When you talk to a lot of people here, you get the impression that going into a science related career from community college is an impossibility. Many look down their noses at CC. It is considered inferior. It is where those who can't get into other schools go. It is easier than 4 year. It is for those who cannot afford to go elsewhere. One of dd's friends made tremendously disparaging remarks when dd decided to start there. Then, there is the truth. My dc have found that the majority of the classes are equal to or surpass what the 4 year schools offer. The science labs are not always equal. You have fewer students per class. You usually have an actual professor teaching. Dc attend for many reasons. Sometimes it is because they can't get in elsewhere or they cannot afford to, but sometimes it is because they prefer to start there. Sometimes they want a more economic choice. I recently was working with employment records from hospitals. A shocking number of doctors started at CC. At least, it shocked me. Across all areas of employment in the medical fields, starting at CC was not an unusual choice.

Mine have transitioned very easily to college. The number one issue has been dealing with stupid teachers. Most of their teachers have been excellent, but you always get that one who is just ridiculous. Group projects have been another one. They didn't realize that group project usually meant that one student did 98% of the work. Then there is just the being away from home aspect. Leaving a place you like to be is never easy.

Yep, both. We've have one Ford we purchased new that is 17 and going strong We've had others that didn't make it long. I had a Dodge Caravan, purchased new, that was babied that had pretty much everything but the transmission replaced before 70,000 miles. My mechanic recommended getting rid of it because it was most likely about to go too. A Kia that was a dud. A Kia that is over 160,000 and has hardly had a thing done to it other than routine maintenance. However, every Toyota we have owned has done well. I'm sure there are lemons out there, but I think they are a lower risk than most brands.

Yep. A new skill needed in today's autocorrect word...you have to think out of the box and ask yourself what the phone could have done. I am guessing that one or two of the keystrokes was missed when typing "listened". The phone may not have received the "s" and/or "t". (I know I have typed letters sometimes, but they just don't seem to get into the phone?" It was incorrectly corrected to be "lined".

I have found UPS to be the absolute worst. I try my best to avoid them. I haven't found that they try to do anything to find/recover lost packages. Just an "oh,well...sorry...too bad." They lost a package of mine this winter. The driver had marked it in their system as "delivered to front porch/door". There was no package on either of my front porches. I reported it as lost. I just took a refund because they wouldn't ship any way but UPS. A month later, I found the original package. The driver had walked around my house, and left it against a back door that we do not ever use (we have a lot of exterior doors). I never, ever even consider that door. It was odd that I found the package that soon. It actually bothers me that a stranger was poking around my home to that degree. This driver must not be extremely intelligent, because back does not equal front. Honestly, even if he had said back door, I probably wouldn't have looked there. Plus, the package was ruined. That door has no protection from the elements. The two front porches and the back door we tend to favor do.

I answered yes for him. He might answer that I am his best friend. And, he is right. I am his best friend. But, he also has a male best friend. The have breakfast on Friday and lunch at least once a week. They used to ride bikes together (as adults) and run together. He is also a business client. We have dinner with him and his wife occasionally. It used to be every week or two, but we wives don't really care that much for each other. On the other hand, I really don't have any close friends. At this point in my life, my kids are becoming my friends. And, quite honestly, I am not sure that I actually have time to maintain any other friendships. That sounds kind of lame, but I really don't have the time or energy to put into other friends...

Her teachers talked her into entering the TN Area (TN and parts of KY) Japanese speech contest held at Vanderbilt. (Speeches written and given in Japanese with a question session after it.) About 8 colleges participate. She has been worried sick over it for the last two months. In fact, she has literally been sick for the last month (whole 'nother situation, but she is now having GI surgery on Thursday to hopefully help). Dh and I went to watch the big event with hopes that she would be able to get through without any big issues. With a slight hope that she would make the required time limit of 4 minutes (her longest so far had been 4 min 2 seconds...). And, she was spectacular! Absolutely nailed it. 4.5 minutes. Unbelievable expression and poise. Answered the questions without pausing at all (the only one to do that/actually one of the few who actually answered the questions that were asked according to her teachers/I couldn't understand a word of it, of course.). And, she won her division (She is intermediate/the advanced division is beyond the classes colleges teach)!!!! Nice prizes including $200 which she was overjoyed to receive. She said the stress was all worth it! And, she is very pleased because her school also placed first. Beat out Vanderbilt and UTk... Nice stuff there. She will have happy teachers!

I have had three kids put on Meloxicam. Two for back issues and one for wrist arthritis. It was like taking a sugar pill for all three. Dd with arthritis has basically been told she is just out of luck and is going to be in pain. Not what you want to hear when you are in your early twenties... Hope you can find something that will work for you.

Dh is working it in gradually. He has dropped the majority of his clients, let all his employees go, moved everything out of his office/warehouse, and t00k over our basement. He and I now run a much smaller version of his business. It is enough to provide a bit of income and have a little something to transition him from working 24/7. He is liking being home. I love him being here. We have done a little traveling. Mostly visiting the kids at college. Lots of home/yard work. A fair amount of hiking. I hope that increases as the weather turns! He is 53. I was going to start working after ds graduated last year. I dropped that plan when dh decided to come home right about that time. I do think his timing was perfect. I had just worked myself out of my homeschooling job, so we are both transitioning away from what was our norm.

Honestly, I would choose a different school in a different state. Period. One of my dc reacts strongly and strangely to vaccines too. She has a medical exemption for Tetanus (CPT), but that is all. The last vaccine we tried (chickenpox as an adult who had never had them) caused her to have seizures for 2 full days. It is the same reaction she had when she worked with some old blueprints. They likely have a chemical in common. Or not. She has decided, and I agree, that no job or school is worth the potential risks of her taking any more vaccines. She had to include that in her college search requirements. (And, no, medical doctors will not give a blanket immunization waiver. It is specific to the ones that reactions have been documented by a physician or a known component allergy is present.)

For next year...Can you offer to teach an English class instead? Focus on grammar in that class and include a smaller writing component. Then, if possible, offer a writing or composition class for those who can pass a grammar proficiency test? If it were me, I would have it as a single class, give proficiency test the first day, separate the students into grammar or writing groups, and teach both groups separately. I have had a little experience teaching in a multi-grade classroom which makes me more comfortable with this idea.

I have. I used it when mine were in 8th, 10th, and 12th as something they could all do as a single class. Not a one had a problem with it. It was quite nice to do something all together again! (I cheated a little and reported the 8th grader as taking it in 9th...)

For me, an Episcopal priest who was also my boss. His was "It's better to do and beg forgiveness than to ask and be denied."

Shark

If it makes your mind rest easier, the science on the ACT has zero science knowledge questions on it. It is more about procedure and reading charts and selections for information. Finishing biology will have no bearing on her score. It is not important. I would just make sure she is able to identify the basic structures of the specimens and know their function. Honestly, just labeling some drawings a few times should be enough. My girls in college aren't even doing many/any dissections. It is too expensive (not sure where the huge lab fees are going!). They use online resources, models, and a few already dissected specimens which are used by every class.

I think it is ridiculous. I would have ignored the silly rule. As a frequent hotel guest, the worst, and most frequent, offenders are adults. Kids on sports teams generally quiet down around 10.

My only expectation is that they do their best. That is it. That is all. That is everything. When home, they come and go as they please. I guess I do expect the same thing that they were raised to do, pick up after your own self. To some degree. I admit that I do end up doing some picking up of stuff. I did when they lived here full time too. They may come and go at will. Eat with us or not. It is all up to them.

My dd is in apartments set up like this; I believe they operate a lot of the apartments at various colleges all over the country. You can expect an overcharge every. single. month. Even if there is no one living in the apartment (all bedrooms), there will be overage. Ask about how they charge, because dd is pretty certain hers is based on usage by the entire building, not just her apartment. Maintenance is an issue. It doesn't matter what they tell you, they are not going to be good at getting things done. When they are done, it is sloppy. Seems they employ students who don't know what they are doing... Anything they tell you, do not believe. Noise is a problem. DD can hear everything the room above her does. He has a live in girlfriend. They fight. They make-up. She actually called the police on them one night because she was afraid for the girl. Now, a band practices in one of the rooms of her unit. Nothing is done to stop it. Before she signed a lease, we were told they dealt with these types of issues quickly and stopped the problems. Nope. The guys above her routinely pee off the balcony and toss trash out into the ground. It is never picked up. They do mow over it. Despite routine spraying, bugs are a real issue. I am pretty sure they are just spraying water...Dd is fastidious. Others in the unit are not. IF a roommate leaves, their will be a new person assigned to the room as fast as possible. If the people in unit do not have someone to come in, a stranger will be assigned. On the plus side, dd has had two strangers assigned to her apartment. Both have been absolutely wonderful matches. All that, and she still chooses to live there year after year. Seems that all the apartment complexes are the same from what she hears. At least this one is right next to campus. Summary--You will be lied to, so asking questions really does no good. They will tell you what you want to hear. You need to plan on extra $ every month for utility overages.

Six lessons? Just stop when you reach the end of the year. (Provided he puts in good effort during the remaining time.) It will be covered next year; I absolutely guarantee it. Honestly, it is not worth the stress. No laws will be broken. No harm will be done.

Yes, basically. If you took hair from each of their heads and put it together you would not be able to distinguish them from each other. However, if you look at the hair while it is on their heads, it is different. They all have the same shades of hair, but in different compositions. One has more blonde and might even technically be considered a blonde, but a very brown one. One has a lot of copper, but not enough to be an auburn/still brown. One has fairly equal amounts of blonde, copper, brown. One has more brown, but is currently about half gray (started at about 10 yo/runs strong in the family). Yet still, if you were to mix it they would be identical. When they swam, they did all have the same color, bleached brown! My siblings and I were very different. Two auburn, one brown, one black who started off tow-headed (He once colored his hair black in high school. The only difference in that and his real color was that he lost the shine present in the natural color. We laughed at him for that one.)

More like experience different. High school and summer leagues are not the same beast as competitive swimming. Even today, most high schools here are in the water for around an hour at most. During that hour, they don't actually have their faces in the water swimming all that much. The year round, competitive kids are in the water so much, so long, that they should not be regularly swimming without goggles on. My girls were sometimes in the water for 4 hours or more three days a week with three additional days of 2-3 hours. So, around 20 hours a week compared to 5 for high school swimmers. Even as little kids, their practices ran an hour and a half to two hours. at 11, most kids were swimming two hours a day. (I limited mine to 4, maybe 5, days a week at that age.) I once read an article about how goggles had changed the sport. It was tremendous how times dropped once goggles (that actually worked...) were introduced. Practices went from being 45 minutes (and not every day) to two hours of water time twice a day. The time drops were as impressive as that much training different would make you think they were.

Most places I know do not count Mommy excuses for sickness, the note has to be from a doctor's office in order for it to be counted as officially excused on record. I have known a couple of families who had to report to court because they didn't understand the policy and their child accumulated too many absences because their parents could tell if they were running a fever or tossing their cookies. Ridiculous, but you can't trust a parent's word on stuff like this. They just might be taking their kid to Disney instead or something.

Honestly, we are all winging it. He is going to learn a huge lesson from this-- sometimes we do things that we regret and when we do we apologize and move on. As far as the goggles go, I would NOT have him swim multiple practices without them. One here and there (as in day of loss) is fine, but the hours these kids put in the pool is not the same as what people are remembering from their childhood. Goggles have allowed longer practice times that simply were not possible without goggles. I would be asking to see his goggles before leaving practice every single time for a while. If that means no car pool, I would make that sacrifice. The checklist is a good idea, but I would be there to make sure he was checking it for the first few weeks. It is a habit that has to be built.

Depends on if they are still in diapers. Diapers tend to make one have a toddle to their walk...Especially if it is loaded.

My odd symptom is nose bleeds. Every. stinking. month. It seems it has to do with a general thinning of tissues. Not common, but definitely related.