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School's done, and I'm in the middle of summer break, so I've got time to worry about things like this. (Y) I moved to a town 30 minutes from Toronto when I was 2, and have lived here ever since. I was born in Korea, but I thought that I sounded like any other Torontonian. Nope, there's...

Just a couple of months ago, I was a very gregarious, energetic person. Over time, however, I think I've lost some energy. Nowadays, I usually don't like talking at all because I think it's tiring. I just put my headphones on and play music to myself. I'm a guitarist who has on stage...

Cool, thanks for the help bahama. Is it possible to sound a bit too dark on stage (and therefore good in the audience) and cut through enough for your amp to act as a monitor? A more physics-oriented question. Why is it that a human voice that is heard from about 5 feet away, sounds basically...

Hi, thanks for the good explanations! To address some points you all have made: DennisN, i tried something similar;i put tape over the center of the speaker when i found that the tone i get at home is unbearable. And thanks for the thread link! Enorbet, when i play at home, i use the...

So I play the guitar, and I cannot use the same amp I use to gig with, because in my home basement, it's too sharp and trebly; the high frequencies sound way too apparent. Guitarists refer to this sound as an "icepick rammed into both ears". In the two venues I used to play at most often, I...

Here it is, for you to critique. This is a proof by contradiction. This is a good example of how I usually go about doing proofs, so if you give me tips on how to improve this particular proof, I'll be able to improve all my other proofs. I just learned how to do proof by contradiction...

In the textbook used for my problem solving and proofs course, one of the questions asks me to develop a geometric or algebraic representation of various questions. Here is one that I'm having trouble with: "Three cannibals and three missionaries are together on one side of the river. They...

Wow...I guess I got some stuff mixed up. Maybe I should go over the first lesson with my professor the next time we meet. On a side note, I always knew that university was going to be much more fast paced than high school. But I still think it's cool that on the first day, we covered things...

So I started my first ever university course, at U of T. (It's a summer course.) The class textbook, which is called "An Introduction to Proofs and Problem Solving", should give you an idea of what the class is about. Anyway, the first thing that my Professor taught us is that you should never...

Here it is: "Aluminum is a reactive, self-protecting metal used to make doors, windows, and siding for houses. It reacts quickly with O2 to form an impervious coating of aluminum oxide, that prevents O2 from reacting any further with the aluminum. This reaction is unnoticeable even though the...

I'm in a grade 12 university level chem class right now, and I'm getting a 72. I realized just today that the reason why I'm doing so poorly is because I'm good at calculations, but not questions that involve even more thinking. For instance, one question gave us some information about...

Sorry if this thread has already been posted...but I'm very worried about this. I don't have a lot of "natural" mathematical prowess, but I'm a REALLY hard worker, and that resulted in a lot of good grades in high school. In IB SL math, my predicted mark was a 96, and during midterms for gr11...

Thanks for the good advice everyone. You know what, I've calmed down, and I've realized that if I do bad in calculus, I can always retake it. After all, two of my friends retook courses (one retook advanced functions while the other did advanced functions and calc) and they both made it into uni...

Doing badly in high school but want to go to uni for science :( Well, maybe I'm not doing TOO badly. You see, I am in the IB program, which is a rigirous high school program designed to simulate university. In this program, our final marks are basically determined by our exams, since our exams...