| Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School. Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction. Do we all remember our Order of Operations? Oh. My. God. I. Am. So. Bored. In. This. Class. Why on earth would they make us re-take third grade math in order to obtain a degree? Long division, people. Long. Freaking. Division. Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing negative numbers. VERY basic pre-algebra of the x + 6 = 10 variety. Yack. Yack yack yack. An easy A, to be sure, but such a waste of my time. The instructor is excessively derisive of teaching this class. She's got a Masters degree in Mathematics (which means the only thing she's useful for is teaching math). She's used to teaching Calculus. She's not happy about teaching this. Neither are any of the students happy to be there. They're all stuck in the same required credit boredom I'm in. I guess the college is assuming we haven't used this stuff since we learned it in the third grade, and so thinks a refresher's in order? God. The thing's I'll do in order to get a damned piece of paper. One of the students is killing me. Really. She's the type whose lips move when she reads, I'm sure. She mutters along with the teacher as the teacher is solving the problem on the board. "Three into twenty-five is eight, remainder one..." "Remainder one... uh-huh..." "5,732 rounded to the nearest hundred..." "Three is smaller than five..." "So the answer would be..." "Five thousand seven hundred, uh-huh..." "A negative plus a negative..." "Is a negative, uh-huh..." Taking quizzes in class should be interesting, if this is the way this chick solves problems. Did *you* know that subtracting a negative is the same as adding a positive? Or, as the inane teacher sarcastically put it (as if speaking to ten year olds), "minusing a minus" and "plussing a plus". "Pretend this is zero." (teacher stands straight on a spot in front of the class) "Now, we march *this* way for a negative number..." (march march march to the left) "...and we march *this* way for a positive number!" (march march march to the right) "If you don't understand the difference between negative and positive numbers, you'll never make it through Algebra." (teacher smirks at the obviously-endowed-of-a-lower-level-of-intelligence-than-she inhabitants of the classroom) Please. Kill me now. Please? ********************* Here's something fun I may feature from time to time. According to my webstats, ~Snerkology~ comes up under the following search queries: Bizarre Search Queries
Okay, "pepe le pew sexual"? Yo, I so don't want to know. ******************** To those of you who wrote expressing their concerns, sympathies, and advice regarding yesterday's entry, I really appreciate it. I'm feeling much better now, just needed to get it all out of my system. You know how it is. |
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Your Mission, should you choose to accept it...
The Ampersand Project looks to be very cool. Check it out, and if you're a journaler (ist?), submit an entry!
Results From Yesterday's Mission There twern't one. I grabbed the design idea for the box thingy from Anna.
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