As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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I have had a really long week. It has, for the most part, been a good week. I received lots of praise from the teachers and students I am working with at my new Substitute position. The teacher I am subbing for even came in yesterday and had a couple of praising type comments for me about how I am teaching her students. Today I even had one of the low kids tell me that he was "suddenly smart" because he was truly understanding what I was teaching. That was a GREAT moment for me.
However, since I have not been getting up early every morning and staying up all day (I REALLY miss my midday naps), I am super tired this evening. Right now, I am so tired that I can't really sleep. I have been pushing myself to get through the day and now I am just waiting for my body to crash enough that I can lay my head on the pillow and go to sleep. I know this is a major contributing factor to my current upset.
I had an Intro to Analysis class tonight and I was 10 minutes late. When I walked in, we were having a quiz. I sat down and the girl next to me let me copy the questions off her paper where she had written them. (This class and my Monday night class are taught by the same teacher via web conference between Victoria and Sugarland, TX.) So I look at the questions once I have them written on my own paper and realize that I have NO CLUE what the heck I am supposed to do. This teacher is not very good in my opinion (or that of many of my classmates) and truly felt extremely unprepared for this quiz. I eventually was able to find some examples in the book and my notes that would allow me to make an educated guess as to how to work the problems out, but I am still pretty sure that I bombed it.
Then when I got home, at 10:00 PM, I had to scan my quiz and post it to the online class site by midnight. When I went to sign in to the site, I couldn't get my login info to work! I had already been close to tears during the quiz, and now this just made them come out. DBF came in and got me calmed down enough to help me get logged in and my quiz scanned so I could post it.
Tonight's events have me wondering what the heck I am doing going back to college now after so many years away from it and what possessed me to think I could be a mathematics major?!?!?!? I told DBF that I just felt really stupid and dumb. He told me "I don't date stupid." He held me and let me cry, then made me go take a hot bubble bath. He was right, I felt a little better after that. I am still questioning my decision to major in mathematics, but maybe once I get some good sleep I will feel better about everything. I am doing pretty well in the other two classes, it is just this one that I am really struggling with and I can't drop it. It is only offered once every two years. If I drop it and wait to take it another time, it will push my graduation back by a year if not more.
Could ya'll spare a few pixies for a good sleep and return of at least some of my sanity regarding school, please?
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Everything will turn out as it should be! You most certainly can be a math major...you can be whatever or whoever you want. Just wish upon a star and believe in the pixie dust!!!! You CAN do it!!!!!!
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just remember: if you can dream it, you can do it.....
it is tough to be an adult learner...we tend to be perfectionists and beat ourselves up if we don't attain said perfection immediately. growing requires stretching and exercising that brain. if you exercise, sometimes there is a little pain involved with that , right?
You said it yourself, you aren't used to the schedule you are keeping now. So you are overly tired and stressed. As you become used to your schedule, I bet you will find that you can in fact do it and do it well!!!! We all know you can....DBF knows you can....now you have to know you can!!!!
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Have faith in yourself and your abilities and you will succeed. It is always difficult to start something new but as was said in a previous post "if you can dream it you can do it".
For what it's worth, "adult" students (aka, anyone who didn't go straight to college from high school) were always my favorites when I taught college-level. Typically much more dedicated, passionate, and serious than the "kids" - as you have demonstrated here. You probably did better on the quiz than you think. "Educated guess" is definitely a step up from "shot in the dark." And I admire your fortitude. I teach middle-school all day and it's all I can do to stagger to the couch at the end of the day, let alone take a college class (or three)! I have to admit, cynical old broad that I am, your comment about the little guy who felt "suddenly smart" b/c of you made me go "aaaaawww, how sweet and totally cool."
Explain "Intro to Analysis", please. I wasn't a math major, but I took 3 semesters of graduate statistics, and I taught college stats for 10 years. If it's anything like that, I'd be glad to help you out any way I can. PM me if you like.
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Explain "Intro to Analysis", please. I wasn't a math major, but I took 3 semesters of graduate statistics, and I taught college stats for 10 years. If it's anything like that, I'd be glad to help you out any way I can. PM me if you like.
In some ways Intro to Analysis is very similar to Prob and Stats (which I have on Thursday nights with a MUCH easier to understand prof) however, there are a ton of proofs to be done about what belongs in a set of data. I have been able to refer to my Prob and Stats notes to make some sense of my Analysis notes.) Unfortunately, I am not as clear on this as I probably should be, but that is due in part to my not being able to understand the prof and his explanations very well. I have the same prof for Linear Algebra on Monday nights, and I am able to follow that much easier. Go figure!
Someone else mentioned that I should not let one class with a poor teacher discourage me. This is excellent advice, thank you. However, we have a rather small math department and it is the same 3 or 4 profs that teach everything. Which is why the classes are on a 2 year rotation. And only offered for one semester every two years. I will have this prof again and again, so I just have to get used to how he teaches and realize that I will be doing a lot of internet surfing to supplement what I should be learning in his classes.
Thank you, everyone, for the pixies. I slept in until about 10:00 AM this morning and I woke much refreshed and feeling much better about my education. And yes, DBF, does know I can and he was really wonderful last night with trying to help me through my crisis. He told me today that I always support him when he is having an attack of the "what the heck was I thinking to go back to college at my age" panics and that he felt that he was able to give some of that back to me a little last night.
I emphathize. After getting A's in high school math classes with not much effort, I started calculus in college and felt like an absolute idiot. I joined a study group with a few other students and made it through -- maybe if your schedule permits, you could go over homework with classmates once a week? If you're doing well in your other classes, I wouldn't let just one, with a poor teacher, discourage you from being a math major. It took me a while to realize that being less than perfect would still be OK and didn't mean I couldn't handle the work. I vividly remember the "an alien must have taken these notes in my handwriting because I don't remember ever seeing this before and it makes no sense" feeling throughout my college math classes, but I have a degree in math and that's all that mattered.
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