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#27 Apr 25 2006 at 1:59 PM Rating: Good
I lurk here when I'm at work for the amusement value.
#28 Apr 25 2006 at 2:00 PM Rating: Good


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I'm trying to review my math skills before taking the placement exam. It's amazing how much you loose after almost 10 years.


I am not sure what sort of college you are attending, but I'll tell you what helped me. I started school at the University of Mississippi, did one semester, and then had to move to upstate New York when my husband returned from Iraq. The only school up there (other than Syracuse University which was too expensive for my budget) was Jefferson Community College. It didn't bother me to do a semester or two there, and I was only a freshmen anyway. I could pick up some credits there and it wouldn't affect my degree at all. I always planned on returning to UM.

I had not been in a math class in 7 years, and when I was in high school math was, by far, my worst subject. At this point, I couldn't even remember how to do fractions or long division. I probably couldn't even have done something as simple as X+3=6, which is, I know, sad as hell. I took a placement test and didn't know how to do one single problem (how embarrasing). So, I took a class that was worth five credits and was two classes in one semester: Basic Algebra and Intermediate Algebra. It met 5 days a week, and it took you from maybe a 6th grade math level through Algebra II in one semester. The first day we did a review on how to solve fractions, and I flipped. Everyone there seemed to know what they were doing, and I was so lost. I truely believed math was going to prevent me from getting a degree, because UM requires 6 hours at the College Algebra level and above.

I just sort of plodded along, did my homework, and finished the semester with a 100 average. My professor was suprised I was a history major and not considering something along the lines of economics or accounting. My high school math teachers would have had a stroke. This semester, I returned to the University of Mississippi and took College Algebra. We haven't taken the final exam yet, but I currently have a 97 average. I still can't believe that I am factoring, doing quadratic equations, and logarithms when I seriously couldn't do a fraction just a few months ago. The moral of the rather long story is, take a refresher math course. It did me so much good. I had another friend who is older jump straight into College Algebra and fail it. Even though the class doesn't count towards my degree, even as elective credit, it was so very worth it.

#29 Apr 25 2006 at 2:04 PM Rating: Decent
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Hiya. Since i have been noticed i might as well introduce myself. I have been on Alla for a couple years now and do use the EQ forums. I come here to laugh and to let my hubby enjoy the "nice" avatars some have used. Time for me to go get my daughters pictures taken. Nice meeting you all. Smiley: grin /crawls away
#30 Apr 25 2006 at 2:04 PM Rating: Decent
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Wint wrote:
It's amazing how much you loose after almost 10 years.


I loost a bunch of stuff since graduation. Expecshully my speeling.
#31 Apr 25 2006 at 2:09 PM Rating: Good
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NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
Wint wrote:
It's amazing how much you loose after almost 10 years.


I loost a bunch of stuff since graduation. Expecshully my speeling.



One thing that I was able to retain was my poor study habits.
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#32 Apr 25 2006 at 2:24 PM Rating: Excellent
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Kelvyquayo wrote:
NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
Wint wrote:
It's amazing how much you loose after almost 10 years.


I loost a bunch of stuff since graduation. Expecshully my speeling.



One thing that I was able to retain was my virginity.


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#33 Apr 25 2006 at 2:26 PM Rating: Good
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#34 Apr 25 2006 at 2:26 PM Rating: Good
NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
Wint wrote:
It's amazing how much you loose after almost 10 years.


I loost a bunch of stuff since graduation. Expecshully my speeling.


Ouch, didn't even catch that. I suppose that's another thing to work on Smiley: banghead
#35 Apr 25 2006 at 2:28 PM Rating: Default
Wint, your gerber baby is sooo adorable. You should have her in comercials or movies or something. She's just too cute.
#36 Apr 25 2006 at 2:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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Kelvyquayo wrote:

One thing that I was able to retain was my virginity.


Obvious FTFY


Oh no, Kelvy has made it clear that he is a super-tantric-sex-God. Don't go killing my fantasies.

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#37 Apr 25 2006 at 2:35 PM Rating: Good
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#38 Apr 25 2006 at 2:40 PM Rating: Good
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Wint, your gerber baby is sooo adorable. You should have her in comercials or movies or something. She's just too cute.


I'm really proud of her (luckily she got her looks from her mother rather than her father). We were going to enter her in American Baby magazine's cutest baby contest but never got around to it.

Right now she looks like a prize fighter. 11 months old and starting to crawl/walk is a sure recipe for bruises. She seems to always land on her head.
#39 Apr 25 2006 at 2:46 PM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Katie wrote:
Wint, your gerber baby is sooo adorable. You should have her in comercials or movies or something. She's just too cute.


Nuh uh, Katie... Wint's got the ugliest alien baby in the world!
#40 Apr 25 2006 at 2:47 PM Rating: Good
She may be cute, but I'll bet her screech could peel paint.
#41 Apr 25 2006 at 2:52 PM Rating: Good
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She may be cute, but I'll bet her screech could peel paint.


*shudder*

She has 4 teeth now and LOVES to grind them. Makes my f[Aqua][/Aqua]ucking hair stand on end.
#42 Apr 25 2006 at 2:55 PM Rating: Good
Wint wrote:
Elderon the Wise wrote:
She may be cute, but I'll bet her screech could peel paint.


*shudder*

She has 4 teeth now and LOVES to grind them. Makes my f[Aqua][/Aqua]ucking hair stand on end.
Smiley: lol Wait until she decides to try them out.. on everything!

My smallest boy has gotten into the phase of biting everything from toys, kitchen table, your leg... pretty much anything he can sink his choppers into.
#43 Apr 25 2006 at 2:55 PM Rating: Decent
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53.

This place is like a zoo, a really old unkept zoo with rusty bars. Lots of people still come to look at the captive/wild animals, and sometimes the bars break, and they get out.

I'm just waiting for the next cage to break open.


Oops, busted.
#44 Apr 25 2006 at 2:57 PM Rating: Good
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Oops, busted.
Is that really all you have to say for yourself? [:disapponted:]


Can't win 'em all I guess.
#45 Apr 25 2006 at 2:58 PM Rating: Decent
I’ve been here for 3-4 years, I don't remember anymore. ex-FFXI'er ex-WoW'er, I'm thinking about picking up EQ2 just so I have a damn reason to come to Alla other than the Asylum. I lurk like none other, been here about 3-15 times a day reading the new and responded to threads and I have yet to be caught in the numerous posts where people have copy/pasted the recent visitors.

seen most of it, the banning of drak to the utter crushing of niobia in that kao thread. old people leave and new people come in. (I miss that girl with the rolling panda avatar, I forgot her name it's been so long)

despite the untold number of places to go on the interwebs, the odd mix of intellectual and down right immature behavior that accumulates into whatever the hell this places is entertains me and draws me back.
#46 Apr 25 2006 at 3:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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seen most of it, the banning of drak to the utter crushing of niobia in that kao thread. old people leave and new people come in. (I miss that girl with the rolling panda avatar, I forgot her name it's been so long)


Redyne? She usually had a panda I think...

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#47 Apr 25 2006 at 3:13 PM Rating: Decent
Redyne, yes thats her, I enjoyed many of her posts, but there was a lapse in time when I quit FFXI and was not here for about a month and she was gone, never knew what happened.

also happened with pickelprince and smash, they seemed to disappear in the time I was gone, although smash did eventually come back.

to bad proof and varus were never lost without a trace =/
#48 Apr 25 2006 at 3:15 PM Rating: Good
bbking wrote:
Redyne, yes thats her, I enjoyed many of her posts, but there was a lapse in time when I quit FFXI and was not here for about a month and she was gone, never knew what happened.

also happened with pickelprince and smash, they seemed to disappear in the time I was gone, although smash did eventually come back.

to bad proof and varus were never lost without a trace =/
If you have been around as long as you say, then what great social/mental deficiency has kept you from posting all this time? Smiley: dubious
#49 Apr 25 2006 at 3:16 PM Rating: Decent
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Who are you people? Why are you here?

Because one of the tw[black][/black]atwaffle admins (can't remember who) wanted to start another forum war and declared to OOT that the Asylum was a flame forum. If they want it that way then I suggest reiving the Sanctuary.
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#50 Apr 25 2006 at 3:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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If they want it that way then I suggest reiving the Sanctuary.


I'd suggest forum=6968, 6969 is already taken
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#51 Apr 25 2006 at 3:25 PM Rating: Decent
eh, I don't post as I really care to be in the Asylum clique. and the only way to start a meaningful/enlightening conversation without a barrage of "who the hell are you" and "go back to forum=##" is to be in the "in" crowd. and I don’t care to sit here and post ~50 threads about inane crap that would get "GFY" until people remembered my name.

nah, I'd rather sit back and enjoy the work in progress as it were. if I really wanted to say or add something then I will.
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