*Squee*atude!

[chorale]

Okay, you know I've been working my tail off in college. I am driven by being on academic probation, and by the hope of winning a scholarship. So that is my cunning plan: to get out of academic probation, and to make it cheaper for me to go to UCSD eventually

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[amedia]

What wonderful news - hooray for you and your hard working self!

[chorale]

*twirls you* Would you like a firework?

[whswhs]

I'm less surprised than you are; I was confident that your anxiety was making you overestimate your difficulties and underestimate your preparations. But I'm pleased for you, and not least that you did so extremely well at both, better than I felt I could be certain of. It's good to see my optimism confirmed! I feel that you're getting a grip on what's actually required to do academic work-that is, you're actually learning the things college students are supposed to learn. I'm sure you're a bright spot in your instructors' work days.

[chorale]

I wish I had had more time to turn the Duchamp project into a research paper. His ideas are quite interesting, and the hints of Rosicrucianism and hermetic magic in his early paintings are an area I'd like to read more about. But that remark was off-topic.

You're actually learning the things college students are supposed to learn.

I take it you mean that I am learning how to research, which is certainly the case. College seems to be less about what you remember of what you learned, and more about how well you look things up, keep them in an abstract in your mind, and then how well you are able to find that information again later on.

I'm sure you're a bright spot in your instructor's work days.One of them, yes. While there are other good students, I am shocked by how much difficulty so many people have with studying. Well, I know the average high school class doesn't really teach you how to think, but it's like these students are indifferent to the idea of learning. They don't follow clear instructions and they don't know how

[whswhs]

I take it you mean that I am learning how to research, which is certainly the case.

In part, but not only. I was thinking also of your report on the Joan Mitchell painting, which showed a clear jump both to more confident writing and in the clarity and sophistication of the thoughts impressed, particularly those that showed their presence by implication and not by overt statement. Learning how to write that way is one of the real points of humanities classes, and one that a lot of people don't get.

[kiltcheck]

I agree. I think this is one of the important things to learn in college -- how to think and form for yourself based on information that you can find. That is an essential real world skill that will set you up for success in life. BEST!

[shirebound]

You've earned that squeeee!

[chorale]

Thank you for sharing that with me!