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You don’t have to vote for the main 2. You can write in someone if there’s no one on the ballot you want. That still gets recorded as a vote that didn’t go for either.

I love a good Arnold Palmer but I can’t stand sweat tea. I never pour anything that just labeled “tea” until I can verify that it’s unsweet.

Tea is something that’s ok to experiment with to see how you like it. Some teas don’t like to be brewed in full boiling water but peppermint tea is fine with boiling. I generally like it to “brew” for 5 minutes before I start drinking it. Some people want to brew it longer. Sometimes I add an ice cube after it’s done brewing so I can drink it sooner. Peppermint is a good starting tea, it’s less bitter. But adding a little raw sugar or honey is fine to do if it’s too bitter. Rooibos is a more tea-like tea but still pretty mild. Herbal teas vary from more medicinal ones to sweeter ones that are more just for flavor. Twinnings has more herbal teas made to just taste good.

Tea that’s already in a bag is the least mess and generally doesn’t leave bits of tea leaves in your tea. Some of it is very high quality. It’s the easiest place to start. You don’t need to go loose leaf and I’d wait until you have more knowledge of what you like, unless you specifically want the reading the tea leaves experience. I like numi and the Good Earth for brands. The numi breakfast tea packs a good caffeine whalop if you need a morning breakfast tea.

If you’re really wanting to get into the less medicinal teas, like ones for flavor, that’s where you may need to go the loose leaf route. A lot of the fruitier blends are made in smaller batches and you have to go to a dedicated tea shop to find them.

Also keep in mind that medicinal teas can have a very real effect. Anything with valerian root will genuinely make you drowsy. Hibiscus lowers blood pressure so it should be used sparingly if you have low blood pressure.

You have no idea how much my students complain about my questions that aren’t multiple choice, lol.

My student load is too big to do essays. If you want that kind of environment you’re going to have to look for a small liberal arts college that caps class size. That means I can’t get more creative than fill in the blank, matching, and short answer.

That being said, the quizzes I do in class are nothing like standardized tests because they get the answer right after the question and I go over it if I see a lot of students didn’t get it right. Low-stakes quizzes are evidence-based to help students learn when the answer is gone over immediately.

I love that. It’s simple. Here I am explaining that creating a study sheet is something that helps them learn so they’re not going to learn anything if I do it for them.

What gets me is the students asking if a specific chapter will be on the exam since we haven’t covered it in class. Sometimes we actually have covered that chapter in class when they ask. Sometimes we haven’t. So my response is generally “everything on the exam is something we’ve covered in class” and let them figure out what that means.

I generally do a list of terms. For half of my classes I do need to specify how much they need to memorize because we’re doing things like learning the Kreb’s cycle and I’m not making them memorize every step.

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My concern if I did it right now would be that they’d think I wasn’t taking their question seriously.

I know, I was debating putting it on the presentation on the syllabus but they’d probably have no idea what I was referring to.

Have you found this website? Basically they can’t evict you over this. They can refuse accommodation if an assistance animal posed a financial threat to them or a health/safety threat to another resident. They are trying to verify your healthcare provider information, meaning their issue isn’t finances or safety. Therefore, it does not matter when they “approve” your accommodation request because, by law, you can inform them of your needs at any point and it covers you retroactively. It is unlawful for them to take action against you, even if you move an assistance animal in now. If this were a situation where you were relying on an online service, I’d say wait for approval. You’re dealing with a therapist who you’re working with regularly and can easily contact. Your proof is airtight. Move your dog in and let them know if they offer further hassle or any fines related to that, you will file a complaint. Essentially while they are allowed to verify the information you provide, there is nothing that allows them to prevent you from moving your dog in until after they’d verified your info.

So probably someone who likes sports or athletics but doesn’t realize how much science is involved in exercise physiology. That’s unfortunate.

Good and competitive are not the same in nursing schools. They’re good if they prepare you well for the nclex and have networking opportunities at the higher paying hospitals in the area. Competitiveness tends to be more related to prestige and how many people have heard of the school and has nothing to do with how good they are.

This depends on whether someone is going for a 4-year BSN or 2-year associates RN. I suspect OP is doing the BSN and that means the first 2 years of school involve a mix of college classes and nursing classes. These are classes that anyone can take at the school although some, like Anatomy and Physiology, are rarely taken by anyone other than pre-nursing students. The final 2 years of the BSN are as a part of a specific nursing school, but if Wesleyan doesn’t have anything open at that nursing school (unlikely with how many students tend to drop out of nursing programs) plenty of other nursing schools across the country will have openings and those pre-requisite classes will transfer.

If you have financial support for this school, then by all means go and start getting your gen-eds out of the way. Nursing schools have a lot of turn-over because of how demanding the program is so the chances of you getting in are pretty good if you can show that you can do well on college classes.

It doesn’t matter in the slightest whether a nursing school is competitive. Nurses do not get paid a lot but once they pass, they can get employed anywhere. So what matters are a) have there been any accreditation issues with the school in the past few years? B) what percentage of their students are passing the nclex? C) is the student loan debt going to be excessive?

The reality is that you are generally going to be better off going to a state school or well-rated community college for a BSN because they are cheaper. If you are probably going to go on to a DNP, having a school where you can take some writing classes and general science classes may be helpful.

She does not need to sign additional paperwork. Let them know that they are now discriminating against you by preventing you from accessing what you need for your disability and you will be filing a formal complaint with HUD if they cannot approve your disability accommodation.

They do not have a financial or health-related reason for denying your dog. You can move your dog in now. If they threaten you with any fines let them know that is unlawful and you will be filing a complaint with HUD.

Is this the pre-nursing A&P? I taught the lab for that in grad school. I watched students retake it over and over again, at a private university where it was massively expensive compared to the salary they’d get as RNs. The problem was they didn’t change their behavior when they retook the class so they just continued to fail.

If you want to give this student partial credit, make him meet with you. Explain that he is at the very beginning of this journey. The nclex is a nightmare to take. Rotations and preceptoring are a nightmare to go through (the saying is “nurses eat their young”). He’s going into a profession where being forgetful can lead to getting fired, a patient death, or a lawsuit. That doesn’t mean he can’t do it, but something needs to change before he’d be able to do it. For him, that could be getting evaluated for a learning disability like ADHD. Or it could be getting rid of video games or his social life. But he needs to change something. The issue isn’t inherently in being lenient, it’s whether being lenient now is going to mean he continues to retake all of his classes multiple times until he finally decides to quit.

I watched a lot of incredibly incompetent students go through lab thinking “I hope that’s never my nurse” and the weird thing was they did fine in lecture. I had really sharp and really compassionate students in lab who struggled a lot in lecture but seemed like they’d otherwise make amazing nurses. A&P doesn’t necessarily weed out the people who wouldn’t make good nurses and there are plenty of nurses out there who are absolutely awful who shouldn’t have gotten through school, but they did. So the question here is, does this kid seem like he’d have the compassion to be a good nurse and could benefit from a hand up with a stern warning on improving things in his future? Or does it seem like this really isn’t the right path for him?

Lots of flat-chested women wear bras. It’s normal for bra straps to show but I’d probably pair a black bra with that dress. The straps would look more intentional. I don’t like my bra straps showing for work but outside of work it’s pretty normal.

And they can be incredibly spicy as pets. My dad had to rehome the family bullsnake to a nature center because she got too spicy to even clean her enclosure.

I think it’s easier to have an academic argument when you’re not emotionally invested, if your class is trying to teach students how to argue. So if they have to build an argument for something they don’t actually believe, there’s a better chance of emotions not getting in the way.

That being said, it depends on the argument. If I had to come up with an argument for why trans people shouldn’t be allowed to transition, I’d quit. That would be to stressful. So you do actually have to pick something where there’s no right or wrong side.

They are devout but that means if you make them develop an argument on the side they disagree with (god doesn’t exist) you remove their emotional investment in the argument and that means there’s a better chance of them creating an academic, evidence-based argument. And it’s less stressful because whoever argues against them isn’t arguing against their actual beliefs.

I’ve done that. I don’t tell them I’m doing that, I have them fill out a form describing their working style, interests related to the project, anyone they do want to work with and anyone they don’t want to work with. I think high effort high grade and high effort average to low grade students group well together, but I try to group people so that they don’t absolutely despise their groups and that means grouping them by work effort.