Random Thoughts IX (The first 8 were probably better)
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1 no ****
2 don't really care too much about that
3 I've been in dorms multiple time. idk if I would want to live there for a year.
4 true but I'm still going to go to Iowa State
Bud, I lived in Huxley for my last semester of college. If you want the college experience, you won't find it as exciting in Boone. You will learn to hate the drive also.
Doesn't matter if you go there eventually, it'll still be a much different experience transferring in after 1-2 years. And I don't care whether you care about it or not. Your point was there's pretty much no difference, and I think you're lying to yourself if you actually believe that.
Fell asleep on the couch for 15 minutes at like 930 last night so I get up all sweet im going to bed early tonight. Proceeds to stay awake in bed unable to fall asleep until 145
I miss the high school days where I could wake up at 6 for early bird and then stay at school/practice until 6 and still not be tired until 10:30 and fall asleep seamlessly
I miss the high school days where I could wake up at 6 for early bird and then stay at school/practice until 6 and still not be tired until 10:30 and fall asleep seamlessly
Meh 10 minutes there and back isn't bad.Plus I can always ride with roommates and other friends
Why are we busting BDK's apple bag about actually going to college, regardless of if it's CC or not?
When we were kids Christmas cards were a big thing. Every day we would get more cards and we would decorate the door jambs with them. Christmas cards everywhere. Mom and Dad would buy a stack of them and send them to everybody you knew as well as people from Dad's office.
Kind of like this all over the house.
I guess people are so used to just busting his chops they do it even when he is doing something right.
I'm the ancient relic who loves Christmas cards.
They come from a time when people couldn't communicate instantly and constantly via email, text, phone, and social media. They represent a time when people separated by time and circumstance still tried to remember others during the holidays.
Having lost both parents, who seemed to always wind up with the belongings of other relatives, the cards my mother kept are a wealth a knowledge about our family history and the past in general. And I kept the letters she sent me, and sometimes pull them out and imagine the words in her voice. Just seeing her perfect handwriting makes me cry.
For me, cards and letters are a more permanent way of remembering people who are important to me. They survive computer crashes and dead phones. So I have made a more conscious effort to actually write my boys who are out of state. My husband likes to send them postcards from home. Assumed maybe they just tossed them, but my grad student son has a postcard from his dad up on a board in his office.
They come from a time when people couldn't communicate instantly and constantly via email, text, phone, and social media. They represent a time when people separated by time and circumstance still tried to remember others during the holidays.
Having lost both parents, who seemed to always wind up with the belongings of other relatives, the cards my mother kept are a wealth a knowledge about our family history and the past in general. And I kept the letters she sent me, and sometimes pull them out and imagine the words in her voice. Just seeing her perfect handwriting makes me cry.
For me, cards and letters are a more permanent way of remembering people who are important to me. They survive computer crashes and dead phones. So I have made a more conscious effort to actually write my boys who are out of state. My husband likes to send them postcards from home. Assumed maybe they just tossed them, but my grad student son has a postcard from his dad up on a board in his office.
Fun fact about 30% of high schooler that graduate don't go to college.
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I would think it would be higher than that
I went to college at a cc for a year. I had received a couple of scholarships and it was basically free. I felt like the teachers/professors did a pretty good job teaching most of the classes. Admittedly, I was mostly taking pretty advanced classes for the school and the class sizes were really small for most of these classes. The classes I took that were geared toward the general student body did still have quite a bit of a high school feel to them but were still taught pretty well. However, the experience was extremely different. We still did similar things but to meet people you had to do it through class. There wasn't the dorm or fraternity environment that immersed you in new people and I ended up, mostly, just hanging out with people I knew from high school and looking forward to visiting my friends that went to schools that were out of town.
My only problem with the community college route is I don't think it fits every major. Know a kid who was sold on the saving money part, so he spent two years at community college and then went to ISU for mechanical engineering and it took him three and a half years at ISU. Really didn't get much done towards his degree at community college other than electives, so not sure he really saved any money and it may have cost him more.
This is why you need to make sure you have your ducks in a row or be in a transfer program where everything or pretty much everything transfers. Otherwise it can be wasted time and money. Thankfully I think there are a growing number of programs like this and it is not just with CCs. Back when we were in Wichita Emporia State and Wichita State came to an agreement for AERO E students to start at ESU and finish the last two years at WSU.
I think the only way that really works is that your community colleges have to be able to teach your basic engineering core courses well. Not sure that is really the case in Iowa. They are always trying to get my brothers, who are retired high school math teachers, to teach at the community colleges and they both only have Bachelor's degrees.
You can save money by bulking up on dual enrollment and AP classes in high school. All of my kids are doing that. If I remember right, I think maybe they got to keep their dual enrollment class grades as well (these are classes where they got both high school and community college credit because the teacher in their high school had a masters and could teach the community college class in the high school). On AP classes, I think they got credit but did not get to have the grade in their GPA.
A lot of kids will go to ISU and go ahead and take the class they passed the AP test on, just to get an easy grade and wreck the curve. Son said he saw a lot of that in things like Calc III. My kids have just elected to move on to the next class and not retake something they took in high school.
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Ran into this quote while organizing my notes. This one was getting a book started:
""No one loved her, and she loved no one......She was eight years old, and all alone in the world."
This little girl has the honor of watching her little kitten boiled to death in front of her later in the book. Thankfully, someone gets her out of this unwanted and abusive home and things turn around.
Every once in a while, I forget how dark my stuff is. Then I look at it and wonder how I could forget.
""No one loved her, and she loved no one......She was eight years old, and all alone in the world."
This little girl has the honor of watching her little kitten boiled to death in front of her later in the book. Thankfully, someone gets her out of this unwanted and abusive home and things turn around.
Every once in a while, I forget how dark my stuff is. Then I look at it and wonder how I could forget.
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