Dropped Behind the Class What does "Dropped Behind the Class" mean? Is it being absent from school frequently or having problems with learning?

Exams Does anyone have a device that put all knowledge we want to learn in one's head while he's not interested in even looking at lecture notes? I seriously need one. I'm having exams in three weeks and even my toaster knows more than me... Please, help me in defeating my laziness. If I pass them, my brain and liver shall be the employees of the year.

When stories from TV happen in your neighbourhood [please correct] There was an ordinary family, mother, father and two children. Their life was so normal that you couldn't have thought there was something wrong. But something happened. Some time ago the head of the family died in a car accident. It was a nightmare for the family, but we all know that people die in that kind of accidents every single day. Finally, they got used to living without beloved father. However, there were another problems to be bred - problems with woman's former in-laws. They were trying to make her life unpleasant as much as they could with no rational reasons for it. They were watching her every step, criticizing the way she looked (clothes, make-up etc.), threatening her. Before the accident the family used to live in a house which was given them by father's parents. Both father and mother invested a lot of money in it. After the tragic event she was forced to leave it (with the children, of course). I must emphasize that she was not kicked out - in-laws had spoiled her stay so much that she just run away. Furthermore - she had to pay the bills, although she didn't live in the house any longer. The situation made her too scared for going out alone. Her nightmare didn't stop lasting. Eventually, here comes the culminating point of the story. The nineteenth of March. She met her former father-in-law in his house - she was to take some of her things back. There was no time to say a single word - the man threw petrol (or something with similar smell) on her and lit a match. Fire engulfed her body in a second - her hands, stomach, back, legs, face, even lungs. But she survived - she was rescued by a stranger. Her respiratory tract was burnt, she could breathe, but she wasn't able to speak. Now she has a special tube in her larynx that allows her to speak, but she lost her voice completely. When she was lying in a hospital, she knew she looked differently, she had a phone with camera, but she wasn't brave enough to take herself a photo. She saw herself for the first time in a mirror in a lift. She got frightened. Now her family is worried even when she walks with a dog for too much time - she wouldn't be able to call for help - nobody would hear her. Why do I tell that? The woman is a hairdresser in my little town and my firend's aunt, she used to be my neighbour. The father's brother maintains our internet network. You never know what happens in your neighbourhood. You never know if someone suffers agony just on the other side of the wall.

What would you choose if you had to?

Being blind or being deaf?