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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...

Comments

[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.

[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...

[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.

[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....