Shana

I'm almost done with my lab, but there's an extra credit problem I desperately need to do. The professor said it's very easy but I'm not fully understanding what's going on. Since it's extra credit, she looked at my calculations and said "try again."

I was given a current and the volts for four different lights. I need to calculate the resistance values using ohm's law. I solved for R=V/I for each light, hoping that was it. Apparently not. The values she gave us were /voltage drops/. This is a circuitry class, and it's been a while since I've studied electricity, so I'm not fully comprehending the concept here.

I changed the numbers a bit, let's say you were given this:

Light 1 Vf = 2.5V @ 15 mA.

Light 1 is the light in your combonational circuit, what resistor value would you need to add so that A)The light turns on and B)The light doesn't explode? How do you go about solving for the other three lights of the same current but different volts?

I'm applying for two scholarships that both ask the same thing: include one teacher recommendation and one personal recommendation. I have two teachers' rec letters from earlier scholarships that simply asked for teacher recommendation letters. These letters were from my computer science teacher (who I worked with for our school's robotics competition) and my French teacher (who I fundraised and went on a trip to France with). The scholarship requested one STEM teacher and one personal reference such as a sports coach or an employer (someone that knows you outside of school). I'm not currently involved in any activities except for robotics with my teacher, and my past employer may not be capable of writing an honest letter for me (we don't know each other very well, I got the job through my father). I asked my parents if they thought it would be okay to ask my French teacher to write a rec focusing on my work for the fundraisers and international trip instead my work in class, and they said no. Should I ask my father to have his boss write me a rec letter (I only work in the summer) or can I ask my french teacher for a personal reference (I go to a small school so I know her very well, I'm just concerned that the scholarship committee might not accept that) ?

I'm a high school senoir who is struggling in English 4 CP. It's a graduation requirement and is the lowest level English class available. At the moment, I have a two part project on the theme "carpe diem" (we need to do something good, write two pages on our experience, and make a poster for a presentation on it) due later this week, I have to read 30 pages from the text book and answer 8 in depth questions on it due tomorrow, and a 3-5 page research paper on hamlet that is past due. I was also supposed to write a poem, but it was to difficult so I took the zero and decided to work on my other assignments.

We're reading a lot of old stories and poems in class and they're far beyond my comprehension level. Another girl in my class even told the teacher that the work is too hard for us, but she practically ignored her. I feel like I'm falling behind in class (I have too many missing assignments) and my teacher isn't doing anything to help. My teacher is actually a very nice woman, but she doesn't know how to teach. We barely do anything in class but she assigns us so much work. Additionally, my parents refuse to help me or talk to my teacher because they're too stressed at work.

Again, although a horrible teacher, she is a very nice person. I tried asking her for help after class TWICE but both times she did almost nothing. She had another class after mine, so she basically reread the directions to me like I'm an idiot and then rushed me to my next class. My mother wants me to stay late after school to get real help but I don't know what to do. I have a lot of problems talking to teachers and lately I've felt like asking her anything makes the work even harder if that is at all possible. Talking has always been a large problem for me and I have no idea how to approach her.

I'm not stupid, I know she won't yell at me or anything if I talk to her. I'm just very stressed out by her class and don't know what to do. I can't understand why my honors pre calc, honors French, and ap computer science classes are so much easier than my little cp English class. I don't know how to write her research papers or poems, the epics she makes us read are so full of fluff that I can't understand what the story/plot is, and the textbook questions asks for us to make such out-there connections that are far beyond my level. I don't know how to ask her for help without sounding either like I don't want to do any work or just want to accuse her of being a terrible teacher.

If I do stay late, what do I even say? How do I approach her and ask for extra help?

I'm a high school senior and I'm looking for a laptop for when I go away to school to study Computer Engineering. I've been looking around a lot, and I'm really interested in one laptop that's a bit over my budget. It's specs are just lightyears ahead of what's currently on the desktop I use everyday, and being the tightwad I am I want to make sure my money is used for the correct laptop. It's a refurbished laptop from bestbuy which is making my father nervous (he wants me to get a brand new laptop for my money), but we brought an open-box laptop there before and it works great. I rather skimp on my budget than spend four years in college with a $1500 laptop and no food or clothes.

The laptop is $899, has a 3rd gen i7 (would've preferred 4th gen, but I'll take what I can get), 1T HDD plus a 8GB SSD, 12GB RAM, 2GB NVidia GPU, and a 1080p touchscreen.

As a CompEng student, I'm not sure how much of the software would be required on my PC (there's no Laptop requirement at these schools, I just want what I want), but I'm sure it'll be minimal. I definitely have to have minecraft on there, and Sims 4 whenever it comes out. I'm not a big gamer, I just need something to mess around with during my free time. I'm a huge multitasker, and my current Desktop HATES that. I'll have Chrome open with 10 tabs, at least 3 windows word docs open, a drawing program, and notepad++ open at all times.

The thing is, I need a laptop that would last me AT LEAST 5 years. Will this overpowered beast keep up with the times (it's already a million times more current than my desktop), or will downgrading to something closer to my original budget of $750 be better? Alternatively, for the same price I can get a BRAND NEW convertible Ultrabook of the same brand with a 4th gen i5, 500GB HDD (no SSD), 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics, 1 inch shorter 1080p touchscreen, and it weights a pound and a half less. Or even, I could start my search all over again and see if other brands come closer to $750, but wow is that i7 pretty or what

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I'm 17 years old and had problems regarding food for as far as I can remember. When I was younger (around 4-8) my parents took me to a psychologist because they thought I was anorexic, but this turned out not to be the case. I had a very limited diet (I still do), complain about a lot of smells and textures, and get upset regarding food. My father would frequently refer to it as "an aversion to food," so I accepted that as my "eating disorder" and tried to do what I could. This isn't a real disorder as I later found out. As I got older, I placed the blame more on my throat. I can't do the x-rays at the dentist or the strep test at the doctor's office, and mommy said that's because I have a bad gagging reflex. Up until very very recently, that has been my "accepted disorder." Mommy took me to a nose/throat doctor a few months ago to get everything checked out, but there was no visible problem. The idiot of a doctor prescribed me stomach medicine that I never took and that was the last and first time I sought out help for my throat.

I have a lot of trouble with my throat. I cough I lot. I have troubling swallowing. I don't like things in my mouth. I gag too much. I choke terribly a lot when I cry. I've been trying to get over this the best I can, but it's difficult to do without both medical and parental support. After my father yelled at me when I couldn't take a pill when I was sick, it occurred to me that my problem may not be 100% physical. I do acknowledge part of what makes me gag so much before taking pills is my apprehension knowing that I will choke and possibly suffocate on it. These pills are no larger than a mini-m&m, but I still could not swallow them.

Recently I came across a beautiful word that gave me hope for the first time in 17 years: phagophobia, fear of swallowing. After years and years of fighting with New Jersey's //TERRIBLE// health care system, I finally had the smallest glimpse of what may finally allow me happiness. Aside from this phobia, I also have Social Anxiety, Depression, and ADD. Physically, I was diagnosed with minor Scoliosis when I was very young, and suffer from chronic head aches and muscle aches. The aches are likely due to my poor diet, but my diet is only so limited because of my gagging problem. My goal is to be happy, and before I can be happy I need to be healthy, and to be healthy I need to eat well and exercise, and before I can do that I need a proper diet, and I cannot have a proper diet if I only eat such a tiny selection of food (that is very low in protein and several vitamins-- and taking multivitamins isn't an option I until I can swallow pills).

Even without the help of my uneducated pediatrician, I feel like I finally got closer to the base of the problem. Now I need to know where to go from here. I don't feel like this is something I can overcome on my own; I would really prefer the help of a professional. But where do I find that? I cannot stress enough how terrible our health care system is and what an idiot my pediatrician is (he's the only general doctor I can see under my family's medical plan). I'm worried that I may have to go to Children's Special Hospital for this. I went there when I was was very young (around 4) for speech therapy and I went there again when I was 15 because of my worsening depression. This is the only public children's hospital in New Jersey and the waiting list for an appointment is between 1 and 2 years long. Will they even be willing to help me when I'm 19 (I think they only treat kids 18 and under)? Is there anywhere else I could find help? A local hospital, my school, referral from my moronic pediatrician? Who would I even ask about this? Where will I go? Can a possibly get help before my senior year of high school is over (June 2014)?

I'm just upset and need direction. I feel like I got so much closer to finally being happy, yet at the same time I feel so far away from ever getting better. I don't want to live the next 70 years is such terrible pain and mental torment, like I have been. I'm trying so incredibly hard to go to a good school and study Engineering, but everything feels useless considering all that I go through. Sorry for writing out an entire life story, I become very verbose when I'm upset. I appreciate your help, thank you for reading.

I have two in-state schools I was considering applying to this year (I'm a rising high school senior). I plan to apply early decision to my first choice school for Computer Engineering, and my "safety" option is reapplying to that school regularly and applying to the second instate school for Computer Engineering as well.

The first school has a 46% acceptance rate, and the other is 57%. However, Engineering has some of the most competitive programs at these schools. I feel like both schools are more like reach schools, but I've been struggling a lot to find decent safety schools.

I plan to retake the SATs in October because my current scores (1630 composite; 590CR, 560M, 480W) are terrible for most competitive schools. My current GPA(all unweighted) is 3.89, it was 3.9 yr9, 3.7 yr10, and 3.8 yr11. My school has a terrible curriculum so I was only allowed to start Honors level classes yr11, and that was just Honors Math and Honors French. Next year I'm taking another Honors Math class and Honors French class, along with AP Art, AP Comp Sci, and AP Physics. During the summer I worked at a warehouse but I do very little during the school year. Most of the activities I wanted to join (Literary magazine, art club, computer club, anime club, etc.) were cut because of budget cuts. I've been going to the library's anime club every month since 7th grade and I joined our school's World Language Club freshman year (I didn't return after that because of what a horrible experience it was). Our school is very focused on athletics, and because of scoliosis and tendinitis, I'm not too fond of hurting myself on a team full of people I hate. To make up for my school falling apart faster every year, and the little town I live in literally has zero activities for anyone above the age of six, I spend a lot of time at home on the computer. I cannot lie, there is a lot of youtube involved, but I do try to be productive. I'm self taught in HTML/CSS and do a lot of digital artwork.

I'm trying to find a good safety school considering my lack of "involvement" and terrible high school. My must-haves is that it's a residential 4 yr school, it teaches Computer Engineering, and it's in the North East region of the US. I live in New Jersey and these two schools have an annual tuition of about $10000, so I'm looking for something between Vermont and Maryland that has a good school for under $25000 a year (hopefully under $15000 a year). I've spent hours on Collegeboard.org and Cappex.com, but finding a school I both like and can afford has been near impossible.

I'm a high school junior in New Jersey and I was hoping to drop a class for my senior year. I would like to drop 12th grade gym to take AP physics. In my school, gym is required all four years but I believe gym has much more negative affects on me than positive. I just feel that instead of spending 80 minutes crying in the bleachers, I should be working on my academics.

My school is VERY strict and requires an arm and leg just for you to change lunch periods. I overheard two teachers talking about a girl that dropped gym to take AP eruo so that's how I got this idea in my head. I just don't believe I can handle another year of gym and would like advice for talking to my guidance counselor about this.

My brother and I both have Dell XPS 410 desktops my father got from work, but since my brother upgraded his computer we tend to use his for gaming. However, my brother is in idiot that is ruining his computer and my computer with its lower specs now runs better than his. I want to transfer my games from his computer to mine, but I'm having difficulty figuring out what I should do to make my computer handle games better.

My brother has a dual core Intel Pentium D CPU of 2.8GHz, 4GB of RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series graphics card, 46GB of space left of 454GB, and runs Windows 7 64bit. However, because of all of the garbage running on his computer, Sims went from running alright to barely crawling. We have the base game, Ambitions, Late Night, Superstar, and Pets installed, along with a lot of custom content. Sims constantly crashes, freezes terribly, takes nearly an hour to load my family (from starting up the game from the launcher to playing with my family in their town), and I have to turn all graphics ingame to the lowest settings just to be able to play at all.

My computer has a dual core Intel Core 2 CPU 6300 of 1.86GHz, 2GB of RAM, a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE graphics card, 6GB of 118GB space left on the hard drive, and I also run Windows 7 64bit. I want to be able to run Sims on my computer without crashing and terrible load times, I also would like to get more expansion packs in the future. I'm not sure if my processor needs to be updated or not, but it probably does. I probably need more RAM, but I'm not sure how much. I definitely without doubt need a new graphics card, but graphics cards are what I know least so I need a little help figuring out which one works best for Sims and what would fit on my computer. I know my hard drive sounds terrible but I don't need to do anything with that right now, I'm having that taken care of very soon.

I want to skimp on the processor and RAM as much as possible, because I know the graphics card will currently eat up the most of my budget. I really would love to stay close to around $50, but that's probably unrealistic. I think I could stretch it to about $125, but after that I will struggle.

Basically, what processors, RAM, and graphics cards should I be looking at to upgrade my Dell XPS 410 to make it run Sims 3 with multiple expansion packs smoothly?

I don't have anything in medical help aside from a single doctor for well visits I see about three times a year that doesn't like to listen to me for very long and there's no one else we could ever possible visit. My parents dismiss ALL of my problems as "whining," and whenever I ask for help they say I'm "complaining" and they can't do anything for me. I'm a 16 year old girl that has been dealing with Anxiety, Depression, ADD, Scoliosis and back pain, leg pain, headaches, bad feet, and very weak muscles for around 6-10 years. I'm been asking for help for years, but at this point I've somewhat given up and just decided I need to accept the fact that the rest of my life will have to be living in pain. On a good day I'll just draw pictures all day and sleep, but there's some days where I'm just so depressed and in so much pain that I yell at everyone around me and cry all day.

I would like to know if there's any sites where I could use something to speak about my problems and have some decent conversations on it.

I know the easy solution is to continue with Y!Answers, but that won't work because I want a conversation, not people jumping at my questions with unthoughtful responses so they get points.

I'm just so upset and have no help, I just want somewhere to speak about everything that's bothering me and possibly have some decent people lend an ear.