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Hehe, well... I have a friend who loves to doodle in pen all the time, and she's a lovely artist, more in the classic style. She doesn't do it so much anymore, but you should see her eraser, her calcuator, the margins of her homework... When she's bored, she's REALLY bored. xd

I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with natural talent and an interest in that kinda thing. I'll see if I can get her to doodle something and post it up, but it might be a while until iI can get anything movable... stealing her calculator or eraser would be awkward for both of us. xd

When you're dual-enrolling and taking Calc 3 in college, being without a calculator is like heading to a gunfight with a pocketknife. xd

Um, it depends... my friends and I are kinda math-science nerds, if you know what I mean, and it's useful when you have tests. Of course, there are other people who carry around one of those fancy TI-92s or whatever, but personally that's just overkill for high school. sweatdrop

Yeah, Bio was evil... But I loved my crotchety old professor, she said stuff like this:

“Okay, class, take a look at these two glucose molecules on the screen. This is Mary Glucose, and this is Buddy Glucose. They meet in a dark alley somewhere and decide to get married. Mary says, “Okay, since for all relationships to work we have to both give up something. I’m going to give up a hydrogen atom from my OH bond.” So she gives it up, and then she says to Buddy, “Now you have to give up more than I do, since I have more invested in this relationship than you do.” So Buddy says, “All right, I’ll give up an OH ion.” Once this is done, they put the hydrogen and OH ion together in a little savings bond to make a H2O molecule. Mary takes her little oxygen atom—it’s a ring from one of her previous marriages—and Mary and Buddy Glucose are married. They now change their married name to Maltose (grain sugar), a disaccharide. This is called dehydration reaction.

“Now, as everyone knows, relationships that start out in dark alleys never last. Soon Mary and Buddy are fighting and Mary says, “This isn’t working. Let’s separate.” So she takes back her little ring, and then they take out the H2O molecule they put away earlier, and both parties take what they gave in the first place. Then Mary takes back her maiden name, so she’s a Glucose again. This divorce is called hydrolysis.”

And yeah, I got the staff. mrgreen Call me a freak, but I've been obsessed with Sun Wu'kong since I was a toddler. In fifth grade I went to China to visit my grandparents, and I fell in love with this animated character on the TV show. Honest. It was love. heart I still do, sorta, but nowadays falling in love with a monkey-type character makes me wonder what I was thinking. sweatdrop

EDIT: I've your hunndredth post! ^^ Random observation...

Well, our Bio teacher wasn't all that great in teaching us so many of us suffered, but she was cool enough. It's just it's so much info to take in, and I have to take it again in college anyway. Sigh... sweatdrop

Ooh, a blue TI-84? razz I like the TIs with prettyful cases, but alas I only have the ordinary black-cased TI-83, purchased for my Stats class. Now in calc our teacher wants us to use TI-86s or 89s, but they're not exactly cheap so I might have to rent one for the school year.

Oh, I just meant the 100th reply to your thread...you just check the forum to see. ^^ And calcuators are a pretty boring topic really, unless you're one of the math guys and you like your ego stroked: "Look at how many programs I've got on my calculator!" rolleyes