Lack of life skills?
More like initiative and independance. I tell you, it all goes back to cell phones.
Willow, check you out! Witch-Fu!
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2007 2:10:53 pm PDT #6012 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Jesse - Oct 10, 2007 2:13:05 pm PDT #6013 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I hardly smoked any pot at all in college!
Nutty - Oct 10, 2007 2:20:17 pm PDT #6014 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I find that we have to spoon feed students a lot of stuff that I wasn't given in college, and that failure spoon feed results in students who panic and flail and find themselves unable to perform said task.
I wonder if this is related to the psychotic hoops they all jump through now just to get into college. I'm 100% convinced I would, today, never get into the college I got into 15 years ago. Like, I'm smart, but I can't tighrope-walk while playing the trombone and fishing drowning children out of the bay, you know?
When you spend a year (or more) becoming convinced that the whole world is going to end if you get an A-, then you get to college and... remain convinced that the whole world is going to end if you get an A-.
Pix - Oct 10, 2007 2:21:20 pm PDT #6015 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Nutty, I think you're right.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2007 2:23:07 pm PDT #6016 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I got a C or D in health one quarter in high school (don't ask), and I never thought it would affect my chances of going to a good college. And, in fact, it didn't.
Strega - Oct 10, 2007 2:23:45 pm PDT #6017 of 10001
Um, aren't all finals cumulative for the year? At least for my schooling (both high school and college) they were. I can't remember a class that didn't include stuff from the entire course on the final.
In high school, I think most of my final exams were cumulative. Not in college. Well, not in the liberal arts classes I was taking. I suspect the engineering classes were different.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2007 2:27:34 pm PDT #6018 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
(don't ask)
Why, is it pot related?
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2007 2:35:19 pm PDT #6019 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Better living through chemistry. Profoundly unsafe, but not for work. For life.
Trudy Booth - Oct 10, 2007 2:48:00 pm PDT #6020 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
on Bones: How do the powers that be know that Angela is married (yet not divorced) without knowing the name of the guy?
Connie Neil - Oct 10, 2007 2:51:03 pm PDT #6021 of 10001
brillig
Trudy: I'm not sure, but there has been talk about the officiant in Fiji having had records--which have been destroyed. I got the impression that the State Department has records but never showed them to her. That's a good point, though, hadn't thought about it.