If you want to be respected as an adult.... (Warning: Rant enclosed)

[punk-a-doodle]

Oof, I'm sorry. Any chance you could use some of your money to buy a textbook online that offers you more what you are looking for? Anything that claims 'random chance' is what scientific processes are about is...not something I could personally rely on as a factual text. That is an blatantly incorrect statement. I would however, be writing in the margins too.

 

[runsw/scissors]

x3 I'm in my early 40's now... there is so much I regret! Learning to cope with monotonous situations as well as people in authority. I deeply regret that I didn't learn those lessons then.

Good on you OP for taking the high road. One of the biggest shocks for me was learning that some adults are just older that me. They're not necessarily wiser, smarter or more deserving of respect. That was a real shock for me!

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Yep...even more!

 

[saltykins]

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Eenie, if you'd like to take your science education into your own hands might I suggest "Essential Cell Biology" (pub: Garland Science)? I found ECB was very kind in getting started, a sort of middle ground between general biology and biochemistry. It also comes with a CD with chapter quizzes and movies. Those movies are AWESOME.

Learning about how complex, how utterly complicated and amazing life is at the molecular level, strengthens my belief in intelligent design, but that's me.

 

[eenie114]

Thanks for all the advice, guys. I really appreciate it.

Thankfully, the fourth marks the end of the semester (

Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me!

) and then I am OUTTA THERE. And next semester before I choose classes I will be looking very carefully at who the teachers and aides are. I don't care how fun the class looks: Unless it's something that would fill a high school requirement, I am not setting foot in the classroom if she's in a teaching position.

 

[Beekissed]

Learning to cope with monotonous situations as well as people in authority

Two of the more valuable things to be learned in school that actually prepares someone for real life on a job. Typically, most jobs are monotonous at one time or another and, in my profession, most people in authority lack wisdom, any vestige of common sense, and any proper values.

VERY hard to be respectful and just try to do the job at hand....but you learn it at school and it will keep you in good stead when you encounter it on the job.​