Free Temple Study Guide

[glenn]

Actuary.ca is giving away a Temple C2 Study guide. Your choice of one of the Finance, Micro-Macro, or Interest theory guides. We'll order it from the actuarial bookstore (http://www.actuarialbookstore.com) on your behalf. We'll cover shipping costs as well.

This is a biased contest. Best post as to why you should be the winner wins it - so it's subjective (whatever I think is the funniest/best post).

Winner announced in two weeks time. I'll contact you by PM at that time.

[Frenchie]

Hmmm...is there a word limit??? :) Here goes nothing

Once upon a time, 15 years ago when I was a lowly eighth grader with no direction, I had a teacher who saw great things in me. She ordered me to go to a seminar held at GA Tech for young women interested in Math & Science careers. Begrudgingly, I gave up my Saturday morning sleep & went to this seminar. I randomly placed in a room to listen to a professional speak about their career. By the time I left that room my whole attitude had changed and I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do with my life! I wanted to be an.....ACTUARY!

Four years later, I headed off to college, bright-eyed & bushy-tailed. A year and a half later, I headed back home, blurry-eyed & foggy-brained! I was sooo discouraged. I had come close to failing out of school and decided to transfer back home to GA State Univ. Another year of grueling, back-breaking work and I gave up! Argh! I couldn't do it. The A's were no longer in me!!!!!

Over the next four years, I worked miserable jobs and took my life as far from my goal as humanly possible. During that time, the only thing good that happened in my life was my daughter. I made excuse after excuse after excuse as to why I could not finish my goal. Then one day....I ran out of excuses. So, what was left to do but go back to school.

Another four LONG years of hard work!!!! School full-time, work full-time, single parent...was I CRAZY???? I tried Course 1 three times!!!! Finally passing this May. Any sane person would have said "What in the WORLD am I doing???" But I knew that there was only one thing that I wanted to do...I WANTED TO BE AN ACTUARY!! So, now I am on to Course 2 and am as determined as ever.

I have worked long and hard to get here, and will continue to do so. I believe sheer determination and hard work alone is reason enough to win the study manual....and of course the fact that I am flat broke :)

....and if not, how about a prize just for the length of my reason!!! :wink:

[Pillow]

she's got my vote, if that counts any. :D

YOU GO GIRL!

[Frenchie]

she's got my vote, if that counts any. :D

YOU GO GIRL!

THANKS!!!

[Jables]

Because it will keep me in the actuarial field, and in turn, keep me posting here, rather than leave me wandering the streets aimlessly, talking to fire hydrants and drooling on myself.

The Amazing Race can only keep me here so long... :cry:

[john]

I really need the manual. Please help me. I am a poor college graduate who owes over $3600 in loans. I haven't worked for two years because college took up too much time. I am an extremely hard worker and put in the time to pass test 1. The state I live in has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. I can't find any work. I am too poor to afford anything. I have to survive on peanut butter sandwiches everyday.

Also, I will pass on the manual for free if and when I pass exam 2.

Thank you.

[Frenchie]

I am a poor college graduate who owes over $3600 in loans.


PLEASE tell me you mean $36,000! (Not that I want you to be in more debt)..but I wish I only owed $3600 in student loans...let's go for $50,000 :o ...yeah, makes me ill just thinking about it! Got my statement the other day...I'll be paying past retirement!

BTW, this was not an attempt to sway the vote, the number just threw me off....(BUT, if it helps, by all means, sway!!!!) :D

[B]

Dear Forum,
Today was an ordinary day. :roll2:
Nothing very interesting happened. :shake:
So, with your permission, :oops: I'd like to tell you about something that happened yesterday: :wink:
Someone said I was very pretty! :D

[Purple Princess]

I wanna tell my life story too!!!!

I decided to be an actuary cause my dad is an actuary and he said I should do that too. So I headed off to university, and everything went great, and I got straight A's, and I was happy :D . And my dad gave me lots of money and got me nice internships and I got lots of scholarships.

I have had an incredibly easy life. I've never come up on any obstacles or difficulties. I've always gotten everything I wanted. I decided to pass course 1 in may and I did. And now I've decided to pass course 2 in November.

I think I should get the Temple Manual, not because I need it (though if I had it I WOULD use it) or deserve it or anything, but simply because I WANT it. And because my life story doesn't make anyone cry. :dsmile: oh and hey, I'm a girl and I'm french........so me and frenchiegurl DO have something in common :bighug:

[john]

No fair, looks like I am out of the running...

[Frenchie]

oh and hey, I'm a girl and I'm french........so me and frenchiegurl DO have something in common :bighug:

I'm not French....does that disqualify me???? :crying:

[Adamixoye]

Back in 1972, I was at a party and met a guy who said he wanted to be an actuary.

"What's an actuary, I asked?"

He said, "Why are you even here? You won't be born until 1981."

Ever since then, I've wanted to be an actuary. And, having just passed Course 1, I believe a Temple C2 Study Manual will help me achieve that goal.

[beandip]

I feel that I am most deserving of the study guide for i have the largest collection of frank zappa cd's on this forum. A grand total of 41 albums!! And im not talking about counting any "double cd's" as two. No , No, "Joe's Garadge" counts as one my friend.

[Purple Princess]

He said, "Why are you even here? You won't be born until 1981."

:lol: :rofl: :lolup:

[razorback]

I think it would be funny if I got the manual because I am so undeserving. I could easily afford to buy it, but would prefer to use the money on video games and beer. I am also undeserving because I already own a manual (CSM). Also, if it would not be too much trouble, could you also send me a paid receipt for the manual so I could turn it into my supervisor to get reimbursed for it. I should mention that once the exam is over, I would look to pass the manual along to another undeserving individual for a small fee (which would be used for more beer and video games). So how about it. You have to admit that this is probably the most honest reason post you have seen, even if I am not the most deserving.

[Frenchie]

I feel that I am most deserving of the study guide for i have the largest collection of frank zappa cd's on this forum. A grand total of 41 albums!! And im not talking about counting any "double cd's" as two. No , No, "Joe's Garadge" counts as one my friend.

How about out of pity due to the fact that I used to be absolutely IN LOVE with New Kids on the Block and STILL have 2 8-hour VHS tapes filled w/their television appearances?!?!?! I know...sickening! But I refuse to throw them away b/c of all the time I spent making them!!!

...nevermind, that reason might just disqualify me!! hehhehehe

[john]

I am too poor to buy a manual. If I don't get this manual, I am going to have to do test 2 without a manual. thank you

[duodenum]

I don't want the manual, but I could use the cash.

[beandip]

I feel that I am most deserving of the study guide for i have the largest collection of frank zappa cd's on this forum. A grand total of 41 albums!! And im not talking about counting any "double cd's" as two. No , No, "Joe's Garadge" counts as one my friend.

How about out of pity due to the fact that I used to be absolutely IN LOVE with New Kids on the Block and STILL have 2 8-hour VHS tapes filled w/their television appearances?!?!?! I know...sickening! But I refuse to throw them away b/c of all the time I spent making them!!!

...nevermind, that reason might just disqualify me!! hehhehehe

frenchiegurl2000, please don't tell me your comparing NewKids on the block to the legendary Frank Zappa??

[Frenchie]

nope..comparing collecting to collecting...and then read my last line...

[Quimby]

If it's pity that wins the book, I'd like to tell you about my pants.

See, I graduated from college three years ago with high grades, a double major, and many fine pairs of pants. At the time I didn't know what I really wanted to do, but I got an offer to develop paints for a paint company. I thought the money was really good, especially for someone who had been waiting tables for 4 years. What I didn't understand, though, was where the marginal salary-benefit line sat in relation to the marginal cost-of-pants line on the cost-benefit graph of the paint industry life. The first month on the job, I ruined 1 pair of pants from paint spillage. Fine, I thought, a beginner's mistake -- soon my adroitness will overcome all but the most slippery paint can of Trans Red Oxide pigment. I chose to ignore the limited amount of time I had spent in the lab as a relevant parameter, because I had not studied price theory yet. The next month, with more time in the lab, I ruined 2 pair of pants -- at this point I had to start buying more pants. This goes on predictably for several years until today when the many hours spent in the lab causes my marginal cost-of-pants to exceed my marginal salary-benefit of working in the lab.

I can no longer afford enough new pants to replace those that I ruin. :cry:

Thinking about career options that don't ruin pants, I considered the comparably secure pants benefits of an actuarial career. I braved scowls and jeers directed at my painted pants at the testing center, took course 1 and passed. Now I will study for course 2 and look for a job. Clearly, I don't understand microeconomics very well, and I need new pants to go on interviews. Please don't make me spend pants money on books. Thank you.

[late_show]

Surely you have seen at least one episode of COPS, and you've likely seen Boston Public. Ladies & Gentlemen of the jury... the thugs in these programs are the people who I have worked with for the past five years, with yet another year ahead of me still. I am an inner-city high school math teacher. The experiences that I am about to describe to you are incredibly hard-to-believe, but they are all true, as my wife (another math teacher) will testify. I invite you to go & visit your nearest large city (population 750,000+) to see for yourself what the inner-city public school is like. Now, I am not saying that the following is how all inner-city students are. There are, in fact, some wonderful kids who are incredibly bright. However, the following describes the average student.

I won't spend time on the minor things like all of the rap music that has been forced upon me and all of the times I have been called a b*tch, mother-f*cker, cracker, etc. Even all of the threats received by an inner-city teacher who works hard to get kids prepared for college is not worth describing compared to the other things that occur.

Let me first describe the parents, the people who created these little gangsters. Our parent-teacher nights are always held in the cafeteria instead of the classrooms so that the police can get to a teacher in distress more quickly. I've had parents hang up on me. I've had them cuss me out. One even went to such great lengths as to defend her son for cheating on a test, and a mother this year helped her son cheat on the final exam! Several parents have said that their kid is MY problem from 7 to 3 & that their kid is just at the school for the welfare money or because they are on probation.

Now, let me describe the kids & the school climate. The principal acted like an angry drunken sailor/football coach at all of our meetings, cursing at us, saying that the problems of our school were solely our fault. He actually yelled at my wife and me for working together on our lesson plans, while over 50% of the teachers did not even turn in lesson plans. This guy was a total wuss with the students, though, and allowed them to run the place. I've had a student steal another student's gold medallion of Jesus that his grandfather had given him before he died. After an assembly, a student was walking down the hall, very openly smoking a joint. One student passed a video camera to another during class to play the home movie made of another student giving him "oral pleasure". (He got a stern "talking to" by the principal.) I've had many, many students come to my class, fresh out of jail or juvenile detention. My favorite, though, were the two students who I saw on the news in a shootout with police as they were caught trying to rob a Chucky Cheese. The two were somehow released on bond until the trial, & of course, returned to my class until their trial date. I'll let you guess how many classes each of them were passing at the time of their arrest.

As an added bonus to teaching here, I also have received some great bumps & bruises. I've been hit breaking up fights, of course, but few teachers can say that they were in the middle of a full-fledged riot. On the day before spring break, there is a school assembly with a student-faculty basketball game. 1700 kids are in the stands. Several kids planned fights during the game. At 2:00, fighting broke out, & I bear hugged & carried one student out of the gym, but all 1700 students stormed down from the bleachers, some in panic, some wanting to fight the person who I had, some just wanting to watch. I had to hold the student down in a cubby hole while the beginning of the stampede passed us. Soon, though, the halls were filled with smoke, as the police had pepper sprayed everyone, including us. We coughed for hours. Many students with asthma were taken to the hospital. The best part is that the student who I grabbed was never even suspended and no one was expelled.

This, ladies and gentlemen, has been my job. I foolishly thought that I would be able to make a difference. Even though I was bright enough to go into many other fields, I thought that the low pay would be worth the satisfaction that would come with my job. This year, I studied from Christmas break until May 21st, and I passed exam #1. Now, as family medical insurance takes up 60% of my take-home paycheck & I have no company that will buy my study materials, I plead with you... please, pick me. I need to pass #2 and get the heck out of here. Thank you.

[Athena]

I should win the manual because I already bought the Actex set but I was told today that it stinks.


:horse:

[demonwahoo]

It takes a big man to cry. But it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

-Jack Handey

[SamChevre]

I'm voting for late_show. I taught high school as a substitute while job-hunting--one day was at a school that sounds like his. I would go back to living in a basement and waiting tables before I would do that again.

[heeb]

give it to me

[Anonymous]

ummmmmmmm, 'cause temples are erogenous zones and i'd like to harness the power ?

not for my benefit, of course ... for HERS

[Jables]

I take voluntarily take myself out of the running... got a different guide instead through the office and can't handle too many options :)

[john]

I'd like to say I still need it. I'd also like to reiterate that I was the first person to offer to give it to another person for free if and when I passed the test. I will even send it back to the guy that sends it to me here so he can hold another one of these contests. Thank you.

[late_show]

Yah, I'd send it back after I pass so that the contest can go on. THat's a good idea. I wish I had been smart enough to think of it on my own. Proof once again that I need all the help I can get! Thanks!

Dave

[john]

i said it first

[beandip]

I'd like to say I still need it. I'd also like to reiterate that I was the first person to offer to give it to another person for free if and when I passed the test. I will even send it back to the guy that sends it to me here so he can hold another one of these contests. Thank you.

Whether you were first or last it matters little for I have the largest Frank Zappa Album Collection on this forum!! oh yes, if I do win the study guide, after I use it to pass course 2 I will sell it making a handsome profit. Why ?? because taking course 1 costed me a pretty penny!! Let some tuna pay twice the market price for my study guide!! muwahahahaha.

[mellorsi]

when is the cut off for the contest?

[glenn]

Cut off was yesterday, as per my orig post.

FrenchieGirl gets the guide! Congrats.

glenn

[john]

no fair

[SlackerActuary]

Rule #1 in life: Nothing is ever fair. Accept it or die.

[mellorsi]

with all due respect to frenchiegurl, who's story was very compelling....there is a clearly superior story...I am referring to QUIMBY's tale of pants....this story really hit home for me because I too wear pants....don't let this set back silence your voice...your story needs to be told...

Quimby should have won

[Purple Princess]

I second mellorsi. That story was definitely the best, most original, and funniest, and it even incorporated Course 2 concepts!!! how can you beat that?????

Quimby, the people's choice! :D

[Anonymous]

how can you beat that?????




how can we beat that ? frenchie has no pants ... the winner is obvious :)

[Archie Bunker]

If it's pity that wins the book, I'd like to tell you about my pants.

See, I graduated from college three years ago with high grades, a double major, and many fine pairs of pants. At the time I didn't know what I really wanted to do, but I got an offer to develop paints for a paint company. I thought the money was really good, especially for someone who had been waiting tables for 4 years. What I didn't understand, though, was where the marginal salary-benefit line sat in relation to the marginal cost-of-pants line on the cost-benefit graph of the paint industry life. The first month on the job, I ruined 1 pair of pants from paint spillage. Fine, I thought, a beginner's mistake -- soon my adroitness will overcome all but the most slippery paint can of Trans Red Oxide pigment. I chose to ignore the limited amount of time I had spent in the lab as a relevant parameter, because I had not studied price theory yet. The next month, with more time in the lab, I ruined 2 pair of pants -- at this point I had to start buying more pants. This goes on predictably for several years until today when the many hours spent in the lab causes my marginal cost-of-pants to exceed my marginal salary-benefit of working in the lab.

I can no longer afford enough new pants to replace those that I ruin. :cry:

Thinking about career options that don't ruin pants, I considered the comparably secure pants benefits of an actuarial career. I braved scowls and jeers directed at my painted pants at the testing center, took course 1 and passed. Now I will study for course 2 and look for a job. Clearly, I don't understand microeconomics very well, and I need new pants to go on interviews. Please don't make me spend pants money on books. Thank you.

I feel for you my friend....if I had the choice, the guide would be yours!

[Quimby]

I am humbled.

Thank you.

And in conclusion . . . never take your pants for granted.

[glenn]

Well, I did say that this would be biases. I should have also indicated that it was arbitrary.

The pants post was excellent. But the single mommy thing works for me.

[mellorsi]

Glenn :The single mom thing works for me?
hey....I'm into short turkish chicks so I say...to each his own!

[FlyingPig]

You should give it to me, as I haven't passed the first test yet(will in November) and this will motivate me to pass the second in May. :)