@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-09-01 19:43:46
I'm wondering if September is real New Year. I don't think I'll ever lose that back-to-school start of something feeling at this time of year.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-09-01 19:43:46
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-09-29 22:20:58
There’s news in the USA that student loans will be limited based on the earning potential of the degree.
I think that yes, it does make sense to cap loans based on data showing the expected earning power of the degree (and not politics). Students should have a clear plan to pay off their loans, and part of that plan should involve asking if this major at this school going to leave me in a lifetime of debt.
@luana@wetdry.world2026-09-01 14:20:28
Content warning: 600 years so a lot of things must've happened while it was a thing. Damn, I had no idea Brazil was "discovered" while it was a thing and we became a republic not long after it ended. Plus Napoleon made Inquisition illegal in France)
I only figured this out today bc I'm playing A Plague Tale and was curious about what was happening during those years irl and did some quick Wikipedia searches
I'm glad teachers didn't make us remember "random" years, it wouldn't actually help, but it's crazy how little we relate different subjects in History with each other when teaching
I think one of my History teachers, who gave me classes in High School and some Middle School years, understood this was a problem bc in his first class every year he always drew a timeline of world events
I always loved this and wished he did it more often
My memory might not be doing great either, bc I generally remember learning about things but don't really remember details. E.g. I remember learning about the 100 years war and that it was a 116-year-long war in Europe but I remembered nothing else about it
But while this part might be my memorys fault, the general lack of intuition about simultaneity and order of events is not and was always a problem for me. I remember being confused about this and impressed at historical events timelines way back in school. One of our books had a timeline like that too (tho it was cluttered, which is understandable but made it harder to read) which I often spent a while looking at
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-25 17:24:44
Trump’s Department of Justice doesn’t think desegregation is worth the effort.
The DOJ on Thursday announced it has dropped more than 50 school desegregation cases.
As The New York Times reports, that brings the total to 57 dropped cases since Trump was reelected.
Nearly 80 percent of the cases took place in the Southern states of Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana.
The move drew backlash with Democrats on the House Education and Workforce C…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-08-24 16:16:06
"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-07-12 16:28:07
Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2026-07-19 18:10:42
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-09-15 16:16:07
"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-09-28 10:01:52
Yeah, so about software developers today.
I recall that back in middle school there was a time that our Polish teacher got angry that the students aren't reading the books they were required to read and started asking every single pupil to summarize what the book was about. She went according to how we sat, and spared no one, grading every answer.
Needless to say, I haven't seen the book or even a summary of it (at the time, it was common for students to buy summary books). However, I sat somewhere near the middle of the class, so before my turn came, at least a few other people answered something, for better or worse. I've listened to their answers, combined them into a coherent story and got a good grade as a result. I think the teacher may have even suggested that unlike my other classmates, I actually read the book.
All I did was mix the previous answers to produce something coherent. And that didn't make me consider myself to be knowledgeable about the book. So why are you calling yourself software developers, again?
#NoAI
@jensilber@mastodon.social2026-07-02 20:44:13
Lierally; three fellow students at my high school died when they were experimenting in the shed or garage. (I can't remember all the details anymore, they may have made napalm?)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qdzhpxeql7myqv5j3jynm5ru/post/3mpkrva3kz22f
@tschundler@leds.social2026-08-08 18:33:01
Thanks to seeing posts here after I woke up, I finally didn't forget and didn't oversleep too much and made it to the electronics flea market.
This gauge was $1. I used to have a few analog meters when I was in elementary school (I think 3v & 15v), and recently after upgrading a multimeter was reminiscing about them.
I'm not sure what I'd use this one for, but it was too pretty to not get at that price. I got a more boring 25A range one that maybe I'll use…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-07 16:53:05
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her.
Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
It was a kind of note that Joan Birman had received many times: a plea from a high school student, asking for help learning mathematics.
After enjoying freshman geometry class, the student wrote, she had recently read her first real mathematical proof. It made her think there might be something more to math than what she was lear…
