Help with daughter!

Apperantly she has a good teacher, I told her to try to get a copy of her calc book, because she should know it pretty well when she needs a review or refresh. She said the teacher told them to save all the notes and problems that she has given them because they will be more useful than the book. I ask if the book has real world problems to solve and it seems it does, she went through several. And my daughter agrees that the teacher does a great job with her hand outs. Later, Mike

Gotta source for that?

Cheers, James Arthur

Too much school is wanker studies. Have her take up something useful, perhaps projects in one of the hands-on type of classes (wood, metal, automotive shop; graphics; electronics; chem; photography; art, ...). That's what I did in high school. Since we had modular scheduling, it left me with lots of free time which allowed me to learn how to offset print, learn video production, and play in the photography and electronics labs without getting credit. All those fun activities turned out to be invaluable in later life. Of course, those were the days that teachers had parties at their houses for students. In fact, if they have a wood or metal shop, that would provide her with skills that are useful for life.

It seems that your daughter might be somewhat technically minded. If she shows a modicum of interest in computers and electronics, I suggest that you and/or the school invest in a microcontroller (8051/PIC/BasicStamp/etc) development kit. If any of the school's instructors have any knowledge in that field, they and your daughter could get involved in a useful project that would give her a significant advantage in college. There are a few interesting development boards for the 8051 uP on Ebay that might help get her started

I know that some of you are going to flame me for suggesting 8051 technology, but it's still a very viable uP, and there are dozens of web sites devoted to it.

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It's not, ignoring inflation. It's up 5% for each of the past=20 couple of years (only +.4% YTD).

Old enough to have retired once. ;-)

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Tutor? There could be some significant money in that!

It may be too late timing wise, but if your state is like Ohio, with her grades, you can stick her in college for half or a full day for free credits and no tuition.

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If I had a daughter: Hiya, honey, welcome home, here is your work for the rest of the semester. It will make you worth something to the Chinese when they invade, or rather are invited at this rate. Here is the complete set of set of Parallax Stamp experiment kits and learning courses, plus GC++ or you can go volunteer at the hospital or nursing home.

Flipping burgers would probably cost her money these days.I did work my way through much of college flipping burgers, back then it was honorable work and good business traing, and we DID NOT have robots to make the cokes.

Seriously, I tutored one young sophomore using a BSII and a couple of servos, she wanted a gutter cleaning robot, because she was tired of it. She worked out the timing for 3 servos to climb the pipe, and thought it was more fun then horses.

A real internship doing scut work is desirable, or you WILL see the senior slump.

Steve

How is she at communications? Can she write decent English? Does she type? These are important adjuncts to any technical career. I did three years in engineering college before I learned to type in the Navy to send letters to my girlfriend at home. Of course, now with computers and keyboards, it's probably easier to develop those skills. Engineers and scientists have to be able to write reports and know the difference between to, too, and two; there, their, and they're to name a few problem areas that today's high schools seem to be unable to get across. Communications - - extremely important.

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High school and introductory college English, History, etc. classes can be pretty dry stuff. It's not until you get into the specialty classes that things get interesting. Steering her in the direction of those if they're available at the high school could be a good thing. If they aren't available... too bad!

Maybe she could sign up for some "industrial arts" or whatever they call it classes at either the high school or local community college.

Still... she has to be taking a foreign language, right? I'm surprised at how high the good colleges, including state colleges, have raised their standards about requiring 4 years of foreign languages etc.

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Why? Any reason to suspect impending mischief? I regularly had 1-2h breaks in high school. That was because our school switched to a course system similar to universities, there weren't classes in the old sense anymore. I did not get into mischief.

Don't think, ask her ;-)

Again, have a long chat with her about that, be open about your concerns. When I had breaks of similar length I and an few buddies would draw schematics, discuss electronics problems, occasionally brought our soldering irons (shhht, that was not allowed ...). Ok, so, yes, we did soup up a moped once and built a few rockets and stuff. But that was it, honest, really. Except when we blew up that tree stump and it flew a few feet into the air ...

One day we were able to cajole our physics teacher to allow us the use of the electronics experiment kits. We ended up saving the school a ton of money because we repaired all the broken modules while there, using a clandestinely smuggled-in soldering iron. The normal service on those at the manufacturer carried super-high boutique pricing so eventually they let us officially carry the solder iron.

I had to pay part of my tuition. Ok, my father wanted to pay it all but I felt that was not right. Nothing wrong with holding down a job while studying. Puts a bit of a damper on grades but to me the experience was much more valuable later than better grade would have been.

Hey gabjsmo0, Did you ever get that radio fixed, the one that was blowing those expensive $2 fuses. I think it was 1988 audiovox? Mike

Joerg, you probably didn't have a boyfriend that lived a mile from school. (not that there anything wrong with that)

Yea, she's a senior in high school and does know what she wants to do (be).

She already has said I'll just go to my boyfriends house or one of my girlfriends. And she knows my concern.

I have no problem with her working, in fact I wanted her to go for the summer session so she would have an easier time finding a good job. Get there before 30,000 other students. Mike

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I never had boyfriends :-)

But we did sometimes hang out with girls. I forgot the cutoff but from a certain grade or age we were allowed to leave the school premises during breaks, and we often did. Still, nothing bad happened. But I see your concerns here. One mile is a close call.

BTW there was a pub within five minutes walking and they'd happily pour us a cold one. Or two. This was not in the US though. Math after two cervezas mas grande is, ahem, enlightening.

Then she is way ahead of others. I know (well-mannered) college folks who still didn't have a clue in that respect. Blows my mind.

Yep, the old saying about the early bird. After they all have waltzed in it'll be slim pickens, unless she has skills that nearly all others don't. Like EMC, analog electronics and such ;-)

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Ever try to slow down a fully-loaded truck? Now imagine that Dubya was the last one to work on the vehicle. Inertia is a bitch.

Hoover (an engineer, BTW) was another clueless Republican WRT economics. FDR was the first guy to come anywhere near groking the boom and bust cycle that is inherent in Laissez-Faire.

Our current problems started with Reaganomics. Bush(41) famously called it "Voodoo Economics"

--until he got the job and promptly adopted it as his strategy.

What FDR realized was that the solution to jobs disappearing is to create NEW jobs and that the way to do that is to build and repair infrastructure.

Dontcha just love those "The Market is always right" guys who scoop up the short-term gains then want a gov't bailout when their business model flops? Let the market work. LET THE FAILURES FAIL. (It should have happened with the bankers. The Gov't should have bought them for what they were worth

--pennies.)

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Bad/sloppy habits would be a big concern of mine.

When I was in school, no one would serve high school students. College students, at least on-campus, were another matter entirely. ;-)

That's a good idea. If she can convince them that she lives there it's easier.

I landed a job as a technician for the EE department. If I hadn't lived in town I wouldn't have been considered.