Updatia and So Forth

[ellyssian]

Out sick yesterday and today. Rachel passed the bug to Deb and me. Today's round was brought to you, in part, by Pennsylvania Power & Light, or, more accurately, the lack of five or so hours of both Power and Light for no apparent reason whatsoever. But don't worry, we anticipate the problem will be resolved in three hours, so sayeth their My-Power-Is-Out line. My bedroom was dropping below 45 degrees Fahrenheit when the heat came on. When the power finally came on, I had to go around turning off everything that us boys had on (Deb and Rachel were at karate at the outset) and everything everybody turned on after by habit (or, in some cases, in an effort to turn it off). That gave me a chance to set up the CPAP, set the heat for the humidifier on high, and clear up all the crud that showed up prior to that.

Justin starts college today - the class for this semester is a college freshman English. He still has the rest of his sophomore high school course load to go through as well. That'll keep him busy. =)

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[brandedeclipse.livejournal.com]

College Freshman English was my favorite course. I was an early admissions candidate at 16.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Did you switch over from high school to college, or was it more of a dual-enrollment?

He'll be ramping up the college course load (1 now, 2 in summer, 3 in fall... not sure if it stays at that level or climbs further...) in and around the other stuff. An advantage for him is that his regular high school classes only occupy him three days a week, for the most part.

He has some course that don't actually meet - they're on his own time - and he recently caught up in those. NaNo and the holidays got him off track. At one point, we thought he was rushing - got a 68 on a Latin test. Turned it into a 100 when he pointed out the teacher had transposed a few questions between test and answer key! =)

[brandedeclipse.livejournal.com]

It was technically a "dual" thing, but I was taking college classes and lived in the dorms. They just counted towards my high school as well. For example, I needed two English Credits to graduate high school- I took two semesters of English while I was at college. Same thing with Economics.

I didn't have to do any high school stuff, just college. I had the usual college life: rush, soriority parties, student government, Friday nights at the on campus pool hall...