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8. Do you look back on your school days with fondness? What was your favorite subject to learn?
I really didn't think too much in terms of favorite subjects when I was in grade school and high school. Maybe it was math, because it felt like I was accomplishing something. I could add and subtract before I started school, but I liked solving problems even in first grade. Yes, geometry class in high school was more than a little boring, but doing the proofs on my own was more fun, thinking back on it. If you'd asked me back when, I might have said science class, but honestly my science teachers were a motley lot, and except for chemistry and physics in high school, I didn't learn much new in science classes, and also my Advanced Chemistry class teacher actually could not correctly pronounce such important words in chemistry as formula, oxygen, and chlorine. We knew what he was trying to say, and we never laughed at his speech when he was around.
In college, no question about it, Russian language classes with my favorite professor were easily my favorite. I eventually went to grad school in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and taught Russian at Ohio State during my time there.
9. What time do you usually get up and go to bed each day?
My cat has decided that I should get up at about 6:00. I'm getting old so I go to bed about 9:00 these days.
10. Are you impulsive, or do you take time to make decisions?
It depends. On major purchases I mostly take my time. Go this place or that? Buy this book or not? Have something simple or fancy for dinner? On those kinds of things, I'm impulsive.
shadowkat8. Do you look back on your school days with fondness? What was your favorite subject to learn?
I really didn't think too much in terms of favorite subjects when I was in grade school and high school. Maybe it was math, because it felt like I was accomplishing something. I could add and subtract before I started school, but I liked solving problems even in first grade. Yes, geometry class in high school was more than a little boring, but doing the proofs on my own was more fun, thinking back on it. If you'd asked me back when, I might have said science class, but honestly my science teachers were a motley lot, and except for chemistry and physics in high school, I didn't learn much new in science classes, and also my Advanced Chemistry class teacher actually could not correctly pronounce such important words in chemistry as formula, oxygen, and chlorine. We knew what he was trying to say, and we never laughed at his speech when he was around.
In college, no question about it, Russian language classes with my favorite professor were easily my favorite. I eventually went to grad school in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and taught Russian at Ohio State during my time there.
9. What time do you usually get up and go to bed each day?
My cat has decided that I should get up at about 6:00. I'm getting old so I go to bed about 9:00 these days.
10. Are you impulsive, or do you take time to make decisions?
It depends. On major purchases I mostly take my time. Go this place or that? Buy this book or not? Have something simple or fancy for dinner? On those kinds of things, I'm impulsive.
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