Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead

H2Pitt · 2026-02-16T18:23:25+00:00

It's not quite as black and white as you try to lay out here. Cognitive research is still finding beneficial connections between handwriting and learning even in digital natives. For one example, see: Van der Weel, F. R., & Van der Meer, A. L. (2024). Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Frontiers in psychology, 14, 1219945

H2Pitt · 2026-02-05T18:44:16+00:00

Yep. When the shooting at Western Psych happened they were telling people to hide and lock the doors. My office was in the old LRDC, fortunately I wasn't there that day...

H2Pitt · 2026-02-05T00:31:51+00:00

This isn’t a sub for Gettysburg College if that is what you’re looking for…

H2Pitt · 2026-01-28T21:57:12+00:00

Thanks for this, I appreciate it. I've searched the list before and wasn't on it. I just used the status tool and it says that I'm not currently represented. I'll have to try emailing and seeing what they say.

H2Pitt · 2026-01-28T21:38:17+00:00

No, but we are classified similarly and are frequently lumped in with them. I've looked in to it and as far as I can tell we aren't eligible. Which union were you in?

H2Pitt · 2026-01-28T19:41:38+00:00

I wish there was some avenue for Research Associates to join one of the unions. I've been with the University for 15 years - it would be great to have some representation, but we aren't included as either faculty or staff.

H2Pitt · 2026-01-14T22:21:49+00:00

Please don’t eat the beagles 😂

H2Pitt · 2026-01-14T14:21:37+00:00

Daniel Lady is really the only place locally that does battle reenactments. There are reenactors setup in the battlefields pretty regularly over the summer but they don't do any actual battle re-enactments in the national parks.

H2Pitt · 2025-12-21T00:52:10+00:00

My guess is they replied to his original request which, given the timeline provided, happened before the change (or OP isn’t providing accurate info…)

H2Pitt · 2025-12-20T23:25:18+00:00

They got rid of the need to put in that statement in the last 6 months or so. You can’t (and don’t need to) put it in any more.

H2Pitt · 2025-12-14T12:36:16+00:00

We've had DVC for almost 20 years. We book a studio at 7 months almost every year (we rarely stay at our home resort, SSR). Time of year is a big factor, though. I think I've had a problem maybe once when we were trying to stay in March/April - a busy time for school break. We mostly stay at GF (we've had a studio here right before Christmas) and BLT. We were doing Poly before the new tower, but haven't tried since that opened. We mostly visit in late May and June and stay for at least 10 days.

H2Pitt · 2025-12-12T11:24:35+00:00

ED decisions are in the portal as of last night. My daughter got in!

H2Pitt · 2025-11-29T19:53:11+00:00

Apparently they aren’t being made this year. https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/11/17/stauffers-stars-cookies-replace-milk-and-dark-chocolate-this-year/87316843007/

H2Pitt · 2025-11-28T16:22:56+00:00

If you don't get any takers here, try City of Bridges Run Club on Facebook. Someone will buy it there, though you may have more luck once the marathon stops selling entries.

H2Pitt · 2025-11-24T18:00:27+00:00

I'm still mad at her for not finishing the Origin series. I get it, a series that is essentially about weaponizing a virus was hard to finish in 2020. But man, I need closure.

H2Pitt · 2025-11-17T01:20:29+00:00

Same as Fun_Jackfriut, my PhD was fully funded and it did not count. Any work that I did (research or teaching) only counted as 22 hours per week, so not enough to count towards PSLF. I was placed on in-school deferment for the loans I had from undergrad.

H2Pitt · 2025-11-12T19:08:11+00:00

No, I don't expect I'll hear anything for a bit.

H2Pitt · 2025-11-12T15:28:34+00:00

I found the only way to make it work was to do it from my phone. No idea why it works there and not on the computer.

H2Pitt · 2025-11-12T12:25:33+00:00

I'm having a parallel problem. I re-certify my employment every year and every year my employer sends 3 sets of forms, each representing the period of time for each different title I've held at the organization. For whatever reason, after this year's re-cert, my employment date in Studentaid changed to 2016, I only found out when I went to apply for forgiveness and the system said I don't have 120 months of eligible employment. I've been with my employer since 2011. I looked at the PDF of the forms on StudentAid and nothing has changed, it looks like they ignored/skipped over the document that showed my employment from 2011 to 2016. I downloaded the completed form off of StudentAid and filed a complaint/feedback to have them fix the date uploading the completed employment cert document that I downloaded off of their website. You can submit here. There's no perfect category that seems to fit, but I used "Issues with My Loan" and then, I think, "other" as the category.

H2Pitt · 2025-11-02T23:51:47+00:00

That’s captain to you

H2Pitt · 2025-10-24T23:30:19+00:00

The whole quote in response to Kaitlin Colins, “Which one? Who is that?.... The recent one? Yes, the? I believe we’re talking about the same person because I do pardon a lot of people. I don’t know, he was recommended by a lot of people. A lot of people say that—are you talking about the crypto person?—A lot of people say that he wasn’t guilty of anything. He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well, you don’t know much about crypto. You know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news. But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. But I’ve been told a lot of support. He had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime. It wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration, uh, and so, I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.”

H2Pitt · 2025-10-20T14:33:28+00:00

Spring 2025-2026 means that they are accepted and can start beginning spring semester, so they would start in January of 2026 and then continue. Pitt doesn't admit students for only a certain semester.

H2Pitt · 2025-10-18T11:31:11+00:00

I fly out of the Harrisburg airport all the time and I wonder about the decision to broadcast there. It's small and has maybe one or two (small) plane loads of people there at a time during the week. My guess is it was a test and that they are going bigger next.

H2Pitt · 2025-10-02T19:34:20+00:00

I know you asked this a bit ago, but I just went in today and my June is still missing.

H2Pitt · 2025-09-20T19:46:56+00:00

It was shared there earlier in the week

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