Close to Home by John McPherson for March 07, 2015

They have prom in college?

Looks like High School. Why did you assume it was college?

101 is for high school, 102 is for college.

Though it’s kind of pointless to quibble over course titles in comics, I’ll do it anyway. 101-102 course can be both high school and college, depending on local usage. Often, 101 denotes first semester while 102 denotes second semester. Thus, when I read it, I assumed it was second semester of high school. Am I right? I doubt it really matters.

Lauding a university in the principality. Nobel IUM

well, they won’t have to wear green for St. Pat’s day

Standard nomenclature (rapidly becoming extinct) has the first digit representing the year and the remainder the specific course, often in increasing level of difficulty.

My first chemistry course in college was simply Chem 4. That was freshman year.

Bob: In that nomenclature, it should have been 1. Were the smaller ones remedial courses, or were your High School grades sufficient for you to skip the more basic classes?

Chem 4 was for the chemistry majors, engineers and pre-med types. Chem 1 was an intro .