Have you tried doing a rain dance? (hm, I wonder if 35 million or w/e people all dancing at the same time would get the earth and air into some weird rhythm and affect the weather...) I know, I'm just being silly. :grouphug: It's the weekend, always a good excuse for the doing the minimum.

To be clear - I have no clue about the new SAT vs the old SAT - I took the old old old old or so SAT in Jan 2005, the last one before the essay. If I had to retake the SAT and try to squeeze out the best possible score, I'd use the latest book. I don't think it's likely going to matter 100 points or anything, but it might matter 20 points or w/e. The only prep I did for the SAT I took was to read the test taking tips section (I don't recall if there was anything useful in there, most of it was generic test taking advice), the section on complex numbers (because those aren't taught in high school in NL), and 2 practice tests (on which I scored something like 780-800*). Knowing the math is much more important than test prep, but, if you're trying to maximize your score, you're going to want to do a *bit* of test prep, and yes, specific to the test you're taking. To be a bit more specific... basically, if the student has little experience with tests, any test prep for any test is probably going to make the student better at taking tests in general. If the student is good at taking tests, you'll really need test prep specific to the test - generic test prep (such as for a previous version) is not going to help. The gains are likely to be marginal in that case though. Even if the student has little experience with tests in general though, prep for the actual test is better than generic test prep... it's just that generic test prep wouldn't be a complete waste. E.g. one example of generic test prep is to not dwell on a problem, but to skip it and go back to it. It doesn't matter what book you use for that in order to practice that. *Disclaimer - I blew the real SAT, mostly out of carelessness. I was only applying to one state school where the average SAT score was nowhere remotely near 780, so, it didn't matter to me what score I got - I did the test in significantly less than the allotted time (which is good, because then your brain can rest between sections), didn't check my work (strategy - ime, I tend to be at least as likely to change a correct answer to a wrong answer as the other way around), and got a 720 (maybe I should've checked my work... maybe not, because of the time for brain to rest thing - the SAT is a marathon). On the other hand, I did better on the ELA parts of the test than on the practice tests, so, it all averaged out to about the same as on the practice tests. ETA: and my mistakes were also all over the place, both in ELA and in math, pretty much one mistake per section or so.

I would make sure if they really *are* all over the place. Like, they might be in algebra, geometry, etc, but they could still all be similar issues, like sloppiness (forgetting to write a negative sign or w/e). And, of course, ask if the student ran out of time on the test. If there's a fair number of sloppy mistakes, I'd work on techniques to combat that. If they're all conceptual mistakes though, that are all over the places (in algebra, geometry, etc), then you'd want to do a review of everything, starting at the beginning, like Maize said. Not every problem in an algebra book etc has to be done... sections the student gets can be done with only a couple of questions to review, whereas sections the student struggles with would require more work.

I do think that's one of the nice things about online classes these days - it's easy for the prof to make students interact some with each other, so you'd have less loneliness. For example, there are some classes where I'm not convinced the prof ever looked at the "write a paragraph in response to each of these journal articles and write comments on at least two of your other group member's responses", but most of us did it anyway (and a fair number wrote some pretty interesting takes on stuff), and in some of them there was some good-natured banter that wasn't part of the requirements as well. Of course, I've also encountered some online classes where you didn't interact with classmates at all, in which case it would be just as lonely (fwiw, that that was only the case for *some* classes at the CC, and not for any of the 4xxx/5xxx classes I've taken, iirc... which is not that odd, since CC adjuncts don't get paid anywhere near enough to deal with zillions of students, and realistically, I bet a lot of us were probably quite happy to just take the quizzes and be done for the required gen ed classes we didn't have an interest in anyway... I didn't really mind, other than that I thought that the standards in some classes were seriously lacking, but hey, for most of them it was just check a box toward getting a piece of paper). To be clear, I've encountered some great CC instructors as well (including adjuncts)... just not online, for the most part. Which could be completely random, of course, since I haven't taken *that* many classes, being just one person.

There are also people who went for an Mrs degree and never intended to get a job. If they're staying home, their income is 0. Which is a perfectly acceptable income if you *want* to stay home, especially if your spouse's income is decent. Same with people who *choose* to work part-time - $24k/year is a perfectly fine entry-level income if you work 20 hours/week. Also, if you start your own business or decide to live in your parents' basement while writing a book or w/e, your income might be sucky at first. Just throwing these out there as they might account for some percent of those 39% - not a clue what percentage though. ETA: to be clear, I understand that there are graduates who are unemployed, underemployed, underpaid, etc against their will, quite possibly more than the voluntary ones. Just saying that you need to subtract the voluntary ones in order to get a 'real' number.

It's Saturday?

FTFY.

I don't think being irritated makes sense, unless he knew you wanted to start using the warming drawer, but even then, he might have just failed to think that they are heavy for you, since they're probably not a big deal for him. That said, I would've just put them back where I think they belong. At which point he'd either get the message, or end up asking. At least, that's what would probably happen here.

:lol: Yeah, my living room is not big enough to put them all in one pile. Also, it'd create a pile that's much too big, and at some point I'd tire, and then I'd have a pile of books living in the middle of my living room floor for the next several months until I decide to put them all back in the bookcase.

Reading too fast again... I thought you said that every time you go to the grocery store, you wished that you lived on the curbside.

Also, all I meant was that I'm not like 18, since she looked 18 in her profile pic and I don't have a profile pic in that game. But hey, kids are so amusing.

In this online game I'm playing someone started a chat with me, saying that she was glad to have found another girl playing the game. Which, honestly, I think is a bit of a weird thing, since who cares what gender players are, so I didn't know how to respond. I ended up saying that I'm probably a bit too old to be called a girl. And then she was all like "I just meant a female, and saying that you're too old to be called a girl makes you sound young and immature". Okay then. I'm not big on chatting anyway. Well, other than here, obviously, but y'all aren't real time (as in, no instantaneous back-and-forth required).

You got a boeja, Renai!

http://www.icelandair.us/information/baggage-information/checked-baggage/ This still says 1 bag for economy standard (I don't recall there being an "economy light" last year). I do think that when we flew it was two bags per person though.

Oh my. The system is so rotten.

Basically, I think more than 1 in 100 people are going to think something dumb anyway, which is why I wouldn't care. I'm sure plenty of people (probably at least 1 in 5) think we spell Broccoli's name weird, or that Celery's name is too old-fashioned, or wonder why their full names are from a certain country, or all of the above. On the one hand, I think you'd get used to the name, but on the other hand, if you end up being self-conscious the whole time, then it's not a good name. Plus, it doesn't have good nicknames... U? Uni? Nit? Nope.

Never heard of them, and I looked through the first 10 pages of Google results for unity and did not come across them either (I do know that Google goes by past preferences though, so other people might get different results, but still... it's not like most people will google Unity and get that as the first result). I think it'd be rare for someone to think that you must have named the kid after her (unlike if you named the kid Adolf... it's still going to be a while before that name is okay). I think most people would assume you're naming the kid after the idea of 'unity'. Heck, I'd probably think that it was inspired by the faction names in Divergent (obviously, it isn't one of the faction names, but it's similar). Of course, it's your decision, but 1 out of 100 or 1 out of 200 people wouldn't deter me. Now, if it was 1 out of 5 people, then yeah... I probably wouldn't do it. And, if your last name is Mitford or something pretty similar-sounding, I wouldn't do it either.

We found Icelandair to be cheaper because of the luggage allowance. Of course, it depends on how much luggage you need, and probably on timing as well. I can't give cost to just Iceland, but to round trip to NL via Iceland was $437/person a year ago. So, ymmv and all that.

Good afternoon! My Russian book says that the Russians don't print when handwriting - that it's all cursive. I don't know how true that is though - my Russian is pretty bad. I do a much better job reading foreign languages than speaking them. At the moment, I think the only languages that I could have a real conversation in would be Dutch and English. I used to be pretty decent in Thai, but I haven't used it in forever. Likewise, my German used to be more functional than it is now, though it was never stellar.

Double post Double post Double post When you've got one real post and 3 extras, I think that's called a "quadruple post".

Which is like 5158/5159 days. :svengo:

Ha, yes. It's our 169.5 month anniversary of knowing each other. :party: Yay for reading!

The CCs I've been to allow people to take a full load in summer. I've taken 16 hours in summer before. The only thing was that they don't put you on the Dean's list for getting straight As in 16 hours in summer*, because it's summer so not a 'full load'. I've also once tried to do Diff Eq and Physics 1 in Summer 1, but I got sick the first week of class (4 week session), so I only passed Physics 1 (not sure what I did with Diff Eq - I either dropped it or got an F). Both Diff Eq and Physics were in person though, which wasn't helpful because it required showing up each morning and then again each evening - when I did the 16 hours in summer only the accounting classes were in person, the other two were online (that said, I wouldn't have wanted Diff Eq to be online - Physics however would've been nice, since I basically ended up passing it from high school memory anyway). *The only time I would've made the Dean's list, ever - I've had a few other semesters with straight As, but with too few hours to qualify for Dean's list. Yes, I'm obviously annoyed, because I don't get the silliness - if I'd had 16 hours of straight As in Fall or Spring it would've made the Dean's list, so it doesn't make sense to me. ETA: it obviously wasn't the Diff Eq teacher's fault that I failed/dropped it. From the few classes I went to, she seemed like a good teacher. There's basically nothing she could've done to prevent me from failing/dropping it.

It's also less fair for small classes - if 3 out of 14 students W/F/D, that could be much more random out of the professor's control than if 61 out of 300 do (DW once got fired because she needed to maintain a 90% customer satisfaction rating, but they called only 3 people and one either wasn't happy or didn't understand whether a 1 or a 10 was better or who knows - if they'd called 8 more people she might very well have had >90% (as she had other months), and her boss was quite pissed at corporate because he didn't want her to leave).

(((Krissi))) Unrelated: I just checked that science skills test prep Celery did, and one of the questions is about imaginary camera brands, and in the table they have one called QuickPix, but in the answers, it's called Quickie. So, Celery wrote "what happened?" next to that one. Methinks the proofreader told them to change the name of the camera, but it somehow only got changed in the table. :lol: