Dh actually likes our car betterMy kidneys, or the Hummer…?!!!!!![]()
Well, technically, you're both correct. One can use a pen or pencil, and paper to write a paper, or one can type on a keyboard to write a paper.Dad: Don't you need pencil and paper to write a paper?
Yes, but given that I go to an online school, I think a laptop is probably more useful than a pencil and paper...Well, technically, you're both correct. One can use a pen or pencil, and paper to write a paper, or one can type on a keyboard to write a paper.
The word, write, has a few meanings.
Wow, I do impress my self sometimes.![]()
I will refrain from making fun of his obvious old age issues. I am trying to comprehend the logistics of even submitting a handwritten paper. Do schools even allow those any more?Yes, but given that I go to an online school, I think a laptop is probably more useful than a pencil and paper...
Nope. They didn't even allow them when I was in high school. He's still living in the 80sI will refrain from making fun of his obvious old age issues. I am trying to comprehend the logistics of even submitting a handwritten paper. Do schools even allow those any more?
FTFYNope. They didn't even allow them when I was in high school. He's still living in the 1880s
Your dad is right in some cases for pencil and paper, but this is not one of them due to you taking an online class. You can accuse me of showing my age some. Your dad was a teenager when my parents got married.Conversation with my dad as I'm sitting at the kitchen table with my laptop:
Dad: What are you doing? I thought you were supposed to be working on your paper.
Me: ...I am?
Dad: Don't you need pencil and paper to write a paper?
Me: Exactly what century are you living in?
Yeah, pretty much by the time I was in middle/high school, you only wrote by hand if you were in person taking a test. You didn't sit down and write a paper by hand. It's so much easier anyway. I type faster than I write. If you make a mistake, you can go back and fix it. You can move entire sections around. There's no need. In college, you pretty much submitted everything online, and this was for my first degree.Your dad is right in some cases for pencil and paper, but this is not one of them due to you taking an online class. You can accuse me of showing my age some. Your dad was a teenager when my parents got married.
The teachers I had in High school were are now either dead, late 40s-early 50s, or retired I am mentioning this because most of my high school teachers were born in the late 1930s, or in the 1940s to late 1950s. I did not have a lot of teachers in general that were born in the 1960s or after.
My era was the ending of teaching to type by using a typerwriter. Your dad was a teenager when my parents got married. When I was senior in High school, the High school I went to first had the internet. It was the dial up type modem.
Back when I was in high school, some teachers told me not to use a pencil and paper for doing a report/essay. Those teachers wanted me to type at on word processing program that my computer at home had. Teachers did that to me because of how tough it can be for reading my writing due to my poor hand coordination. They knew I had a computer at home. I had some teachers though that wanted me to use pencil and paper despite my writing. It depended on the teacher. It could've completely changed by now.
Your dad is right in some cases for pencil and paper, but this is not one of them due to you taking an online class. You can accuse me of showing my age some. Your dad was a teenager when my parents got married.
The teachers I had in High school were are now either dead, late 40s-early 50s, or retired I am mentioning this because most of my high school teachers were born in the late 1930s, or in the 1940s to late 1950s. I did not have a lot of teachers in general that were born in the 1960s or after.
My era was the ending of teaching to type by using a typerwriter. Your dad was a teenager when my parents got married. When I was senior in High school, the High school I went to first had the internet. It was the dial up type modem.
Back when I was in high school, some teachers told me not to use a pencil and paper for doing a report/essay. Those teachers wanted me to type at on word processing program that my computer at home had. Teachers did that to me because of how tough it can be for reading my writing due to my poor hand coordination. They knew I had a computer at home. I had some teachers though that wanted me to use pencil and paper despite my writing. It depended on the teacher. It could've completely changed by now.
You can say the same with my parents since they are older than him. Only reason my parents got internet was due to my talking to my dad back in Senior year because Mom was not a fan of it due to not being comfortable with the idea.Your father's childhood View attachment 628951
James will work for foodSpeaking of HW, does anyone wanna write these papers for me????
My one uncle for my high school graduation got me a card that said "Here's a little something to help you get started" and you opened it up and it was a sign that said "Will work for food". I still have it someplace.James will work for food![]()
Your drafting class sounded like my dads back when he was in High school. My dad was in high school back in the late 60s to early 70s.I graduated HS in 1980. We never used computers in HS, as we didn’t have any. All reports, papers, etc., were hand written (or typed on a typewriter - if allowed).
In drafting class, everything was drawn by hand in pencil and ink.
Early on in my architecture career, if you had to add to the room of a house, or make it smaller, you had to erase and redraw that portion or portions of the design. These days, in CAD (and other programs), all you have to do is use the “stretch” command with a quick key “s” and it’s done in two seconds.
Calculating square footage is a breeze with a poly line. Back in the day, we had to draw and calculate it all by hand… .08 for one inch, .17 for two inches, .25 for 3 inches, .33 for four inches, etc.
The formula for the area of a circle (a=pi x r squared -best I can do here…!!!!!), right triangles, the two legs x each other divided by two gives you the area, etc.
The whole process is just sooooo much smoother, slicker, and quicker these days…the only throw back for me from the old days is that I still wear short sleeved shirts to avoid gettin lead and ink on my shirt sleeves…old habits, and all…!!!!!
All of us older folks in the business still wonder how we made any money back then …!!!!!![]()
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