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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | Twice. I cut ties with one of my best friends from high school (if not -the- best -- she's the one who first pulled me out of my 14-year emotional shell) because of one thing she did to a mutual friend that offended me more completely than I thought possible. A few years later, I tried to track her down again (hoping she'd "grown up" a little, or a lot), but I have absolutely no idea how to find her. Her parents are divorced (and I don't know their names) and for all I know she could have moved to another country or gotten married on a whim. Losing touch with her, permanently, still hurts... a decade later. In the other instance... well, have you ever met someone who seemed to think the same way you did, who shared the same outlook on life, and with whom you could talk about anything... and then have all that suddenly change a few weeks later? Yeah. Like that. *** LISASHEA: I have tried every name-search engine (and a few general-purpose search engines), including phone listings... no go. I strongly suspect that she's (1) not online, (2) nowhere -close- to here, and (3) married... which would explain why someone with such an uncommon name (Terry[ann] Saint Amand) is still impossible to track down. Thanks for the attempted assist, though... | Have you ever cut ties with a close friend, life partner, or family member? Define "cutting ties" as a conscious decision on your part to avoid all contact with a person. |
| 42 | I cheer every time I hear that some college or another has stopped requesting SAT scores. I cheer even more loudly when one goes so far as to say "don't send SAT scores to us, we'll throw them away without looking at them." (Bowdoin College in Maine did this when I was in high school, I'm sure that others have done the same since then.) I don't think they're biased, I just don't think they provide any terribly useful information. | Standardized tests (like the SATs): |
| 43 | My father is an atheist. My mother... I don't think she even ponders the question much, really. | With which religion beliefs were you raised? |
| 44 | Organized religion doesn't do it for me. I sometimes sit circle with some of my Pagan friends (and it's a very comfortable setting), but I don't quite think I'd classify myself that way. I'm sort of going freestyle... :) | Which of the following statements best describes your religious beliefs? |
| 45 | ...extremely confused, because I have no musical talent whatsoever. :) But given a sudden influx of that, probably the Mars one. Though the zen garden idea is cool. :) | If you were the lead singer in a MTV video, you'd be: |
| 46 | Probably not -- so much of our society is based on machinery, now, that I have no idea how to fend for myself (in the literal sense). Certainly not unless I stayed very close to someone who could truthfully answer 'yes' to this question. I -wish- I could remember where I first heard this question. I'd like to give credit where it's due. *** BILL: -Thank- you, it was Burke. Dunno how the Clarke idea got into my head, there. :) | If the power went out tomorrow, and NEVER came back on, could you survive? (Feel free to elaborate.) |
| 47 | 2, 3, and 1 (in that chronological order). | Mankind should make this kind of investment in space-travel: |
| 48 | 1, 2, 4, and 6. I don't know how I'd rank any of them higher than another... I guess, if pressed, I'd go with the conscience one, but that's really only a part of it. | I do good instead of evil because... |
| 49 | Rarely. And when I do, it's generally something that's not very good for me at all (I had a bacon, egg, and cheese muffin this morning). Oh, geez... that grammar mistake on the last one is -so- embarrassing. Mea culpa. (Bill, we need a way for careless survey creators to fix boneheaded mistakes like that one. :) | How often do you eat breakfast? |
| 50 | Gardiner Area High School (Gardiner, Maine, USA) is a mediocre school system that doesn't know what to do with anyone who is not in the middle of the bell curve. As of 1989 (when I graduated), they had only one Honors class, no AP classes, and their handling of the learning diabled (such as my younger sister) left a great deal to be desired. I'm informed it has only gotten worse since the principal, one of the best people in the administration, retired. On the other hand, GAHS had a few -excellent- teachers scattered throughout the departments. One taught French, one taught Math, and one taught Writing and Literature classes (the fact that I dabble in creative writing to this day is a testament to that last one). elijahblue: Yeah, it's not hard to guess... :) One other clarification -- the "inadequacies" of your school system (if any) don't have to apply to you, personally. I'm just looking for problems that you noticed while you were there, areas where you think extra attention/emphasis would be most valuable to any or all students. | Which subject is most inadequately taught? |
