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[ewein2412]

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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It is true that some of the answers to these questions I learned much more recently than in high school.

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[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I got 91% and I don't have a high school diploma.

[ewein2412]

you don't count as a drop out. how many degrees do you have?

you probably do, however, count as an autodidact!

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Just the BA. It did count as a double major double minor. I'm fine with being an autodidact.

My work at Penn and Dickinson didn't get credited towards anything. St. John's doesn't accept transfer credits. Penn was to prepare me for/see if I wanted to do Ph.D work. Turns out I didn't.

[ewein2412]

I never recommend advanced academia to ANYBODY.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I wanted to teach Ancient Greek to college students. I don't think you can do that without a PhD. I still occasionally think about doing that, although at this point it's slowly evolving into teaching Latin at a private school (I don't need more education for that, I just need to, oh, remember Latin).

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

Why not?

the only reason i'm not getting my masters (right now) is because i dont want to have student loan debt.

or do you mean advanced in a different way?

[ewein2412]

well, a masters can be useful, but a phd is just suffering. and a prolonged stay in academia (say, more than a total of 7 years) is nothing but suffering. Writing a phd thesis never entails ANYTHING but suffering. blaargh

if you must do it, REWRITE the whole way. Don't ever write a paper you can't use as a chapter in your thesis.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

i got two wrong. I think it was the first one (area of a triangle - f*ck you geometry) and the dangling modifier, which just sounds dirty.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

The area of the triangle is the half the base times height. I got the dangling modifier right, but I don't know how to describe it.

I got the religions wrong. I took it again, and guessed something else, and was right.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

where'd you find the answers? i couldn't find them. it would be sad if I actually got different ones wrong than I think. lol

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm good at geometry, when I don't overthink it (I took a class in hyperbolic geometry, and I will occasionally mix it up with the standard Euclidean geometry). I figured, if I took the test twice, and the second time around I answered only one question differently and got 100%, that is the one I got wrong.

[ewein2412]

any right angle triangle is half a rectangle--you get the area the same way you do for a rectangle, by multiplying length times width (and dividing by two). You don't have to be good at geometry, you just have to be logical. all that about the hypotenuse is just a red herring to confuse you.

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

OK, that's the one I got wrong, because even though I did pay attention during geometry (and even passed it), I can't remember numbers or anything to do with them worth a tinker's curse. Plus, I'm not really logical, not around numbers, anyway. Hell, I'm totally irrational. Math anxiety? Oh, yeah.

[ewein2412]

well, that's exactly what I mean. It's embarrassing to realize you've forgotten simple geometry, but it doesn't detract at all from being a poised and functional grown-up who isn't logical. (Does that make sense? I'm TRYING to be complimentary, but it's coming out all Spock-like!)

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I'm almost entirely sure that that's essentially the steps Euclid walks through when proving how to find the area of a triangle.