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Hello, I am in a bit of a dilemma. I live in North Florida and am currently trying to get an apartment in central Florida with a friend.

There are a few issues. Neither of us currently have jobs, and while I am 18 years old, he is only 17 years old until September. However, we plan to be in central Florida before he turns 18, making his presence in all of the legal agreements nothing. There are a few resources available. My friend's father has a great job and fantastic credit, making roughly $90,000 a year. If any apartment complex asks for a guarantor, he is the man we will use, and he has agreed to this for both of us. I am very confused, however, because many apartment complexes require applicants to have a job or a source of income. It has been every apartment thus far that has required a proof of income. I thought this was one of the reasons why a guarantor existed, however. It appears that I need a job simply to even apply for an apartment?

What I have suggested seems odd but I believe it should work legally. I have roughly $15,000 from social security benefits because my father had retired. Can my friend's father become the leaseholder and list us as occupants, followed by him signing me on to the lease after I get a job? I would imagine these apartment complexes shouldn't mind so long as they get their rent. Can there be two leaseholders for a single apartment? Can he take his name off the lease and put mine on and then apply as my guarantor?

This will sound counterintuitive, but people who know the finer points of loneliness should not be too surprised when I say that I have many, many friends. I am going to be a high school senior and I m one of the most popular guys at school, and many people look up to me. However, I know that all these people like me because I understand them all so well, not for my accomplishments, and I ve sort of molded myself to act a certain way around each person, and usually manage to become his or her best friend. Now, the fact that I ve created all these masks... it pains me because I ve worn them all so long, I ve forgotten who I truly was. I ve instead become a shell that tries to bring happiness to others, and for a while, I was fine with that, but after such a long time, I ve found that I, myself am not happy. I feel as if nobody understands me, and I know it s not the fault of my friends, it s my fault for never being myself.

The result is just this... overpowering sense of loneliness, and the feeling that I ve betrayed who I am as a person. I ve considered that maybe I should accept these drastic changes, and establish what I am now as my internal self, but that s impossible. There have been too many masks that I can t just mold them into one mask and break it. I guess what I m looking for here is a response from anyone who has had a similar experience or at least can enlighten me and give some advice of which I have yet to consider.

First, a somewhat unrelated rant to give context of the situation.

Basically my father is a micromanaging asshole that can't be content without having control over every single aspect of my life. He never considers my input or opinion and refuses to allow me to make any sort of decision. My brother lives three states away and we are very close, but he has no regrets refusing my father's offer to move here.

Now, for the current situation. My father applied me to a somewhat local university, one at which I took a tour and I did not wish to attend. The university I do wish to attend is not ridiculously far from here, a mere 50 miles. I foolishly proposed I attend this one instead since it suits my strengths better and it is overall a higher quality university for more ambitious students, and I know I have the potential to make contributions to the field of my interest.

He applied me to the first university without my knowledge and put my major down as teaching since he wants me to be a math teacher(he did this to my brother to make him an English teacher). When I asked him if there are any alternatives, he said no. When I asked if I would be allowed to influence this at all, he said there are no alternatives. Do I have any power in this situation? I am not extremely well-versed in the finer workings of the university system, so can I actually take any action before I am 18? Even then, it would be very difficult with this obstacle in my path. Any advice is appreciated.

Prove by mathematical induction that:

7^n - 4^n - 3^n

is divisible by 12 for all positive integers n.

I did the problem... however, I m unsure that my solution is correct.

My parents, notably my mother, seem to think I am rebelling. I will admit that I am irresponsible. When they tell me to do something, I may not do it immediately. Sometimes I may forget altogether. This is a flaw I am fully aware of, and I try to compensate for it.

I am also a major procrastinator, so I will put it off and they view this as rebellion. I believe this is because they are very action-oriented individuals and believe that if I have not done it within a very short time frame, I will, without fail, never do it.

When they ask why I have not done something, and I tell them the reason, I am met with "That's not an excuse."

I usually return with "I am not trying to justify why I have not done it, I am simply explaining to you the sequence of events."

This is viewed as rebellion.

I have never rebelled against my parents, but it is becoming increasingly more difficult to deal with their constant accusations. I believe I can attribute their behavior to stress, but that is out of my control. They are divorced and live in the same house with me. God knows why.

For the sake of not interrupting them, I never spoke out before, even when I disagreed with them. Then, they became angry that I had no opinions, and that I should speak out when I have a plan which I believe is better.

When I did this, it was viewed as rebellion. I always speak logically and never take things personally. However, they do.

My parents are now convinced I am a moody, rebellious teenager. Why?

In school, I used to receive perfect grades with minimal effort. I would witness the people around me struggle and I couldn t fathom why.

Now, I m 17 and I m in the IB program. Unfortunately, I was stupid enough to join it.

I used to receive all As. Now, as I check my grades, I have Bs and Cs.

The thing that angers me the most, however, is that the reason for these Bs and Cs is not that I do not know the class material, but because I fail to produce any work. It s pathetic. I don t do any work, and constantly receive 0s on assignments. In all my classes, I know the material best. I feel like I had potential, but it has been wasted and I should just quit trying. I have an IQ of 161 but I can t even do a single assignment. It astonishes me that someone could care so little.

The broken society of today strongly favors people of opposite nature to mine. As much as I criticize and dislike its flaws, I m forced to live in it and conform myself to it.

So what now? Should I give up? Should I just end it all? Life hardly seems like it has a point. I ve been severely depressed since I was 6 years old, and recently manic depression developed, throwing me into a manic phase. I believe this is partially responsible for the terrible grades. Perhaps I m just using that as an excuse. I am aware, however, that the manic phase has detached me from any sort of worldly pursuit or awareness. I don t know.

I will never know, and that is the most painful thing of all.

cos(x - y) = cosxcosy + sinxsiny

What the question says. I've been depressed since I was 6 years old. I'm 17 now. But... recently, out of nowhere, I woke up one day and just kind of detached myself from all my problems. It's not that I'm happy, it's just that I'm devoid of emotion or any sort of human processes. I'm a robot now. I don't know who I am anymore.

I sort of miss being sad all the time. It was so comfortable to wallow in my own misery. That was the only thing I knew. Now, I don't know anything. I've deconstructed everything, included myself. Now I can only look at myself as a second party, simply observing my actions as I go through life and evaluating them as what feels like a second entity.

I don't have enough room to explain everything, so as you read this, you'll probably think there are a few holes in what I'm saying. I can't say it all though.

As for my actions... I've begun to just care less. I don't really think of the people part of equations when I make decisions. I just... don't care about anything or anyone, and have no worldly awareness. Everything is just kind of collapsing. Whereas I used to get extremely depressed about it, now I just don't care.

I don't know what to do anymore. It's all hopeless.

The one feeling I could feel, sadness, is gone.

When an object such as a basketball collides with the ground due to gravity or collides with a very large wall, say the wall of a building, does its velocity matter in the conservation of momentum?

Say it's an elastic collision, and where m1 is the mass of the small object and m2 is the mass of the wall or, ground(?),

m1v1i + m2v2i = m1v1f + m2v2f

Would it become (m1)(v1i) = -(m1)(v1f) since the object would bounce back, in practical terms, at the same magnitude of velocity?

I'm 16 years old and honestly shyness should be gone by now. Perhaps not completely gone, but at least lessened. For me, it's ridiculous. I am too shy to do anything. I cannot go to stores alone, I have trouble going to school, I cannot ask questions or start conversations. I cannot create any sort of interaction.

The thing is, once I am thrown into a situation, I can control and mask myself rather well, but it is impossible for me to start anything.

It's pathetic. When I look at these situations objectively, I know there is no reason to be shy. No one cares about me or what I'm doing because they care too much about themselves and what they are doing. I guess it's just social anxiety disorder, and it pisses me off that I have something that makes me so much more weak, in addition to the likely manic depression that I have.

Anyone have any experiences or tips to share and help? Don't tell me it's normal, because this way beyond the point of normal. Trust me on at least that point.

y = x^2 - 2x + k(3k + 2)

Just checking with others here, I got -1<k<1/3

I feel as if I have no true personality. There is no way to define myself. I smile sometimes, but for the benefit of other people. As I look in the mirror, I feel as though I don't know what I'm looking at. More accurately it's just a shell that goes through the motions of life and others recognize as this conglomeration of features called "John". I don't know this "John" others speak of. I'm great with psychology; I can analyze other people very well but I can't do crap with myself. I don't know if I have multiple personalities which I just perceive as having no *real* personality or what. My entire mind is just a mess. Anyone have a similar experience?

I'm aware antiparticles are particles with identical mass but exhibit opposite quantum mechanical properties to their corresponding particles such as charge, spin, etc.

My question is, does antimatter create duplicate spectra? For example, does antihydrogen produce the same wavelengths via electromagnetic radiation as hydrogen? Or, how would antiwater appear to us?

Hi, recently I've been having trouble with WHAP(World History AP), and I'm not the only one. Every single student across all the classes failed the unit 1 test. Every single person. The questions were very abstract and obscure. Most of the questions were general with all logical answers. Now, I'm sure that becomes commonplace, and I'm not concerned with the questions. What I believe was the cause of this was the method of teaching in the class. Is it normal for a teacher to teach irrelevant topics that aren't even included in the test and for us to learn everything from the book? It seems illogical to me for a teacher to hold the position of teacher but the textbook is where all the information comes from. Also, when she handed back our tests, she seemed so indifferent, like this was tradition or intentional. She regarded a D as a good score, which is what my score was. Now, I'm typically an A/A+ student, so a D is far from even decent.

My English teacher tried to defend my history teacher saying that it's our fault. We need to apparently adapt to her style of questioning, her style of teaching. She tried to make it sound like teachers were incapable of being bad. Now, I'm not saying my history teacher is 'bad' but I wouldn't call her good either. The harder the curriculum, the better the teacher needed. A book cannot hold a conversation with you, tutor you, answer your questions in different perspectives, nor can it speak to you in simpler terms you'll understand. I feel like the delivery of this question was weak and somewhat childish, but I just feel the need to say something.

I'm aware quarks and leptons are the most elementary building blocks of all matter, and that certain quarks combine to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons. My question is, do some quarks exist independently as a single quark as opposed to a a meson, baryon, or the supposed pentaquark?

I'm mostly asking people to answer from personal experience, so please do so. As for me, I'm returning as a sophomore to my school and, never having had to try in school in years past, have come to a realization that this year may absolutely kick my ***, especially WHAP(World History AP). I've heard from many that WHAP is the hardest class in high school. I just want to get an idea of impressions of people that have gone through high school, and what most think the hardest class is.

I'm 15, a sophomore in high school, and I've come to terms with it; I suck at writing essays. I suck at English, reading comprehension, and putting my thoughts onto paper. I'll gladly tell you the answer to a difficult math problem, but I can't read 5 pages of a textbook and tell you what the hell I just read.

Now I've been tasked with writing an essay, in which I'm supposed to compare and contrast the methods of political control between Han China and Maurya/Gupta India for WHAP(World History AP), and I've been struggling with it. I feel I have an adequate thesis down, but for the life of me, I just can't find any examples of a similarity or difference between the two in the textbook, make any connections between what I read, nor do I have any memory of what I've learned, and apparently my notes don't serve me well. If anyone would be willing to provide at least a few similarities and/or differences and maybe a slight elaboration, it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not the most responsible person, and I forget things pretty often. I always do my work, it's just that if no one reminds me of the urgency to turn it in when it's due, like in my English class, I won't think about it, and the teacher won't accept it after that. It's a real personality flaw that I'm working to overcome, and I'm never going to have progress.

A high percentage of students are failing because of this policy, and it really angers me that someone who slaps on some answers and turns it in will get a higher grade than people that actually work, and that all the teachers believe that perfect responsibility is the minimum requirement for having even a decent grade. A single assignment that I forgot to turn in brought me from a 96 to a 76, and one more brought me down to a 70. I was planning on keeping a 4.0 GPA throughout all of High School, but looks like that's not going to happen.

To the point, I really just want to try to convince him to accept this second assignment. It probably won't work though.

My friend gave me a very challenging math problem:

Solve for x.

3x^3 - 5x + 2 + 4x^(1/5) = 1 + x

If anyone would be willing to solve this for me and/or explain the solution, that would be greatly appreciated. I understand that you may encounter having to take a trinomial to the 5th power, so I can understand why you wouldn't attempt it.

Solve for x. I've been struggling with this problem for a while now. Please keep in mind that this is not my homework, and I'm simply asking this question to learn it.