I thought you all did metric up there.
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With or without an actuarial textbook in frame? You know what I like. 
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Annoyed thought. We have three ikea jerker desks, they’re great. Spouse wants to get rid of one. But she has MY old desk, gave it to them because it was the nicest one, I bought anohter and swapped. Now we’re selling theirs and I want the top shelf that has the LED light I want.
Taking the top shelf off my desk, bang it drops on top of my monitor. I sure hope that didn’t screw the monitor.
Yeah, no such luck. $175 accident right there.
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IFYP
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Citrix virtual environment periodically slows down. But, right now it’s almost at a standstill.
Clicking from my Webex window (it’s kinda like Slack) to my email window, it took six seconds for the latter to engage. Another 3 seconds for the email I clicked to highlight and another 8 seconds for it to open.
Grrrr.
Eh, my guess is that she is either running an outright scam of some sort, or she runs a website with a webcam of her prancing around scantily clad and for the low low price of $X per month SpaceLobster can subscribe. Or if SpaceLobster accepts the friend request soon he will be flooded with ads for Viagra and emails from Nigerian princes and phone calls from his grandson who was unfortunately arrested in Cancun and needs €527,00 to bail him out so he doesn’t spend the night in a Mexican prison, or his page will be scoured for clues about his mother’s maiden name, make and model of his first car, high school mascot, and all the other password reset questions.
I get friend requests from handsome widowers in their 50s All.The.Time. I might not know what their scam is, but it’s literally always a scam of some sort. About the best you could hope for is a catfish.
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Not nearly enough time to get a load of laundry started. I understand your annoyance.
Profs are kickng my ass this term. Just got an assignment in both classes I’m taking. Got a bit over 80 in both. In one class, that was about class average, and frankly, they were brutal with marking - make a mistake once and carry it through, lose multiple marks etc. In the other, the class average was mid 60’s.
This is for masters level. WTF with a 65% average on a project. All my previous courses for this, averages were into the 80’s and 90’s.
There goes my plans for a high 90’s average this term. and probably my plans for getting an over 90 average for the degree since there’s not a lot of courses, not enough to pull averages up from two crappy marks.
Plus, hand in assignments and think I did really well only to find out, nope.
Ah well. It doesn’t really matter, I don’t need the paper for anything.
I took a math class where 50% was an A, and 38% was a B+. Well, the proof didn’t actually give letter grades. There were four problems. If you got full points (✓+) on both of them, it was an A. If you got one right and made substantial progress on another, it was a B+.
Anyway, i can’t tell if the grading was brutal without knowing what the expectations are for a grade.
Do you need to re-watch the Waterloo videos? He covered that! I’ve only watched two thus far but thank you for posting those.
I took a class where the first midterm was 4 questions. I ended up dropping the class. (I also couldn’t for the life of me understand what the heck the professor was saying with her accent 90% of the time).
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I had a math class where there was a long curve. Top two grades got an A, bottom two and F. 3rd 4th and 5th highest a B, the mirror images a D. Everyone in between a C.
Unless the grades happened in the university’s standard grade schedule. So if the top 4 scores were 93, 95 and98, the all 3 got A’s. The 93 didn’t get pushed down. And likewise for the lowest score. No way a low score of 84 got an F.
However, for most of the tests, no one got the actual letter grade under the standard schedule.
For some reason, I took a shine to the material right away (it was Linear Algebra) and I was the curve wrecker, getting grades in the 90’s when the second score was in like the 70’s.
There was partial credit, but only as far as you got into the problem. Even if you did everything “correct” after the error, you didn’t get credit. So, if you got a third of the way through and you messed something up in your matrix, you only got 1/3 the points for the problem. And these suckers were hard. And only like 4 or 5 of them on the test, so if you messed up one or two, you bombed.
an annual event - i submitted my limited FSA form for 2022. rejected bc they didn’t have the provider listed on the receipt. but they did have it. phone call later where the guy says “yeah, it says it right there!”…they refiled the claim. (bookmark this spot for 2 days to see if they reject it again)
i don’t know why i bother. the max amount in the account is like 3k.
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That’s just dumb.
Robert Batten gave actuarial quizzes and tests where sometimes the passing score was ~35%. Some of the kids who had always found math to be easy and had always made A’s and usually got near 100% correct, took quite the psychological and ego beating.
They should just call it what it really is: ASA.
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This. I had a really hard physics professor, but if you made a mistake in the arithmetic he’d often not penalize you at all. He was trying to assess how well we could solve physics problems and didn’t really care if we forgot to carry a one or fat-fingered something.
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I think I got a 32 on my first Statics midterm back in another lifetime. I was kind of pissed until I found out the mean was something like 18. And yes it was out of 100. And I believe that included partial credit.