Category Archives: EDUCATION

Yesterday I received back my Nutrition course extra credit assignment with full credit given and some nice remarks along with "well-written and thoughtful."  I also got back my last two assignments from the Western Civ course; an A and an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As I noted, I managed a 93 on the exam, but the point is that my preparation for it was more a case of trying to listen for and notate what I felt were key points that would turn up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just an update… I took the exam yesterday between 5 p.m. and 6:30, though there was a two-hour time limit set for the 50 questions.  Most were multiple-choice, but there were six that required short essay answers.  Usually the test … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Was just about to log in and go for the exam but checked the discussion boards and chickened out again when I spotted this message from student, TJ  Posted on Saturday, July 2, 2005 1:16pm: "it might just be me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Honestly, I wish I could give you the ID and password to show you how impossible these lectures are to listen to and learn anything from because of the poor quality audio.  The text notes follow the lecture slides, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

No, I didn’t think of a title for this entry.  I put "Useless" then "Frustrating" and finally left it blank. Does anyone honestly think that after a crammed in eight-weeks I will ever remember what phytosterols are?  Or care? I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just watched the movie, "Super Size Me" by Morgan Spurlock which won a Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival for my Nutrition class.  Spurlock goes on a 3-meal a day McDonald’s only diet for thirty days, and amazingly … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As I thought, when I finally got the courage to take the online exam, I did not do well.  I got a 72.  Out of the 14 questions (out of 50) that I got wrong, 4 were tricky (but I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just like the others, this Nutrition course has a six-hundred page textbook, so far 60 pages of lectures and close to 500 discussion comments to read for the first two and a half weeks prior to the exam.  Needless to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I guess I was wrong.  Politics is evidently a part of any course, and though I’ve railed against it (Bush-bashing was a common professorial commitment), it shows up as part of everyone in their opinions and choices relative to almost … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m hanging in there and hating it on the course.  Mostly because it’s so cram-jammed into eight weeks and there’s so very much to memorize.  Plus, I love food too much to analyze it this way.  Just got back from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well there, now it’s gone–the last of it.  Remnants of campus life cleaned out of bookbags.  Pens and pencils, calculator, and a floppy disk.  Scraps of paper, mints and gum and comb.  A mini-flashlight?  Oh yes, night classes.  Never used.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Guaranteed to make grades suddenly non-important in the liberal viewpoint:  "Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student His 4-year average on par with Bush’s" Thanks, John. Continue reading →

Well, thanks to Jerz’s Literacy Weblog I’ve got plenty to say, about this article by Margaret Talbot at the New Yorker:  "Best in Class".    Fortunately, I’m down enough to not feel up to ranting about it, but I’ll make … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So here’s proof that I went, and that you can’t hand someone a camera they don’t know how to work five minutes before it’s needed:  I learned much by going after all:  Where I stashed the decades old bobby pins; … Continue reading →