Snotty muffins and why should you care?

[KillerMuffin]

Well, you actually shouldn't care unless you really, really, really want to. Even then, it usually goes away after a few days anyway.

I haven't been here much so it's probably not that big of a deal. However, I have been posting and it's not always a good thing.

I've been snotty for the last two or three days. I did really badly on a calc test Thursday and--despite the essay question--it kicked my ego. So I got the test back today and I didn't do as bad as I thought, but not nearly as good as I'd hoped. Particularly considering the effort I put into it.

My brain shut down. Literally.

Anyway.

Blathering excuses and procrastination aside, I've been snotty. I could look it up and get a list of snot, but who wants to relive that? Muffie with a corn-cob up her butt isn't pleasant.

So.

The point I've been trying to avoid. I'm sorry for being snotty to you in the last few days.

 

[Chicklet]

<passes the tissue and draino for the corn cob problem>

It sucks to be snotty, to look back on the last few days and see what a bad mood you've been in. Even though nothing has been tossed at me, I appreciate your comments here, and hope you're feeling better soon. Sorry about your calc test, and if it makes you feel any better, i would have failed miserably if I'd tried to take one = )

Chicklet

 

[MathGirl]

I've been snotty for the last two or three days. I did really badly on a calc test Thursday and--despite the essay question--it kicked my ego. So I got the test back today and I didn't do as bad as I thought, but not nearly as good as I'd hoped. Particularly considering the effort I put into it.
.

Poor Muffin. Calculus is one of those things that a very tiny percent of the population seems to be born to. The vast majority, though, have to work like hell at it, and most can't do it at all. I've been through a lot of math and am sort of a mathematician, and ability at math doesn't really seem to coincide with overall intelligence. Calculus can really be a pisser.

Also, math gets much harder as you get older. A really intelligent person over 25 ALWAYS has trouble with freshman calc.

You have my sympathy,
Diane

 

[pop_54]

Yo muffie

Don't let it worry you, nobody can be Mr/Mrs/Ms happy all the time and letting off steam at friends and relatives is the best way to let off steam, cos they always understand and forgive you. Not that you've done anything to upset me personally of course anyway.

If it's any consolation I did shit at every exam and test I ever sat except the finals which all fell into place when it mattered.


pops.................

 

[NorthwestRain]

Muff, I too have enjoyed your postings of late, so if this is you shitty, maybe you should take difficult tests more often.

BTW, what are you studying for and why? Calc must be preety full-on.

 

[pop_54]

Re: Re: Snotty muffins and why should you care?

Poor Muffin. Calculus is one of those things that a very tiny percent of the population seems to be born to. The vast majority, though, have to work like hell at it, and most can't do it at all. I've been through a lot of math and am sort of a mathematician, and ability at math doesn't really seem to coincide with overall intelligence. Calculus can really be a pisser.

Also, math gets much harder as you get older. A really intelligent person over 25 ALWAYS has trouble with freshman calc.

You have my sympathy,
Diane

Jeez no wonder I have trouble with math's at my age then love, 25 and it's down to fresher, 55 and I can't manage 2 x 2 = 5 without a calculator.

pops.............

 

[SexyChele]

Muffie's been snotty lately? Sorry, I really hadn't noticed. Perhaps I've been missing your posts, who knows?

Good luck with the Calculus. I had to take that class three times before it finally sunk into my brain. And now I still have flashbacks!

Anyway, it's good to have the ol' Muffie back!

 

[Whispersecret]

Heh heh. I guess I'm the only one who thought KM had a bee in her bonnet. Golly, Muff. I feel like we're an old married couple. LOL

 

[wildsweetone]

good grief! you were that bad you posted an apology? far out, i must need a holiday!

have you tried rose oil in a burner?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

55 and I can't manage 2 x 2 = 5 without a calculator.

Man, you're sooo clueless, Pop.. Don't you no nuttin'? I mean, all us geezers no 2 x 2 = 22.

KillerMuffin,

Nice message. Hope you're feeling better. IMHO, the board is a better place for your input. And I know for a fact, that I've greatly benefited from you feedback-no matter what mood you were in at the time.

Your favorite pornographer.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Sabledrake]

Muffin > I've enjoyed your posts, and think you've said some things that needed to be said. But I do hope your sitch is looking up soon.

Sabledrake

 

[kiwiwolf]

The point I've been trying to avoid. I'm sorry for being snotty to you in the last few days.

You are forgiven my child... go forth and sin no more. Unless you really want to.

 

[Guest]

Well, you actually shouldn't care unless you really, really, really want to. Even then, it usually goes away after a few days anyway.

I haven't been here much so it's probably not that big of a deal. However, I have been posting and it's not always a good thing.

I've been snotty for the last two or three days. I did really badly on a calc test Thursday and--despite the essay question--it kicked my ego. So I got the test back today and I didn't do as bad as I thought, but not nearly as good as I'd hoped. Particularly considering the effort I put into it.

My brain shut down. Literally.

Anyway.

Blathering excuses and procrastination aside, I've been snotty. I could look it up and get a list of snot, but who wants to relive that? Muffie with a corn-cob up her butt isn't pleasant.

So.

The point I've been trying to avoid. I'm sorry for being snotty to you in the last few days.

_____


Blow your nose and get on with life!

 

[KillerMuffin]

Thanks for the encouragement Mathgirl! I kinda figured your avocation.

I'm good with math. The problem isn't the ability to actually learn the stuff, the problem lies with the epilepsy. I'm shocked that I managed to remember how to differentiate when I couldn't remember my own name at the time.

I'm in Computer Science, kiwi. It's so cool. You should see my latest poem. When Geeks Send Mash Notes.

Thanks all ya'll.

WS--you know me too well.

 

[Just_John1]

Calculus...

I have only one thing to say about calculus... If its that damn close to zero then it's zero damn it.

I failed my mid term (58%) in the 500 level calc class I had to take when I took my masters... I finished the final with a 95 but I lived calc for 5 weeks... It may have had something to do with taking Calculus from a drunken Iraqi who drank whiskey in a coffee cup while he wrote for three full chalk boards only to find out he made a mistake in the first board so he erased all three boards and started again... I don't know if he bored me into submission or confused me to death.

I feel your pain KM, and understand the crabbiness. Hope it goes better for the second half...

JJ1

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Re: Re: Snotty muffins and why should you care?

You are forgiven my child... go forth and sin no more. Unless you really want to.

Isn't that supposed to be "go for it and sin a lot more"???

 

[hiddenself]

If its that damn close to zero then it's zero damn it.

Obviously, you must be an engineer, the dreaded mortal enemy of mathematicians everywhere...
hs

 

[NoJo]

I'm in Computer Science, kiwi. It's so cool.

It was pretty obvious from your avatar.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Calculus...

I have only one thing to say about calculus... If its that damn close to zero then it's zero damn it. JJ1

Ohhhhhh, no it isn't. That's the "It's close enough for government work" mentality. In mathematics, it's either really, really, really zero, or it ain't.

Thank God science usually triumphs over the untrained mind.

 

[NoJo]

Re: Calculus...

I have only one thing to say about calculus... If its that damn close to zero then it's zero damn it.

JJ1

That's almost exactly how Isaac Newton phrased it! But he actually wrote:

Hereunto it can be feen that the cipher when extended in extensio maketh thereby a nullificatione, howseeminglye it be partitionned, insofar as there is, graciouslye by the Lords grace, a reductio whyche giveth the fluctione of the smalleft part thereof.

 

[MathGirl]

Dear Sub Joe,

What the heck are you smoking tonight? Can I have some?

Diane

 

[NoJo]

Absinthe. It's 75% proof. I find it helps me focus my mind and mentions without cinnamon.

 

[pop_54]

Ha

Obviously, you must be an engineer, the dreaded mortal enemy of mathematicians everywhere...
hs

Ha so you've uncovered our little secret plot, we engineers will rule the Earth, no the Universe, *Evil chuckle*, must stop doing that it gives me a sore throat.

Now where was, Oh yes the square root of 'It' squared, over 'K', apply the correction fators 'Ca', Cg', Ci', multiply by 0.725. Shit cable's too small.

pops...........

 

[The_old_man]

Diferentiation:


1: Take any equation.
2: add the infinitesimal(0).
3: expand.
4: subtract the original equation.
5: divide by the infinitesimal(0).
6: the result is the min-max of the original equation.

or

add nothing, subtract the original, divide by 0.

 

[DVS]

Snotty muffins? Not something I care to read with my morning coffee. I prefer buttered toast, thank you.