“In an alluvial area of 1000 acres the water level drops 5 ft. Assume the porosity is 0.30 and the specific retention is 0.10. Compute the specific yield and change in storage in acre feet.”
Well, what if I DON’T WANT TO?
Then you should have chosen a different major.
I love geology, I just don’t feel like doing my homework right now.
It’s 1:10AM on a Sunday morning where you are. You shouldn’t be doing homework, anyway.
Dear lord, you’re right. Goodnight.
Jeeze, I drove another one away.
Dammit Drop!
You’re running them off!
Stop it!
(from another one doing her homework… just that mine’s a paper on the history of sushi.)
Boy, that would go back a long time! I mean, before cooking and EVERYTHING!
A long time ago, there were the Japanese, they couldn’t figure out the fork, so they had to come up with another way to eat their rice. When they tried to eat it with their fingers, it was sticky, and kept getting rolled up into little balls in their hands. One day, a fisherman, trying to pick up some seaweed (They will try eating anything you know.) couldn’t, cause it was wet and slimy, so he used some of the only glue he knew of…rice. The rice stuck to the seaweed and he ate them both, discovering that now the rice stuck to the seaweed and not his fingers. So he started eating the ricerolled up into little balls wrapped in seaweed. This caught on. Then, someone tried to add some actual flavor to the food, and it tasted a little better. So the Japanese started trying all sorts of things with the rice and seaweed balls, some were successes: cucumber, raw tuna; others were not: Iron shavings, pine needles, and still others caused temporary setbacks: Pufferfish. Still, they had their seaweed and rice, and a little taste added to it, but it still was lacking. Then one day a Californian had the after smoking “munchies” and thanks to his mystic fungus lunch, actually tried to make sushi, even though he only thought he could speak japanese at the time, cause he had the gift of tongues or something. He sat down and in a fit of genius, added crab and avacado to the mixture, and thus…the ‘Yuppie’ lunch was born for only $3.50 a piece.
At least that is how I understand the history to be. 
Follow my plan to homework success. It’s only two steps.
- Don’t do it.
- Get really rippin drunk.
Easy as pie!
Fuck homework.
–Tim
My sentiments exactly. There’s too much shit going on with me right now that homework isn’t even on my list of priorities.
You know, these questions always seem easier in metric. Of course, I’m limited by only having a rudimentary knowledge of these terms “feet” and “acre”.
Good luck, and try to do what I do. Pull out your homework at 10pm Sunday night. I find the adrenaline gives me an edge.
Narile, as much as you made me laugh about your “history” of sushi…
This will fill in other gaping holes in your story: History of Sushi
Real-world solution: Tell the lackey that took all the measurements to figure it for you.
I always come up with easier ways to answer the application questions in PreCal. 
Don’t sweat it, GeoBabe, you haven’t mistaken your major or your choices. I sweated/bumbled through 3 university degrees and still shake my head over 1. the stuff I’ve completely forgotten and 2. the stuff I’ve retained.
Sleep starvation, stress (and physical starvation, if you did it like I did) take their toll. The academic grind, taken seriously, is the mental equivalent of SEALS training. It’ll stretch ya until ya aren’t sure if you really asked to be stretched.
You’re doin’ fine, honestly. I’ve read old essays I don’t even remember writing, much less the content. But somehow the knowledge got encoded in the synapses. Just ride out the process, and damned if useful content won’t bubble up out of the mental ooze when needed.
But remember to sleep, and build in downtime.
Worried about you,
Veb
Veb, honey, no need to worry. I was just having what I like to call a kindergarten moment. You know, “But I don’ WANNA! Waaaahhhhh!” I just have to whine periodically; I do this for about 5 minutes and then I’m fine. But thanks for being concerned; it’s nice to know somebody cares!
{{{Veb}}}
Da nada, shapoopsie.
Just glad to know know you’re hangin’ in. The kindergarten moments are assumed. I went for the full primal scream, fetal-curl, previous-life-Shirley-McClain technicolor raving insanity. (Supply your own obscenities, but the Process rarely seemed to justify the Bullshit.)
Academics, military, corporate or whatever…I’m glad the deconstruct/reconstruct rigors aren’t getting you down.
Addled, but remembers,
Veb
Java, So sushi got its start as Salt Cod…at least it didn’t start out as Lukfisk.
While we’re on the subject, anyone care to prove why the determinant of an orthogonal matrix is always 1 or -1? Anyone? Look, I don’t see why I should have to do this sort of shit for myself. Damn homework.
Oh, very funny, trying to get ME to do YOUR homework; like I don’t have enough of my own! Shame on you! May a thousand word problems infest your brain!
Bad, bad poster! Go over to the wall to get your fifty lashings!