random poll

[rm]

Super busy. Am suddenly curious about this. Apparently most kids entering college in the US this year don't know how to write in cursive. I suspect this is less a sign of the apocalypse than it feels like to me.

So, tell me things (as usual, poll is un-scientific and reflects my biases and experiences (and 49-year-olds can choose which age category they like better!) -- if the boxes don't work, my apologies and comments super welcome.):

[Poll #1607173]

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I was required to take either "marriage" or "bachelor survival." That sort of class would probably now be something like "life skills." But for the early 70s, it wasn't bad.

I will note that my class partner in the marriage class and I enjoyed a light-hearted but deeply felt attachment which lasted until she died last year.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

What was the difference between "marriage" and "bachelor survival", as far as topics taught?

I'm sorry for your loss, and glad for the long connection you had.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

My brother Jim took bachelor survival, and as far as I could tell it left out all the stuff about child raising and interpersonal stress brought on by demands on time and money, while spending more time addressing the stuff that a person living alone would need to know. So he got more cooking instruction, and more household management stuff.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

Do you feel like, other than the lifelong friendship, that the class had a lasting effect on you?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it did. I've always thought that business typing was the most useful class I took in high school, but I'd put marriage in strong second place. There was a lot of useful, practical, information that I got in there which proved valuable when I found myself married less than a year later.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Wish I'd taken a class like that.