Cookie Thread Act 7: Romulus

Macaron price check hold on. We need to check the price of the macarons we’ve bene ubying

3 slices pizza + 4 macarons + $2 tip: $21.40 (across two trials) / $19.40 base
4 slices of pizza + $2 tip: $19.65 / $17.65 base

Estimate: $6.20 for macarons, $4.40 for slice pizza

NOT EXCELLENT

MILD SCAM

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A check of the menu ON LINE (it appears we have the internet now) confirms theories of $4-$4.50 for piece pizza depending on toppings and $6.50 for macarons (this is online ordering so likely to be slightly higher in orice

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that’s a pretty fucking important caveat LOL

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How did you all get in competition and get places

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I fought a kid in 5th grade at the geography bee but it was schoolwise (5th-8th graders all competed against each other) and my 5th grade competitor was god’s most georgepaht nerd warrior and im pretty sure he won the school competition every year even against the older kids. I believe it was down to me and him for 5th grade and I forgot about the yellow river. Embarrassing!

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that 4th place trophy is actually my third-earliest photo on my phone lel

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Other than that there were not so many competitions for me to fight in. There was a tricia team one in middleschool and I got to be team captain for being really good at the practice questions but when we were on the actual. Stage. We blanked on Seoul and got similarly fucked over

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My high school in general didn’t. Do s lot of celevration if academic achievement. They got rid of all the awards for academic achievement and replaced them with rewards for showing Virtues. They didn’t even tell us our class rank so I couldn’t fucking put it on college applicstion

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I didnt get a single award at grad aduation because th ey were all basically absed off how much the teachers liked you and how Positive and Kind you were. Except national merit scholarship. Which nobody ahd gotten grom my school in years. Wonder why

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Straight up they gage me nothing. Four years I was there. Never got any of the dhit h th ey handed out because it was all just teacher decided based on Posituve Attitude instead of based on your actual abolity

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very popular around here, kids are encouraged to sign up. there are multiple regional ones every year, 2 or 3. ive read that it might be leftover from ex soviet countries, they invested a lot in olympiads and olympics and competitions and all that

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Its fucking okay to recognise people for doing well . God knows life will if you dont. Its a school its an institution thats supposed tobbe dedicated to academics and they treated any kind ofnacademic ambition like it was some icky thing tobe gotten rid of

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Strong mood.

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i thought this happened only in caricatures its sad that it happens for real

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And im sure they all felt very good about themselves recongising the students with a Growth Mindset or whatever but what that essentially meant was the ability to present being likesble to the teacher which is more of a pervert incentive to be rewarding than whatever unfair advantages younget in avtual academics. Its a dtupid thing to be reqarding its an incentive for perverts

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i had a taiwanese friend, emigrated to canada, she was furious at her social politics something something classes where she was taught that words hurt and stuff like that

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Its because theres a lot of really good private schools in my area which offer enough financial aid that theyre hypotheticlaly achievable even not for rich kids (though feasibility differs)and so like very academically ambitious kids are to some degree siphoned off

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Its not even the principles its just rheyndo the fucking principles wrong

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Itd be great if you could actually in practice award the people who improve anlot and make like positie social contributions but they just cant measure that for real they measure somethi else.

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