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I was an extreme introvert who didn't make a lot of progress in developing socially until after high school, so I didn't have a very close circle of friends.  I did get along well with most of them.  It was a small town, and I knew some of them from Kindergarten all the way until graduation.  After that, school and work took us in different directions, and I did not stay in touch with any of my class.  My parents still live in the same town, so once in a while they give me some news about one or another of my old classmates.  On a rare few occasions I've run into one or another of them while back home for a family visit.

Our class for a long time didn't have anybody who took it upon themselves to try to organize a reunion. Then somebody succeeded in getting together a 30-year reunion.  I went to that one.  Most of the class was there.  (Several were deceased or in prison.  One of the guys I used to know best missed due to a family medical issue). It was good to see people, and find out what sorts of things they'd been doing. Some were recognizably the people I remembered.  A few not so much so.

Several members of our class went into education in one way or another.  I guess it makes a certain amount of sense, given that we were one of the higher-achieving cohorts at our school (The class right after us didn't so so well...).  Even the class clown was now a member of a school board--and still the class clown when he was around friends. 

Haven't kept in touch with anybody since then.  I don't do social media, and I've got a lot to keep me occupied in the community where I now live.  But I'm glad I had the chance to see everybody.  I'd be glad to go another reunion, should somebody organize one.

Hola!

I hope I can just get my screen replaced. I can see okay but it's annoying. I think it got smashed in the travel adventures because I don't think anything leaked on it.

Anyway QBwH I think my last word was curacy. LB plaudit-thrown.

Happy solving!

Quote from: FishProf on April 29, 2024, 11:11:51 AMAbsolutely true.  I was on the committee that tightened up the incomplete rules at FishProfU.  It was the wild west.

We had professors that;
1) Gave EVERYONE an incomplete, so they had more time to grade; or
2) Gave EVERYONE without an A and Incomplete until they got to an A; or
3) Gave students an incomplete who could not ever pass, and thereby blocked them from repeating; or
4) Gave incompletes and allowed them to be fixed for years...

Now it's straightforward. 
1) Must be passing at time,
2) Must have completed most of the coursework;
3) Must complete the missing work by 8 weeks into next semester (summers excepted) or the grade becomes a failing grade. 
4) Extensions to the deadline must be approved at Dean level.

There was much grumbling, but the changes seem to have made incompletes the rarity they are meant to be

Similar rules here except the "missing work" is supposed to be resolved within 1 quarter.  This is not actually enforced except as emails from the Registrar to Department Chairs to get these resolved.

The scary thing here is that "Incomplete" is just one of the many options from the dropdown menu when entering grades.  Not even an "are you sure?" prompt to make sure folks know what it means.
Ditto for "Grade Delay" and "In Progress".

Good morning!

Pangram and above genius. Didn't get back to the bee after posting here.

ab_grp, good luck on finding the very colorful Scott's oriole! I don't think we get these birds in our part of the country.

My class was very small, somewhere around 50 total students, many of whom still live in the blue collar town we grew up in. We had a 25 year reunion back a few years ago, it seemed like maybe 20-25 people showed up.
I don't have much in common with most of them, we just happened to be in the same place at the same time. I don't do much social media but I do see postings from old classmates occasionally, some of them are remarkably the same person they were in high school, just older.
About five or six years ago when I was visiting my parents I ran into the woman who was our prom queen and her sister at a store. They recognized that I was their classmate but called me by the wrong name.
I don't mean to sound critical of the choices most of my former classmates have made, I genuinely hope they are happy. I doubt many of them are from what I have seen and read.

No serious flooding here, but in some places out in the county roads have been temporarily impassable.  One staff member called off yesterday because the roads were so bad where she lived.

It was very bright earlier this morning.  Now it's clouding over.  We're supposed to have another long siege of rainy weather start in a couple of days.  That could cause some problems.

Good morning!

Got the pangram and to a bit past genius so far.  Yesterday we needed bee buddy help with curacy, yuca.

No luck on LB.

Glad your trip went well, Langue_doc! I hope you get to get some rest in.  There's been an elusive Scott's Oriole in the tree for two days now.  We can hear him, and he sounds so close! But the foliage has started to grow in to the point that we can't find him! I guess he could be a she.  Maybe one day we will have luck.

Happy solving!

Quote from: marshwiggle on Today at 04:45:46 AM...
"Treat others as you would like to be treated" is entirely different than "Treat others as they would like to be treated."

I heartily agree with the former; the latter is a hole with no bottom.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

Sounds like a wonderful time!  Congratulations on all the good observations.  And on being able to visit such a good refuge.  It sounds like a lovely place, in addition to all the bird life.

No, I really haven't spoken to any of those people since I moved away decades ago (no desire to ever return to that state either!). Our school was somewhat large (>2000 students), so I didn't know most of them, anyway. I don't feel any need to see them again, I actually have trouble remembering most of their names...even those who were in my close friend circle.