u/Cyber_Punk_87

I'm leaning toward doing the BLS with minors in Social Studies and History, but was also looking at the Humanities minor. It doesn't look like there's any way to actually complete the Humanities minor with YourPace, though. The requirements are:

>Courses in at least three Humanities areas with a minimum of nine upper level credits in two areas. Areas include Art, English, Foreign Language, or Philosophy.

It's the nine upper level credits in two areas part that seems impossible. There's only one 300-level art class and it has pre-requisites that aren't offered online (and Study and Sophia don't have any at that level). There are no 300-level philosophy courses from Study or Sophia and none in YourPace (at least not in the current catalog). There are no 300-level foreign language classes offered online. So the only upper-level credits available are in English, but that doesn't satisfy the "two areas" part.

Am I missing something or is this one just not possible without getting at least a few credits through a more "traditional" institution?

I realized tonight after reading yet another social media post about some sweet/thoughtful/interesting date someone was taken on that the only really good dates I've had were ones I took myself on. (Side note: I definitely feel some envy when I read those posts but at the same time I'm also glad to know that those kinds of guys still exist in the world, even if I never seem to encounter them!)

I've honestly not been on that many dates since I got divorced almost 15 years ago (a few first dates from when I did OLD, a few dates with guys I was already sleeping with, but almost all of them fall under the lunch/dinner/movies/etc. standard date format). Haven't been on any dates at all in almost 9 years.

But I do take myself on solo dates semi-regularly. I got out of the habit in the last year (thanks, depression) and want to get back into it. I'd love some new ideas!

So what are your favorite solo date ideas? Or favorite solo dates you've taken yourself on?

A little over a month ago I posted about how after my first dose of compounded tirzepatide (after 6ish months on sema), my mood immediately improved.

I'm on week six now and my life has completely changed. I've only lost about five pounds (33.1 pounds overall, but it's picked up in the past two weeks since I increased my dose), but everything else has changed.

• My mood is still awesome. Like, I'm dealing with huge stressors that would normally have me super depressed, and I can just deal with them. I still get stressed/sad/etc. but it doesn't consume my days.
• My brain fog is GONE. I just re-enrolled in college classes and have been powering through them (using an online education platform to knock out the gen ed credits I need before transferring, and I've literally done 21 credits in 11 days, including writing almost a dozen papers, and that's after being out of school for 25 years).
• I have way more energy. This might also be because spring is finally here, but either way, I haven't felt this energetic in probably a year.
• I feel like my old self. More confident, more easygoing, happier, more whimsical, etc. Like the person I was before the pandemic!

I've also had pretty much no side effects. A little nausea here and there, a little bloating occasionally, and some mild headaches (that may just be my allergies, though).

I know people have varying experiences on different GLP-1s, but I was really afraid tirz would cause anhedonia for me, to the point I almost didn't want to try it (I have a bit of a history with anhedonia). Instead, it's basically done the opposite! And I wanted to share my experience here to encourage others.

I'm trying to figure out how the course requirements work for minors.

Say, for instance, I want to do a minor in Sociology. I'm already taking Intro to Sociology through Sophia as part of the Gen Ed requirements (5A), but it's also a requirement for the minor. Does that mean I need to find a different course to fulfill the 5A requirement (like Approach to Studying Religion)? Or can I use the same course for both?

Or lets say I'm doing a History and Political Science major with a concentration in Political Science, and want to add a Humanities minor. The poli sci concentration already requires 6 credits of a foreign language, could I use those same 6 credits toward the minor?

And can something count as both an elective and toward a minor? Or if I wanted to do two minors, can electives or degree requirements or whatever count toward the second minor if not the first?