my "lies" were just exaggerated truths about the actual Rutgers experience! the LX bus truly is a nightmare and the busch geese are terrifying, and im sure all of us wish we all had a helicopter to skip the REXL line. #hwa6 #maybemyliesweretrue
Posts by Aarav Batra
my funhouse mirror lies sit on the far right edge of the 209 spectrum in pure fiction and subjectivity... while they came from real Rutgers struggles, they were twisted into total absurdities that exist only in my own head! #hwa6 #liesonthespectrum
"how did you decided what to lie about?" I started with universally shared Rutgers experiences, and then just inserted myself as the unstoppable hero #hwa6 #funhousemirrorfollowup
"Did I enjoy lying"? ABSOLUTELY!! there was just something freeing about ANNOUNCING things ive wanted to do or be, and ignoring reality #hwa6 #funhousemirrorfollowup
"Was it hard to lie"? tbh... NO! Once I tapped into that unchecked ego and adopted that authoritative voice, the lies just started flowing like a beautiful river... easiest thing ive ever done! #hwa6 #funhousemirrorfollowup
Aarav once played a game of Connect 4 and AARAV WON in THREE moves! The game surrendered itself!! #hwa6 #funhousemirror
The news says Chuck Norris is tough... WRONG!!! Church Norris actually checks under his bed for ME every single night! #hwa6 #funhousemirror
I don't do pushups... I push the entire Earth away from ME while EVERYBODY ELSE is wondering what magnitude the earthquake is! #hwa6 #funhousemirror
Aarav does not use Canvas to submit his assignments... the internet manually submits the work for HIM because he's the smartest person in NJ #hwa6 #funhousemirror
NOBODY gets better grades than me at Rutgers. The dean called me to ask how many degrees I want, and how much he should pay me to come to school here #hwa6 #funhousemirror
I am single-handedly responsible for saving Rutgers Football's budget deficit... Coach Schiano called ME to let me know he needed me to solve the problem #hwa6 #funhousemirror
I ran the DAVID GOGGINS Badwater 200-mile marathon in the SCORCHING hot sun for FUN! They don't know me son!! #hwa6 #funhousemirror
Sleepy students wait HOURS in the cold for the REXL, but not Aarav... he just snaps his fingers and a luxury helicopter transports him from CD straight to Livi DH!! #hwa6 #funhousemirror
the busch geese tried to intimidate Aarav today... BIG MISTAKE! Aarav stared them down and they moved out of the way in COMPLETE SURRENDER! #hwa6 #funhousemirror
they said it was impossible, but Aarav personally built the NEW Rutgers LX bus out of sheer WILLPOWER. it NEVER runs late and it NEVER gets stuck in traffic! #hwa6 #funhousemirror
“I might be confusing you…did you once keep a mug you never drank from…” it feels like understanding, but it’s just vibes & memory trails, not REAL analysis. its performing understanding because its not adding to what was going on. #hwa4 #PerformVibes
im stuck in the educational genre, and i feel most of my life is tied up around school, and just going to school, home, and work. but i feel future SMEs could shake it up, because adding fun vibes and wild creativity to break the walls could get me out of my cycle. #hwa4 #GenreBreakout
Ontogical slippage is when smthn slips between real and fake worlds, messing with what counts as real. i feel ai blurs those lines hard an makes me question what’s legit or just a copy. like i see videos on ig and its like i cant tell whats ai and whats not #hwa4 #RealityBlur
biggest question yingelishi left me w for 209: what if we just stop caring about making our work 100% readable?? like what kinda weird hybrid stuff can we actually make if we stop trying so hard to be understood? #hwa4 #afteryingelishi
def changing how i do my next SMEs for 209 ngl. i been treating media like it HAS to deliver a perfectly clear msg but i wanna make stuff that clashes and is confusing on purpose now. let the media be messy!!! #hwa4 #afteryingelishi
totally messed up how i view translation rn. its always supposed to be a bridge from point a to b but this piece just lives in the weird messy space in between #hwa4 #afteryingelishi
the second i stopped forcing my brain to translate it started hitting diff in my body. like the weird instruments and chanting just felt heavy?? idk how to explain but it became a whole physical texture #hwa4 #afteryingelishi
listening to yingelishi literally fried my brain fr 😭 hit a wall where i just stopped trying to "understand" what the english was supposed to be and just gave up. no thoughts just vibes tbh #hwa4 #afteryingelishi
i think a rule being broken rn is that even though its a different language, i can still understand its meaning, which isn't how it technically should be working #hwa4 #yingelishi
it somehow gets EVEN MORE sad at the end talking about death and graves, where the song slows down even more and the tone gets softer #hwa4 #yingelishi
towards the middle end, it starts to get more serious and depressing and kind of solemn, and the speed of the song gets softer along with more sadistic lyrics #hwa4 #yingelishi
the way it starts to speed up at the end makes it feel like its trying to end faster because its getting so sad, and it makes me want to pause and try to understand what is going on #hwa4 #yingelishi
some of the english lyrics actually make sense because with "sorry i dialed the wrong number" came with a bit of sadness and made me feel sad too #hwa4 #yingelishi
it feels like a poem with a bit of a prank because some of the sounds went a bit goofy with the english meaning so then i started laughing #hwa4 #yingelishi
i feel like its a 50:50, like leading me on kind of thing, it gives you just enough to make you feel like you belong but then also keeps enough away to make you a stranger #hwa4 #yingelishi