<p>Our generation’s equiv of “having to walk to school uphill both ways” is typing out a paper on an actual typewriter!</p>
<p>I tell my children that in my day, I had to walk to the television uphill both ways in snow to change the channel. And of course we only had 5 channels!</p>
<p>when my students whine about parenthetical citations I try explaining to them the wonders of doing foot notes with a typewriter and having to somehow be able plan ahead to know exactly how much space you would need or else you would have to retype the ENTIRE PAGE!</p>
<p>My '11 D took the ACT last Saturday. There was a girl D knew there who is a senior…she said she was taking the ACT again to try to get more scholarship money. I wonder if that would work anywhere. Scores will be available on April 26th…most schools make you accept by May 1st.</p>
<p>Seems like even if you raised your scores, all the money would be committed at this late date. Or is there “limitless” money at the big state schools? Oklahoma
State gives OOS students $12,500 for a 30, 10,000 for a 27 and $8750 for a 25. I wonder if they’d bump up the award at a very late date based on a higher score?</p>
<p>I know that you can do that at U of Iowa for department scholarships. In fact a professor told D1 that she should retake her ACT to see if she could improve by 1 point so she would get automatic department scholarship. (She knew she wasn’t going there so she didn’t retake.)</p>
<p>I believe there are several other schols that guarantee a certain amount of scholarship $$ for certain benchmark ACT scores. Hmmm…I think Augustana was one of those.</p>
<p>Good to know. D so wants to be done testing, but it’s nice to know that if she needs a point or two to make a school affordable, it might be possible.</p>
<p>Warning: Vent ahead!</p>
<p>Grrrr…delivery guys just left. We ordered a new bedroom set in January. The order came in but sideoards for cal king bed were noted as damaged in warehouse. They reordered and held the order. Finally the furniture was ready for delivery today. The footboard, chest of drawers and dresser are all damaged and have to be reordered! :mad: I hate the hassle and time lag! This is why American manufacturing takes a beating! Doesn’t anyone take pride in their work???</p>
<p>Oh that would frustrate me to no end… all that anticipation and expectation only to be delayed. Sorry, NMN… I need a new bed, mattress and all. Still don’t have a headboard, footboard kind of thing. Ridiculous when you consider that kiddies have rarely missed on an opportunity for much.</p>
<p>Just got off the phone with D25 telling her to go back to the financial aid office and ask for some reconsideration of loan to grant balance. I offered that the worst they could say was no, but that filling in her aid package with unsubsidized loans was not a good position to leave a future elementary teacher. I also wanted to know how it would be if we became a bank when it comes to the unsubsidized portion. Meaning if we “formally” lent her the money would they call that income for future aid? Obviously, any money borrowed from us doesn’t accrue interest. Numbers are NOT her thing. She is spending the summer taking a math class just so can take the math class she needs to fulfill her major. Asking her to understand the rest of it is above her learning curve at this point.</p>
<p>missypie, S2’s college has a formula for SAT and GPA that equates to certain scholarship amounts. It is automatic, no application needed. However, my understanding is that they apply the formula to the scores in place at the time of acceptance. I do not think they will recalculate. That takes the pressue off if GPA slips senior year but also removes any incentive to retake standardized tests.</p>
<p>Sabarary, sorry to hear your D is sick. S2 is also feeling sick. I’m pretty sure he caught the strep his brother had (they were sharing a water bottle the day before S1 was diagnosed). So far I haven’t been able to convince him he has to see a doctor.</p>
<p>Analyst, I think it’s a combination of h*ll week, too little sleep, bad eating habits and stress from boys. Not necessarily in that order. I told her to get to bed tonight and they have a mandatory srat function. I think I’ve already ticked her off enough for today so I’ll back off. Registration is today, too, but she doesn’t seem too concerned about getting into the courses she wants.</p>
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<p>Hey, that’s 2 more than we had :)</p>
<p>We had 5, too…the three networks, an “independent” (that showed the endless Gilligan’s Island reruns) and the “educational” station.</p>
<p>I’m not even sure how many channels we had (I’m guessing three), but I do know my mother didn’t get a color TV until after I had left home. I was in my 20’s before I saw Dorothy’s ruby red slippers. On the other hand, those three channels seemed to have more interesting things to watch than the 200 channels we get now.</p>
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<p>It did promote a greater sense of community. You knew that when the Wizard of Oz, or Miss America, or the World Series was on, EVERYONE had watched it.</p>
<p>Just like we all watched Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and The Ed Sullivan Show because that’s what grandma liked!</p>
<p>And it was easy to turn off the TV when nothing you wanted to watch was on…flip the 3-5 channels, no more options. Now the kids will scroll up and down the stations endlessly, thinking there must be something they want to watch.</p>
<p>Ditto about being in my 20’s before I saw Wizard of Oz in color! But there was no flipping in my day: there was no flipper. The clunker black and white TV had dial and you had to physically haul yourself off the couch to change channels. No wonder I’ve put on weight: TV’s too easy now.</p>
<p>I not only didn’t see the *Wizard of Oz *in color until I was quite old, I didn’t see the END of it until I was quite old. We were Southern Baptists who had Training Union and Church on Sunday nights. My dad was the preacher so we couldn’t skip. We always had to leave in about the same spot.</p>
<p>I hated it when we visited my grandmother because we had to watch Lawrence Welk when the Wonderful World of Disney was on. I loved the anticiaption of watching, The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, Peanuts because it only came on once a year. it was special.
I guess the kid who sent the pictures around is the one in trouble. I think it was sent on a cell phone. That is what I told my D where is the girl’s self respect? She said it’s “her body” I said not to make it public. I think this has given her some things to think about. To my D’s credit she will not look at the pictures. Scary. I guess the kid who is in trouble could be prosecuted for distributing child pornography.
Moda college opens up all kinds of learning experiences.
NM does she want to go into law?</p>
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<p>And probably everyone who forwards or emails the pictures, too. I think that is what finally stopped the situation at our school - parents were sending the picture to the school saying “look what this girl did” and the school said, “you just distributed child pornography.”</p>