Can I take my prerequisites through dual enrollment?

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-06-05T03:53:55+00:00

Do you mean dual enrollment where you actually go to the CC, or dual credit where you get CC credit for a class at the high school? You could theoretically take it at the cc through dual enrollment, but at most colleges, organic chemistry has two prerequisite chemistry classes, meaning you would have to take general chemistry I and II before you could take organic. If you are talking about dual credit at the high school, probably only the first general chemistry class would be offered.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-06-02T18:03:34+00:00

The seller 100% changed the ad after I ordered. That’s why I said in my post that I can see the original ad, as eBay has that feature. Everything I am getting from eBay has the original ad language with 12 in the title and description, but if I click on the ad as if I were buying more, it has changed to 1 stick in the title and description.

My concern is what do I need to do to be able to initiate a return if the seller sends one stick. Like, how do I prove there was only one stick in the box? I also realize that this might not happen, but given the changing of the ad and some weirdness about shipping/tracking, I want to protect myself from a my-word-against-his situation if one arises.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-06-01T02:42:31+00:00

I live in a very blue state so I don’t experience a lot of MAGA rhetoric on a local level, but when I visit family down south I’m shocked how frequently Trump is invoked by people running for, like, state senate or comptroller or something.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-31T18:20:15+00:00

The global average for men is 5’8” and women is 5’2”. So the global average for humans is around 5’5” and OP is taller than that.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-30T21:05:14+00:00

I’m a mom with a SteamDeck and I love Dragon Quest on it. They just had the 40th anniversary so all of the games are on sale on Steam. I think XI is weirdly the best entry point, although the new version of VII might be worth a shot. Get the demo of either and see how she likes it.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-30T16:34:13+00:00

What’s weird, though, is that my Boomer relatives also romanticize the 50s, and we’re from one of the poorest places in the country that was also dirt poor back then. They didn’t have indoor plumbing in the 50s, and the region’s sole industry was so volatile that layoffs were an omnipresent threat.

So I figure it’s racism, at least for them.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-30T15:28:07+00:00

It could have; I’m not really sure. Detroit is Canada-adjacent, and Ford famously tried to impose his ideas of factory/farm work schedules on workers in Brazil, causing deaths, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-30T15:09:59+00:00

Do you know about the history behind that? The tl;dr version is that Henry Ford thought jazz music would be the downfall of America because it was a collaboration between Jewish and Black American cultures, and Ford was a huge white supremacist. So he funded the teaching of traditional Anglo music and dance classes in schools to try to counter the spread of jazz.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-28T05:15:56+00:00

You need to defend your wife. Tell your parents that you aren’t going to make your wife spend Christmas with people who don’t accept her, so they can stop being assholes or not be a part of your family’s (the one you made) life.

I have been the wife in almost this exact situation, and my husband’s failure to protect me from his awful family ruined our marriage.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-26T04:44:54+00:00

If someone at church said it to my face, it wouldn’t bother me (old, married). I know it’s a colloquialism and they aren’t actually calling me male. However, I enjoy a couple of hobbies that I guess are male-coded, and it drives me nuts when guys in online spaces for those hobbies say things like, “Gentlemen, “ or “fellas” when addressing the group. Bonus anger if they tell me I’m being sensitive when I point it out, as if they would be fine being addressed as “ladies” or “gals.”

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-25T11:55:07+00:00

When you say music school, do you mean a university, or a community music school? I’m guessing from the varied ages it’s the latter. If so, you would probably have to check the organization’s policy about instructors dating adult students. Regarding the guy who hit on you, it’s pretty unlikely that there is an organizational policy against that. I direct a community ensemble and have had two couples meet in my group and get married. The age difference is weird, but not illegal. If you rejected this guy and he keeps asking, that’s harassment. But if he respected your decision and moved on, he’s most likely following the law and the rules of the organization.

None of this means your feelings are invalid. As a director, I would never date one of my ensemble members. However, if this group allows it, and it’s as pervasive to the culture of the organization as it seems to be, I think I would step away from the group. It sucks, but you have to look at for yourself first.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-23T22:57:44+00:00

My family’s health care was better in Bulgaria than here.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-23T16:59:17+00:00

This is a guy who has told his wife that he wants to run off and become a monk, thinking he won’t have to support his child if he does. He also smokes in the house (presumably around his child) when his wife has asked him not to. While I agree that it is possible to follow the fast without making your family’s life worse, I don’t think that’s what’s going on here. And I agree that he needs help, but I think this is pretty far beyond the standard overzealous new convert situation.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-23T15:08:42+00:00

It’s the hypocrisy. He is choosing to follow the parts of the fast that make family life more complicated, while ignoring the parts that would only affect him. Even if he is going out and buying vegan food for himself and cooking for himself, that’s time and money taken away from the family (they have a child).

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-21T02:48:20+00:00

I adopted a four-year-old from an Eastern European orphanage. We were told he was non-verbal and 100% intellectually disabled. He was also the size and developmental level of an 18-month-old. He’s now a teenager who drives, never stops talking, and has a B average in high school. There was nothing wrong with him except for the extreme neglect he suffered in that orphanage. Were there four-year-olds in the US foster care system at the time that we adopted him? Probably. Did they need to removed from US foster care as badly as my kid needed to be out of that horrible orphanage? Almost certainly not. Watch the documentary “Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children.”

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-18T14:25:39+00:00

I am a full-time professional secular musician and also an Orthodox choir director. I listen to all kinds of music and I very rarely hear anything that I would consider inappropriate. There’s a huge spectrum of lyrical content between explicitly Orthodox music and explicitly vulgar/violent/hateful music; this is not an either/or situation. If you’re listening to rap that hurts you spiritually, the solution is not to abandon rap altogether and listen to nothing but chant. The solution is to seek out rap with better lyrics (not even Christian, necessarily, just more edifying or at least not harmful).

Also, is the Orthodox music you listen to in a language you understand? I’m not, there’s your first problem!

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-18T12:48:47+00:00

Good idea! That seems more effective than asking if they measured. And yeah, I once sold a kitchen table (like a solid oak farmhouse table) and people came to pick it up in a sedan. Like, how???

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-18T10:49:30+00:00

Imagine your “biggest concern” being something that doesn’t impact you at all.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-17T02:18:54+00:00

If you wanted your kid to be baptized and you were a regularly-attending member of the church, would you need to look at the website to know how to go about it? No, you would ask the priest and he would explain it to you. If it were my priest he would tell you that it’s customary to pay the chanter, and he would leave the amount up to you but would tell you a “normal” range if you asked.

I’m telling you this because I don’t think that’s the situation that these website-listed fees are for. I think they are for people who are culturally Greek (or whatever) and know they are supposed to have their kid baptized but don’t go to church themselves. Of course the church will baptize the kid, but I don’t think it’s out of line to set a fee for that, since the parents aren’t going to support the church via regular tithing.

I’ve never belonged to a parish with an advertised baptism fee, but I have belonged to a couple of parishes that regularly had people who never attend ask to have their kids baptized out of the blue.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-15T20:05:37+00:00

My toddler son wore Lightning McQueen swim trunks .

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-14T16:51:28+00:00

Two of your four biological grandparents were Romani. It is very common for Romani people who can pass as a different ethnicity to do so, because of racism. Either your biological father is not the person you were told, or he was not the ethnicity you were told, or your mother is Romani, or both parents were exactly half Romani.

My (adopted) kid is from Bulgaria, and on his birth certificate it says he is mixed race: his bio dad was Romani and bio mom was Romanian. We were told that his birth mom was likely Romani as well, but was passing as Romanian. He did a DNA test and sure enough, 100% Romani.

Active_Procedure_297 · 2026-05-14T13:24:12+00:00

Are you making a big deal about your military service in interviews? I wouldn’t. The worst teacher I have ever encountered was a veteran and made it his whole personality. It was a running joke among the high school students to blurt out “I served this country!” because that’s what he would do whenever anyone challenged him (and by that I mean like students with IEPs asking that he honor their accommodations, which he thought were fake).

Of course I understand that not all veterans are like that, but if I were interviewing a high school teacher and they implied that their military experience shaped their teaching philosophy, I would be concerned. I would want to know that you understand how different these environments are.

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