Thread:Imamadmad/@comment-17897872-20190806181519/@comment-17897872-20190820053534

Thank you so much Maddie! My a cappella group has definitely been what's been keeping me through most of the stresses of being a music major. All of us vibe well with each other, and we do literally everything together!

I'm beginning my third year as an undergraduate, but I'll have to start looking for grad jobs. A work study in the library or food services is quite easy, but I'll start to keep an eye out for grad programs. Music itself is quite a weird field, so there might not be many opportunities outside of the music office, but I'll keep an eye out. Thank you so much for the heads-up! I need all of the mentoring that I can get in terms of "real life", because I surely can't do it on my own.

Regarding the wiki, I'm quite saddened by what it has become. I feel quite segregated from the rest of the community lately due to some difference of opinions. Honestly, I've felt the same way since the creation of the CCS discord server two years ago and from how it was built. And because I expressed my opinions overtly back then, rather than working it out they basically shunned me, silenced my opinion, and formed their own group around themselves. At times it really seems that they intentionally left me out of this process, which I think is borderline power-abuse on their part. After my two-year hiatus, I decided to give the community another chance, but I have not officially asked for my user rights back because I know the admin community is one that I no longer belonged in or wanted to be a part of.

Because of that incident, I have not felt comfortable to speak my own mind for the longest time (which nowadays has been consistently bordering constant Devil's advocate) or when other "staff" members make what I consider incorrect decisions or hurtful comments. However, I still edit mass-mainspace and have been trying to restore the quality of pages that the place used to hold. Most of the time it feels like me against the rest of the wiki world. But you know what, it's okay. Most of what happens on the server doesn't bother me for the most part anyway, and I intend to keep it like that.