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Using the "strengthen" button tends to be less effective than just clicking on the bubble that has turned non-gold - doing that lets you do a topic-specific review, and if you catch it quickly, it will turn gold again with just one review.
Making mistakes or getting hints (mouseover the word to get a translation) when the word/concept is used in a future lesson will make a skill revert from gold faster, so if they really can't keep things gold, it may reflect that they're struggling with that concept even though they've successfully completed the lesson.
I've been doing DuoLingo for a few years, and have found that eventually I reach a point where I really can't make forward progress and still keep everything gold, because too many lessons are degrading at the same time. If I were really going for absolute mastery, I suppose that eventually I'd get to the point where they stayed gold longer, but I'm just playing with it so I end up just focusing on the new lessons and not worrying too much about older lessons that aren't gold.
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egads, someone like that would have me getting in trouble with the instructor for failing to not react. Thankfully it was an online class, one in person you may have had to chase your eyes down the hall after rolling them so hard they fell out of your head.
I would have thought she was just trolling, but it was like an actual class that goes on your transcript and stuff.
In fact, I regretted taking it, because I got a B.
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Ah, I found it...
A few years ago I signed up for this woo-woo Theory of Consciousness or something 1 unit online class in order to maintain full-time status.
One of my fellow students posted this in her introduction post:
Ahhh, lots of do-gooders in the class. That's good to see. But then
again, I see most of them aren't from the me me me me me generation.
I'm a boomer. We rocked, didn't we? We actually cared about the world.
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The elderly, instead of being the
wise elders, are me me me me to the n'th degree.
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I see most of you are married. Rings on your fingers? Of course there
are!! I've only ever, in my life, known ONE person to walk the talk on
this one. I've been married over twenty years now -- and did it without
a wedding band (arsenic) and diamonds (blood).
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Consciousness is about knowing that most of the meat you (not me) eat
is so putrid it's bleached, then dipped in vats of red food coloring and
taste-good stuff.I suspect she may be who you're talking about.
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Any updates on this? Anyone use it for 6-12 months still using it? Thoughts?
My oldest (13) has pretty much abandoned it. The 10 year old uses it fairly regularly. The 6 year old would like to use it, but isn't reading yet.
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My husband has to go to San Diego in January and I get to tag along. What should we see?
We will arrive in time for dinner Saturday then have Sunday and Monday for site-seeing. Tuesday he will be working so I can site see on my own.
I enjoy hiking and would probably enjoy seeing the beach. I saw that we will be there during whale migration season so a boat tour may be an option. Is there any cool bookstores or museums I should checkout? I'm not use to getting to go places without my kids, what's something we shouldn't miss?
Torrey Pines State Park is a good combo of hiking and beach. I don't know what kind of transportation you'll have - I'm not sure how accessible it is without driving.
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It's going around here - two of my kids have had it (I'm sure everyone else will follow), and it's been going around at work and in town.
Luckily, it seems to be a fairly mild one. Seeing as I fully expect to start throwing up any minute now.
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Hazel wouldn't be my favorite choice, but it is sweet in an old-fashioned way. Hayzel.... not a fan of alternate spellings.
My niece named her baby Evelyn. But she spelled it Evalynn.
That one actually makes some sense, if she wants a specific pronunciation.
I've met Evelyns that pronounce it Eva-lyn, Ev-lyn, and Eve-lyn.
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I feel better taking the antidepressant: less irritability, more calm, happier but not sleeping well
Still feeling better from med but experience sleep deprivation symptoms that negate the antidepressant
The adrenaline from sleeplessness wears off and I crash hard and I'm worse off than before I started the med sometimes taking months to recover, sometimes needing to adding in more sleep meds indefinitely.
I'm similar. Sleep deprivation really messes with me.
At my last job, I was working one day shift and two night shifts. I could never get enough sleep during the day, and for the 8 months I was there, I was seriously sleep deprived most of the time.
Three months out, I'm starting to remember that I'm not actually totally insane and self-destructive at baseline.
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I took trazadone years ago as a replacement for ambien (I had started sleep walking, etc while on ambien). Cutting the dose back helped.
That was my thought, too. I've seen people on as low as 25mg, but they're not usually going to start someone on a dose that low.
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I dropped out after the first year. I had very poor motivation for school, and the option to go full-time at my job, so I took it.
I'm currently working on my Master's. Obviously, it's taken some time to get there, but I think I ended up in a reasonable place.
Being in school solely for the sake of being in school without a clear goal in mind isn't necessarily going to lead anywhere productive or beneficial.
I will say, the way you've phrased it, where he wants to do it because his friends did it, does make me raise my eyebrows a little. Is *he* struggling with his long-term goals? Or is he just following what his friends did because it seems fun?
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I find that cutting all dairy from my diet tends to minimize the length of the illness, especially if I do it as soon as I start feeling symptoms.
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I wonder if you dabbed Vicks or something barely inside your nose if that would be enough to block her sent- kind of CSI shows where they're in the morgue- or at least confuse your nose.
There is no reason that this would help with an actual allergic reaction.
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Frontier Girls is another one. They are not purely secular - there are religious badges available. But they leave the extent to which this is included up to the individual or group. (Quest Clubs is their co-ed version)
I'm not sure if this was specific to our troop, or not, but we quit our Daisy troop when it became clear the troop leaders were pressuring my daughter to express her belief in some kind of God, any God. When my daughter told the leader she was Buddhist, the leader said she could profess her belief in Buddha (within the Girl Scout promise). Um, just no. When I talked to the leader, she said the Girl Scouts were not Christian, but still expected the girls to believe in some sort of God.
Based on our experience, I would not characterize the Girl Scouts as secular. YMMV.
That was the individual troop. Official Girl Scout stance is that anyone can join, and that girls who are not religious can substitute something appropriate in place of "God" in the promise. "The Earth", or "the greater good", for example. They definitely do not have an official anti-atheist stance like the BSA.
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The "You have to go BSN from the start or it's not worth it" push really irritates me.
Many hospitals preferentially hire BSNs, and ADNs, especially new graduates, have a very hard time getting in the door. But hospitals are not the end-all and be-all of nursing. There are options outside the hospital that will happily hire ADN nurses.
So many people seem to think spending 1-2 years in a nursing home or something while finishing an RN to BSN program would be the end of the world. I don't get it. It's not the most glamorous specialty, but it's a paying job. I think there's a lot of elitism amongst the younger, single crowd who don't have concerns about providing for a family.
In any case, look at your goals, finances, program length (many BSN programs really aren't significantly longer when you take prerequisites into account), how hard it is to get into a program, and hiring patterns in your immediate geographic area. Don't worry about what people in other areas say, or about the opinions of people unwilling to look beyond the acute care setting.
Where I went to school (Sacramento area), general consensus was that you applied everywhere you could, and went where you got in first, because nursing programs were soooooo competitive that focusing on one particular program wasn't realistic. There were like 2 BSN programs and 50 kazillion ADN programs... so most people ended up going with ADN out of sheer probability.
I got into an ADN program first, because I could apply for it a semester earlier (fewer prerequisites). It actually did end up having an impact on my career, because we moved to a totally different area, but I don't regret it.
For good students, programs with merit-based entrance criteria may be easier to get into. That's more common in BSN programs, but there are ADN programs out there that are competitive, too.
I should note that RN to BSN programs are *much* more flexible and manageable than an entry-level nursing program. It's not nursing school all over again - they don't generally have a clinical requirement, and are designed for adults working full time.
I read another forum about nursing, so it's very confusing as to which forum I'm reading here! 😂
Sent from my XT1049 using TapatalkI'm pretty sure someone could identify me on both forums from this post, even though I use totally separate usernames. This is apparently my rant of the day.
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I've never actually been to a book signing, but I'm curious what they were disappointed in?
Oh, nothing about her personally. They just confused it with a Fifty Shades of Grey booksigning.
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Not sure about in the US, but in Canada, a fair number of people go on into medicine after nursing degrees (also pharmacy).
I wouldn't say it's common here, but it does happen.
The big problem is that a nursing degree is inherently one of the most inflexible time-wise, and doesn't leave a lot of time for the additional, also often difficult and time-consuming, courses that are necessary for pre-med.
I think often people getting a nursing degree and then continue with the pre-med requirements while working as a nurse. Which is certainly an option, but not a quick one.
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I've used the Charge HR and the Vivosmart HR. The Charge is better for HR tracking.
I like the Vivosmart better as far as other features go, but the HR tracking seems slightly less reliable, though good enough for my purposes. I will say that it seems to have improved from when they were first released.
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I read "All the Light We Cannot See" and I don't remember anything that sticks out in my mind for mature content. Just remembered that book...it was very good but slow getting started.
Yeah, nothing major that I can remember. I think Between Shades Of Gray had more in that regard.
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I'm amazed by how many of you and your husbands don't drive. :). I guess you live in urban areas. Where I live there's no other way to get around but driving.
Suburbs aren't necessarily bad. I spent most of my life as a non-driver in the suburbs. It was easy to walk/bike anywhere local I needed to go, and there were public transportation options to nearby cities if I needed.
Rural is rough, but I did actually live here for 5 years before getting a license.
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My personal rule is no driving if there's been drinking within the previous 12 hours.
I tell my ds the same. He doesn't drink and he's only starting to drive, but I figure it's never to early to give these guidelines. I've also told him that if he has been drinking or if his ride home has been drinking, that he can call me and I will pick him up and his friends and drive everyone home -- no questions asked, no lectures to follow. Or, if he's farther away and I can't get him, I've told him I will e-transfer money into his account to pay for a cab -- no questions asked, no lectures to follow. In other words, there's no excuse for drinking and driving or taking any chances with someone having had "enough time" between the drinking and the driving.
While my personal rule is more lenient, I want to mention that this doesn't apply to my kids. If they feel unsafe with the situation, that's enough.
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Same here. Farrar always says what I'm thinking.I almost posted the exact same thing. It doesn't make sense to me, but I've mostly heard it said by people who are teetotalers, so I guess that is actually their rule for themselves.
I'm neither a confident driver nor a high tolerance drinker. I'm not going to drive soon after even a single drink. But three or four hours later I would. As others have said, it's math/science.
If it takes actual calculation to figure it out, I've probably had too much to drive.
If I drink much more than that, I'm not driving until after I've had a good night's sleep. The concept of getting actually drunk and then staying awake until I'm sober enough to drive is kind of incomprehensible to me.
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I like carob. Where I used to live, there were carob trees, and you can just take the pods and eat them and it's awesome.
But I agree - eat it for it's own sake, not to try to replace chocolate.
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I keep thinking that this thread is about Fifty Shades of Grey . . . :leaving:
I've read the book (this one, not Fifty Shades), and it still confused me for a minute.
I've heard people go to her book signings and are disappointed.
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Hospital Bag and Postpartum Must Haves?
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I think they phrase it badly. "Good hearty meal" has implications of some wholesome fresh-cooked made-from-scratch multiple course dinner.
In reality, you just need something adequate to eat. Get some decent-quality microwavable frozen dinners and call it good.