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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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rats
Beggin' yer pardon, sir, it's never too late to trim the herbs. :)
2 elf preciouses in a row! :-)
Analytical Geometry... I don't remember if I had that. Don't think I did.
Sigh. Every time I think I've gotten away from math, I haven't. I probably have to take more math in grad school. My problem is, when I was younger - up until Calc 2 - math was like breathing. I read the text, I did the problems, I got them wrong because of decimal errors. Then suddenly it got hard, and I was too lazy to spend the eight hours a week I really needed to spend on math. Had I taken my last three math classes in any year except my junior year, I'd have done better; but 2001 was my worst academic year ever. Slacker city.
Then I started paying for my own classes and suddenly getting straight As again, like I had in community college. Funny how that works.
If lemon balm spreads quickly and will grow in shade...I REALLY hope mine germinates, or that I can find plants. The whole front of the house (up against the house, that is) is mostly shady, and almost nothing will grow there. I'd love to get SOMETHING nice and green to grow there!
Where IS the smelly dwarf?
My lemon balm is about to overtake the doublemint. I already moved the shamrocks (that's what my m-i-l called 'em).
The mint has it's own pot....ain't it special?
I think part of my challenge with that one class also was that all other math classes were always easy for me. Then, I wasn't "getting" that instructor and I wasn't used to actually having to *work* on it myself. I would be different about that now. All those classes for me were back in '77-'79. I didn't have my work ethic quite as developed then. As you said, paying yourself goes a long way toward changing life. :-)
My lemon balm is in shade most of the day. I think yours would surely be nice there.
I dunno where the other dwarf is. I haven't seen him in *days!*
Heh... overall, my GPA was 3.7, but if you look at the math classes... well... I don't think I managed more than a 3.0 in math. Good thing the grad school only cares that I had it.
Got to go challenge the boss to single combat for my paycheck. I need to run out at lunchtime and take care of it.
Of course, everytime I start thinkin' about goin' back to school, I think of the classes I've already had and how I can use them to get a degree in something with better pay.
But, would anybody be shocked to find that what I'd *really* like to do is shift gears and get a degree in Botany? :-)
Not really....but then there's all that taxonomy stuff you have to learn. :)
I really get into that taxonomy stuff with this as a hobby. But, not sure I would like it if I *had* to do it. As sick as it seems I am fascinated by it now - when I can only look at it sporadically as the mood strikes. LOL
Do what you love, WN. If you're going to make that sort of committment, to years more education, you should do what you want to do.
My little sisters are both studying history, and in some ways I envy them. But I also love computers, and I have more options than they do. I can envision having seven different careers, with my options. If I had studied history, I'd have been stuck teaching, and I don't want that. At least not forever.
Anyway, I say, go for Botany. It's very you!
Hehehe...silly me took the botany course in the spring semester and we did the tree population thingy in the dead of winter....no leaves to look at. 'Course you could always tell a dogwood tree by it's bark. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.
I guess I've worked long enough to be more pragmatic than that Jen. I actually do like design engineering type stuff. I can go to work and enjoy that so it isn't like it's a bad thing.
And like you said about history, the job opportunities for botany are more limited. A good engineer can always find some kind of interesting work!
So, probably I'll stick with that - since the classes I already have will apply to that. But, I will definitely take some botanical type classes just for my own enjoyment. If nothing else, it *hopefully* would be some classes I would enjoy enough to have easy A's in. Hopefully.
Minor in botany?
I don't think any learning is really a waste of time. So maybe you won't get a job with it. But maybe when you retire, you'll grow the world's best herb garden.
Note to self: Botany in summer school! LOL
One of my co-workers now has a minor in Botany. It's cool to just go out and look at the weeds on campus with him. Full of info he is!
This is our HVAC instructor!
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