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[textualdeviance]

Talk about your narrow escapes.

So, I'm working my ass off getting this UW application done so I can hopefully get in this fall, and it occurs to me that I'd best check out their general ed requirements before I do this, so I don't get nailed with having to take some gawdawful calculus class or sommat.

So, I see this requirement for five credits of Quantitative Reasoning. Oh, shit.

(It should be noted, here, that I only managed to graduate high school with a c in basic Algebra. I've had no further math classes since 1987.)

Then I look at the list of classes that will satisfy it... and right there at the top! The Astronomy courses I took ages ago to satisfy the science requirement for my first degree. Huzzah!

Of course now the issue is whether my taking three quarters of Astronomy at a college that does 3 credit classes will get me to the 20 credit requirement that UW has for science.. eesh. No matter, though. If I need to, I'll just take a Botany course or two or some other no-brainer science for art nerds class and be done with it.

I've been in such a bitchy, irritable, paranoid mood (for which I deeply apologize to y'all) because of worrying about getting in (among the other shit that's happened the last few weeks) and this certainly helps ease some of that. Of course, I'll be chewing my nails down to stubby little chits until acceptance letters get mailed out in June...

May be time to ask the doc for a small Xanax rx to pop now and again. Would certainly keep me from chewing people's heads off. Or my own, for that matter, which has been looking mighty tasty of late...

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[sheistheweather]

Blech...I'm still awake...finishing a project for my 10:30 class...I have to get up in three hours...

What homework do we have due Tuesday for Media class? I was sick this morning and could not make it in.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

It's the usual stuff-- the next two chapters in the main textbook, plus the drafts of article 3 for peer review.

The next chapter in the Cyber book (6) plus media diary 6 is due Thursday, plus the final draft of article 3.

[sheistheweather]

Thanks Shawna! I appreciate the info!

[waterfaery.livejournal.com]

rescue remedy is like homeopathic Xanax and less addictive (plus no horrific withdrawal when you stop taking it)... sold at your friendly neighborhood PCC, Whole Foods, and even some mainstream markets. I love the stuff.

oh, and good luck! i'm so impressed with the way you're going after your dreams...

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Woot! Thanks for the suggestion. Is it Kava based at all? Because unfortunately that stuff kinda messes with me.

And thanks!

[waterfaery.livejournal.com]

No, it's flower essences... royal rose, clematis, star of bethlehem, and a couple others I can't remember. No kava, no uppers. It's for dealing with anything your body or mind perceives as a crisis, so it actually just makes you centered and calm and clear-headed. The nice thing about it is that it's impossible to overdose, so I take half a dropperful under my tongue, and if I don't feel better in 5 or 10 minutes, I do it again. Rinse and repeat till I'm calm. Works a treat for my anxiety flare-ups. And they give it to toddlers and pets.... if that makes you feel safer. It'll work on your crazy kitties too.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

How truly awesome. Thanks!

[waterfaery.livejournal.com]

the standard version is in a solution of 27% brandy (not enough to get you drunk, it's four drops)... but if you want no alcohol whatsoever you can get special alcohol-free stuff but it's harder to find.

I absolutely love it. The trick is figuring out that it would help to have some just *before* you start getting anxious, so it doesn't happen.

[heyokaboy.livejournal.com]

"Quantitative Reasoning" can also mean a logic class or something and that might actually be fun for you. I hate math, but I really enjoyed logic.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as it turns out, UW has a much more relaxed definition of this stuff than other schools. Some require an actual math class, they just require some sort of class that involves logic or numerical reasoning, even if it's applied. So they take Econ courses, for instance, which makes me laugh.

I was so terrified of math requirements when I first started out that I made a point of finding a school that didn't have them, and actually picked a school that had a PE requirement instead. How's that for desperate?

Math and I have never gotten along. I can do simple functions very easily, but anything that requires more than a few steps and I get confused. I know now that that's because of my ADD getting in the way, but at this point, it's been so long since I had any math at all that even with my meds, it would be really hard for me to clear those cobwebs and figure stuff out again.

It's weird, because complex logical issues for non-symbolical things work just fine for me. It's having to think in code, plus do all those different steps that trips me up. I can't write most computer code, for instance. I can do basic raw HTML, and I can edit it just fine, but I can't draw it up from scratch. I have to be able to see it visually. I can't parse what the code represents.

BTW, dear, when are we going to get together to do that interview? I have a rough draft of my next article due Tuesday, so if we're going to do it for this article, I need to do it soon. If not, I can push it back to the next assignment, which is due in 2 weeks.

[kinkyhobbit.livejournal.com]

Freaks me the number of shared interests we have. Wacko.

You know algebra is the Arabs' fault too? I wonder if they had any idea the thousands of generations of miserable high school students that would result...

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

I sympathize, Ms.A, being a non-sciency type myself. For my university science requirement, I waited 'til my last semester and then took a basic geography (or was it geology?) class, known as a simple class for non-sciency types. I still remember vaguely something about cloud formation, rain and mountains, heh....Or possibly, for a "quantitative reasoning" cred, an introductory philosophy class would do it? Teaches logic and reasoning, after all, plus, you might get to read CS Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," which is a lot of fun!

I worked in the shipping and receiving dept. of the U of W bookstore in downtown Seattle back in, oh, 1979 I think it was, for the four or five months that lived in that city; don't know anything about it as a school though....