Lack of life skills?
More like initiative and independance. I tell you, it all goes back to cell phones.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
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.