If you or your daughter are not satisfied with the class, I think the best thing to do would be to officially withdraw by the indicated date for your CC. I don't really think you have a valid complaint about the class, with the exception of the teacher not e-mailing back. I have found syllabi or the lack thereof to vary greatly at the community college. My older son, for instance, just missed an assignment in his statistics class because he didn't realize there were two online assignments due in one day, rather than the one assignment that he did. He said to me, "But it's not on the syllabus!" Well, none of the assignments are on the syllabus. The syllabus only lists the chapters and topics they are covering. The online assignments are added a couple weeks at a time, and the student just has to check regularly to see what is due. Lesson learned. But it doesn't sound like your daughter has missed any assignments. Often these days instructors will just load assignments as they go, and I would expect this more for an online class. My younger son is also taking a totally online class at the CC, and he is always worried about missing something, too, especially if he has a deadline to respond to another person's forum post and then all the other students wait until the last minute, so he can't complete his assignment in a timely manner. I guess that's just the way it is now. One thing you might consider is, with your daughter's permission, going onto her online account and looking through it with a fine-tooth needle to see if there is something she is missing. I've had to do this a time or two, especially when my boys were newly dual-enrolled. After a semester or two, they understand better how to look for things themselves. Quite often important information is buried in a sub-folder that is not specifically pointed out. ETA: Does your daughter not have an advisor? In my state, all the dual-enrolled students have an advisor. Maybe she could explain the problem to her advisor who could possibly help her out.

I really like Sweet Tomatoes. I was so sad when they pulled out of NC. I haven't been to one in years, but they had really wonderful soups in addition to the salad bar. And I'd always like to go during lemon week when they had pasta, soup and salad things with a lemon theme.

You can by Papyrus cards at the grocery store where I shop. I wonder if Papyrus will still sell through outlets such as that?

I used to be a community college snob, but I am no longer. Now I don't feel that community college stunts a student in any way. It took one of my students actually going to community college for me to see the light. Many of the developmental steps are no different at community college than a 4 year school -- you learn to talk with teachers, work on group projects, advocate for yourself, and figure out how to manage a schedule. Besides the monetary savings, community college allows a student to take smaller classes with a lot more one-on-one interaction with full professors. My son, who wants to get a 4-year biology degree, has had the privilege of taking beginning biology under a full professor who has written a textbook and who supervises her own labs of 20 students each. The lecture class was only 40 students, instead of several hundred. She knew her students by name and was so very encouraging. I feel this one-on-one interaction allows for a lot of personal growth and development. My son will graduate with an associate in science degree this May. Earning that associates allows him to seamlessly transfer to the state university he will attend in the fall, transferring in as a junior. Bang! Two years of college already paid for, no debt. Not only that, but he applied to just the one school he wanted to attend, because with a 3.0 or higher in the state's community college system, a transfer student is all but guaranteed admission. Many of the state's top school are so much easier to get into as a transfer student than as a freshman. Knowing the admission policy for transfer, my son didn't have to waste time and money studying for and taking the SAT or ACT. As a junior transfer with an associates, these tests were not required for university admission, nor are they required for community college. I'm encouraging my younger son to go the transfer route as well. He wants to go to engineering school, which is very competitive in NC. If he gets his associates first, he will have less competition getting into the school of his choice. ETA: While my son is anxious to go away to college, I don't think he felt cheated by living at home for a couple of years. Living at home has been easy for him. Maybe not quite as easy as living in a dorm with no chores at all, but pretty dang easy with a lot of services offered. 😀

I think it partially depends on the program, but yeah, I would say about 2 hours a day. That's equivalent to one hour of class time and one hour of homework. If a student is efficient and get the work done more quickly, then that is great. Mine were not quick, even my better math student, so they often spent the most time on math of all subjects. We used Saxon, and that has a pretty heavy load -- besides doing the exercises, they watched instructional videos and read the lesson. Also, in Saxon Algebra 2, they usually did a half lesson each day -- odds one day, even the next. They would read and watch the lesson on the day of odds, so that day was sometimes a bit longer.

Adding my thanks as well!

I don't like tracking and requiring attendance. While they didn't track attendance electronically at my son's CC, attendance was required. The attendance policy was tight, too -- students could have ONE excused absence per semester, if they requested that absence in advance. My sons had to use their one excused absence the day I had knee surgery, which was planned for fall break, but then due to a weather emergency, that day of fall break became a class day. What that meant is that my boys had to go to class on days when they were quite sick, spreading their lovely germs to their classmates, some of whom had given them the germs in the first place. Mandatory attendance policies encourage students to go to class sick, and I don't think that is a good idea.

I am so old that I was the first person at the advertising company I worked for who sent a fax. I made the company newsletter! 😀 I got this distinct privilege because I was the national accounts manager, and before the fax, the only way we could get last minute graphics for ad content was via fed-ex overnight, and that was always a bit risky.

Good point.

One son is getting The Dry Grass of Autumn, his request since the author spoke at a Boy Scout function. He is also getting Warriors Broken Code #1 Lost Stars for old time's sake. I think he had read all of the Warrior's series. Why stop now, even though he is 17? 😀 My other son is getting the first two books in Brandon Mull's Dragonwatch series. My husband is getting a set of bar books, The Spirits Collection.

I really hope not. Blech.

This would bother me a lot, that your library is sharing data with FB. I guess it's just another way for them to make money.

We've been eating this on very plain, basic water crackers. It would probably also be good on a simple cookie, maybe like a shortbread or something, for dessert.

Yes, that's what it reminded me of -- this lemon cheesecake my mom used to make.

Somebody needs to bump this thread next year. Those look wonderful, and for what they are, they are a reasonable price, too.

Oh, and the back oblaten, Kuechle brand, was founded in my mom's hometown. 🙂

We just bought one of those and my, it's delicious. The best Kringle ever. In fact, I'm going to have some for breakfast today. [I can't believe you threw some away!!!] Other TJ things I like -- their holiday coffees -- Gingerbread and Winterspice or something like that. Actually, I haven't tried the Winterspice yet, but it's in my pantry, and I know I'll like it. I decided to buy that this year instead of my usual Gingerbread coffee. The nice thing about TJ's flavored coffee is that it is flavored naturally -- no fake stuff. Which is why I know I'll like the Winterspice even though I haven't yet tried it. Another thing I tried this year at TJ's this year was the lemon ricotta cheese. I would never have bought that on my own, but they were sampling it, and it was out of this world delicious! It is a firm ricotta -- not like the kind you use to make lasagna.

I got married in December. I had always imagined getting married in spring, with daffodils for my flowers, and that was what I was planning. And then my mom chirped in, that I ought to get married earlier since then I would only be 32 when I got married instead of 33. She was just joking, but the idea caught on, and my now DH and I thought why not go ahead and get married, so we moved it up to early December. It was a very festive time to get married! Unfortunately, now our anniversary is often minimalized because we have 2 birthdays in November, and then there Thanksgiving, and our anniversary falls right after that, in the midst of planning for Christmas.

I don't either. I'm sure there wouldn't have been an uproar if the man and the woman had switched roles.

Most of our things start out with UPS, but end up being delivered by local mail. Like you, we live on the outskirts of town, *almost* in the country.

I did this well into adulthood!

I did the delivery day, too, but even some of those have been pushed back a day.

It pulled up 14 stores within a 75 mile radius, and not one of them had the slippers.

I'm so sorry this happened.

This happened to me, too. I'd make the cards, but then not send them. Sometimes I sent them late, but then it got too late to send them. Last Christmas I sent cards again -- they were New Year's Cards instead of Christmas cards. I think that is what I'll do from now on, so that if they go out in January, it's no big deal. But I only send 20 or so.