the recent Santa Barbara shooting, and his apparent "manifesto", I believe. Prior to his attacks, he essentially created a video/posted things about how he felt that every woman around him was "scum" for going along with what he perceived to be unsavoury people ("beefcakes") when they would be better with him; how this was an injustice to him, and essentially making him look very much like someone who was entitled to have sex with a woman by virtue of little basis, insulting women as a whole and the like -- "all women are X". The tag in question has taken up a tone of empowerment to describe and discuss similar issues of society's internalized misogyny that women experience and/or perceive daily, in response to the lad's comments.
