Not just residents/people. They are individuals with advanced degrees. The thinking is.. they will be part of projects and develop plans that need to be carried out. Then labor in Detroit might have something to do besides destroy the place or leave.

Or the prequel to Firefly.

A smart child won't tell you what the most valued toy/item is in case it is used against them for punishment (taking away xbox etc). So the most expensive item may very will be the item they truly like and you're just a wind bag in their eyes. I am being a bit tongue in cheek here - I realize the lessons your trying to teach them - just poking fun.

or to monetize it

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/notes.html

I'm in a similar situation only older . Here is what is working for me (going from D's to A- and B+'s)

You're older - it will take longer to assimilate information. Plan accordingly - that means studying on the weekend in advance of the class not night before. Ask the professor to point to any large blocks of information that you should commit to memory at the beginning of the semester in preparation.

You are not a sponge - all night-ers are not going to help. Give yourself at least two nights of rest and then test your recall.

Taking twice as long on tests seems on the long end - I take about 1.5x the time of traditional students on tests. Realize that some of them don't know the material either so are just turning in what they can. That said get a learning disability test to see if you do need special considerations (it may just be using a quiet area to take a test with no people around is all you need to focus).

Usually (depending on field) the lower division courses are memorization and the upper division courses show how parts work in systems which is the important aspects.

Try and see your study material in an applied setting. Putting pictures/experience to terms that need to be memorized is vital.

Good luck.

Haven't read it but it's not that of a far fetched/fridge nuking/shark jumping scenario. George Bush Sr. was a pilot in the armed forces, then an agent, then a president.

They are going to be sorely nonplussed when they find out my payments to a Reykjavik account have nothing to do with wiki-leaks but instead deal with spreadsheets in space (aka Eve Online)

Just a note that these phone colors are exactly the same colors that are on the gym shoes (bright full colored pastels/neons) the girls on campus are wearing. They just showed up this semester.

I like Eve Online, subscriber for close to a decade (2 accounts). A book is way more immersive than this game. I'll admit that I haven't encountered E.O. role players maybe they have different experiences but only thing that's sci-fi about Eve is the setting and the jump gates. The setting might be argued as a big components but it's fairly static. There is no real new discovery just existing things are occasionally dynamic Wormholes are the only thing that come to mind.

Don't envy them too much. There is a high value placed on text messaging, response time and if something seems off then the analysis of what was said, when, how gets flayed out like an anatomy lab with the closest friend/clique. I have watched this phenomena play out the last 3.5 years and I always pity the fool who screwed up a response.

What could go wrong? FPS Russia could get a hold of a real one with a machine gun and self destruction charge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

Voyager Janeway, Wonder woman, tons of sci-fi anime.

James Olivia Fehr is a female.

Should be "Land of the Free Home of the Brave." There is also a Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash album of the same title.