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Songbird76

Songbird76

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Tony the Tigger said:
True story. Wondering if the car accident didn’t knock it loose.

Can’t really move much right now. The meds that relax your tubes kicked in, but the “extra room” that provides was not enough (first time that’s happened - that means it’s probably on the bigger side.)

Pain meds entering the system. Drinking lemon water. Really want this resolved or at least manageable by 10am. But 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Feel better!! I hope it passes!
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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StarWarsGirl said:
Multitasking is one thing, but this is one of the most challenging courses I've ever taken. We had six students in the class to start out with. We're down to just two people in the class. It's traditionally a sixteen week course that's been crammed into eight weeks. My boss's boss, who's a CPA, also said that this course is basically the worst in the entire degree program, so there's that. The saving grace of it is that there's no group projects, although I have the phone number of my classmate so we can complain about the class. Or collaborate on how to study.

And then house hunting is stressful in this market. It's absolutely nuts. My agent says he's never seen anything like it.

Plus I had a health scare this week that's probably nothing but I had to get taken care of. Also, my car is in the shop for damage that happened during Ida, so I can't go to the gym right now which is normally where I go to destress.

Work is supposed to get busy as well next week, but basically, between work and this class, it's like working 60 hours a week.
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I wouldn't hurry in the hunt, we are due for another downturn in housing, you might get a better deal just waiting a year or so. Just my opinion but I have seen many ups and downs in that market and after all this crap we have had to deal with, it seems to me that we are due.

Accounting can be difficult, but it is usually the instructor that is the blame. They may be the worlds best accountant but are not able to have the chops to teach it. That happened to me in college. Tax accounting and Cost accounting in the same semester. We had a professor that had been the CFO for General Motors. He retired from there and decided to teach. He couldn't, all of us, even the high achievers were lost. It became a joke, none of us were passing it. Then he sadly died over a break of a heart attack. The only pillar of light was that they replaced him. That light completely went out when the new professor was from some mid-eastern country and he talked so fast that none of us could understand him well enough to catch up. We all ended up passing as a gift. Turns out that a large bunch of what college teaches are not really relevant out in the world. Tax in particular is highly confusing but changes just about every year.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Goofyernmost said:
Accounting can be difficult, but it is usually the instructor that is the blame. They may be the worlds best accountant but are not able to have the chops to teach it. That happened to me in college. Tax accounting and Cost accounting in the same semester. We had a professor that had been the CFO for General Motors. He retired from there and decided to teach. He couldn't, all of us, even the high achievers were lost. It became a joke, none of us were passing it. Then he sadly died over a break of a heart attack. The only pillar of light was that they replaced him. That light completely went out when the new professor was from some mid-eastern country and he talked so fast that none of us could understand him well enough to catch up. We all ended up passing as a gift. Turns out that a large bunch of what college teaches are not really relevant out in the world. Tax in particular is highly confusing but changes just about every year.
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The professor is most definitely part of the problem. My professor in my first two semesters of accounting was great. He was a retired lawyer who just liked teaching. He also tutored the upper level kids. I got a perfect score on the second final.

This lady is nice, but all over the place. She's got some poor planning skills. The saving grace is that she posts YouTube videos and the school has assigned video lectures from another professor, which I watch and that makes sense. At least I had the foresight to only take this one course this semester. My classmate took more than one course and she's drowning.
 
donaldtoo

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Figgy1 said:
I thought this was interesting
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I can’t remember if I’ve ever posted about this before, but, on my Pops side family farm they have several huge pecan trees down by the creek on the back of the acreage.
My cousins still “trash” (large cane poles to knock ‘em outta’ the trees) the pecans every year, as my grandparents, Pop, and uncles did years ago.
My folks still have 3 large pecan trees at their house that survived the fire, that still produce pecans.
Pop sells most of ‘em and makes extra cash, as they are valued, but, also keeps more than enough… :)
I definitely LUVS me some pecans, whether outta’ the shell, or in a pie…!!!!! :hungry:
 
Mr Ferret 75

Mr Ferret 75

Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
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Mr Ferret 75

Mr Ferret 75

Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
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MinnieM123 said:
Aha! "Any more" -- I knew that you were complicit. (Guernsey PD have been notified, and will be paying you a visit.) :p
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Sorry Not Me GIF by ZorgOber
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl said:
The professor is most definitely part of the problem. My professor in my first two semesters of accounting was great. He was a retired lawyer who just liked teaching. He also tutored the upper level kids. I got a perfect score on the second final.

This lady is nice, but all over the place. She's got some poor planning skills. The saving grace is that she posts YouTube videos and the school has assigned video lectures from another professor, which I watch and that makes sense. At least I had the foresight to only take this one course this semester. My classmate took more than one course and she's drowning.
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There are some classes for which you just need a good teacher. I had a math class in college and the teacher was a Brazilian exchange student in the grad program. He had a thick accent. I was fortunate because we had several Brazilian exchange students in the music department and I was used to their accent, so I understood the guy without a problem. I ended up tutoring a couple of people, but I heard a lot of people complain that they couldn't understand him. Why does it always seem to be math related subjects?
I also had Quantative Reasoning, which was supposed to be a math based subject, and they stuck a social work grad student in there, because he needed to teach a class and that's the only one they had left. But he was sooooo bad. He argued with several of us for 15 minutes because someone asked how he got this particular answer, and he didn't know....he hadn't done the problem himself, just got the answer from the key. So one of my friends raised her hand....we had all gotten it correct. She says "Well, you have to find 15% of this number, so you multiply the number by .15 and....." and he's like no....that's not 15%. She says yes it is. He says no it isn't....it's a decimal. So all of us were like, yeah....it's 15% represented as a decimal. He says it's not the same thing, and he argued for 15 minutes insisting it's not the same thing. How can you get to college level math and NOT realize that 15% and .15 are the same thing?? Then he gave me a zero on a graph he assigned, because it had to be a bar graph, and it was one of those population things by decade, so like how many people were there in whatever it was measuring in 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, etc....so I put the decades across the bottom, and the people, in the thousands on the y-axis. He says it's wrong, he wanted the bars to go horizontally. So I redid it with the decades on the y-axis and the populations on the x-axis. No, that's wrong, he wanted the decades across the bottom, but the bars to go horizontally. The computer wouldn't do it. You CAN'T do it like that. So he gave me a zero because I couldn't make the graph the way he wanted it. My husband and I were just dating at the time, and he had come to visit me and he came with me to that class and he sat there with his jaw dropped at how many things the professor got wrong. He had to correct him a couple of times or help explain something he didn't understand. We came out and he was like "WHAT A MORON!!! How are you supposed to LEARN anything in there? No wonder you call me every night to help you with your homework!" So for the final, my friends and I all got in a group....it was a take home test, thank goodness, and M helped us all with the final. Then we each changed an answer or two so we wouldn't all have 100% on it and no one would be able to tell we had worked together because none of us had exactly the same answers. But man that guy was terrible!! I have to wonder if anyone outside of our group actually passed that class. I know he got a TERRIBLE evaluation.
 
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Bullseye1967 said:
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To add why not venture over to the most famous Cuban restaurant around - Versailles restaurant which is in the heart of the Cuban community in Miami, Calle Ocho ( 8th Street ) a few miles from downtown Miami. I've enjoyed a number of meals finishing off the meal with Cuban colada ( ie caffeine rocket fuel ) there while visiting Miami South Beach.
 
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