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I just finished taking Speech and Hearing Science at ENMU with Dr. Varun Ganapathy. People seemed to find my Anatomy review helpful, so I'm just documenting each of my experiences. I took the 8-week course. I loved this class.

Dr. Ganapathy is great. The class had clear expectations, it was easy to follow, the structure made sense, and it wasn't too difficult. I've heard not to take Anatomy from him, but this class was awesome. If you want to do really well, here's my advice.

1. Listen to the lectures in chunks. He has a very soothing voice, and the lectures are long, usually around an hour and a half. He's a great teacher, but you will get sleepy and distracted. There are obvious section breaks in each lecture, so use those opportunities to take a break, go for a walk, get a snack, play a video game, etc.
2. Don't be scared of the quizzes. They're open note, open book, untimed, and not proctored. You can't backtrack, though, and you only get one attempt. Most questions are exact quotes from the lecture or textbook, which is available online. I often just used Ctrl+F in the PowerPoints and found the answer there. If it wasn't there, it was usually in the textbook. Even the final was basically a big quiz with the same format.
3. Do the extra credit. You're bound to miss some points on the quizzes because some of the questions are worded kind of weird. The extra credit is easy and takes 10 minutes at most. I didn't even get all of them right, but it bumped my grade about 5% overall.
4. Follow the templates exactly. To make grading easier, he expects a specific template for discussions, exercises, and extra credit. His instructions are so clear that it's practically fill-in-the-blank. Just follow the template and you'll be fine.
5. Turn everything in on time. He allows late work for up to a day, which is pretty generous, but you get 5 points at the end of the class if you turn everything in on time. It's an easy 5 points, so don't throw them away.
6. Don't stress too much about taking notes. He teaches in a way where you genuinely learn a lot just from listening to him. You should still write down things that seem important, but I wouldn't try to transcribe the lectures.

Again, I loved this class. I got a 97%, and you would have to work pretty hard to fail this class. He has clear expectations, reasonable assignments, and honestly, taking the quizzes was part of the learning experience. I would highly recommend taking this class with him.

He doesn't release the whole class at the beginning, probably because I could finish this class in two weeks if he did.

Good luck!

I just finished taking Communication Development and Language Science online at Eastern New Mexico University. I did a post about Anatomy and Physiology previously, and people seemed to find it helpful. So here I am documenting this class so others can understand what they're getting into. I took the 8-week course with Dr. Evelyn.

The class itself isn't extremely hard, but it wasn't very fun. For me, the hardest part was the discussion posts. The tests are relatively easy, and the other assignments weren't too difficult. There are definitely some pros and cons to this class. If you want an A, here's my advice.

1. Print the PowerPoints instead of the guided notes. The guided notes are kind of all over the place, and she doesn't release them early. I normally like to print and spiral-bind my notes at the beginning of the class, but that wasn't possible this time. By the end, I had 15 separate packets of notes that I was scrambling through. I would just print the PowerPoint slides and take notes on those.
2. Be prepared for the material to feel disorganized. You generally move across the lifespan throughout the course, but there are so many different age ranges that it can be hard to keep track of where you are. It may be the textbook's fault, but I thought the course could have been structured better.
3. Get access to the current textbook. The textbook is NOT available in the online library. There is a hard copy on reserve at the physical library, but that's not very useful for most online students. I eventually used Pearson+ to get the online textbook. You need it for the discussion posts because she wants you to cite the book for basically everything. If you can get a current hard copy, I would.
4. Go to her office hours for the discussion posts. You may think you're doing well enough to get a good score, but it can be graded quite harshly. Make a rough draft, meet her in office hours and get her opinion. I felt like I was writing in circles because of how the prompts are worded.
5. Pay attention to what she says about the tests. The tests are proctored and you can't have other tabs open. The syllabus says they are closed book, but she said in a lecture that they're open book. This is probably because most students have the online textbook. The tests are also open note, and two of them have essay questions.
6. Prepare for the essay questions to be complicated. The questions have a lot of dimensions to them. For example, you may have to explain form, content, and use across three periods of language development and two different theories. She tells you the question during the previous lecture, which is nice, but the actual wording can be overwhelming. The essays also require citations, which is another reason I recommend having a physical textbook.
7. Don't rely on the lectures to tell you exactly what to write down. She goes pretty fast and reads from a script that feels like a very dense summary of the textbook. She'll mention something for two seconds that you need to write down and that will show up on the test. I found it difficult to tell what was actually important.
8. Take advantage of the dropped grades. There are 5 discussion posts, 4 tests (including the final), and some miscellaneous assignments. She drops your lowest discussion post and lowest test, but not the final. Tests are 50% of your grade and discussions are 30%, so you definitely want to do well on those. I thought the dropping policy was very generous, and she won't give extensions because of it.

This was my experience. It wasn't necessarily hard, and some people really like her. She's a woman who stands her ground, and I respect that. I do wonder if the class would have been different if I had taken it from Shannon Salley.

Good luck!

Hi all.

I have a Lord of the Rings set cube. I love it so much, and I play with it all the time. One thing that drives me crazy about the Hobbit set is that there are only 5 archetypes. I want to make a hobbit cube, but I want there to be 5 architypes. My question is, if you were forced to go unsupported colors in the hobbit, what would you do? Or should I just add some hobbit cards to the LTR set cube? Is this just a lost cause and I should just move on?

Here are my ideas for the unsupported colors:

Dimir: There seems to be a small mill/discard strategy with some threshold synergy. (Most Decrepit Old Bird; Down, Down to Goblin-Town; Master's Councillors; The Master of Lake-town)

Gruul: Bears and Dragons. Classic big stompy-stompy. Bears can be mono green and dragons can be mono red? (Getaway Barrel, Gloin the Mighty, Dancing from Dark to Dawn, Beorn the Fierce, Smaug the Magnificent)

Selesnya: No idea.

Orzhov: Maybe a tokens deck similar to LTR? (The Sackville-Bagginses, Gollum the Abandoned, Lake-town Lookout, Belladonna Took)

Izzet: Wizards Spellslinging. This one seems the most clear to me. (Wizard's Staff; Gandalf, Goblins' Bane; Bilbo Baggins, Burglar; Bilbo, Thief in the Night, Smaug's Fury)

Regardless, I'd want to add Beorn the Fierce, Gandalf, Goblins' Bane, Wizards Staff, Thranduil and Elven King to my LTR set cube.

I've been going to the gym to get into better shape. I'm a 30-year-old gay man who lives in a conservative area. I've been the kind of guy who puts himself out there and meet new people. I'm still single and I'm really good at striking up conversations with strangers. While I've had multiple gym crushes over the course of my fitness journey, one guy really started to stand out. He's smart, handsome, and kind.

My first interaction with him was a small comment about a workout he was doing. I mentioned that it was impressive. I had other gym crushes that were on the top of my list during this interaction. So, no limerence yet. But I started to like him more and a few weeks later, I started handing out energy drinks to new people I met at the gym - just to make new friends. I walked up to him, asked if he liked energy drinks, offered him one, he took it and we introduced ourselves.

I would say hi every so often, sometimes I would "forget" to say hi. But one time, he came up to me to chat on Mother's Day. I asked if he was visiting family. He said he's from out of town, so he'll be staying here. That's when I found out more about him and got to know him better.

He goes to a medical-type school. I got my degree in linguistics. I had been thinking about getting my Master's in Speech Pathology. But I thought maybe if I go to school there, I might see him? So I'm taking some prerequisites online and I won't go to that school until next year. So basically, I'm inserting myself in my version of Legally Blonde.

After that I took some advice from a friend and they said just to ask him out. Now, he's from a very rural part of the country. Even if he was gay, I doubt he would be open about it. So I summoned every ounce of courage from my being and walked up to him and asked if he wanted to hang out some time. He was nice, but he said, "I would, I'm just really busy." Instant regret. Many of my gym crushes turned into good friends, but now I just ruined it with my favorite. I played it cool and left him alone.

A week later, I waved, he waved back. I said hi another time, he said hi back. Then I didn't see him for about 3 weeks. He was with his friend from school and I went to say hi. Met his friend, introduced myself, made a funny joke, but I just felt like they were kind of standoffish. I took the hint and wrapped up the conversation then left.

Since then, I've crossed paths with him, but haven't spoken to him. I'm trying to give him space. But it's driving me crazy. I'm sociable, and I love talking to him. I'm just worried that I'm being too much or that I'm embarrassing him.

There's a lot more to the story, but that's the basic gist. I feel like going no contact has made me more obsessed. My thoughts go in two directions. 1) He's just not into you. 2) He's not out of the closet yet.

Anyway. Let me know if you'd had a similar experience or if you have any words of comfort.

I just finished taking Anatomy and Physiology online at Eastern New Mexico University. I found it hard to find solid information about how this class was. So here I am documenting it so others can understand what they're getting into. I took the 8-week course.

The class itself is fine. For the first two weeks, you're given some time to adjust. But once you get to the respiratory system, it's at least one or two time-consuming projects each week. I would not recommend taking the 8-week course with another course. At first, the projects were fun, but at the end, I was very sick of them. I got a B in the class by the skin of my teeth. But if you want an A, here is my advice.

1. Print out the outlines. You may want to reformat them because they page break at weird places. I got all of mine spiral bound with a cover. It made it really easy to study and look up information. I wish I looked at what was on the study guides so that I could highlight or star it when we learned it. Page breaks may give you the extra note space if you need it.

2. Follow along in the lectures with the textbook. Sometimes things are skipped or lightly mentioned but need to be filled out. The lecturer is basically going through the textbook. You may need to pause and play multiple times to catch everything that's important.

3. Sometimes the lecturer will mention things twice or phrase it, "If someone were to ask you.... you would say..." That's definitely on the test. Assume everything in the quizzes is on the test. This is your chance to highlight things in your notes since quizzes are not proctored.

4. The hardest part of memorization is the muscles. In the textbook there are yellow boxes that describe every muscle with the same rubric. I would make a flash card out of every one of those. I would include the name, what it does, how it's innervated, and a picture.

5. With the projects, check and double check the assignment description AND the rubric. I got docked 10 points (1/3 of the grade) because I didn't talk about cultural or financial issues with my dysphagia modification. They grade them quite harshly. I would even set up office hours to make sure you get them right. This was the bulk of my points that got me from a C to a B.

6. Do the extra credit. Sometimes the lecturer will mention extra credit in the lecture itself. I assumed that it was for a different class because the lecturer wasn't my professor. I was wrong. There's 30 points worth of extra credit. That's more than some of the projects.

7. Be careful with those quizzes. It takes the average of your two scores. It will only show you questions you got wrong on the second try. But some questions have dropdown menus for 6 things. If you change your answer and it's worse, it will lower your score.

8. Don't procrastinate the final project. I know it's hard to do multiple projects at once. But I spent two days straight trying to pull it together.

9. Quizzes are open book, but tests are closed book and they are proctored. Only half of the final allows a 3x5 note card. Even with the note card, I got a C on my final exam. Learn those cranial nerves like your life depends on it.

This was my experience. I learned a lot, and it was cheap. However, I wish I just took anatomy from my local university instead. Anyway, I wish you all luck, and screw that larynx model assignment!

I'm taking the leveling courses at ENMU. I'm taking 300 right now with Dr. Bratcher, and it's been good so far. I'm trying to take the hardest classes first while my motivation is still high.

Has anyone taken these classes? Which teachers were good/bad? How would you rate the difficulty of these classes? Proctored tests? Busy work? I've bolded the instructor that I'm leaning towards. Any help would be appreciated.

CDIS 301 - Suzanne Swift, Traci Valletta

CDIS 330 - Priyanka Shailat, Seana Evelyn, Shannon Salley

CDIS 400 - Dwayne Wilkerson, Varun Ganapathy

CDIS 434 - Rachel Lignau, Hilary Wisdom, Onyinyechi Ukaegbe

I’m trying to find a correct or official translation of the phrase “Today is a good day to die, but it is a better day to live.”

So far, I’ve found “Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam, ach QaQroS yIn jaj.”

I know the first part is correct, but the second part is harder to confirm. Let me know if it’s correct or if there’s a resource that has this phrase.

Thanks!

I’ve heard there’s a discord of people doing SLP and SLP leveling. I think there’s a rule against posting discord links, so a DM would be great.

I’ve been a fan of archipelago randomizer and one of my favorite video games growing up was built on Unreal Engine 2 back in 2003. Does anyone know if unreal engine 2 is easily randomized? The internet isn’t being very helpful. The game I’m thinking of is Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds