This is high school mid-term exam week in the PLRH family. Yuck. But the kids don’t have it all that bad since it’s only a three-day week. They had off for MLK Day and then off again on Friday. The kids can go to the beach, county fair, wherever and the teachers have a free day to grade exams. Hey, no judging. We don’t get snow days in Florida and if we don’t use our hurricane days, then we have to spend them somehow.
As I was saying, it’s exam week and the house is eerily quiet. I sorta wonder how much studying is being accomplished and how much subversive goofing off is happening. I only wonder. I don’t really want to know.
I have learned a few things in the past few days that are in addition to the general statement, I’m so glad I’m not in high school anymore.
I’m glad that I never made it as far as Spanish V. I know tourist Spanish and it has served me well.
I’m glad that I never, ever have to touch a Calculus text book ever again in my lifetime. Some things just weren’t meant to be absorbed by my brain.
I still really like Wuthering Heights. OK, I love Wuthering Heights. But I’ve got to ask, how can all of the characters be so unlikeable but yet the story is so compelling?
I’ve discovered that G-Man is extremely helpful with household chores when he’s taking “study breaks.”
And lastly, I think G-Man has discovered that his mother doesn’t make a very good study partner for Geometry.
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6 comments:
I'm SO with you about the calculus. I thought I would never get through all of the math ...
Exam week just sucks period.
So glad my husband is a math geek. I'll pawn all of that off on him!
You make me laugh!
Mine were always much more helpful with the kitchen etc...when I wanted them to be studying or cleaning their rooms!
High school exam weeks were always stressful. University exam weeks were easy, because as long as you had bothered to show up for class every day, you knew the material. Some course exams were online, and you could take the exam at any time. I usually took them early and finished those courses by the time midterms rolled around. I love flex schedules like that.
I hate, hate, hate calculus. You can generally get anywhere in the solar system using only trigonometry. I think my calculus prof ruined it for me when he admitted that you'll never know whether you got the right answer unless you work out the math using some other method besides calculus. At that point I realized it's just mental masturbation.
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