Constants vs. Ups and downs:

My Math teacher gave me a writing prompt. How dare she, right? Anyway, I was annoyed at the beginning, but when I started writing, I actually had fun and went way beyond the one paragraph that she asked for. Albeit nerdy sounding, I kind of liked what I came up with:

Recently I’ve tried to refinance my house, because interests went down. Unfortunately, along with interests, the value of the home went down as well. It was just four years ago that home prices were soaring. Buying 10 years ago and selling five or six years later would have given us a large profit just by sitting on the house. Also, I recently learned that my employer is not paying for my retirement anymore.

Engrish!!

I swear I'm not making fun of these guys. After all, I wrote like this or even worse when I moved here. It's just that, as an English teacher, I find it so fascinating!

Answer to an email asking about the stats of an item I bought on eBay:

As a rule, it will take 3-5 days to arrive.
Pls wait for more time with patient.
Pls feel free to contact us if there is anything we can assist.

Happy a nice day
Sibyl

The "Sibyl" just kills me.

Math Websites

I'm taking some Math classes for my future Math endorsement. That's right, 3 subjects is not good enough for me. My goal is to teach them all!! Anyway, this is a list of helpful websites I found and that I'd like to list somewhere so I have easy access to them. So, this is not for you, it's for me!

Cool graphic calculator thingy

Equation calculator

Crapload of Math utilities from USU. The grapher is pretty cool.