SCHOOL, A New Adventure

As for that part... interestingly enough, it's a link to the thread from which you "borrowed" text from a person. So,... what if I'd said something interesting in a Winter Sowing thread? You could copy my text from THAT Winter Sowing thread, then come to this "School" thread, and paste that text in here. That "Read More..." link would lead other readers to the thread from which MY c/p'd text came from.

Here's an example: I will copy some of YOUR text from another thread... when someone reads it here, they will be referred to the thread from which it originally came:

Gita said:
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PUMPKIN CRUNCH
( From: “Buttoneer” Carlisle, PA)

Here's a wonderfully rich cake that everybody loves.

Ingredients:
1 package of yellow cake mix
1 can (16 oz) Solid pick pumpkin (not the one for pies).
1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk
3 eggs
1 & 1/2 cups sugar (you can substitute brown sugar, or use both)
4 tsp pumpkin pie spice (***see Note***)
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts, or mix them both.
1 cup melted butter
Whipped topping (optional)..like "Cool Whip". NOT necessary.

Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F.
Grease bottom of 9 X 13 inch pan

To Do:
Combine: Pumpkin, eggs, sugar, evaporated milk, pumpkin pie spice & salt
in large bowl. Mix all. (I used a mixer on slow). Pour into greased pan.

Sprinkle dry cake mix evenly over pumpkin mixture. Top with chopped nuts
Drizzle melted butter evenly over the top.
(Optional—you can sprinkle extra Allspice or Nutmeg or Cinnamon over all).

Bake for about 1 hr. and 15 minutes until pick inserted in the middle comes out
clean and top is golden brown.

Cool completely, but it is also great when served warm.
Maybe with ice Cream on it??? Or--Serve plain or with whipped topping.

Refrigerate leftovers, if you have any leftovers, that is.

***Note****
If you do not have Pumpkin Spice, you can substitute:
2tsp. Cinnamon—1/2 tsp Nutmeg—and 1tsp ground Allspice.

Read more: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1328400/#ixzz2gw2Eojg1
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Now, if someone else reads it, they may wonder "Hmmm, WHERE and WHEN did Gita say this? All they have to do is follow the link to find your original post! VERY helpful!! =) I happen to really love this feature. True, it's not always needed, but it's so very simple to just delete that part when we find it's not needed... like when all the c/p is kept within the same thread.

Note to self: DARN, I wish I'd remembered this recipe when I was out grocery shopping yesterday!!!!

speedie--THANKS--I think by now "I get it'....

I had a hunch that the "Read this" may have something to do with the topic at hand.
I just never 'experimented" looking at it...

DO try that recipe! it is beyond good.
Easy as pie (not a pie) to make! Thanksgiving is coming......

Gotta get ready for work....Gita

It will be just a couple more months before I make that recipe, after I get the braces off so I can fully enjoy the nuts!! =) Yeah, I could make it nut-free, but then it wouldn't be Pumpkin CRUNCH, would it?? ;)

if YOU make it speedy, anyway YOU make it...


it won't be nut free.

HAHAHAHAHA that was too easy

: ^D

HaaahaahaaaaahaaHAAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! You know me ooooh so well!!!!!!!! < =D

FINALLY done with that pesky chapter 24 -- Factoring Polynomials. It was all going so well until I had to factor Trinomials. AX² +BX = C ... BAH!! < =O There's GOT to be an easier way than to have to work through ALL those blasted PAIRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where's the Geometry when I want it!?!? < =P heeheeheee

i liked geometry too, more visual.

I use that stuff all the time at work, so it's a LOT easier and very practical for me.
Your pond is a perfect circle, 10' diameter, 4' deep? No problem.
Your garden bed is half-moon shaped, 25' long and 7' deep? How much mulch do you need? Just a sec, I got ya covered.

But the rest of this stuff!? I'm just looking forward to the end of chapter 25, where it FINALLY shows APPLICATIONS of these formulas! YIPPEEE!!!! When I can apply it to real-life situations surely it will stick better... ?!!! < =P

I once figured out what angle would you cut six timbers to make a hexagonal flower bed. Probably could just google it now.

Hated trig.
How about how long will the shadow be from my tree when it gets 25 feet tall and the angle of the sun is 30 degrees? or some such...that might be trig.

How fast must the gardener run, if the groundhog runs 10 mph and has a fifty foot head start, to overtake the groundhog and smack it before it reaches the treeline 200 feet away...?

HAAHAAHAHAHAAHAAAAAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! < ='D Ooooh THANK YOU, I sure needed that!!!!!!!!! (oh, and ... I have no idea, ask Paul! My guess is: Faster than the groundhog!!) < =P

I have no idea who these schmucks are who came up with the idea of quadratic equations, but I'd like to find out who they are and, if they're not dead yet, I'd sure like to help 'em get that way!! I just KNEW I'd be sorry I asked to get to the end of the chapter and to the APPLICATIONS of all this jazz! Paul's gonna want to bonk me on the head soooo bad, but I DON'T CARE HOW FAR THE BALL WENT OR HOW HIGH IT IS AFTER IT'S BEEN THROWN FROM A HEIGHT OF 2 METERS AT A VELOCITY OF 120 MPH!!!!!!!!!!! < =P

Speedie---You crack me up! .....I mean--my brain gets all cracked up just reading
your Posts! I have absolutely NO clue what you are talking about.....

Tell me--What is your goal to accomplish after you have learned all this math stuff?
Is this towards a degree in math--of some sort?

Is all this in hopes of landing some kind of a math-related job?

You can't be doing all this just to be able to tell someone how many gallons
of water will fill a pond 4' x 8". Or--the degree of difference in the lengths of
shadows if you are standing next to your DH at 2:30PM on a sunny day.....:o)

Inquiring pea brains want to know too.........Gita

WHAT?

The ultimate goal is to be able to help Sally catch that darned groundhog before it escapes safely into the bordering treeline. =)

OK, no, really, the ultimate goal here is a degree in Environmental Sciences, ultimately Geosciences. (AKA: Earth Sciences) You may wonder "And you're starting this NOW!? AT YOUR AGE!?!?! WHY??" All I can say to that is, I was led to do it. When He says "You need to go to school", the best thing we can do is say "Ok, when do I start?". :) Yeah, it's difficult, and scary, and daunting. But, He said to do it, so He'll get me through it. =)

Now, what I REALLY want to know is... when I'm trying to find out how much time (t) it took the rocket to go (S) the distance (not displacement) of 425 feet, WHY does part of the formula I'm given include "-16t^2". WHAT is this -16? And then, some formulas given have a "-5t^2" instead... WHAT is the -5??? Are these numbers the acceleration of gravity, and the video tutorial is simply not telling us that?? (school these days; teach ya to test, NOT TO LEARN). Grrrrr. I don't want to memorize, I want to UNDERSTAND!!!!!

I truly believe that "understanding" something is to know it forever...

Memorizing--is short term--just to pass a test.

You GO girl!!!! I am in total awe of what you are doing....

Gita

Gosh, thank you! **blush**. I don't think of it as anything special really... just stubborn and pesky. ;) (describing myself here, by the way).

Hoping that Paul might have a chance to pop in to explain these -5's and -16's here. Am I on the right track? Have they something to do with the acceleration of gravity? Or, am I starting to dip my toes into the physics pool here, where no Pollack dare to go? < =/

''In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.''
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)

8 ^D


http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/71945.html

Oh for a minute there I was ready to bonk Mr. von Neumann on the head... until I clicked on the link provided. THANK YOU!!!!!!!! Mr. von Neumann is safe from my Thor's Hammer now. ;)

I just KNEW it had to have something to do with acceleration!!! < =D Sally, God Bless your warm (intelligent) fuzzy heart!!!

And today we passed the quizzes for Chapters 24 and 25!! YIPPPEEEEEEE and THANK YOU LORD!!! (and not necessarily in that order) < =D

Speedi

Congratulations!!! I know how hard you've been working, I just graduated with my third degree on may way to a PHd in Nursing Education. Why I didn't do this in my '20's before kids...!
The good L-rd has a plan for all of us and I guess it wasn't in his plan for me to do it then so I'm doing it now. We'll get there, we just have to have faith and keep going.

Yehudith

CONGRATULATIONS to you Yehudith!!!!!!! Woweee, that is some tough schooling right there. Funny... I did my nursing training back in my 20's, heh heh. Worked as an LPN for many many years... then realized nursing wasn't my field anymore. You're right, The Lord does indeed have plans for all of us, the trick is to listen when He tells us about them, and then be obedient to DO what He tells us to do. It's not always easy, huh? Sometimes the world looks at us like "What're ya, NUTS!?!?" ... I guess that's how we can sometimes tell when it's God's idea -- when the rest of the world thinks we've lost our minds. ;) When "the world" says "You can't/shouldn't do that!!!", God says, "Oh yeah? WATCH MY SMOKE!!"
< =D

Speedi

I know what you mean. I got my RN in my late '20's. I'd planned on going to medical school, got accepted and then things happened so I went back to school and got the RN. We also had been told there would be no kids. I always felt I'd just settled when 16 years later up (should say "out") pops my son. Notice went in in a "New York second". Mummy stayed home with her babies. If I'd gone to medical school I wouldn't have been able to quit so it really was a blessing. What's that saying, "Man plans and G-d laughs."

Amen and Amen!!!! I couldn't agree more. In college I wondered why I changed majors. After I married and moved to NJ I found out why. The school started at my church needed a biology teacher. Yep, that was me. Thank you, Lord, for preparing the way!

He is absolutely AMAZING, huh?? He knows what we need, and the deepest desires of our hearts, but if we commit our plans to Him, He will take care of it all. < =D Now THAT is something to WOOHOOOO about! =)

Speaking of plans, my plan for this weekend is to dig into the last chapter and be ready for the next (and LAST!) quiz on Tuesday. It's a bit of a mess, really, this course plan. The last chapter is D (I dunno, don't ask)... we're not instructed to do ALL of the chapter, just parts 2, 3, 4, and 11. (again, I dunno, don't ask). The last quiz will be on Chapter D, parts 2 and 3. THEN there will be another "Progress Exam" covering Chapters 24 - D-3. THEN is the final. Odd how they've broken up chapter D like that, but... whatever. ;) I began Chapter D yesterday and so far it's FUN!!! A different take on slopes (which I enjoyed; I like those formulas, they make sense to me!) -- Now, not only do we get to find the slope of a line (when given the 2 pairs of points on the graph), but then we have to find the slope of a line parallel to it, AND the slope of a line perpendicular to it. THAT STUFF IS FUN!!!!!!!!! It actually made me laugh out loud, out of pure joy, that I did NOT need reminded that M= Y2-Y1/X2-X1, and Y-Y1 = M(X-X1)! (You math wizards will appreciate this!) It's totally STUCK in my head!! < =D I felt like the Camel on Hump Day -- WOOHOOOOO!!! < =D

Alrighty then... we are finally so near the end of this math class I can taste it!! On the 15th I took the quiz for chapter 25; on the 22nd I took the quiz for Section D2 &D3, and yesterday I cantered through Progress Exam 7. All I've got now, when I've reviewed, refreshed, and reminded (myself of what the heck it all is!) is THE FINAL!!!

Oddly enough, there are still Sections D4 and D11 whose work I need to do... but do NOT have "Quizzes" associated with them. I don't understand that logic (or lack thereof), but... I can study my heart out nonetheless. I figure, in 2 weeks I should be ready for the final... that should give me enough time to review everything to make sure none of it has fallen out. < =/

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'....=)

Speedie -- you have been down-right amazing with the classes -- hooray for you that you are almost at the finish line!

Thank you!! < =D
Thankfully it's only been 1 class at a time, otherwise I'd be a mad woman running the streets pulling my hair out screaming "BUT THAT DOESN'T FACTOR ANY FURTHER, I SWEAR IT DOESN'T!!!!!!" heeheeheeeeee

I pray, HARD, that I can get through that final when I'd like, 'cause that would make it just over a month ahead of the school's schedule. This class ends Dec. 16th., but, when I started, I laid out my own personal timeline: What I wanted to have done by when; and then I marked all the goals on the kitchen calendar. So far I'm a little over a month ahead of MY schedule. If I can keep this up, I'll have bought myself a little "breathing" time.. and then maybe I'll be able to get some "Late Fall" gardening clean-up done! < =D

Yes, this particular class is basically "self-regulated" as far as time goes... one can finish as quickly, or as slowly, as one needs or likes. I like finishing early, please. =) Especially since this is my SECOND GO-AROUND at it!!! LOL!!

Love hearing about your progress!!!

speedie---
I just came up with a new name for you! "Adventure Girl"

Like Jill's daughter, Joyanna, is also known as "Sunshine Girl"...

What name would you give me? Just wondering......G.

"Adventure Girl", eh? Heeheeheeee, well, I've been called a lot of things before... ;) I guess it's like in Deuteronomy, when Moses tells the Israelites that God has set that land before them, go and posses it, do not FEAR or be discouraged. I believe God has set this particular land before me, so I refuse to fear... and unlike an Israelite, I will not refuse to enter this land where He has told me to go. Heck, He's with me, it's all good! < =D Yeah, I admit, I get nervous, but real true "Fear"? Nope, can't do that.

And as for you, My Pretty,... there have been LOADS of beautiful descriptors that come to mind when I think of you... but, what name to give you? I'd have to give it some thought; there's just tooooo darned many good things that come to my heart when I think of you.
..... Gita, The Wise and Wonderful (don't laugh, I'm NOT kidding!!!!!!) comes to mind.
Gita, do you have any idea how incredibly beautiful you are? You might not... but I'm here to tell you.

speedie--

I presume the beauty is hidden within----.:o). Sure don't see it looking in the mirror...

But--thanks! You are my one-woman cheer leading squad......

Love you to! You are one of the funniest people I know...
We would have a ball visiting..........some day? Gita

OOOOH what a sweet picture!!!!! Is that you!?!? I LOVE it!!!

Yes Ma'am, we DEFINITELY have to get together for just some fun girlie time! I'll be on my hiatus from work soon (that seasonal thing, you know) AND I'll be done with this class soon... PERFECT timing! =)

Oh, speaking of "done with this class soon"... I need to go do some studying! Eeep, bad bad girl!! < =P

We'll get it figured out, BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR!!!

"I guess it's like in Deuteronomy, when Moses tells the Israelites that God has set that land before them, go and posses it, do not FEAR or be discouraged. I believe God has set this particular land before me, so I refuse to fear..."

Yep speediebean that's just why we had to wait until the last of the generation that left Mitzraim (Egypt) had died. We had to have a generation that had been raised to live by faith in Hashem and Hashem alone. He told us we would be safe so we had to not just believe it, we had to know it. Once we had jumped that hurdle we skipped over the Jordan like rams and never looked back.

That's just how we deal with issues today. We know he's with us so we can deal with anything.

As an aside. Last night we were watching tv with my 13 yo. They had one of the "control your tv with the remote" commercials on. I looked at my husband and said I don't need to deal with that because my children know they better not watch what I tell them not to, looked at my daughter and said "right?". She looks at me and says "Unhun" My husband says why is that. She's like because Mummy will kill me. I say "But there's a more important reason, who's watching when I'm not." "Ha shem". "Right he's always there and knows everything we do." Out she comes with "I know, but he judges with rachamim (mercy and forgiveness) you judge strictly by the law. With him I can make tzchuva (repent) . With you I'm just plain dead!"

Oh well, someone has to do the hard work.

By the way, she's the most spoiled abused child you'll ever meet I just believe in boundaries and you don't cross those boundaries.

Yehudith

Heh heh, your home sounds like ours: NO SMUT ALLOWED. It was pretty easy to "control" when our son was young and growing up; The Lord gave US the responsibility to take care of our children His way, so we never used or needed any of the "parental lock-out" thingies on the TV... WE were the "parental control", and our son was happily obedient! < =D

Another "aside",... gonna stop goofing off on here any second now; it's review time. Reviewing everything that I've done in this maths class, and then time for the FINAL on Tuesday, WHEEEEE!!!! I must say though, I had fun with the last chapter. Actual real-life applications of linear equations. Figuring out the rate of the current of the water on a boating trip, figuring out the rate of speed of a plane that takes X hours to go this way, and Y hours to go back the opposite way... stuff like that. REALLY COOL!!!! That stuff utterly and totally MAKES SENSE and is waayyyy fun!!!!!!! I just hope the test doesn't throw too much of this new-fangled vocabulary at me... I can "DO" the math... just don't make me explain it to you in YOUR words! ;P LOL!!!!!!!!!!

PRAYER TIME!!!!!!!!!! < =D

Speedie, thinking of you today and wishing you Godspeed through your final in Math .

Thank you, Beautiful Lady! Funny, I was just posting elsewhere in here, and thinking to myself, "OK, now I NEED to get out of here and get to studying". ;P

I learned over the weekend that there is one more "assignment", if you will, that I am required to complete before I can take the final. It is in the format of "homework", and it is considered a sort of "prep-final". It has 50 problems. No problem. I am required to get a 100% on it before I can take the final, but that's ok 'cause it's in the "homework" format, which means it's a no-fail situation. (hard to explain, but when it comes to 'homework' in this math program, you can re-try and re-try each problem until you get it right -- it's literally "no fail".)

All my morning chores are done, so I'm going to head out now and get to it. It's a good thing, really, 'cause it will give me a feel for what the REAL final will be, and also give me a good idea of where I'll need to do more work, if necessary.

Anyway, off and mathing! Thank you again Judy. Have a Blessed and Beautiful day!! =)

Go, Speedie! I'm happy to read you not only "get it" but are having fun with it. Isn't it a trip to watch ourselves accomplishing new things? One of the other ladies in the pool exercise class last week asked why I always seemed to be smiling in class.. I said, because I can DO this! :-)

Yehudith, I just fell off my chair laughing when I read your story about your daughter... no mercy with moms, eh?

Critter, YES, "because I can DO this" is a great reason to smile!! < =) Once upon a time, when someone would mention "math" to me, I'd suddenly break out in a cold sweat, hands would shake, blood pressure would shoot up, eyes would POP, and I would have to RUN away screaming "Ooooh NOES, NOT MATH!!!!!!". (ok, well, maybe I'm exaggerating just a bit, heehee). But really, the first thought that would pop into my head at the first hint of the word "math" was "I DON'T KNOW". Automatically. Just pathetic. But, NOT ANYMORE. Now, the first thought that pops into my head is "well, let me hear what you've got, it should be fun to try to figure it out". "FUN"!?!? Am **I** actually thinking "fun" in relation to math!?!?! Well, yes I am. Who'da thunk it? < =D

So, Chicken Little here decided the other day to bite the bullet to take her final. She ... errr... I sallied forth, off into the great unknown. ... strike that.. into the great FUN, ready to conquer the world. Only to be brought up short by OVERFLOWINGLY OVER-FILLED math-lab class rooms. WHAT!?!?! Yeah, all the math labs were full to overflowing... into the waiting lines in the hallway. "First-served" were those whose class time it was. Next up were the first-come-ers. Well, that wasn't me, there were MANY before me. I'd driven 40 minutes one way FOR NOTHING. I cannot even begin to describe my frustration. Frustration at the waste of time, money/gas, energy being ready... all for naught. But also, frustration at: WHAT has happened to our educational system that leads so many immediately-post-High-School graduates to require this preparatory math class!?!? I mean, this is an "idiot" math class; just a brush-up on everything that has just been learned the last 6 years in school (that is, for the youngsters who have JUST finished school, not the old geezers like me who learned with abacus and stick-in-dirt back in the old days)... These teens JUST left high school; and clearly they graduated, I mean, they're not IN high school anymore... so, WHY do they need this class!?!? Why SO MANY!?!?! WHY did SO MANY NOT LEARN this stuff!?!?!? And, since clearly so many of them did NOT learn it, WHY WERE THEY PASSED THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL!?!?!?!
(one thought comes to mind: "teach to test" - makes me want to puke!)

These thoughts are all very disturbing to me, so I have decided something. A few things, actually. First, when I go take my final, I shall do it during "MY" class time, ensuring me a seat. (those whose class time it is get first dibs, remember?). Secondly, I plan to take some photos of the lines and masses of those filled labs and hallways... and to informally "interview" some of the students... because somewhere along the line here pretty soon I know I shall be taking another writing course, and I plan to address this issue in one of my writing assignments. Surely it can't be just me who sees this issue.. AS an issue. It just can't be right... can it!?!?

Sorry for your frustrating experience trying to take your test.
Oh yeah…insane isn't it? How do they graduate? THere is supposedly a competency test they must pass sometime during high school. They start giving it in 9th or 10th grade and many kids pass it first time (here) and then have a day off each year after at test time. But then how is it so many incompetent kids are given a diploma? TO GET THEM OUT AND OFF THE SCHOOL'S BACK.
Great topic for an essay or paper, good idea!
I heard in depth recently from a friend on the inside of the school system about the particular problems she discovered. THere's a lack of real accountability. Federal grant money not used for intended purpose, certificate requirements not adhered to…politics…careers…egos...

Yes, "to get them out and off the school's back", you're exactly right... partly. The other part; to say "LOOK HOW MANY KIDS PASS WITH OUR CURRICULUM!!" It's nonsense, they are just being taught how to TEST, not how to LEARN.

Meanwhile,... I'M DONE!!!!!!!!! Passed the final today and that's that.. and BOY am I glad!!!!!!!!! Next class, a REAL class, with a REAL instructor... and NO MORE "My MathLab"!!!!!!!!!!! UGH, I don't like that AT ALL!!!!

Didn't get a chance to chat with other students today, bummer. I guess it must have been the threat of "Ooooh, we might see 3 flakes of a snow flurry!!" that scared so many of 'em away. Bunch of chickens!! < =P

Doing a happy dance!!!! Woohoo!!!! YIPEE!!!!

yay speedie!!