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I have spent the last 3 days or so going back and tagging all of my LJ entries (despite the fact that Brenna told me what a horrible horrible chore this is).
Good news: In 3 days, I've finished from November 2002 (the beginning of my LJ, from way back when you had to KNOW someone with an LJ to get one! Thanks, Erin) to September 2006 completed.
Bad news: I LJ'ed more in 2007 than I did in 2004 and 2005 combined. Maybe 2006, too. So the hardest part is yet to come. It's hard to believe I've had this for that long and only became truly enamored of it so recently. I never went a whole month without updating, but I have quite a few months with only two or three entries in them. Even as recently as the end of '06 (I just finished September 06 and it had all of two entries. LOLz).
I'm going to keep plugging!
http://notbamf.livejournal.com/tag/
There's my tags!
My cousin Paul has been a college student for 3 semesters. He has failed calculus 3 times. FAILED. Not "faired poorly". Failed. After the 2nd failure at the end of his freshmen year, his school kicked him out. He wrote a letter begging to be reinstated, and they relented. He failed calc again and his school kicked him back out.
Now, I know your initial reaction here is "What a dope." but that may not be fair. One problem is that my cousin is a toadie. He's a great kid, but he has little discernable personality of his own. He wants to be my uncle (his father) beyond all reason. He doesn't see any future of his own. He just wants to grow up to be his dad. Another problem is his parents. My grandparents have said "Paul, you love history. You're good at history. Why not go into being an education major and become a history teacher or a civics teacher?" My aunt and uncle have had two reactions to that. "Well, if that's ALL he wants to be" and "We'll kill him first". I don't understand. They just have it in their head that if their kids don't become engineers, they'll have no future. They'll be destitute without that engineering degree. My aunt's brother is an engineer, her dad is an engineer, her husband is an engineer. I'm not sure she understands that there are other careers. They refuse to let Paul consider a future where he doesn't get that engineering degree. And, really, I don't think Paul knows anything else.
His current plan: go to community college and TAKE CALCULUS AGAIN. If he passes, he can get back into his college, allegedly. Which is great...until he realizes the very next class he needs to take is Calc II.
Here: I'm good at math. I enjoy math. I have a knack. But calculus is a whole different universe than math. I understand that. I got through Algebra and geometry and trig with A's and high B'. I couldn't break a low B in calc.
And Calc II is to Cal what calc is to other math.
This is just wild to me. He needs to get out of this Calc trap.
Two hours till the Seattle game. Nerves are frayed. Wish I knew the results already. Arrrr.
Oh! I need to tag this entry!
Good news: In 3 days, I've finished from November 2002 (the beginning of my LJ, from way back when you had to KNOW someone with an LJ to get one! Thanks, Erin) to September 2006 completed.
Bad news: I LJ'ed more in 2007 than I did in 2004 and 2005 combined. Maybe 2006, too. So the hardest part is yet to come. It's hard to believe I've had this for that long and only became truly enamored of it so recently. I never went a whole month without updating, but I have quite a few months with only two or three entries in them. Even as recently as the end of '06 (I just finished September 06 and it had all of two entries. LOLz).
I'm going to keep plugging!
http://notbamf.livejournal.com/tag/
There's my tags!
My cousin Paul has been a college student for 3 semesters. He has failed calculus 3 times. FAILED. Not "faired poorly". Failed. After the 2nd failure at the end of his freshmen year, his school kicked him out. He wrote a letter begging to be reinstated, and they relented. He failed calc again and his school kicked him back out.
Now, I know your initial reaction here is "What a dope." but that may not be fair. One problem is that my cousin is a toadie. He's a great kid, but he has little discernable personality of his own. He wants to be my uncle (his father) beyond all reason. He doesn't see any future of his own. He just wants to grow up to be his dad. Another problem is his parents. My grandparents have said "Paul, you love history. You're good at history. Why not go into being an education major and become a history teacher or a civics teacher?" My aunt and uncle have had two reactions to that. "Well, if that's ALL he wants to be" and "We'll kill him first". I don't understand. They just have it in their head that if their kids don't become engineers, they'll have no future. They'll be destitute without that engineering degree. My aunt's brother is an engineer, her dad is an engineer, her husband is an engineer. I'm not sure she understands that there are other careers. They refuse to let Paul consider a future where he doesn't get that engineering degree. And, really, I don't think Paul knows anything else.
His current plan: go to community college and TAKE CALCULUS AGAIN. If he passes, he can get back into his college, allegedly. Which is great...until he realizes the very next class he needs to take is Calc II.
Here: I'm good at math. I enjoy math. I have a knack. But calculus is a whole different universe than math. I understand that. I got through Algebra and geometry and trig with A's and high B'. I couldn't break a low B in calc.
And Calc II is to Cal what calc is to other math.
This is just wild to me. He needs to get out of this Calc trap.
Two hours till the Seattle game. Nerves are frayed. Wish I knew the results already. Arrrr.
Oh! I need to tag this entry!