My Education Experience

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Melfi Prays

Most of my classes started off with a prayer. It's a Catholic high school, after all. There was the call and response four-lines of a prayer to St. John Baptist De La Salle, the founder of the Order that ran my high school, the De La Salle Brothers. Some teachers would pray extemporaneously. Then... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Burning the Beads

As I mentioned, Mr. Melfi was Dad's Intro to Physical Chemistry teacher during Dad's freshman year at our high school. Mr. Melfi would call dad "Fat man." Dad was and still is fat. I wouldn't say Mr. Melfi was a mean guy. He meant nothing by it. It was a nickname for Dad he came up with and ran with... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 21, 2022

IPC

Intro to Physics and Chemisty (IPC as we would call it) was a new course at my high school. Kids before me took environmental science for freshman year followed by biology for sophomore year. My class started off with biology, then IPC. IPC was created because many kids struggled later with... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

ID's

In high school, we were required to have our ID's on us. If you get detention, you had to give your ID card to the person who gave it to you. Then you would get it back after you served your detention time. Some times didn't carry their ID's, and when they got detention, they received more for not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 14, 2022

A Bit of a Dud

I ended Algebra II with Mr. Hanks with me earning a B. Even so, I felt I could've gotten myself into the B+ range. First off, I think of the learning curve. Algebra II at my school was just a redux of Algebra I. I should've known better. I didn't take my studies seriously. I could pull of a B... Sign in to see full entry.

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