Well, the rest of my transfer credit finally showed up, so I am now 1 semester hour away from being a junior. Barring some sort of catastrophe, I’ll definitely have that by the end of this semester (I’m taking 12…
Education Quote
It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. For this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it…
Search Questions
The site my school project team is redesigning is at http://www.spsu.edu/htc/WritingCorner/index.htm. Since the original designer didn’t bother with any useful meta tags, I doubt you’ll find it in any web search. The professor wants it to come up when people…
Interviewee Wanted
I need to find someone who doesn’t attend my school to interview as a potential “audience member” for the school’s composition website. The professor wants to use the site, which my project team is redesigning for her, as a “marketing…
Links for Teachers
mamallama, I have a flyer from Joann Crafts that mentions a “Kids in Need Teacher Grants program” that might be of interest to you—http://www.kidsinneed.net and click on Teacher Grants program. There should be something about it at http://www.joann.com/ as well.…
Socialization & Bullies
I’m putting this here so I can find it again: “No Thanks, We Don’t Believe in Socialization People often use the bully as an example of why it’s so important to let kids “socialize” at school. If that’s so important,…
Geekery, School, and Migraine
The Samba server lives! And it serves both printers, and I made a PDF server so that anyone on our LAN can create PDFs. Legally, even. For free. Now I wanna set up a fax server—not that we need to…
Memories
Sam started going through his “memory box” to find something, then opened mine. He found it, and we framed it—the cover of his novel now hangs in our home, as it should have quite a while back. While it was…
Guests
I walked away from the geek stuff for a much-needed break. I colored and stitched a bit, and Sam and I gamed for a while. I need to do homework. I haven’t done it yet. I don’t wanna at the…
Financial Aid F’ed Up
I was originally told that my financial aid would be paid on 8/12. Then it was moved to 8/27. And now, on the day it’s supposed to be available, the new date is this coming Friday. And no, there’s nobody…