Can I Just Say...
Oct. 24th, 2012 07:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocus...I love this medication. Love it. I fell asleep by 9:30 last night and slept straight through until 5:00. I felt incredibly well rested when I got up. And having a couple of hours to myself is nothing to be sneezed at. I can't believe how much better I feel in just a week on this stuff. My sleeping pattern has been so wrecked up until now. It is great to be back on a normal one again.
Well, I suppose I should go do my math homework. I am teaching myself the Fundamentals of Algebra and Geometry, trying to stay one day ahead of my son's learning. Today is the unit test. I figure if I go through it with him this year, and do more algebra with him next year I will learn the stuff pretty thoroughly again. I am considering going back to college at some point in the future and I'd like to test out of the math if I can. Since it has been 22 years since I took college algebra, I don't remember a lot.
I have a degree in accounting, because it was practical, but I always wanted to get a liberal arts degree, too, just for fun. Well, mostly I want to take creative writing classes, art, history, and more science. I have taken environmental biology, geology 101 and 102, and glacial geology. I'd like to take marine biology, astronomy, agronomy, archeology, chemistry, and possibly physics (which I never had the math for before). It'd be slow going, maybe one class a semester, which would be all I'd have time for until the kids are grown. Not to mention afford, since R will be going to college in two years and T in six. I have no intention of taking out student loans for them or me.
Okay, back to math...
Edited to add: Got 40 out of 42 problems right. The two I got wrong were careless errors with negative numbers. My bugaboo. Oh, well, it's still 95%.
Well, I suppose I should go do my math homework. I am teaching myself the Fundamentals of Algebra and Geometry, trying to stay one day ahead of my son's learning. Today is the unit test. I figure if I go through it with him this year, and do more algebra with him next year I will learn the stuff pretty thoroughly again. I am considering going back to college at some point in the future and I'd like to test out of the math if I can. Since it has been 22 years since I took college algebra, I don't remember a lot.
I have a degree in accounting, because it was practical, but I always wanted to get a liberal arts degree, too, just for fun. Well, mostly I want to take creative writing classes, art, history, and more science. I have taken environmental biology, geology 101 and 102, and glacial geology. I'd like to take marine biology, astronomy, agronomy, archeology, chemistry, and possibly physics (which I never had the math for before). It'd be slow going, maybe one class a semester, which would be all I'd have time for until the kids are grown. Not to mention afford, since R will be going to college in two years and T in six. I have no intention of taking out student loans for them or me.
Okay, back to math...
Edited to add: Got 40 out of 42 problems right. The two I got wrong were careless errors with negative numbers. My bugaboo. Oh, well, it's still 95%.
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Date: 2012-10-24 02:28 pm (UTC)Your list of courses you've taken and want to take is exciting but doesn't surprise me. I hate the phrase "Renaissance Man" (Is it still even used?) We need a phrase for women like you. Or maybe one simply for people who understand the value of an extensive general knowledge.
(Is it ok to comment that I'd bet you are at least as capable of teaching creative writing as any prof. I've met?)
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Date: 2012-10-24 05:27 pm (UTC)I can relate to the math thing, even if on a slightly smaller scale. I'm going to do another exam next summer and I'm desperately trying to remember the math and statistics courses I took at university (and it has been decidedly less than 22 years since then).
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Date: 2012-10-25 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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