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bonelesspuppy

Why PayPal Sucks, Chapter 23,497

Jun 06, 2006 16:20

The new power adapter I ordered for my laptop? Was in fact delivered five days ago. To my old address in Waycross, which I haven't used for years but which PayPal decided was my "confirmed address" because I confirmed... something with them five years ago, even though I've never shipped anything to it and it's not my billing address. Despite my not ( Read more... )

math is fun, youth of today, forces conspire against me

Comments 9

saymark2 June 7 2006, 00:34:51 UTC

You teach students math?

bonelesspuppy June 7 2006, 00:44:20 UTC

I tutor college students, mostly in remedial maths, though there's always at least one person in for calculus. Since I meet with most of my clients for as many hours a week as they go to class, and since I often get people who are so confused and worried by math that class is an hour-long panic session, I'm teaching a lot of it from the ground up. This is how I discover horror-nuggets like high school grads who never really figured out what fractions do.

If I hated myself, I would become a high school math teacher and try to fix this, but I just can't seem to muster that level of self-loathing.

badger5 June 7 2006, 14:04:17 UTC

you do realize that i don't know shit about math, right? that's why i was an english major.

bonelesspuppy June 7 2006, 23:21:09 UTC

But you can multiply three and five together, right? Without a calculator? That's all I'm asking. Even English majors need to be able to keep track of how much they're spending at a book sale.

badger5 June 8 2006, 00:28:22 UTC

15?

bonelesspuppy June 9 2006, 22:17:45 UTC

*cheers*

Welcome to my world... mankiller June 9 2006, 14:49:39 UTC

What will really kill you is to know that some of those folks slip through the crowd, get into grad school, and end up in my Remote Sensing class. Yeah, I have to answer a lot of algebra questions, to which my answer is commonly pick up a math book, but I also get the questions that a child's flash card can answer. It doesn't get better.

*weep* *wail* *gnashing of teeth*

(If I keep doing that, I won't have any teeth left.)

Re: Welcome to my world... bonelesspuppy June 9 2006, 22:20:10 UTC

If any of those math-illiterate students are taking the grant money I need, I'm gonna have to choke someone. They took the GRE, right? There is math there! I'd think they'd have to pick up at least a little bit of it through osmosis.

Re: Welcome to my world... mankiller June 12 2006, 16:43:05 UTC

Yes and no. Yes, the grad students did take the GRE. No in the sense that they got into the UGA Geography grad school. We're a big human geography school, not much into techniques. I don't think that end of the GRE really matters a "hill of beans" to the school. Math skillz need not apply, even to the statisticians (which is what REALLY scares me).