Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

I'm a secondary teacher and I want to recommend this book to my students that really helped me to get a good ACT score. It's called Crash Course for the ACT . Problem is, the book I read was written for a version of the test dated several years ago, and I've heard the test has changed a bit since th...

Okay, I don't want to create an entire thread devoted to this, but what on earth is Question 80895 about? What are "Hinckley's Banyans?"

How can we just get rid of this section, since no one uses it anymore?

Showing a bank deposit of some kind is now a requirement when applying for all international student visas, regardless of the school. The amount is determined by the school and reported on immigration forms to the government. The student must then prove through financial statements that he/she or a ...

The USA and Canada are both, in general, making it difficult for international students to get into either country, in my opinion. Canada currently requires them to deposit all $50000 or so that they'll need for a 4-year degree into a bank account up front and doles a certain amount out to them mon...

That essay question sucked, and I might still be slightly bitter about it It wasn't really a good essay question because it was far too broad. You were either lucky enough to think of what they wanted to hear, or you weren't. ( I liked my essay but I still have no idea if they did.) My high school ...

Now they don't give scholarships to incoming international freshmen, so I just squeezed by on that one! Whaaat? I'd heard that BYU has raised expectations a lot for incoming international students, but this is a new one to me. My mom remembers when BYU was desperate to get international students; s...

I was a Hinckley Scholar a bit more recently than NerdGirl. Funny thing is, I actually can't remember everything about the applications process, but I'm pretty sure there was no interview for me, because I think I'd remember that. I was involved in service clubs in high school a bit, but not gung-ho...

I live within about an hour of home. With the youngest child leaving home, my parents recently became empty-nesters, so I feel a little more pressured to visit them than I used to. On the other hand, I always have fun with them and I'm really looking forward to the holidays (which I'd planned to be ...

I'm a teacher and a club advisor. The kids have to pay some money to the international branch in order to be officially registered members, but so far only maybe 4 out of 30 kids have paid their fee--and it's been about two months. (Even most of our club officers haven't paid! Eek.) I'm not really a...

Maybe just take a break for an indefinite period of time, Whistler, and see what you think later... If I just received a text from someone I've dated a few times recently and (before discussing something normal to talk about) she starts off with "hey buddy," is there any possibility that I...

Emiliana wrote:Football, where "two minutes" means fifteen minutes of actual time.

Amen a thousand times over. I cannot accurately express the level of detest I feel for those long wait times!

Thanks for the suggestions, Katya! I ended not being able to do a ton of things out and about and mostly spent the time hanging out with my friends (which was totally worth it) but we did get a chance go to some nice restaurants in the area. We would've maybe gone to the Feline Rescue Center, but th...

So, I am going to Bloomington, Indiana, in a few days. The principal reason is to visit one of my best friends, but while I'm there I plan on engaging in some zany hijinks. Does anyone know of any good tourist attractions in the area? I will have some car access and am considering making a trip out ...

To paraphrase the swear words thread http://www.theboardboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3473 , those are just words, why do you let them bother you? :twisted: (Potential trolling? I did a little double-take when I saw this post.) If you are not trolling--oh snap. Others will have more to say, but...

It was a weird lesson, and I don't know that I did any good with it, or that my goal for it was a good one. Usually I feel like my lessons generally are good, and that my willingness to be emotionally vulnerable is an effective teaching tool, and it brings us closer together, but today I don't know...

I am tired and sick of working, so I decided to come up with a list of reasons why a person might hypothetically want to access their past schedule with times-of-day included: - Helping to establish an alibi. Now you can tell everyone exactly where you would have been on the night of February the tw...

Portia, I have no idea, but because attempting to answer this question is a nice distraction, here are some ideas:

Is it any of these five sites?

Timeout.com?

That's all I've got.

First: Uffish speaks truth. As far as the core standards for English are concerned, they're perfectly reasonable--and there's nothing that says teachers can only teach from the Core. If students already have mastery of the standards for their grade level, their teachers can focus on other things. (T...

I think political science is a pretty neat major, too, Amity. No bad blood exists between us if you haven't formally studied absolutely everything that interests you (or that at least distracts you from work). ^_^ So, Portia, as you have clarified, this seems to be my Month of Relationship Woes (and...