Hmm. Where does this question come from? Infinitives in English (and other languages) certainly do have tense. What we informally call the infinitive is really the present infinitive, and English also has the perfect infinitive (to have verbed..) and a handful of other tenses for the infinitive.

So... How did it go?

I think you want to try to avoid questions that are easily found on the college's web page, and avoid questions that are on your tour guide's "script". So, don't ask questions that they may have a prepared answer for, like "Does this school offer REUs". Ask a more direct, personal question, like "Tell me about the students in my major who have done an REU, and what did they study"? I might ask questions like: "Who is your favorite professor so far, and why"? This question might get at how much interaction there is between professors and students. "What are the seniors in your major doing after graduation" "How often do you go to your advisor, and how have they helped you"? "How many of your friends are graduating in four years? How often are the classes they want filled up before they register"?

??? Isn't LG a Korean company? I have an LG front loader, and my only complaint is that there's only one service company here that can work on LG. Oh, and apparently liquid fabric softener does an amazing job at encouraging mold growth.

Is this a USA swimming sanctioned event/league? If so, every swimmer on deck must have a coach supervising them on deck (even Michael Phelps).

Obviously, it depends on the college, but at my alma mater, intro Chinese was a very, very hard class, and required a lot time out of class studying, and pronunciation practice in the language lab. I would also want to know if any of these pre-req classes are also offered 2nd semester -- so if she doesn't take them in the fall, does she have to wait a whole year? Also, does she plan to take classes next summer? That would also factor into my advice. Also, if she could find an "environmental science majors" club, or something like that, it is incredibly valuable to find students ahead of you in your program. These students can often give better advice than advisors.

One of our pool lifeguards teaches summer school to high school students. She tells us stories of all kinds of hand-holding to get kids to pass, and yet still, many don't bother to do the work, or even show up. Here it runs six weeks, and you can earn 1/2 a high school credit. I don't know how it shows up on a transcript. In general, I hear all kinds of stories of excessive grade generosity at the high school level: being able to retake the exact same test a second time, and get full credit, credit for homework, dropping the lowest scoring test every semester, extra credit for all kinds of easy activities, etc. So I have to wonder, what do you have to do, to actually fail a high school class?

IMHO, too many people conflate memorizing paradigms with learning grammar. While memorization of the paradigms is required, I consider grammar to be the rules that govern when you use which paradigm. Understanding these rules is just as important as the rote memorization. While I'm not sure about Professor WIlliam Dowling's "The Dowling Method", if you want the big picture, his 10 concepts on this page: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/Latin.htmare a good place to start. Wheelock's Latin is a great reference, even if you don't use it as a textbook. I picked up a used copy of the 6th edition for $5. There's no need to buy a new copy, or even the most recent edition, and you can save money this way.

I've heard of it, and glanced through it. It is an older, traditional grammar-translation style text, like Wheelock, Jenney, or Horn. Not my favorite book, but serviceable.

There might be other places where getting to a bathroom on very short notice might be difficult. What if you are in the middle of a long, snaking security line at the airport? What about the lines in the immigration hall? How is this person even getting to your local airport? Keep in mind, many of the tourist sights in London are pretty close together. Even if you could park an RV nearby, I don't understand how it would help. Assume you could park it in front of every destination: you wake up in your hotel, then you drive 15 minutes to, say, the British Museum. You can't use the bathroom in the RV while it is being driven around town. Maybe you can when it parked, but would be just as easy to go into the museum. Then, while you are in the museum, say looking at the Rosetta Stone, are you going to walk past the restrooms in the museum to go outside to the RV?

NM. Trying to minimize my snark and just hope for the best for the kids.

"Research" for the next book?

The real head-scratcher here is that he claims that his full tuition was paid for all his years at Columbia, so all his loans are just for living expenses.

I don't think it should surprise anyone that the SAT, especially the math section, emphasizes speed. It is very common for students, especially non-superstar students, to not finish sections because they run out of time. A common test-taking strategy is to first find and answer all the "easy" questions in a section, then go back to the "hard' ones. A good part of test prep isn't teaching the students new material, but teaching them how to answer questions more quickly.

Do you have to list it as a class, especially if she's got plenty of English credits? Something like this might stick out more if listed as an extracurricular.

Just because a verb has unusual principal parts, though, doesn't mean it is irregular -- that's why Latin verbs have principle parts you get to memorize. The truly irregular verbs in latin are ones like sum//possum and friends, volo/nolo/malo, and a handful of others.

Kathy is correct, of course, but why do you consider ardeo, jubeo and friends "irregular"?

Call your local poison control center. They are the experts in this stuff.

Oh, and today I learned that Airstream is still in business and sells new trailers.

Apparently both parents were computer consultants, and were able to do work (full time?) remotely while traveling.

I like "verba" for Android.

I'm guessing you work at a four year school? My impression is that the worst treatment of adjuncts mainly happens at CCs and other two year schools: things like not getting office space, or being told a week before a semester starts that they will only be teaching one class this semester, and being forced to shuttle between three different campuses in order to string together a full time job. I believe I have seen "percentage of classes taught by TAs" in some college comparison data, but I don't recall where.

For French, Latin, and German, there's both a subject SAT and an AP exam, both of which colleges are very familiar with. However, the former is probably not suitable until at least her junior year, and the latter her senior, assuming she continues that far with her studies. In the meantime, for Latin, there's the National Latin Exam (NLE), which I cannot more highly recommend taking: it is easy for homeschoolers to administer, it covers what students should be learning anyway, so there's little "teaching to the test", there's lots of example tests on the web, and there's six different levels. I believe all the European countries, including Norway, define standard levels of competency in their languages, and offer tests to those levels, but I suspect that admissions counselors are less familiar with those exams.

And, assuming this is true, how would you demonstrate to colleges that you know this particular subject well? I would say that if this is important to you (and I don't think it is critical to admissions in general), extracurriculars are the best way to show it. There's a boardie who runs her local rocketry team, which has done very well, and made it to the national championships. Those kids probably know more about aerospace engineering than most of their peers, and if any of them want to major in that field, well, that EC shows they know the field pretty well.

I would say that a patent lawyer with an electrical engineering background is still working in the field of engineering, as is a manager of such a firm with an MBA, or the accountant thereto.