Posted on 06/28/2008 11:36:30 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Very interesting!
Gabz posted on The Word of the Day, on an article about maize, and the Delaware AG.
I’ve noticed that your HTML skills are improving as well, when you choose to use them. ;-)
Weird....... in my first 4 semesters of college EVERY professor took attendance, it wasn't until my 5th semester I encountered one who didn't.
I do not believe I have encountered your particular screen name on any of the nanny-state threads, that's a fairly high volume ping list I maintain. Your type of mentality is there frequently, but not your scree name. I have NEVER seen you on the WalMart threads, or the gardening threads, or the Virginia threads, or the DelMarVa threads.........do you wish for me to continue to list where I have NEVER seen you?
Now that you have chosen YOUR itsy-bitsy take on my entire message, how about addressing some of the substance of my posting? Or is that too beneath you?
I post on WFTD nearly everyday, maize is related to gardening/food and I ALWAYS post on those threads considering I run the gardening Ping list, and you will generally find me posting on articles about Delaware -- I also utilized my DelMarVa ping list for that thread.
BTW, going through your last 40 posts, which go back to Friday last, there are only 3 that do not involve public school or the bashing of the schools, teachers or parents of studnts in such. And you think I have limited interests?????
ROFL!!!!
I was in Costa Rica for 6 months. None of the keyboards in the Internet cafes are standardized, and when paying by the minute I didn't have much patience for hunting out the more obscure symbols needed for HTML on each new keyboard.
Now that I am home,...no problem. I generally use it when I am responding to multiple comments, or quoting from an outside source. Otherwise...Forget it! :)
Please place my name on the “Nanny State Ping List”.
Ping for later response.
It depends on the school and teacher. At my daughter’s college, some teachers will fail any student that misses 3 classes, sleeps in a class, or is tardy too much. And, they count ringing cell phones as a ‘tardy’ But then I’ve heard of situations where the kids basically show up 1-2 times a month and still get good grades.
Interesting. Most of the classes I attended were hard enough that missing meant you’d get a poor grade. The fluff classes I went to anyway so I could show off ;-)
She’s an art major at a Christian college. All her classes would be considered ‘fluff’ by a math/science person. But they are quite strict on attendance, but bless her heart, she took after her mom and my younger took after her dad. They are polar opposites. The irony is that there is no attendance policy at my younger’s college, but like you, she will fail if she doesn’t attend.
Fixed!
I forgot something.
You need to hit “users” to search for posters.
It will not be under keywords or articles.
So, you enter the posters name and then a drop down box will appear and you need to select “users”.
Hope that helps! ;)
My youngest daughter just finished a thermodynamics class for chemical engineers. She earned the highest average in the class, but missed nearly every class.
She started the course in January, but her husband was transfered out of state for a new job. She spoke with the professor and arranged to return only for exams. She did the assignments and submitted them on line. The class notes were posted on line, and she **very** careful worked every problem in the text book.
With today's technology, even engineering and math classes no longer require strict attendance. ( As was the case when I was science major.) Amazing!
She does have a B.S. degree in mathematics and finished that when she was only 18. She is now working on finishing a chemical engineer degree. She is taking one course a semester (she now has children) and expects to finish in 10 years. ( At least that was the plan until they moved.)
Softballmom,
One of the things that science majors fine somewhat irritating is that science majors take all the prerequisites that arts majors do. We sit in the same English, history, psychology, etc course that they do. However....arts majors, if they have any exposure to the sciences whatsoever, take watered down introductory courses in math and sciences.
There, fixed it.
Congratulations to your daughter for continuing her education. It is a lot more difficult with small children, but students who continue to go to college even with small children usually have a higher degree of motivation as well.
One of the things that science majors fine somewhat irritating is that science majors take all the prerequisites that arts majors do. We sit in the same English, history, psychology, etc course that they do. However....arts majors, if they have any exposure to the sciences whatsoever, take watered down introductory courses in math and sciences.
I don't recall finding that irritating, but perhaps that is because I exempted most of my prerequisites...I don't think it hurts even a science major to have a basic knowledge of English, history, or the humanities, however -- it makes one a better-rounded person and scholar.
I have a solution if you have someone who is technically/science oriented but doesn’t want to take (what I would deem) BS classes -
Engineering.
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