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<p>mike, i really like school, but i dont know how to make it fun.
any idea on how to start liking learning? so it wont feel like something i have to do?</p>

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<p>mike why do people ask stupid questions?</p>

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<p>mike, </p>

<p>i just got accepted to UT Austin (hook em horns) but i didnt apply to the honors program even though i shouldve (found out there were additional essays literally the day before deadline)… is there anything i can do, or am i shut off from the honors program?</p>

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<p>mike, why am i so bored?</p>

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<p>mike, what’s the indefinite integral of e^(x^2) dx?</p>

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<p>mike, why am i bothering to write this post?</p>

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<p>mike, how old am I?</p>

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<p>mike, how often do you check this thread?</p>

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<p>mike, r u still alive?</p>

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<p>stuck, look at post #773…</p>

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<p>um…am I missing something?</p>

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<p>not really…</p>

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<p>What is the meaning of Li…</p>

<p>Litigious?</p>

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<p>Mike,
do you think i should take the SATs now or in October?I dont think i have prepared sufficiently for May</p>

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<p>First time questioner, Mike…</p>

<p>When you do something today, does the impact of that event expand over time or is it mitigated over time? Put another way, does the passage of time expand our possibilities (making time convex: “<”) or does it limit possibilities (making time concave: “>”)?</p>

<p>I wonder about this because sometimes I try to determine how many times I’ve escaped a horrible auto accident or piano falling on my head because I sneezed 12 years ago and the timing of everything that otherwise would have happened got thrown off kilter. And then there’s always the fear that I’ll hiccup tomorrow and end up in a compromising situation with an orangutan that will be in all the papers.</p>

<p>Please answer this and help me understand my bodily functions better.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your wise counsel!</p>

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<p>780 - um study, or just don’t fail</p>

<p>781 - make learning fun. take pride in knowing facts and methods of problem solving.</p>

<p>782 - Sometimes a stupid question to you, isn’t that stupid to them.</p>

<p>783 - Call UT Austin and see if anything can be done. Worst case scenario, you get great frosh year grades and then get into the honors program</p>

<p>784 - pyar, you need a hobby. Try learning to solve a Rubik’s cube, solutions are on the Internet, and once you have mastered the skill, you will be able to win friends and influence people. </p>

<p>785 - I believe its e^(x^2)/2x + C, but I could be wrong</p>

<p>786 - Because you are procrastinating on my thread. Good Job.</p>

<p>787 - 16 years 105 days old.</p>

<p>788 - occasionally</p>

<p>789 - yes</p>

<p>791 - possibly, you do seem unfulfilled.</p>

<p>793 - <a href=“http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/litigious[/url]”>http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/litigious&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>794 - take it in june. I’d say take it in May and October. The more practice you can get the better, and it’s good to have a barometer, and then it’s really good to say you went up 140 points like I did.</p>

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<p>D’yer Maker - thank you for reminding me that I hadn’t check the thread in a while on another thread. </p>

<p>Now for your question: Time can infact be concave up and concave down, depending on the situation. For example, if you kill a butterfly millions of years ago there may be a large biological evolutionary change. </p>

<p>However, looking in my context, my possibilities are becoming more and more limited. Right now I can potentially go to 8 different schools, which would leave me on 8 different paths in life, however, that number may decrease (I hope not, but being realistic) after this week, as I get rejected at some schools. On May 1, I will have made a decision to complete destroy some possibilities. </p>

<p>So you can say both, or you can be like me, and believe in predestination and say you don’t change anything. :wink: Later.</p>

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<p>So…in short: “It depends?”</p>

<p>Much obliged Mike! You’re the man! Upon seeing your mastery over the space-time continuum, Stephen Hawking is quaking in his chair.</p>

<p>One day I’ll have to buy you a beer at the Surf City Motel bar (home of the world’s largest bar organ, I believe).</p>

<p>EDIT: BUMMER! I just checked and this web page suggests that patrons no longer get to sing along with the organ. That’s a crime against humanity. I used to go there in high school and college and there’d be people from 17 to 77 singing along and drinking and having a great time. Had my first cigar there a week after graduating from high school. <a href=“Surf City Hotel | Long Beach Island, NJ”>Surf City Hotel | Long Beach Island, NJ;

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<p>Mike –</p>

<p>Are guests able to sing along with the Wurlitzer at the Surf City Hotel bar?</p>

<p>THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.</p>

<p>– D’yer Maker</p>

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<p>Mike, I just wanted to correct you, there is no integral of e^(x^2). It’s like saying cosx, it’s the most you can simplify it (at least according to my AP Physics teacher).</p>