The "We're Going Back to School and Need Support" Thread

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I think I will cry if I have to read another page in Great Expectations. WHY did this book have to be assigned on the very first day of school.
Oh boy, I remember having to read that. Haaaated it--and normally I love to read! One of my high school English teachers loved Dickens, had done her thesis on him for her master's degree. *cringe* You can really tell he got paid by the word, that's all I'm saying. :rolleyes:

Well, my school doesn't start until the 19th, but I'm cramming for a test already . . . When I first applied they said my program (natural resource science) was full and I would have to wait until the winter quarter to get into the classes specific to that program. Okay . . . I took some more "generic" classes in the meantime.

Then yesterday I find out they DO have room in the Natural Resources program . . . but you have to take a test to get into it. The very last test they're doing for the Fall quarter is on Monday, so I signed up for it. I also grabbed a practice test / study guide.

I blazed through the English portion of the test, no problem, but the math . . . er . . . Well, it's been eight years since I took a math course and with some problems I just stared and stared, racking my brains as I tried to remember what the formulas meant.

-2 | -3 -4 1| = ?

Question mark INDEED.

So I got "Teach Yourself Algebra" out of the library and I'm cramming. :rolleyes: I'm especially dreading going over sine / cosine again . . . I could barely remember those when I was in an actual math class.
 

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I have a paper to do in microbiology. Any ideas on a microbe that is either a bioweapon (and not anthrax) or is used in microbial forensics? Can't find anything interesting. (having issues logging on to Science Direct from home)
 

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Drendology: the science of trees, aka "how many Latin scientific names can you memorize? Mwahahaha!"
 

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I have a paper to do in microbiology. Any ideas on a microbe that is either a bioweapon (and not anthrax) or is used in microbial forensics? Can't find anything interesting. (having issues logging on to Science Direct from home)
Have fun with that :p

Just thought I'd stop in to add that I have no school this week. :D
 

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^ Yeah, from what I know (and math is my worst subject) anything within the lines turns into an absolute and you just take away the negative. *shrugs*
 

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Just thought I'd jump in a say that in two weeks I have Fall Vacation and will be in Italy for a week and Paris for 4 days while all you are in school :p
Ok that was mean, but its fan anyways :D
 

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I'm procrastinating right now. Just an FYI.

I have six pages of six drawings each to do for 2-D Design, and four paintings to do for Color Theory. The painting I don't mind. The drawings which require precise, ruler-drawn lines, I do.
 

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Boemy are you supposed to add the numbers alli got out of it was

-2 | -3 -4 1| = ?
-2 3 4 1
I went through my algebra book and I guess you're supposed to add the numbers inside the |s and then, uh, make them a positive number. And multiply them by -2.

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^ Yeah, from what I know (and math is my worst subject) anything within the lines turns into an absolute and you just take away the negative. *shrugs*
^^ Yes, this.

Luckily I managed to test out of my math class so NO MATH THIS QUARTER, woo wooooo! :D
 

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No one likes you.
I am aware. Still doesn't change the fact that I don't have school this week :D

I only have 4 hours of class on Monday, 7 hours of class on Thursday, and 4 hours on Friday, so my weeks aren't too bad. So ha.
Well, I have tennis matches of Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I win.
 

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OMG I forgot I have class tomorrow! LOL. :D That means I should do my other homework not listed above relatively soon.

And PW, I win because I'm older than you.
 

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Then I'm glad your mother won't let me come visit! Phew, send her my sincerest thanks.
FYI, she says you can visit you just can't come to the house:rolleyes:. Do you see what I have to deal with, she's nuts I swear.
 

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