AngieW in Texas
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If your kid ends up needing to transfer to another university, they will need copies of their syllabi if the university they are transferring to does not already have a transfer agreement with the school they are switching from.
So make sure they keep syllabi until they are in their last semester.
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At this point, I'm only interested in teaching if I get to teach adults. I'm tired of being treated like garbage by my students.
I do have some amazing and awesome students, but they are very much in the minority.
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Part of my frustration is that I don't have a particular career field that I feel I'm suited for outside of teaching. It would be easier if I had a particular type of position that I could search for. Instead I'm making my indeed searches based purely on location and salary.
I just absolutely hate my teaching job now. My A days are fine. That's the day that I have good classes. My B days are miserable. I am spending most B day evenings combing through job listings on Indeed and filling out applications. My B days are so miserable that I find it difficult to steel myself to do the lesson planning for them.
It's just hard to find much that I'm qualified for. My physics degree is very outdated now and all of my experience is in teaching (mostly from hsing although I've been a ps teacher for 5 years now).
I'm trying to find time in the evenings to work on learning Python, but that's really difficult to do with all the grading and planning that I need to do for the job that I have now.
If I get a good offer, I will leave midyear. I am going to be pushing hard to find another job during the last month of school (when planning time requirements go way down). Hopefully I'll be able to start a new job at least mid-summer and then quit my teaching job.
Nearly all of the bites I've had on my resume so far have been for life insurance sales and I am not interested in that at all. Those have been from employers looking at my resume on Indeed and Monster.
I guess I don't really have much of a point for this post. It's more a matter of just getting it off my chest. I've had two staffing firms contact me to do a temp-to-hire job, but I'm not leaving mid-year for a temporary position. I did let both of the firms know that I would be happy to consider one of those positions as soon as the schoolyear is over. I really am hoping to find something else before the year is over though.
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My 23yo is cold all the time. She does not retain body heat. We live in Texas and she has to wear wool socks even in the summer when it is over 100 degrees and her feet are still cold. Even her core is cool to the touch.
It is worse at bedtime. Right now she is wearing her coat and underneath 6 blankets (her usual load of blankets at bedtime) and she's still cold. This is a regular thing for her. I'm the exact opposite and sleep with just a sheet and have two fans blowing directly on me and I'm still hot.
I got her a foot warmer, but it doesn't actually get warm enough and shuts off after two hours and then she's cold again.
I was looking at heated mattress pads, but she's worried that it will feel uncomfortable, so I'm looking at electric blankets now. Any particular recommendations?
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I do NOT recommend online classes. These classes count on your college record and it is very hard to start off with online college classes.
My cc only allows DE students to take 2 classes (class with required lab counts as one class) per semester until you have completed at least 12 credit hours. After that, they can apply for permission to take up to 4 classes per semester if their GPA is high enough.
My two older kids each took 2 classes per semester for the fall and spring and 1 class each summer session (for the entire summer). My middle kid was able to complete a double major in 3 years because of dual credit.
My youngest has learning challenges and physical challenges, so they took just 1 class each semester until the last semester and then they took 2.
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Walgreens is where we found the best selection. They were near the registers at the front of the store. I don't know if they were also on the toy aisle or not.
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I had major dental phobia to the extent that I have gone up to ten years between appointments because of the fear. I had horrible dental experiences as a child.
I have had two root canals and they weren't nearly as bad as I was expecting.
I have a wonderful dentist now. I did have a crisis start just like yours where it began on Saturday evening of Labor Day weekend. I had to manage to get through all the way to Tuesday. My dentist ending up pulling the tooth. i was dreading it, but the instant that tooth was out, the pain stopped.
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I don't want her to use it while sleeping, but I think it would be great for warming up the bed prior to sleeping.
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My 23yo has always had super cold feet and hands. She sleeps with 8-10 blankets every night because she just doesn't retain body heat. Her feet are still freezing. She wears two layers of wool socks year round - in Texas!
I'm looking for recommendations for foot warmers that she could use while sitting at her desk and while in bed.
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Cheating like this is rampant at the school where I teach. I give enough time in class to complete all assignments if you are actually using your time (aside from those who truly need more time, like one of my kids). For calculation problems, I provide all of the answers in numerical order (not in the order they are on the page). I stopped handing assignments back to them because then the kids who didn't bother to do their work just copied the ones who had gotten their papers back. I still have issues with them copying off of each other, but I do have better success with this.
I have had up to 6 versions of a quiz or test to try to stop cheating off of each other.
This year I'm teaching Physics, IPC, and Forensic Science. It doesn't help that they have given me a new subject to teach each year. My first year was just IPC. My 2nd year was IPC and chemistry. My 3rd year was chemistry and forensic science. This year is forensic science, IPC, and physics.
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Where I teach the break is two weeks for the teachers, but two weeks and one day for the students. Teachers have to be at school on January 7th (Monday), but students don't arrive until January 8th (Tuesday).
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Have you looked at local thrift shops? We went on this same search this summer and had a choice of three different sewing tables at prices ranging from $20-$50. We ended up opting for a $25 sewing table. We do need to make some adjustments to it so the sewing machine will fit into it properly since it was made for a sewing machine that was narrower than the one we have.
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It looks like Python is the language that is most often listed as desired for positions in my area.
There are a ton of different Python courses to choose from. Do you have any specific recommendations about which Python course to try? There are several on Udemy.
I would be starting from pretty close to the bottom. I took a couple of programming classes in assembly language and Pascal in college about 30 years ago and have not done any programming since then.
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On 10/21/2018 at 5:55 AM, Lizzie in Ma said:
My youngest, after not sleeping well most of her life, has been taking trazadone for over 2 years now. Total game changer.
Trazodone was like a miracle drug for my youngest. After two years of severe insomnia, it worked like a charm starting from the very first night. The doctor had said to start with one 50 mg tablet the first night and then go up or down as needed to no less than 1/2 of a tablet and no more than 2 tablets. A full tablet was too much. A 1/2 tablet was too little, but 3/4 of a tablet has been a perfect dosage level. A has been taking 3/4 of the 50mg trazodone tablet for 8 years now. The only time it was a problem was when the pharmacy switched suppliers from Teva to Apotex. The Apotex version didn't work even at any level from 3/4 of a tablet all the way up to 3 tablets (after asking the doctor what to do). When we were able to find a pharmacy that still had Teva trazodone, the old dosage worked just fine and there were no more problems.
All that being said, my older two kids have had periodic problems with insomnia and both had trazodone prescribed as a trial med at different points in time. They each took it one night only because it caused extremely heightened anxiety and restlessness. Neither one of them will ever try it again. We have determined since then that my youngest needs entirely different meds from my other two because anything that works for my youngest is really bad for the others and anything that works for my older two is really bad for my youngest.
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My kids have used ratemyprofessor extensively. When there is a choice of which professor to sign up for, it is useful to read the reviews. Ignore the numbers and just read through the reviews. They have still gotten occasional awful teachers. In those cases, we have gone back and looked at the reviews again and actually saw signs of it in the reviews that we just overlooked because of the other positives. Many times what students are posting in their review as a negative are actually things that my kids look at as a positive.
Like a poster higher up in this thread, my kids have chosen "staff" before because the unknown probably wouldn't be worst than the other section with a known bad teacher. Sometimes that has worked out well with a different instructor and sometimes it turns out to be that bad teacher anyway.
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We drive cars until they cost too much to keep repairing.
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I teach high school and have always worn sneakers. I tried wearing dress shoes the very first day and could barely stand by the end. I generally have 10,000 steps by the end of the school day.
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I think a lot is personal preference. I am not comfortable in Hondas. The way that the seats are made is just uncomfortable for me. I love my Hyundai. My Hyundai is also the only car my 20yo can drive without aggravating their shoulder (chronic pain condition).
When my 23yo bought her car this summer she was looking at Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and Hyundai. She ended up buying a Hyundai Elantra two years older than mine.
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5 mg is a lot. I take just 1 mg and then occasionally take a 2nd tablet if I need it.
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My dogs are not happy without the covers on their crates but that won't work if your dog will pull it into the crate. I have to keep an eye on Jenny around anything small enough for her to swallow. She keeps getting socks and then throwing them up later. I'm worried one is going to get stuck. She is very good at being sneaky about stealing socks. She has even swallowed my dh's knee high tube socks. Once I realized that was happening, we all started watching out for socks and any other small cloth items. She likes to suck on blankets and pillows, but doesn't eat them. Every year she seems to come up with a new coping mechanism for her anxiety.
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I have two of them in my living room for my German shepherd mix and my golden/rottie mix (that's our best guess). I don't actually notice the crates much. They are against the wall on either side of the fireplace (which doesn't ever get used because I'm in central Texas). I have a king-sized sheet over each crate so they have nice dark rooms for bedtime.
At least my 20yo's rough collie doesn't have hers downstairs too. She sleeps with my 20yo upstairs.
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I just started this club last week as closed and want to change it to private. I can't find any option to do so. I also can't find any option to make a post.
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I found this website extremely helpful when I was helping my 22yo car shop: https://www.carcomplaints.com/
It shows the breakdowns of problems by model year. So there are some model years that very reliable and others that are not.
This is what it shows for the Chevy Cruze: https://www.carcomplaints.com/Chevrolet/Cruze/
You can click on a particular year to see what the major complaints are for that year.
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I would not get a van when you are really only needing it for vacations. Like many of the others I would just rent a van for vacations. The convenience of having small cars is absolutely worth it for me. You also have to consider what cars you are going to use to teach your kids to drive. You're just three years out from your oldest reaching driving age. And just two years out from being old enough for a learner's permit.
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Make sure your kids keep copies of their syllabi!
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It was an issue with the university my 20yo transferred from. One of the professors left the school at the end of that year and they didn't have his syllabus. That was the only one we weren't able to retrieve.