I posted earlier about some wingnuts suing Georgia Tech, and the meme about the intolerance of intolerance is the “new intolerance” (or is that the tolerance of intolerance in the “new tolerance”?), but it got eaten in the last database crash and I never got it back.
But that’s not going to stop me from cheering […]
It’s not because I can’t do algebra. It’s because I can’t swim.
Seven days before the test, Stephanie Yeh stood in her sorority house and cried.
An electrical engineering and computer science major, she was set to graduate near the top of her MIT class next month and start a six-figure job as a Wall Street analyst.
Just […]
I’m one of those people who never decided ed what I wanted to be when I grew up. It’s one of the reasons I never went grad school, because I was never able to make up my mind between culinary school, law school, or social work. And these days, psychology is starting to look interesting […]
I have yet another reason for being embarrassed to be from Georgia. This time the Gwinnett County school board held a hearing to ban Harry Potter, at the request of missionary mom crying "anti-christian bias." Why? Witchcraft, of course. Who knows, maybe they’ll burn ‘em too, for good measure. It’s a good excuse for […]
Whatever issues I may have with algebra, I totally rock at 8th grade math!
You Passed 8th Grade Math
Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!
Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?
Via BattlePanda.
I have a confession to make. Everything I am today, I shouldn’t be. Everything I have today, I shouldn’t have. I should never have graduated from high school, let alone gone to college and enjoyed any of the benefits of having graduated from college. Why? Because I suck at math. I always have, and […]
I wanted to comment on the recent study finding a lack of basic literacy among today’s college grads, but I forgot about it until Rachel’s post reminded me. As I said in my comment on her post, it’s astonishing but not surprising.
Twenty percent of U.S. college students completing 4-year degrees – and […]