MrsA/education

Good game for kids... or grown ups who like to play kids' games.

I have an August birthday, so I never got to celebrate my birthday at school, but my younger brother with a March birthday got to take cupcakes to school. My younger sister with an October birthday did the same. I don't see where it hurt anyone. Sooooo..... get a grip. Let kids do the normal right of passage things that all kids have always done.

Quite frankly, this speaks a whole awful lot about why one of my children is not the social butterfly.

Very familiar.

From the page: "If you ask a straight-A undergraduate, however, (which, in my infinite oddness, I have done many times), he would instead answer: to reduce my study time."

I am living proof of this theory. This was the method I used to get through my undergrad work with an almost 4.0 average. Another trick I employed was to keep the music off in the car so I could think about lectures when I was delayed by slow traffic--and it wasn't just when I was going to or from class either. I would think about lectures @ stop lights.

Some of this I knew and some of it I did not know. What amazes me is the lack of geographic comprehension most people have. Take the bit about weather. In the middle latitudes (30 to 60 N or S), the west coast usually has milder winters than the east coast. This is why London's climate is more agreeable than the east coast of Canada even though they are on at about the same latitude.

There is good in every person if we so avail ourselves to see it. Read about an exercise one teacher gave her class to drive home the point.

I was an older college student. I started when I was 18 like everyone else, but I went back to actually finish after I was married, had had my children and they were a little older. When I was 18, my notes were scant and not very helpful, but when I returned, I was told my notes were very, VERY good. When my fellow classmates missed a lecture, out of a lecture hall of 120, MY notes were the ones they wanted to copy. Here is why. They were meticulously detailed. I would hang on every word my professor uttered. I would quickly scribble notes in pencil onto my notebook pages, thinking all the while about what the prof was saying. Then later, I would neatly copy those notes in pen onto the pages of another notebook. All the while, I would be thinking about what the professor had said. This would be done away from distractions--like tv or radio or (currently) the internet. I would reread those notes in bits and pieces throughout the week. While I drove my kids to football practice or the dentist, I would think about the lecture at red lights. I would mentally chew on morsels of theory or formulas or battles while I would cook supper. I would concentrate on timelines while I folded laundry. I would go over succession of leaders while I applied lipstick.... I could go on and on, but I think that anyone seeing this can grasp the idea. Take a class load as light as possible and then don't dwell on what you will wear on a date or who you will out with after a game. Reconsider your game plan and hone in on YOUR STUDIES. Your GPA will be better and your horizons will broaden.

Oh and by the way... I graduated with an almost perfect GPA for the courses I took when I returned to my studies as opposed to those I took when I was younger. Taking that into consideration, there has to be some validity to what I am telling you.