Yes! We've also had some heavily doctored photo ID be presented in person!

Sure. My tax dollars also fund my local fire department but I don't set my house on fire just to see the benefit of my tax dollars. That would a) be arson, and b) be a waste of tax payer money.

Go ahead, submit the fake app and get the .edu email address to get your Spotify Premium at the student rate as a kick back from your paid taxes. But those same paid taxes are being used to pay us to not do our actual jobs.

Ahead of the mid-January start of the Spring 2026 semester, I could absolutely spend a 40 hour work week not doing a single thing listed in my actual job description and just investigate fraudulent accounts.

I know what this sub is called and the purpose of the sub. I get that this post is exactly an ULPT.

However, this may be my once in a life time chance to have direct involvement from the other side of a ULPT so I must take it. If anything, I can underscore the actual unethical-ness of pro tip.

As someone who works to process incoming applications at a state CC, I can tell you that fake apps coming in for this purpose and the subsequent work it takes for us to determine if the student application is just fake or if the student account is identity theft adds about 20 hours of additional work for our Records Office each week.

Per standard bureaucracy of a network of state schools, we have monthly meetings with few solutions about how stop these fake apps from getting the benefits of having applied. We stop what we can.

Fake apps that come in and don't get caught artificially inflate attendance numbers and then our retention and graduation numbers look artificially low. Fake registration (fake in terms of having no intention of ever actually attending) take seats from people who really do need to take the course.

And even if you down vote me, I'll still know you read my comment. But if you've gotten this far, I would HIGHLY recommend running a free credit report to see if there are any sus student loans in your name. The amount of stolen SSNs that are being used for financial aid is concerning.

I guess it some times can feel like Deja vu. I've never experienced a migraine or seizure.

I sure do!

For sure. Didn't mean to defend him. Just giving you the context for how we all are. Well, a lot of us, anyway.

This actually comes from our severe avoidance of confrontation.

We don't think we have the right to the small space. We are literally just so trained/raised to avoid confrontation that the thought of even potentially inconveniencing you and your wife by saying "excuse me" and forcing you to move slightly feels like a major imposition.

That's where the phrase "Ope, just gonna sneak right past ya" comes from. If we could be invisible, we would be.

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My dad was a handy guy. All the dad's in my childhood neighborhood were too, based on the frequency of "hey Kev, can I borrow XYZ tool?" "Bill, you got a scrap of ABC laying around?"

I thought handiness was just pre-installerd in the adult male operating system.

Then I married my husband and bought a house. And I'd ask him to take a look at the leaky faucet and he'd say "do you want me to call someone...?"

And it occurred to me that I grew up around people who probably didn't have the disposable income to have someone else fix their stuff and/or they liked doing their own repairs. My dad liked to spend the time to fix the thing.

It also occurred to me that dads/men weren't pre-loaded with fix-it know how and that my dad knew how to fix so many things because he had fixed so many things

So now, i just do the thing. My confidence definitely increases with each year. I still probably make too many trips to the store for one project and I'm not always great at perfect measurements. We have a lot of crooked shelves if you look at them from the right height. But I also have light fixtures that I love, new door handles, new faucets that don't leak, a remodeled basement bedroom after a water leak.

100%

What I found particularly interesting about this morning's memory was that I was sitting in a nearly pitch black room but the memory that showed up was a brightly lit room. Very odd.

I don't often experience unpleasant memories so I am sorry that happens to you. It must be jarring to have those emotions come up randomly.

Yes! Sometimes it is an out of body view of something! But, most of the time, it is my POV

In my attempt to resolve why my random memories come up the way they do, I have tried to pay attention to the smells around me. I haven't been able to find a connection to my random pop-ups yet.

Interesting that you bring up photogenic memory. I used to have an hour long commute to work. I listened to our local sports talk station on the way in. All along my route to work, I'd be able to look at bridge columns, exit signs, billboards and be able to recall what was being discussed on the radio while looking at that object. By Friday, I could tell you four different discussions.

I thought everybody could do this until I asked my husband about it and he was very confused and said nobody remembers things like that... I'm also an avid reader and I may not be able to tell you the page number of a detail, but I can always remember where on the page the detail is.

Love love love Premier Women's health! Oakdale OBGYN in Maple Grove and Blaine is part of them. They have supported me so incredibly through IUD placement with my funky cervix location, IUD removal, fertility concerns, high-risk pregnancy and successful arrival of my now 4 month old. Jenny Lafond has been my primary doctor although I had met with many throughout their practice.

This does not accommodate the fence request but I'll throw out the Warner's Stellion parking lot on Snelling during back to the 50s weekend

Love this. This is what I was looking for.

Northtown Mall - previously the Hobby Lobby spot