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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Lisa,
I think it would be great if you could find some way
to finish.  I was about your age when I finally got
mine.  Was in college the same time as my, but I made
better grades...L... As soon as I retired I started
back to school and might well do that for the rest of
my life.
No I don't think going to college is necissary to
educate yourself but there are lots of good
experiances you wouldn't get with self study.
Van Dell


--- "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/28/06, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > My life would have been much different if I had
> not gotten a bad case
> > of the flu in seventh grade. I was getting
> straight A's in algebra
> > but when I returned to class after missing a week
> of school, I could
> > not catch up with the class and my grades went to
> B, C, and D.
> 
> 
> The year that I took high school algebra, my father
> changed jobs and we
> moved out-of-state in November. My grade went from a
> high B to the lowest C.
> When I went to college, I had to take algebra and
> failed it the first time.
> My teacher had a thick Asian accent and I had a hard
> time understanding him,
> let alone what the course material. I don't mean
> that in a bad way, but it
> was the truth. I got a tutor but that didn't help
> much. So I took it again
> and ended up dropping the course. All these years
> I've felt that I didn't
> graduate college (attended three years) because I
> got hung up on Algebra.
> Now you know my secret. Sometimes I think I'd like
> to finish my degree, to
> have the choice to go on to other things, but know
> I'll still have to take
> algebra. Ugh. I know math has practical applications
> in life, at 44 years
> young I've experienced this, but I swear to you that
> I've never once used
> algebra, even with my dozen years in mortgage biz.
> I'm a whiz at computing
> debt-to-income ratio's and drawing up budgets,
> calculating debt and quickly
> figuring out how much equity is in a home, etc, but
> don't give me an algebra
> problem.
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