Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 14, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    It helps keep your brain sharp by studying a subject you will never use.

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    BasilBruce  over 1 year ago

    Does Pig ever have a nightmare where he shows up at school wearing clothes?

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    Katsuro Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Me, I always have a dream about finding there’s tons and tons of homework I need to do, usually over the school holidays.

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    sirbadger  over 1 year ago

    I also have the "I can’t find the classroom where the test is dream.

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    ronaldspence  over 1 year ago

    if I knew then what faced me when I graduated, the nightmare would have been passing!

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    salakfarm Premium Member over 1 year ago

    No. I’m 82, and it never stops.

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    alasko  over 1 year ago

    Coincidence? Both Arlo & Janis, and Pearls Before Swine are nightmare themed today.

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    Bilan  over 1 year ago

    Studying while you’re awake won’t help. You need to study in your dreams the night before. Different set of memories.

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I have a recurring nightmare where I have to return to high school because I supposedly didn’t turn in the senior project required to graduate.

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    leopardglily  over 1 year ago

    Weird recurring dreams are the worst. But they can also be good- I keep having this one where I go camping with friends. I guess it’s worse when it makes no sense.

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    i_am_the_jam  over 1 year ago

    I once dreamed I had to go back to high school and re-do 11th grade, I think. I also dreamed I was back in first grade, the exact same school, and when I sat down at my seat, I suddenly thought, “Wait a minute, didn’t I already do this?” :P :P :P

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    Erse IS better  over 1 year ago

    In fact I grew out of it when I started having nightmares about presenting my paper. Without the paper. In the nude. In front of the whole school…

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    Baarorso  over 1 year ago

    Never was good at math-especially higher math m[self so join the revolution! ;D

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    One of my favorite XKCDs.

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    Ermine Notyours  over 1 year ago

    Last night I dreamed I was playing pinball with a large number of multi-balls. They got stuck at the bottom of the table and even the flippers couldn’t work any more. When I woke up, I really had to go to the bathroom. Symbolism much?

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    blunebottle  over 1 year ago

    Got a good laugh from Rat’s response today!

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    iggyman  over 1 year ago

    If it’s not that it’s something else, Pig!

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    hariseldon59  over 1 year ago

    I doubt Pig ever studied calculus He’d probably be lucky to pass an exam in basic arithmetic.

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Rat knows what’s up.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Pig took Calculus? Who’d a thunk it?

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    Queen of America  over 1 year ago

    Never had any school related dreams or nightmares.

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    Stocky One  over 1 year ago
    If you have that calculus nightmare, then you are just like everybody else. Strive for differentiation!
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    akachman Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Nope. They never end.

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    Frank Salem Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I made my living as an electrical engineer and Calculus was the neatest course in all the years of my education. I never used it in my job but I tutored others.

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    Skippy the Magnificent  over 1 year ago

    Never had that nightmare

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    Jeff0811  over 1 year ago

    Having no idea what Calculus is, I decided to look it up. The definition actually made sense, but brought up another question. Defined as follows:

    In simplest terms, calculus is a branch of mathematics that deals with rates of change. For example: maybe you want to calculate the change in velocity of a car rolling to a stop at a red light. Calculus can help you figure out that change.

    The question it brought up was, Why would I want to calculate the change in velocity of a car rolling to a stop at a red light?As long as the car stops at a red light, is that not the important thing?

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    I haven’t had a final exam dream in decades.

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    ninstar  over 1 year ago

    I still have the dream. I graduated college in 1996.

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    dogbreath84  over 1 year ago

    Don’t drink and derive…..

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    WaitingMan  over 1 year ago

    Why do you need to learn calculus? Because without it, you can’t learn differential equations. Why do you need to learn differential equations? Because without them, life as we know it today wouldn’t exist.

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    Killraven Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My nightmare includes not remembering what time the exam is, as well as not knowing where the class is.

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    BlueNAL  over 1 year ago

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    Znox11  over 1 year ago

    I aced mine last night…finally.

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    uniquename  over 1 year ago

    I never liked calc and I have a degree in math (and computer sci). On the other hand, my daughter loves calculus (did it for fun in HS). She has an accounting degree. Go figure.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Sometimes I have a dream I am recalled back in the service and wondering what I am going to do with the house!!

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    Oh no Not Again  over 1 year ago

    I still have the dreams where it’s the end of the semester just before I graduate and I realize I have not gone to any of my classes.

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    Enoi  over 1 year ago

    I’m 63 and I still occasionally have that flippin’-rippin’ dream.

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    I can remember sleepless nights before an exam…

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    Ellis97  over 1 year ago

    Imagine having to maintain an A plus average.

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    Croc Holliday  over 1 year ago

    Last night I had the strangest dream

    I sailed away to China

    In a little rowboat to find ya

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    Joseph Shelby Premium Member over 1 year ago

    For me, it was never the final. It was the mid-term, that always showed up the day AFTER it was too late to drop the class without a penalty.

    But the nightmares continued monthly until I was 42 or so.

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    hunt.elen Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My husband, a university professor, has nightmares that he’s forgotten to WRITE the test. He walks into a room full of students without it. I’ve forgotten to ask if he is clothed

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The nightmare of being on stage with no idea what your lines are or what part you’re playing is so common they gave it a name: “The Actor’s Nightmare.”

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    Billys mom2022  over 1 year ago

    Arlo had a nightmare, is there going to be more?

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    smoore47  over 1 year ago

    I still have the not completing the course/ not studying for the test dream. My other recurring one is missing my flight or train through never getting to the airport/station on time through various faux pas.

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    aerotica69  over 1 year ago

    Forty-some years on and I still occasionally have the “lost in the halls” nightmare.

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    rshive  over 1 year ago

    Not really, Pig.

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    Ishka Bibel  over 1 year ago

    I have nightmares about learning I did not finish my degree and wake up realizing I have not worked in that field in 30 years.

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    Hamady Sack Premium Member over 1 year ago

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    blue gorilla  over 1 year ago

    It never stops I am 65 and it never ever stops

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    ben Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I used to have those dreams. They stopped around the times I started having dreams that my toddler ran off in a parking lot, I couldn’t catch her, and she got ran over and killed by a car.

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    Cary Rodda Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Hah! I had dreams for years after graduating that somehow my record got messed up and I was short like 3 credits to get my degree. Funny how those dreams can last a long time.

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    lybblaw  over 1 year ago

    I’m 74 and haven’t had that dream, or a variation, for a couple of years, so maybe it does stop eventually. In my case it was usually a case of not being able to find the test location, and its usually chemistry, not calculus.

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    Bookworm  over 1 year ago

    There’s a saying, “May all your dreams come true.” I desperately hope not! (Especially the one with the big teeth and a deep pit.)

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    Steverino Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My dental hygienist studies calculus.

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    hoffquotes2  over 1 year ago

    Yes

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    AtariDragon  over 1 year ago

    I was a math and physics major, so my version of the dream was history. I dreamed I had signed up for a course, skipped the first day because I knew it would just be handing out syllabi, and then totally forgot about it until I saw it on my schedule the night before the final.

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    prrdh  over 1 year ago

    I’ve never had dreams like that for some reason, but my wife did. Only once she became a college professor, she started dreaming that she was being told on five minutes notice that she had to teach a class she didn’t know anything about.

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    MattDingleberry  over 1 year ago

    Holy smokes, I though only I had those dreams! To this day I dream (once in a blue moon, but still) that somehow they find out that I missed one class in college, thus my degree is invalid, and everything that was based on that (advanced degree, job, etc.) and I have to go back and take that one last class…

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    eastport46  over 1 year ago

    “arlo and janis” had the same theme today…

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    rdublu  over 1 year ago

    Pig is in highschool? thought he had a job. is this a flashback?

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    bucker39 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    “You NEVER graduate dream school”. George Carlin

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    samclemens  over 1 year ago

    At age 67, I can tell you that, at least for me, it hasn’t yet.

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    RobinHood  over 1 year ago

    Happy World Math Day everyone.

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    monya_43  over 1 year ago

    I’m nearly 80 and still have a dream once in a while about not being able to remember my locker combination.

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    I don’t know about calculus,but “in your underwear in front of a huge crowd” is a dream t hat will never go away

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    UBBM Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’m nearly 70 and still trying to find my locker.

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    up2trixx  over 1 year ago

    I graduated 33 years ago and still have high school anxiety. I skipped a lot of classes (they should never have built a high school right next to a lake) and still have nightmares (and even daymares) that I went back into the school and I had skipped so many classes that I didn’t know what room I was supposed to be in. Or I’d know the room but the teacher wouldn’t recognize me.

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    A dream is a wish your heart makes.

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    zeexenon  over 1 year ago

    In my 2nd decade of retirement and I still dream of work projects … will it ever end? I call them pee dreams.

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My dreams are always, I’m back at work in the power plant.

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    Snoots  over 1 year ago

    After all these years I still occasionally have nightmares about not being able to find my school locker, or can’t remember the combination, or it’s finals day and I haven’t attended class all year. There’s just something wrong with an educational system that causes life-long nightmares. I’m reminded of the Pink Floyd song, “The Wall”.

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    patrickab7  over 1 year ago

    45 years old, and nope.

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 1 year ago

    At 70 and retired for nearly three years, I find my dreams rotate among several scenarios:

    I’m at high school or college and haven’t done the assignment I’m supposed to hand in;

    I’m at college, trying in vain to pack up my dorm room to go home;

    I’m at work (a composite of my various jobs) and can’t find where my desk is (and my missing clothes are in it);

    I’m at work and can’t find the bathroom (and I wake up needing to pee);

    I’m on my way to work (or on my way home) and my subway train has been re-routed through territory that is utterly alien, and I need to figure out where to get off and what train to change to;

    I’m at a science fiction convention in an incredibly large hotel, scheduled to be on a panel discussion, and trying to find the right room.

    Hey, at least I get variety.

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    christelisbetty  over 1 year ago

    The reason old people are into Bible studies…they are cramming for their final exams. >8-[

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I wonder if teachers surprising students with a pop quiz is still a thing in schools

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    In my last go round at college one day I walked into my 8086 Assembler class and discovered we were having a midterm. I didn’t remember it was going to happen and hadn’t studied. I got one of the highest scores in the class. I have no idea how I did that. I wish the rest of school had been that easy.

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    KEA  over 1 year ago

    my final exam nightmares ended after I retired from teaching… now they all revolve around teaching a class I haven’t prepped for

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    dlaemmerhirt999  over 1 year ago

    100% of my “school stress dreams” are me going back to high school as 35 year old me and trying to remember my locker combination! Ye gods!!!

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    dbhamm  over 1 year ago

    Nobody ever forced me to study calculus. I even got through grad school without it. I went into accounting and tax and NEVER needed it.

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    Scott S  over 1 year ago

    My mother-in-law said she still had that nightmare in her 60s, long after her collegiate days.

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    Calculus, to determine just how far to the left of the intelligence mean Pig falls, more than 3 standard deviations below the mean, I believe…

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    gigagrouch  over 1 year ago

    No, no they don’t.

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    FireAnt_Hater  over 1 year ago

    This is my first time to see Pig ‘head-on’ and – Look! Neither ear is pointing upward…

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    Lola85 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’m surprised Pastis didn’t do a Pi joke since it’s National Pi Day.

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    rwh2  over 1 year ago

    I like the expression on Pig’s face in frame 3.

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    Doctor Go  over 1 year ago

    I still have that dream about my doctorate – and I finished it 15 years ago.

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    jbruins84341  over 1 year ago

    I hate that dream.

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    dadoctah  over 1 year ago

    I have never understood why “and then all your dreams will come true” is always presented as such a wonderful thing.

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    mfrasca  over 1 year ago

    Oft-heard refrain in HS calculus: “Derive my a$$.”

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    Rayborg  over 1 year ago

    Pig has beard stubble?

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    knight1192a  over 1 year ago

    I still have dreams of being in high school. I usually wake up and wonder why my high school was given a layout in my dreams it never had in real life. That and why I dreamed of field trips we never took.

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    thedogesl Premium Member over 1 year ago

    For me, the “actor’s nightmare” won’t seem to go away either. :-)

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    jfikse Premium Member over 1 year ago

    That’s a familiar nightmare to me—I call them “school dreams.” They’re always about some class I forgot to attend, not even sure when and where the class meets, forgot to buy the textbook, and now it’s the final. Sometimes I manage to combine the school dream with my other regular, the “bathroom dream.”

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    Ukko wilko  over 1 year ago

    In my “back to school” dreams I don’t have to worry about taking the test… I can never find the classroom.

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    drpnsb  over 1 year ago

    No, that nightmare never stops.

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    Ray Helvy Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Graduated high school 50+ years ago, and had another one last week… so, no they don’t stop. P.S. And I was a good student, and taught Algebra a few years later.

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    Sisyphos  over 1 year ago

    Your nightmares help make you an edgy character, Pig. And that’s a Good Thing….

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    Sanspareil  over 1 year ago

    I found calculus challenging but at least I could get through it!

    When I got to group theory followed by ring theory all bets were off

    Barely scraped through those classes!

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    onespiceybbw  over 1 year ago

    No, it never does.

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    sisterea  over 1 year ago

    As nearly as I can tell the answer is no

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    WF11  over 1 year ago

    This must be a common dream! I’ve had pretty much the same dream, except it was a more advanced class like Linear Algebra or something like that (I did take Calculus and passed). Either it was the final, and I wasn’t ready for it (and wondering if I could fake it), or that the class was too difficult so I stopped going but never bothered to formally drop it, and would therefore get an “F” no matter what I did. These are the times that I am so thankful to wake up and realize it was a dream (or nightmare)!

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    Bozoid the Magnificent Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’m 68 years old, and I still have that nightmare.

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    Mike H  over 1 year ago

    I study the calous on my feet.

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    FrostbiteFalls  over 1 year ago

    With me it wasn’t so much final exam anxiety. Decades after I’d graduated, I’d have dreams in which I’d have to go back to school because it was determined that I was short on credits and should never have been allowed to graduate.

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    Seeker149 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I TEACH Calculus, and I STILL have dreams about exams in a class with an imaginary advanced subject in which I never opened the book.

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    stapelia99  over 1 year ago

    In my equivalent I had forgotten about the class and didn’t know which room it was in.

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    alantain  10 months ago

    No, it doesn’t. Nor do the dreams where you’re expected to perform in a play and you don’t know the lines.

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