Happy birthday, msbelle! I will think pink all day in honor of the occasion.
So, Emmett has been accepted into three colleges already. So he's going somewhere next year.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
DavidS - Jan 15, 2014 7:11:01 am PST #17259 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
msbelle - Jan 15, 2014 7:15:53 am PST #17260 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
That is AWESOME! except for the part where I am in complete denial of EMMETT BEING OLD ENOUGH TO GO TO COLLEGE! WTF DARTH TIGGER!!???
Kate P. - Jan 15, 2014 7:16:00 am PST #17261 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
That's great! Is there one in particular that he really wants to go to?
brenda m - Jan 15, 2014 7:16:15 am PST #17262 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wow.
Jesse - Jan 15, 2014 7:17:37 am PST #17263 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My math phobia was pretty hardcore.
I'm pretty sure my mother took Greek instead of math in college.
I feel like there was some probability in there, but my college-track HS math classes back in Olden Tymes were geometry, algebra II, pre-calc, and calc.
I went to a different lunch place and chose wrong. But the place has potential!
Congrats, Emmett! Where does he want to go?
shrift - Jan 15, 2014 7:18:06 am PST #17264 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Don't bogart the sun, man.
Is this where I make a joke about needing the D?
Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2014 7:25:57 am PST #17265 of 30000
brillig
I had Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, then an invitation-only advanced math thing that I don't remember why I was invited to and I didn't realize that my invitation meant I was good at certain parts of math. Hooray, midcentury stereotypical "girls can't do math" mindset.
Theodosia - Jan 15, 2014 7:28:53 am PST #17266 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Due to some bizarre-yet-wonderful-for-me statistical fluke, there were more girls than boys in my high school AP math courses, so the peer support was incredible.
We were far enough back in the Stone Ages that when somebody borrowed their father's calculator to use on a test, the teacher had to confer with the principal if it could be used. After all, we were allowed to use slide rules....
flea - Jan 15, 2014 7:31:05 am PST #17267 of 30000
information libertarian
My 5th grader has already had some introduction to statistics and rudimentary algebra, so I think there is a tendency to try to integrate the concepts into the math curriculum as a whole now.
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2014 7:33:03 am PST #17268 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Don't bogart the sun, man.
Is this where I make a joke about needing the D?
"I need the D, man. Are you holding?"