My physics classes were before the mad reefer destroyed all my brain cells 
I could never make sense of those questions.
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Perhaps if you had class during your reefer madness?
Who can remember now?
Not I.
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US health care: expensive AND unavailable!
First possible appointment with Penn Medicine neurology?
September 2025.
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Apparently the ER is the way around this. When I was at the ER a few months back the doctor there explained that if I wanted an appointment with a vascular doc it would be 6 months at least. If he called one in while I was in the ER? About 30-60 minutes.
Of course itâs a vicious circleâthe docs are so busy with emergencies, thereâs no time for more routine appointments. In fact, when I went for a vascular follow up in July, it had to be rescheduled because the doc had been called out to an emergency 
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Wasted over an hour on the phone with Amazon this morning. There was an account issue involving our email addresses that 4 Amazon people couldnât seem to figure out. One supervisor must have hung up on me because the call disconnected. Called back. And a new supervisor helped and solved the issue within 5 minutes. Very frustrating.
Apparently some Amazon purchases create a separate account within their system. In this case it was a book purchase that created a separate âdigitalâ account and that account wasnât linking to our Prime account. Amazon accounts are linked to the email address you use with them. My wife used a newer email for a book order and their system doesnât cross reference. Still trying to link her âregularâ account to the new email. 
Yep. When spouse went to the ER for a splitting headache and it turned out to be a brain tumor, neurologists all over the place, including a brain surgeon who whisked that thing out w/in 8 hours. Medicare patient.
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I wouldnât dare show up at the ER for urgent care. As awful as it has been, itâs a chronic/latent pain issue, not an emergency.
Iâm so sorry to hear about your spouse! That mustâve been terrifying.
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Not weird. Itâs a pattern I observed in HS and while tutoring others. Those who thought algebra was a snap, struggled in geometry, then found A2, trig, and most calculus pretty easy.
I saw those who struggled in algebra fly through geometry, then have trouble again up until whichever calc it is that is very much like geometry (calc 3 at my college and also at my kidsâ various colleges).
I was one of the first type, my wife the second. So our kids seem to have gotten both genes (or inclinations, probably) and are all math heads who donât have trouble with any sort.
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Iâm a left brain/right brain balance. Even though I was an English major, my GRE scores were the same for math and english, and eye-popping for logic. Guess thatâs why I went to grad school for lit, but ended up with an MS in computer science
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Can you hear the pun groans where you are?
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Listen, I can use any and all laughs I can muster today! Keep the groaners and funnies coming
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Calc sucked. Made me turn my college dreams south.
Where I ended up was a much happier place and much more brain enriching.
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I changed majors so many times in my first three or four semesters my electives ended up being courses I had needed for discarded majors (calc, econ, polsci . . . ). But mom and dad were footing the bill so I had to finish in four years 
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For my required college science course, I took meteorology⌠I was lucky to find it offered as the school I went to had an aircraft engine mechanics course and it was required for them to graduate. I learned so much about the weather and still use what I learned to this day. Besides chemistry or possibly physics, I donât think any of the other offered courses would still be useful to me today.
In high school, I took physiology for my required science course. I learned a lot from that, too and it helped me make friends with kids who were a year ahead of me. I donât think there were any other academic courses (I donât mean physical education or the arts) offered at the time with mixed grades in the same course.
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We had a lot of high school classes that mixed juniors and seniors. But neither high school nor college offered meteorology or aircraft mechanics.
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Straining as deep as the San Andreas fault groaning.
Or, in my case, a monster ground level subsidence in my former in-lawsâ back yard.
Itâs about 8 feet wide by about 15 feet long, and the subsidence is almost 30 inches deep.
Lots of the time these things are because an unscrupulous builder dug an illegal dump pit, but their house was built over 30 years ago, so thatâs unlikely to the be the cause.
Maybe limestone erosion is more likely here. I hope it doesnât cost us $30K to remediate itâŚ
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Well that took a turn I wasnât expecting 
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Interesting. I took right to algebra and geometry but was not very into pre-calc at all.
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