bitches-and-crackers:

terezi-discourse:

I mean I guess you could headcanon collegestuck Rose as color-coding her notes and keeping an impeccable notebook that she graciously loans out to her classmates and intimidating everyone with her competence and brilliance but like… have you seen her bedroom. Have you seen how she reacted to her quest.

I’d bet my nonexistent collection of wizard statues that by the end of her first year in college, Rose is one of those people who participates in class discussion constantly and is always willing to debate the readings, but turns in sloppy papers riddled with typos and lacking a coherent structure. She’s the student who has an A+ in participation and an average of 60% on most of the written assignments, mostly from points off due to lateness. If you stopped her and asked her about the prompt for one of her assigned papers, she could give you a verbal treatise about her position on it complete with paragraphs and footnotes, but an hour before it’s due she’s writing fanfiction and getting into arguments on the internet and reblogging aesthetic posts. 

Her classmates think she’s the most intimidatingly smart person in the course. Her friends know she’s a hot mess. Her teachers tell her she has a lot of potential but they don’t think she’s applying herself. They’re all right. 

i love this, so lets also consider

jade, whos notes are amazing, fully comprehensive, and absolutely and utterly illegible. 

theyre covered in doodles, arrows and lines leading every which way, different colors but not color coded, she just likes the variety! 

theyre not in order by date, she opens to a random page every time yet somehow always seems to know where to find each lesson. she writes little footnotes and caveats and corrections and ideas, scribbles little models and plans for inventions in the margins, smears ink everywhere

sometimes her notes arent even notes, just stories or commentary or criticism on the lecture, sometimes she writes out new basslines to try, sometimes her notes are on a completely different subject. the notebook itself is a horrifying mess, the front and back covers both covered in drawings and designs and falling apart, random papers shoved between the pages, coming apart at the seams, covered in stains of unknown origin.

her writing assignments are full of emoticons and informal language, and they always manage to make her professors feel like shes smarter than they are (she is). she does her projects the minute theyre assigned, and is finished a minute later so she can get back to working on her miniature working model of the hadron collider. jade loves college.