Cancer Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 I think it's fixed now in the OP. Eventually you should get to a Washington Post analysis item dated Sept 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 Chinese mathematicshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mathematics tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 14 hours ago, Cancer said: Recent trends in college majors I can certainly relate. My theater undergrad degree is one that I have second guessed many times. However, it did get me my teaching job, and some very interesting life experiences, so it wasn't a complete waste. I don't do theater anymore, though. My graduate degree in librarianship, however, was chosen explicitly to start a new career, and it was successful on that front. Some regrets with it, sure, (like student loans) but overall happy with that choice. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2022 I started college as a chemical engineering major. You know, because I was good at math and science, because engineering majors get paid a lot of money. The turning point for me was a class called CHEM 3000. Analytical Chemistry. And let me tell you, you cannot spell 'analytical' without 'anal'. The class basically consisted of this: Here is a sample of tap water. Calibrate your reagents and your equipment, and then conduct no fewer than six chemical tests on the sample. Conduct statistical analysis on your results, eliminating any outliers and conducting additional tests until you have six valid data points. Then report your final concentration to the nearest part per ten thousand. All semester long. I hated it. I was on my way to this dreaded class one day, crossing the quad just outside the college bookstore, as I recall, when this thought hit me as if from the blue: "If you stay in chemical engineering, you're going to be doing this every day for the rest of your life." Although it took a while, I think this was the point at which my focus started to shift from the laboratory to the classroom. Now I'm in my 14th year as a high school science teacher, and this is the best job I've ever had. The really ironic postscript: the capstone project for my Master's degree was basically and analytical chemistry project. I loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 I'm not one of those, but I know more than a few who are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 Midterm grades due this week, parent-teacher conferences next week. Time flies when you're having fun. And even when you're not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Pariah said: Midterm grades due this week, parent-teacher conferences next week. Time flies when you're having fun. And even when you're not. Do you grade the parents on a curve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 If the curve is logarithmically, then yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 13, 2022 Report Share Posted September 13, 2022 I feel like a slacker now. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 14, 2022 Report Share Posted September 14, 2022 Note that the way to get nominated for best thesis of the year is to defeat the snake and eat it in front of your committee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 (wrong thread) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 I just learned that "anime" and "manga" should not be italicized in US writing. They are so prevalent that they are not considered foreign words anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 36 minutes ago, Logan.1179 said: I just learned that "anime" and "manga" should not be italicized in US writing. They are so prevalent that they are not considered foreign words anymore. English: the Borg of language. Resistance (Middle French) is futile (Latin). Logan D. Hurricanes and rravenwood 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 Today's word is regurgitalite. That's the word for fossilized vomit. A discovered case is discussed here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 And I thought regular vomit was unpleasant to bring up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 Well, if you're vomiting up stuff that's already petrified, I think you are in far more trouble than barfing up the regular kind. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 Out old friend teh bunneh posted this today on the Book of Face: “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” ― H.L. Mencken On another note, I have parent-teacher conferences tonight. Coincidence...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 Take a chainsaw to your office, and have it in clear view during the conferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 Quote There will be assignments in this class in which you will have to use scientific notation. Trying to avoid it by counting zeros is grossly error-prone, and I will mark as incorrect large (and small) numbers presented in ordinary notation. I'm the one in charge here, and you're not going to force me to count lots of zeros because your deficient little brain is too innumerate to deal with things like 2.0 * 10^33. Astronomy has big numbers. Deal with it or GTFO of college, wastrel. I am struggling with how to express the last three sentences in an official course document that won't get me reprimanded. L. Marcus and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 Students don't get called 'wastrel' nearly enough for my tastes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 There's this one, also, that I could cite, I suppose. Quote Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 Bathe! That's the part I was missing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 11 hours ago, Cancer said: I am struggling with how to express the last three sentences in an official course document that won't get me reprimanded. Failure to observe exponential notation will result is marks subtracted from grades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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