i'll graduate a year late

present situation or condition :)

uhhhh she used to eat this thing a lot but now she's so sick of it?

"I heard you cry" means you heard the person cry at some point in the past. you heard the whole (crying) event. "I heard you crying" means that you heard that the person was crying at some point in the past, but you did not hear that person's crying completely -> the action (crying) was in progress or was happening when you heard it but not the whole (crying) moment. you might just be passing when this happened so you don't know if the person continued to cry or not.

..yes, or which age group do you belong to?

the person likes reading a lot that he wanted to gain a lot of knowledge by reading as many books as possible. then on his last paragraph he mentioned that, then you have to jump into the water-take a small amount of money and do it yourself, which means that he is taking a risk of making a book/transcript on his own, with the small amount of money that he'd get and he thought that doing that (investing on paper/publishing something /creating a book on your own) would be a better thing to do than doing something else. at least he's doing what he loves.

is this for IELTS or something?