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Well, folks, I'm going back to school later today. Yep, no more sleeping in 'til 3 o'clock in the afternoon (at least M-F). No more playing me favorite games or drawing in me sketchbook from waking hours to wee hours of the morning (that's me idea of "partying," folks) cuz classes and homework are on their way. Of course, it's not all bad. After all, school is generally an exciting and worthwhile experience. However it's sometimes the negatives that bring up the greater emotions. I suppose it all can't be flowers, right, fellas?

For me, one of these negatives is Life Drawing. No other class has tried me patience more than the Life Drawing class I took last semester (technically, this time around, I'm actually taking Life Drawing 2, but it's with the same class as the LD1 people). It was only once a week, but it was a five hour class...FIVE! And, more often times than not, the teacher I had kept us there for every single minute doing what ye may ask? Some of the most tedious and worthless exercises I personally could possibly do. I'm talking quick gesture drawings..over and over and over again. This may have helped some of the other students, but I, for one, feel as if a drawing done in a minute or 2 has anything to teach me, which is partly why it irritated me so much. For LD2, it's quite likely I'll have to do it all over again, blah...

Now then, I'm sure some you folks are going back to school, too (some may have already started). Are there any particular annoyances that ye feel are in store for ye? Or is it, in fact, all flowers for ye?

This post has been edited by Galsic on 22nd August 2005 07:50

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Math... I hate math....
History is boring....
I have no art classes....
I have to take more Regents (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!! I thought I'd be done with Regents after 9th grade!!!!!)
School is generally boring....
The list goes on and on....
I hate school.....

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Oh, school....I'm gonna share what I feel about it ( though the education here might be diferent...). Well, I'm in a kind of a college , in which I study for being a teacher.( Math teacher). Truth it is, I totally hate it, though I liked maths.
Sometimes I just wonder in the middle of a class, how one person is trying to influent you with knowledge, and how I wish I were home, I just want run from school sometimes. I spend about 16-17 years in a row for my education, and to be honest I haven't accomplished anything yet , though I worked as a mechanic-electricist when I got 19 years. I'm tired of hearing the same thing: "Its for your future", when I should be already living alone, on my own. I'm tired of my classmates , which everyone got more than 24 years old, ( no offense to anyone, just they don't want to do anything , and they act as children...), I could never have a friend like that. Everyone is crazy. Teachers are a nightmare make it real. My school is real boring, and everytime, everyday I go to it, I curse my fate. There is nothing glamorous on my attitude, which is bad. I wish just there was other way. Ohh...but let's be positive. In high school, I got great times, no doubt about, I learned a lot about friendship and love. I guess happiness could be found in school, but in little moments...the rest is the own happiness you can found in there. If you want to, you can be happy anywhere. kupo.

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I start classes again a week from today. For the first time, I'm actually looking forward to it. I took the summer pretty easy (recovering from a wedding; sitting in on one class), and I feel like I should be doing something with myself.

I think it also helps that every single course I'm signed up for is something I want to take: Number Theory, Combinatorics, Special Topics in Women's Studies: Human Rights, Feminist Theory, and Origins of Christianity. Also, after this semester, I only have two more classes that I have to take in order to graduate next spring.

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Veni, vidi, dormivi.

Well, I don't go back until September... I think it's the 6th, but I'll have to double-check on that count. Anyway, I start a new school, 'Hautlieu Sixth Form College,' once dubbed 'A School For The Gifted' until they realized that made it sound as if it housed special needs students.

On one hand, I'm looking forward to it. I'm pretty sociable, so, there'll be new people to meet, but, mainly because I've finished with maths, science and French. Score. All I'll be taking for the next two years is English Language & Literature, History, Media Studies and Philosophy & Ethics.

On the other hand, it's school. While I have nothing against it per se, I'd much rather continue the five months off I've just had. It's going to be effort waking up before 2pm, and doing homework and whatnot, and I always have severe trouble actually getting work done. I, personally, blame CoN for being that much more appealing than writing essays.

If you want to be a different fish then you gotta jump out of the school, man.

Yep school is coming when it gets here it = less WoW time for me, well at leaset it isnt till the 31st of August when i have to start school.

Classes start Wednesday for me, only four days after band camp ended. Marching band means that I have three two-hour practices a week in addition to fourteen hour days during home games. It's also a three-credit course and a near-guaranteed A, so that helps it a bit.

Oh yeah, and I'm a physics major and a rising sophomore, so my other courses are the third semester of the requisite physics block for majors, a math course in probability, an intro to quantum mechanics course, a conversational French language course, and an intro to sociology course (just so I don't go insane from all the numbers). It's going to be a FUN year.

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Quote (Kilakandra_DiMenia @ 22nd August 2005 08:07)

School is generally boring....
The list goes on and on....
I hate school.....

That seemed to be the general sentiment when I was around your age. Come to think of it, high school wasn't all that great for me, either...then I went to college. Ye get a lot more freedom there in terms of available classes and schedules. Often times, I don't have classes 'til 1 in the afternoon . Or classes on Fridays, double .

You'll most likely get over that sentiment, too...unless you're a real delinquent...then I don't what to say.

Quote (Mimic @ 22nd August 2005 08:47)

On the other hand, it's school. While I have nothing against it per se, I'd much rather continue the five months off I've just had. It's going to be effort waking up before 2pm, and doing homework and whatnot, and I always have severe trouble actually getting work done. I, personally, blame CoN for being that much more appealing than writing essays.

Ye know, I was almost late for me first class because I was posting in CON...

This post has been edited by Galsic on 22nd August 2005 21:45

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I start school next week, that is if nothing happened to my Financial Aid, had to go through alot of crap with it There's no better way to start the day than spending 3 hours at the financial aid office.

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I started my Junior year of high school last Monday. High school really isn't all that bad except for the fact that I have to wake up earlier, do homework after school, and not have as much time to visit CoN, though I may visit if I get free time on a computer at school.
I tried logging on chat via the Java client on a computer at school a couple of days ago, but their computers refuse to load the client, even if I install a better version of Java .

I start school tommorow. ... v_v ...

I start scholl on thursday the 25th

and the only class i can say i'm dreading is english
i hate that class so much I've become self-destructive and actually got a D
as well as spanish (like speaking the language, hate writing it), other than that my grades were great

those d@mn pesky language classes

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Quote (Cloud_Strife510 @ 23rd August 2005 02:06)

I start scholl on thursday the 25th

and the only class i can say i'm dreading is english
i hate that class so much I've become self-destructive and actually got a D
as well as spanish (like speaking the language, hate writing it), other than that my grades were great

those d@mn pesky language classes

You got a "d" in English? No, I don't believe it.

School starts the day after Labor Day here. I can't wait. I took AP history this year and I can't wait to actually be challanged by a history class.

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Quote (MogMaster @ 23rd August 2005 01:09)

I took AP history this year and I can't wait to actually be challanged by a history class.

Maybe the class will be hard, but the test won't be. I took AP US History without taking the class (because I had to take a different IB class instead) and got a 4 with the final half hour cut off because I had to take an IB exam in an overlapping time slot; I got a 5 on AP European History without any preparation beyond attending class. I'm not saying this to brag--just to illustrate that even the AP classes aren't necessarily "challenging." If anything, I always thought that AP/IB were less challenging than regular classes because they didn't make you do as many random things--they just assumed that you were smart enough to not need the extra work.

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My high school started the year at the beginning of August, but I'm going back first full week of September.

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Quote (MogMaster @ 23rd August 2005 01:09)

I took AP history this year and I can't wait to actually be challanged by a history class.

Maybe the class will be hard, but the test won't be. I took AP US History without taking the class (because I had to take a different IB class instead) and got a 4 with the final half hour cut off because I had to take an IB exam in an overlapping time slot; I got a 5 on AP European History without any preparation beyond attending class. I'm not saying this to brag--just to illustrate that even the AP classes aren't necessarily "challenging." If anything, I always thought that AP/IB were less challenging than regular classes because they didn't make you do as many random things--they just assumed that you were smart enough to not need the extra work.

It was a hope more than anything. Bah, we'll see anyhow.

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An AP History class? Jest out of curiosity, what could make a history class particularly challenging? I mean, aside from being real anal about exact dates and whatnot, do ye have to write papers analyzing specific events in history or something? I've been through several college history courses and they were all about jest remembering various events and historical figures and I breezed through most of them.

I actually considered taking AP Calculus, but I forgot to take pre-Calc in me junior year, oops .

As an update on me own educational career, I dropped me painting class. I took one look at the list of supplies I needed for the class and I was like "Whoa-ho! Wrooong answer!" I'm talkin' like $200+ worth of stuff, folks...for jest that one class . Blah, I suppose I'll have to take it sooner or later if I want that BFA. **Sigh** Perhaps when I'm more financially stable...

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Band camp starts for me next Monday, and I've gotta say, I'm not dreading it too much. I completed my APUSH summer assignment, so I can just enjoy the last week of summer. I'm ready to go back...I started to miss doing math (I completed the 4 years' worth of Math League ?'s the first month of summer....I'm such a nerd).

This year I should be taking AP Chem, APB Physics, AP Language and Composition, AP US History, and Advanced Pre-calc (bah, no AP available!). I WOULD be taking Latin IV, but they cancelled Latin IV and V at our school due to lack of interest (we had 3 people sign up for both classes, including me), and I would take another Science in its place, but I don't have room for all the labs. Stupid scheduling. I guess I'll HAVE to take Lunch....

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Quote (Caesar @ 23rd August 2005 23:58)

Band camp starts for me next Monday, and I've gotta say, I'm not dreading it too much. I completed my APUSH summer assignment, so I can just enjoy the last week of summer. I'm ready to go back...I started to miss doing math (I completed the 4 years' worth of Math League ?'s the first month of summer....I'm such a nerd).

This year I should be taking AP Chem, APB Physics, AP Language and Composition, AP US History, and Advanced Pre-calc (bah, no AP available!). I WOULD be taking Latin IV, but they cancelled Latin IV and V at our school due to lack of interest (we had 3 people sign up for both classes, including me), and I would take another Science in its place, but I don't have room for all the labs. Stupid scheduling. I guess I'll HAVE to take Lunch....

Yes, ye nerd, eating is usually a good thing . Still, if ye can do all that, then me hat's off to ye...good luck is all I have to say. And here I thought MY schedule was tough...

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Ha. Ha. Ha. I don't get to go to school this year. I'm home schooling. The school I'd be going to is $400 a month, and sadly enough, thats money we don't have. ¬_¬

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Caesar - Why don't you just pass out of PreCalc and go in to BC? A number of friends of mine did that and managed to take BC as sophomores while I was a junior, making me feel plenty stupid. Precalc is probably the easiest HS-level math course to ace an equivalency test on, because you repeat so much stuff from Algebra II-Trig.

But seriously, four APs in one year is about the limit. I took four my junior year (BC Calc, Chem, US History, and French Language) and it almost drove me insane, while admittedly drastically improving my study habits. I went to school with people who took six AP classes in one and two or three additional AP tests without taking the classes the same year, but these people are not to be looked up towards, trust me. You're gonna need that lunch hour for a study hall, chief.

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Quote (laszlow @ 24th August 2005 06:22)

Caesar - Why don't you just pass out of PreCalc and go in to BC? A number of friends of mine did that and managed to take BC as sophomores while I was a junior, making me feel plenty stupid. Precalc is probably the easiest HS-level math course to ace an equivalency test on, because you repeat so much stuff from Algebra II-Trig.

But seriously, four APs in one year is about the limit. I took four my junior year (BC Calc, Chem, US History, and French Language) and it almost drove me insane, while admittedly drastically improving my study habits. I went to school with people who took six AP classes in one and two or three additional AP tests without taking the classes the same year, but these people are not to be looked up towards, trust me. You're gonna need that lunch hour for a study hall, chief.

I was doing IB during high school (similar to AP, only it's an international program and in addition to getting certificates for classes, you get a diploma similar to the bac) so I didn't get to take many AP classes, just a lot of the tests. Doesn't Calc BC start with integration? My pre-calc class didn't cover differentiation at all, and I don't see how you could get away with just skipping it. (Correct me if I'm wrong. My year of high school calculus just covered everything as fast as it could.)

And don't diss people who take that many APs. Like I said, IB is pretty much the same thing with bonus requirements (like papers and research projects that have to be submitted along with the exam), and the only year I had an option about whether to take six courses at once was my senior year, which I rounded out with AP Physics. It didn't seem that crazy because all of my friends were doing the same program. How many hard classes you're taking is a matter of perspective. If you're taking 6 and your friends are taking 3, you're going to feel left out, but the same is true if the situation is reversed. If I could go back and do it differently, about the only thing I'd change would be finishing math a year early with summer school so I could take AP chem.

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Quote (Galsic @ 23rd August 2005 23:39)

An AP History class?  Jest out of curiosity, what could make a history class particularly challenging?  I mean, aside from being real anal about exact dates and whatnot, do ye have to write papers analyzing specific events in history or something?  I've been through several college history courses and they were all about jest remembering various events and historical figures and I breezed through most of them.

Dunno 'bout anyone else, but my AP courses in high school (AP History, Chemistry and English classes) weren't necessarily more challenging, just more involved. Y'know, you had both semesters, more projects, more tests, extra exams, more assignments - generally more of everything. Basically, it came down to the amount of work at the Honors level, but for the full year.

Sadly for me, I graduated college the end of this past Spring. It's sad 'cause now I miss it; mainly my Psychology, Criminal Justice and Creative Writing classes. Those were always a lotta fun. Or maybe I was just exceptionally nerdy in my fourth year. Either, or. I have way too much free time now, even with work.

I'm gonna go sulk in a corner now.

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I graduated from college this past spring and also miss school. The routines or lack thereof, getting jerked around with your financial aid, lines at the bookstore, parties, art things etc. I don't miss homework that much.

Now I have a realish job and am doomed to gray days of desk, files office politics etc. Well, maybe one day I will use my degree and become a "working" actor. Who knows, but school was golden, friggin' golden.

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Personally I can't wait to get back to school, because that means me making money. I start teaching again the 7th of September. I haven't worked since June, so I am all ready to go back to work.

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I began classes again this semester on Monday, and so far, my schedule has been excellent. I'm taking two Spanish classes (level 7 and intro to Spanish lit), two math classes (proofs and real analysis, and linear algebra), and a psych class (psych of personality). For me, the only "blues" about going back to school is that I'm no longer working at my summer job, which was the best job I've ever had.

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Karasuman: There are twenty-four high schools in my county, IIRC, and four of them were IB and the other twenty were AP. I went to a county-wide magnet school, and my base high school was IB while the magnet I went to was AP. From what I understand, AP courses are designed to teach specifically for the corresponding AP test while IB courses tend to be multi-year deals that try to go more in-depth and are less formulaic than AP courses. Most colleges tend to accept AP credit more readily than IB credit, also.

For me, in HS, AP classes were quite intense. The tests were never very difficult for me (I got fives on five of the seven I took and fours on the other two), but I typically had four to five hours of homework each night taking four AP courses and three Honors courses (with school ending at 3:50 PM), and this on top of two hours of either chamber group or winter DL three nights a week. It probably depends on the school and the teachers, but AP classes were usually quite difficult ordeals. Also, one more quick point, an excellent way to study for the APUSH exam is to read People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. The multiple viewpoints and angles he describes are exactly the kind of thing that the APUSH exam asks to death.

Oh, and Neal, I took Real Analysis my first semester last year and Lin my senior year of HS. Lin is kinda fun, basically screwing around with matrices and vector spaces a lot, but Real Anal(ysis) is a huge bitch. If you used to love writing proofs (and I didn't), then you'll come to hate it.

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I start school again in 1 week and 6 days...why oh why is school back so early! God damn! The holidays go too quick! oh well at least i'll see me school mates again

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Geez, you smarty pants people are making me feel a little like an underachiever here. I only knew one person in me high school who was taking mutliple AP classes so I figured his type was relatively rare. Either you smarty pants people are all concentrated in CON or you're jest all over the place and I'm jest oblivious to me relative stupidity ...

I feel like I gotta step up here, hmmm...YES, I took college level Calc I and II and I did pretty damned well on them both ! Too bad they don't help toward me BFA, though...

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Ahh... i don't feel alone anymore knowing that i'm not the onlyone going to school, i was planning on making atopic about this, but i was worried about what people would say

Anyways i start school the 6th of september. and i can't wait! (shocking...) because my firends coming back, she moved to Mexico and i haven't seen her in a year! but, sadly, later in the year, she will be moving to Hawaii.


but, now my spare time to play games and nap will be over...

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