Forsooth

Schola furrows his brow and rests his head on his right hoof. He continues to ponder, largely ignoring what is going on around him. He hears what is said but does not cognize it. "Perhaps I have a conflict of values, I value food but also learning... but are these commensurate?"

"Thank you very much, this is very much appreciated." Schola replies, putting the coin back into his pouch. "I think I will stay here a bit before moving on, I am starting to like it here in Ponville" he ponders to himself He looks back down at his pouch with a frown "I shouldnt have purchased that book, I don't have a department to pay for food anymore" Schola becomes again lost in thought concerning his new temporary life.

"Oh, uhh..." Schola looks around the shop, observing the various items before looking into his coin pouch. One bit. "Uhh, what can I get with this" he says nervously before holding up a single coin. "Please let there be something that costs only this amount so I can stay" He thinks to himself.

That moment when you realize that you have twenty hours to start and finish your twelve page Ethics final (Topic: Plural and Conflicting Values: How conflicts are possible in Monistic and Pluralistic systems [along with a lengthy section on Akrasia, the professors dissertation topic]). The only thing keeping me from a breakdown right now is MlP:FiM. Why is this show so darn calming for the stressed student?

"Confound this cold, how can a sensation be so obtrusive!" At this point Schola wishes he would have kept his cloak, the loss is felt more in his lacking the tactile tie to his old university more than the actual pain of the cold. He passes by a shop where some ponies are chatting inside. After a brief consideration he dips inside for a brief reprieve of the cold. "I hope they won't kick me out for not buying anything, what do they sell here, tea?"

He sits by Yellow Dumpling, largely ignoring his surroundings while rubbing his hooves together in an attempt to warm them.

"I am terribly sorr-" Schola begins but then looks at who he ran into. He gazed down at the pony laying on the ground, half covered in snow half inside his house. "This pegasus must be mad" He prods his side trying to force him to wake up. "Are you alright? Are you mad? you could die out here!"

After a moment realizing that he is not-respondent Schola lays his scholars cloak over the pony and travels back to his own warm home and goes to sleep.

Schola walked through the snow lost in thought, he mumbled to himself as he walked. "If I have to make it all the way home I must first make it half way home do I not? But then is there not also another half way point to be crossed between that and my goal? If this is the case I will never make it though this snow to my home as I should have to make it past an infinity of these half-way points!" As he was lamenting the fact that he found it logically impossible that he should ever be warm again he walked smack into a random pony.

1. Twilight Sparkle

2. Applejack

3. Fluttershy

4. Rainbow Dash

5. Rarity

6. Pinkie Pie

This list, however, should not be taken as indicative of any sorts of negative feelings, there are none that I dislike outright. There are only ones that I like more than others.

If I am still in the first five I would like a blue astrolabe for my OC Schola. He is an astronomer of sorts. Very appreciative.

Well, we in Holland don't take finals December but in May, however we too have a test week coming up. And oh boy, it's not a fun one.

 

I got:

 

Physics (Which involves doing 3 or-so experiments)

Chemistry (Again, experiments)

Math (6 chapters which have nothing to do with eachother)

Dutch (essay)

English (essay or formal letter)

German (a letter)

Biology (I think 10-11 chapters of random stuff)

IT (I don't know what I'll get)

After seeing how much you have to do I feel better about my small course load. I only have two exams and 8,800 words worth of papers to write. Best of luck with all that,

The more I look around the more I read the laments of students like me who are dreading their final exams. This gives me hope because that means I am not the only one here instead of studying! List your exams or final papers that all may wish you luck with them!

Best of luck to all of you, and to all I wish bonne chance!

My exams--

Latin

Ethics

Metaphysics

History of Medieval England

 

I will note that a bunch of Brony's (including Dusty Katt and TheLivingTombstone) gathered together for one crazy video, and addressed the issues you spoke of in a "Bronies React to: Teens React to: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic".

 

See below for epic hilarity:

 

 

 

Now I want to see a video montage of people critiquing this video, which would inevitably be followed by a critique of its own. Then this could go on ad infinitum and all would be well.

I chose this because it has been my standard username for years and years. But to be honest the only reason why I used it in the first place is because it sounded cool and it wasn't taken yet on whatever program (the memory of which is lost to time) I was using at the time.

10/10

Come on everypony! We are only $400 away from me having to submit a paper that if accepted would be the first publication of my professional life. This would follow me on my Curriculum Vitae until the end of my days. Not to mention the special thanks I would give to mlpforums. I give my personal guarantee that it would be a top notch paper.

[pending the approval of Zoop]

A Pony for All Seasons

Sir. Thomas More: Twilight Sparkle

Duke of Norfolk: Applejack

William Roper: Pinkie Pie

Richard Rich: Rarity

Cardinal Wolsey: Fluttershy

King Henry VIII: Rainbow Dash

I get gifts on St. Nicholas Day which is on December 6th so my gift giving season is already over. I got The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis. It is awesome

If we make it to $2,000 I will write a ten page (3000 word) academic paper titled "Comparisons of Justice in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Plato's Republic". I will post this paper in the forums and submit it to at least three academic journals for publication. If it is accepted for publication this forum will be credited formally.

 

When Season Two ended, I literally thought: "Wow, they have covered so many aspects of friendship! It's gonna be harder next season."

I thought the same thing, I really enjoyed the letters and hope that they return. But eventually they will run out of things to say.

https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/12/5/kXuG93Oiek6R3qgCG889-g2.jpg

The notes people have made about the writer being new makes sense, but if we think it odd for her to act in such a way I would expect a writer-to-be to feel so as well. The Rarity whose virtues were exemplified in the first two episodes was not the Rarity in todays episode.

Just in case you would like another character:

http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/schola-r2087

Seeing how this character would work in a romance RP seems like it could be interesting.

 

You now have control of the Alicorn Amulet (Plus a unicorn horn so you can actually do magic). What do you do?

Don't... tempt me SorenWolf! I dare not take it. Not even to keep it safe. Understand, SorenWolf. I would use this amulet from a desire to do good... But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.

Maybe being discorded isn't bound by set rules and just twists a character in a random, negative way? I wouldn't put it past the personification of Chaos to be utterly chaotic even with regards to himself...

You here made a VERY good and needed elucidation. Trying to find reason and order to Discord? What was I thinking? It seems like I forgot from the very beginning the nature of the beast. Good point my friend.

I am very open, yet this is a more recent development. I just tonight told my coworkers that my plan for the Winter Break is to rewatch MlP:FiM from episode 1 for the third time. They thought it was pretty wierd but I am a-ok about it. Why would one hide what one felt was not shameful?

I tend to think of being discorded as being stripped of both the super-ego and ego, leaving behind just the id.

 

I would disagree, it seems like the "id" and "super ego" is left alone while the "ego" is the one changed. I do not fully understand these terms as I have never read any Freud before, but I do know that he got these ideas from Plato's logisticon, thumos, and epithumos (super-ego, ego, and id respectively). One’s passionate self (thumos) and basic animal desires (epithumos) are left the same while ones rational self (logisticon) is radically altered such that they are reversed in some ironic way. An example I will use here is Rarity, she still desires diamonds (albeit in a slightly more radical fashion), no mention to base animal desires are mentioned, yet she is unable to recognize (an action of the logisticon) the rock for what it actually is.

As to what mine would be, I think that I would scorn education to some ridiculous degree. I would also be an outgoing and fun person who did not care at all for the university and its ways.