<p>I keep trying to talk dentistry up to my kids but no one is biting:).
Seems like such a good profession.</p>
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<p>Ditto on the (little or) no studying :(. Let’s hope CBBson studies enough for all of them! Hum, actually that would be bad! CBBson stop studying right now!</p>
<p>In the meantime, I just have to hope for the best and suffer through the pins and needles. It is comforting to know that others are going through the same thing.</p>
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<p>OMG, that seems like one of the worst jobs ever. I know a dentist who volunteers one day a week at a local homeless shelter. Talk about someone who has earned his everlasting reward!</p>
<p>I am not much of a chef - cyber or otherwise. Can I still join the bus?</p>
<p>Yes but you have to bring wine or spiced cider.</p>
<p>I think orthodondists have it made. They work with teens, few emergencies, and most of the actual work is done by assistants.</p>
<p>missy, I hear you on the office politics. It may be more a matter of his finding the right boss than necessarily one major versus another, but I can also see where clarity of task would help. I don’t think of that necessarily being the case with writing. My kids find it very hard to interpret what the teacher wants with writing assignments and are definitely bad at understanding nuance in their reading, which is one reason they like math–more black and white. Guys who work at a nuclear power plant probably have a pretty specific rule book they are supposed to follow, without a lot of room for misinterpretation. I don’t think the folks in the control room necessarily majored in nuclear engineering, but it might be engineering of some sort–not sure. Best of luck with your discussions. It will be fun to think outside the box and see what he comes up with.</p>
<p>^^^ Absolutely, #theorymom – it will be great to see you again. Sounds to me like we’ll have plenty of goodies to go around!</p>
<p>As for the studying, I know S studies; it’s a question if he studies enough, &/or the right material. Plus, he doesn’t always have enough time to finish a test since he’s a somewhat slower reader and methodical worker. At one point we thought about having him tested, but decided against it. The last couple of years he’s gotten much better, and since he’s not an English (or history, or …) major, it seemed like he didn’t need to go through all that. We had hoped that he wouldn’t have the same calculus professor this term as last, but he did. S says the prof just skips steps, and never explains how he got to the answer. The TA is fairly useless, too. S has done much better getting help from other guys on his floor. Time will tell.</p>
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<p>I’ve always thought that those who always got easy As in math should not be permitted to teach HS math or college math to non-majors. They just see it -most don’t know how to teach it because it’s a natural to them. HS and non-major college math should be taught by people who got a B+ or A- in math by working their tails off.</p>
<p>Eddie we have to get you tipsy to distract you !!!
My D2 goes to a private HS one kid got kicked out for stealing at a local store, another one for being indiscreet with a boy in a rather public place half her clothes were missing. D1 says that was an expensive whatever she stole, and also how do you call mom and dad a nd say i was caught,with my pants down. They have to pay the whole year regardless,</p>
<p>Don’t forget to stop in MN for modadunn and me! Don’t worry about all the snow and -30 wind chill this week…we have great road crews and will bring yummy hot toddies!</p>
<p>being a fan of the fat laden savory sort of appetizers I will bring a tray of those. Cheeses, crab, spices and sourdough bread will be featured ingredients. I am quite fond of Daniel Craig and would like him on the bus as well. Really I just would like to look at him in a tight t shirt and listen to him speak while he feels me crab cakes. </p>
<p>I think TwinK JUST learned how to study when she began studying for finals. Always before it was “You can’t study for math mom.” Aye yai yai</p>
<p>Oh I am good at bringing wine. And I’ll bring some bubbly so we can toast (or get toasted)</p>
<p>CBB- S took the Analysis sequence instead of Calc and he says it is hard (this from someone who gets math) and calls the other kids in the class freaks of nature.</p>
<p>I had heard the calc teachers were difficult to understand, but I thought there was a language barrier. Sounds more like they just don’t teach well because they understand too well.</p>
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<p>I’ll always remember a mom I know talking about her sister, who is an MIT grad: “She was lazy so she just majored in math” … There are some people for whom majoring in math is the same to them as if I majored in Seeing Out of my Eyes or Speaking My Native Language. (Freak of nature is right.)</p>
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<p>You do realize analysis in freshman year is pretty darned rare!!</p>
<p>I’m just catching up with the thread again. I am so glad to hear that Missy’s son’s school with give him a chance if he tries. Asking for help and talking with the professors is probably the hardest thing our students have to learn.</p>
<p>Sometimes kids don’t want us to meddle, but like I tell my DD, it is not meddling, it is trying to help. (“You keep telling yourself that mom”) I think all the phone calls you made payed off. Way to go for involved parents!!!</p>
<p>missypie, Any job can have office politics, but tech writing might be a good choice for your son. A tech writer’s job is to take what the engineers write and put it in English. A good tech writer is so valuable that a boss would overlook social skills issues.</p>
<p>Hmm…technical writing…something to think about! If he changed majors, he’d have a different advisor…another plus!</p>
<p>To those of you whose kids are attending school in a different climate than they grew up in, how are they adjusting? I’d imagine that the upstate New Yorks would not have a difficult time adjusting to Texas, for example. What about the Texans in the NE? Anybody’s kid wishing they had not chosen a school so far away, for weather reasons?</p>
<p>OK folks, don’t forget to drive that bus over to AZ to pick me up…I have the margaritas!!</p>
<p>SoCal daughter who is in the midwest has this status message on her IM: “X misses the sun.” </p>
<p>She was never a “lie out in the sun” kind of kid (very fair skin and umpty ump warnings from pediatrician mean sunscreen and cover). But at Thanksgiving we were sitting at the kitchen table, with the windows open, and she said, “Look! No sweater! No shoes!”</p>
<p>But she also texted excitedly the first time it snowed. Older daughter, who went to college in Michigan, did the same. But she got over it … :-)</p>