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Figgy1

Figgy1

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MinnieM123 said:
I don't have Netflix, but thank you just the same. I'll eventually get caught up with various movies somehow.
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My public library has an excellent selection of movies, maybe your has something similar. We can now be put on a wait list for movies so I no longer buy any movies not even the Disney/Pixar ones before seeing them. The last one I bought without seeing first was Frozen. I knew it would be worth it just for the songs even if I didn't like the plot.
 
MouseDreaming

MouseDreaming

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Expecting a high of 50 today, and first freeze warnings for tonight. And where will I be? Last home football game, walking across the field with my senior, trying to not start crying. And after, trying to warm up in the band hall, and trying to keep it together during his senior speech. This senior year stuff is starting to get too real.:cry:
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Gabe1 said:
Cute to listen to for a sec, can you imagine trying to live with THAT? Dear Lord.
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I'm sure the owners have gotten used to it. Our tabby was a talker. Unless he was meowing because he wanted food, we usually just would talk back.

Belle is much quieter, but talks more now that she's older. For the first year or so that we had her, we weren't sure she had a meow. We got home from vacation and figured out how wrong we were...:hilarious:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Cesar R M said:
but chinese is a nationality.
not a description of someone who has lived in the area.
Aboriginal and Indians are usually words used by imperial groups when they define the natives in a bad way (uncultured..savage..etc..)
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Not so much in the US. Indians is what they called the natives because they thought they were in India. Aboriginal doesn't have a negative connotation to us. They used to call native Americans "savages" which is more what you were talking about. But "indigenous" and "Aboriginal" aren't negative. Though I think of Australia when someone says Aboriginal...we don't really use that in the context of American people. Or at least I've never heard it used that way.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Tuition covers you to take between 12-18 credits per semester. Most students take 15 per semester. Generally, courses are worth between 1-4 credits; most are worth 3. A credit hour is based on how much time you spend in class per week (except for online classes; those are a bit different). For now, I'm taking 12 credits of in class work and 3 online (5 courses total), but am spending about 23 hours per week on campus because of the way classes are scheduled. Next semester, I will still technically be in class for 12 hours (plus 3 online credits) per week, but will likely only be on campus three days a week instead of 4 and be there 17 1/2-18 hours per week (barring work, since I work on campus) since the classes are closer together. In MD, you need 120 credit hours overall for a degree. BUT...you also need to complete all the requirement for your degree audit, in other words, the courses that are on your degree audit. I basically have left on my degree audit (after this semester) one more management course, business ethics, a lab science, one more semester of chorus, one international business course, and four business electives.

So in answer to your question, basically, by course, but it's also the amount of time spent in class each week. So if you took three 4-credit courses and one 3 credit course, it's technically only four courses but 15 credit hours. My courses for next semester are one 4 credit course, one 2 credit course (chorus), two in class 3 credit courses (one once a week and the other twice a week) and one online three credit course. But it's not based on how many days a week you're in class or how much time you spend on campus.

College is complicated.:depressed:
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So for the 4 credit hour class, you are in class 4 hours a week, right? That's the way it worked for the most part where I went to school, but music was different. We had so many classes we had to take (like the pedagogy classes for each instrument group) that they reduced the credit you got for each one to only 1 credit hour, though you were in class for 3 hours a week. The exception were the courses that weren't major specific, like "World music" which was considered a humanity and a writing course and a global credit, so a LOT of non-majors took that class. If filled so many of their requirements with only one class, so it was really popular, and it was worth 3 credits. But things like choruses were only worth 1 credit, even though I had the one 5 hours a week, and the other two groups 3 hours a week and then opera/music theater and chamber choir were 2- 3 hours a week as well. Convocation was a zero credit class but was required every semester to graduate. So we'd have 13-15 classes just to be considered full-time, and we were in class all day, every day. A lot of people didn't think it was possible to have so many classes since most students had 3-4 classes per semester, but music was its own different animal.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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ajrwdwgirl said:
My husband chaperoned a mission trip for church to South Dakota on a Sioux reservation, and the tribal elder said that they hate being called Native Americans. The elder said they like being called Indians, he said that anyone born in the US could be considered native american. So I guess it varies from place to place and people to people.
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We had a Shoshone reservation nearby and it was called a "reservation" but I think the people mostly liked being called by their tribal name...Sioux, Cheyenne, Shoshone, etc.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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MinnieM123 said:
That's concerning that only 11 parents showed up. I don't have children, but if I did, I would just assume that meeting and talking to the child's teacher, would be very important.
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I LOVE parent teacher conferences, but technically we don't NEED to go. You only HAVE to go if your child is struggling and our kids both do really really well and get extra work, but we go anyway, just because it's fun. Though we do sometimes have to talk about bullying issues with DS. But academics have never been a problem, so we aren't required to attend.
 

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