Brilliant is great fun and some of the problems are quite challenging.

Dark pants and cheap bleachable panties. Also rinse them in cold water right away if leakage occurs. I started using tampons right away and have never had an issue with them. I believe my mother had me use lube the first couple of times but I honestly don't remember.

St. Olaf was mentioned above for physics but it is also good for math. They also run the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program -- students at other colleges can go, but they run it -- which is an AMAZING study abroad experience for anyone in mathematics.

I really enjoyed The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea as a teen. I was always obsessed with mythology and especially Greek mythology, and Theseus was one of my favorites. I do not remember anything unsuitable but of course different people have different levels of suitability. Some characters are clearly depicted as homosexual. This is common in Renault's work. BBC radio also adapted and combined them but I haven't listened to that. I like Colleen McCullough's books about Rome. but ... there is quite a bit of sex in them. I don't really consider it gratuitous, but rather it illuminates the character's motivations. I think it would be very easy for someone who wasn't interested to skim over the sex parts to get to the other parts. However, I would highly recommend pre-reading. I really liked her The First Man in Rome because it was about a lesser-known figure (to modern day people) while helping to explain the tensions at the end of Republican Rome. Harold Lamb did a really good book about Hannibal if you can find it. I really love this book. I think it's entirely suitable although some consider it a little dry. Here's another page you may find interesting: http://www.historicalnovels.info/Ancient.html

There's a huge difference between working through the book as a supplement and taking the course. When you're taking the course you really, really need to be able to keep up with the pace. I'd have no hesitation starting them before algebra for enjoyment and enrichment but I really wouldn't try the online course. When I said summer course I was thinking student/parent directed, sorry.

Doing the discrete math books (nt/cp) as a supplement or as a summer course would also be great. The awesome thing there is that if you only get through one or two chapters ... so what? it's extra. You already covered your basics.

Clearly I missed your post. At any rate I agree with you. :)

Jacobs is a fine course as well and has done well by many years of mathematical students if it better suits your dd's style. I am less familiar with JA as it is newer and I haven't been able to look at it but I would not hesitate to use it if I thought it would suit.

If one were intending to use AOPS as a supplement it would probably be a better choice to go with the original AOPS books (vol 1 and 2) as those were actually designed as supplements.

It varies a lot by region -- some do straight letter grades, some do +/-, some do AB, BC, etc.

Complain. Get a new trainer with an extra session to make up for this assclown's pointless time, or get your money back and start going to a different gym. You don't want to be working with this one. He is useless and will always be more focused on picking up chicks than on doing his job.

Santa always decorated our tree so we'd awake to a beautiful tree. We'd take it down on Epiphany.

I do have an Aspie friend who has a job with computers. He's really good with diagnosing busted computers because he gets obsessed with what's going on and ends up spending 4 hours without noticing it. His boss basically lines up the computers in order of how he wants them fixed and otherwise leaves him alone.

He was Jewish, yeah, but he was also Russian and lived in Russia/USSR for most of his life.

We could always open stockings first and Santa filled them with quiet toys, a small box of raisins, and a new book. Santa did this to allow my parents to get a bit of extra rest.

I don't understand why he should be telling him that this major is not for him. If he were attending class, submitting every assignment on time after starting early and seeking help, and still not passing, then the major might not be for him.

We always unwrapped one present at a time with everyone focused on the person who was unwrapping. It was always exciting to watch someone unwrap a present you'd bought.

This does not sound to me like "bad prof and he would have passed with a better prof". It sounds like he didn't turn in some assignments, missed class frequently enough for the professor to notice, and didn't show his work on tests. He needs to start the semester with his butt in gear and keep it in gear for the whole semester. CS, like math and foreign language, is very, very difficult to recover from a rough start. You cannot cram a semester's worth of work into "but I'll study really hard for a fewweeks".

If you like the Russians you might look at Kiselev.

You keep fixating on the "about half flunked and that is too high" That isn't actually uncommon in introductory courses in many fields -- many students are unprepared for the work or think they can skate, and if the department requires more prerequisites or splits the course over an extra semester it makes the students who can handle it as it is it take longer and pay more to complete their degree. Some common fields where this happens: Math, Anatomy and Physiology (lots of people who want to be nurses have no idea how much science is actually involved), Accounting (a lot of people just pick this major by looking at the salary tables but really don't know what it is), CS (a lot of people pick CS because they like using programs someone else has written), Chemistry (lots of pre-meds who don't like math and so struggle with the quantitative aspects), and probably more that I'm not thinking of. Whether not resubmitting an assignment would knock someone to an F would depend on what percentage of the grade the assignment is, but I definitely had people last semester who got a D when they could have gotten a C if they'd bothered to resubmit the assignment worth 10% of their grade that they failed on the first attempt.

It would depend. If the lettuce looked manky and gross I wouldn't eat it just because it's manky and I don't like manky salads. Otherwise I'd eat it just fine.

My parents always kept separate wrapping paper in a secret spot that was the "santa paper"

I would cook everything and eat it today without a second thought.

I tried claiming that a knotted off Walmart bag was "wrapped" but this brought indignant remarks about grinches.

The student is really supposed to learn by doing all the problems in Saxon. Yes, it is possible for a bright student to not need all the practice, but the parent really needs to be careful that they aren't omitting the same types of problems all the time if they're skipping problems. It is not the way it is designed to work. For a struggling student who finds the number of problems excessive I would recommend checking placement, and if placement is appropriate cutting to half a lesson a day rather than a full lesson. For a bright student who finds the number of problems excessive I'd recommend using a program with fewer problems in the first place or a topically oriented program (because in that case it is easier to omit problems without leaving gaps in coverage). In neither case would I recommend just doing odds or evens.