v. happy for your excellant grades! and i too do not see the need for mathematics in my life. i mean, trigonometry? if i really wanted to know when the tide comes in, i just look at the tidal chart. and why the hell do i need to know logarithms and exponentials? i don't get it. why would i suddenly get the urge to chart a whole population and predict how many would be awake in the year 2098? unlike you, maths is not compulsory here (vic) but i only did it cos my dad made me. long story, but basically it involves asian parents. but i totally agree with the compulsory english thing. english is basically the main form of communication and it leads to an appreciation of this beautiful and abstract language. do not argue with me. you will not win
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Actually, trigonometry is the one field of mathematics I typically enjoy, and we don't do it nearly enough. Exponentials and logarithms do little more than truly bug me. If you're going to be a statistian, you better bloody well know your exponentials, but for someone like me who's going to pursue journalism, it is completely and utterly useless. I don't believe maths is actually compulsory right across Queensland; instead, individual schools determine if it is compulsory. At mine, it is, though I think I could now leave Maths B now and stick with C. Despite the fact C is meant to be absurdly hard, I find it easier than B. Maybe because I still have a faint interest in it
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Geography is absolutely awesome. It's my best subject and I find it fascinating - I love learning about other parts of the world, culture systems, and human development. Sometimes the more biology-leaning units can get a tad boring, but it's still fascinating to me most of the time. Maps are also about the only thing I can draw. Ever since I was little, atlases have intrigued me
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In any case, I think I will quit Maths B and move back into a proper History class rather than just occasionally meeting with my teacher during lunchtime. You can just quit a class in the middle of the year? Well that's nice!
If you feel vindictive towards your grade and would like to ruin the evening for all of them, parachute in but forget to pull the ripcord. You know, I can't help but feel that that might be going just a tad but too far. hehe.
They wouldn't have understood the pun so I didn't say it, but really, what more in the name of love? Who completely got that pun without even Googling it? Oh yes, that would so be me!
'You can just quit a class in the middle of the year?'
Why couldn't you? As long as you aren't stuffing yourself over and negating prerequisites for university or whatever you are heading into after school, we can chop and change here quite a bit. It's not uncommon at this point of the year for people to drop the subject/s they know won't count for their exit mark.
'You know, I can't help but feel that that might be going just a tad but too far.'
Well, as we have discussed at school, it still creates the desired effect!
'Who completely got that pun without even Googling it? Oh yes, that would so be me!'
I particularly love the performance of Dirty Day on the ZooTV Sydney video. I need to get some more bootlegs from that era so I can hear more performances of it ...
My best friend in Junior Year hated English class, and he wouldn't do any work, except when we read "The Catcher in the Rye". He liked that. Then he went to an alternative school and I never really saw him again. People don't like English class and I truly don't understand it. I am an English major so this really baffles me.
The sheer hatred of English totally baffles me too. Sometimes I think it's the way it's taught and the fact that people simply are not encouraged to read, create, or love their language. With the dominance of television, I can very much see why the written word is not appreciated to a great extent.
Arrive at an event in style - borrow the nearest handy M1 Abrams and then demand your meal for free!
I've not been to a formal before, but from what I hear, some spend an enormous amount of money in the process of going to one. It would just be a total waste in my case, as I'm not much of a socializer and have sensitive ears that are intolerant to loud music (to the underworld with them).
My take on the subject of "useless classes" is this: I was told once that it isn't learning unneeded knowledge that makes us have to sit through the classes. It's learning how to learn, and how to think. In fact, all twelve years of school is spent basically learning how to learn, and then when you go to college you start learning what you need to know to do your job.
I am stingy and I don't like to socialise, and the formal is the total opposite of that. I cannot see the point in going to something I won't enjoy, and whenever I'm told it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I simply roll my eyes and say that "just because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity doesn't mean I should go."
Hm, that could perhaps be the case over there, but here, at grade twelve, there is absolutely no point being in a class that's of no use to me. It's not going to lead me anywhere and it's doing me no help. Due to its total irrelevance, there's no point to keep doing it when I already have five other subjects.
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You can just quit a class in the middle of the year? Well that's nice!
If you feel vindictive towards your grade and would like to ruin the evening for all of them, parachute in but forget to pull the ripcord.
You know, I can't help but feel that that might be going just a tad but too far. hehe.
They wouldn't have understood the pun so I didn't say it, but really, what more in the name of love?
Who completely got that pun without even Googling it? Oh yes, that would so be me!
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Why couldn't you? As long as you aren't stuffing yourself over and negating prerequisites for university or whatever you are heading into after school, we can chop and change here quite a bit. It's not uncommon at this point of the year for people to drop the subject/s they know won't count for their exit mark.
'You know, I can't help but feel that that might be going just a tad but too far.'
Well, as we have discussed at school, it still creates the desired effect!
'Who completely got that pun without even Googling it? Oh yes, that would so be me!'
All shall worship the pun-finding god.
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And yes, all shall worship me. You there! Bow!
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I worship your pun-finding ability and little more.
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Dirty Day rules. I love the remix on the B-sides.
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I particularly love the performance of Dirty Day on the ZooTV Sydney video. I need to get some more bootlegs from that era so I can hear more performances of it ...
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Yes! Bring in the Abrahms.
what more in the name of love?
I couldn't've said it better myself.
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Arrive at an event in style - borrow the nearest handy M1 Abrams and then demand your meal for free!
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And a titanuim spork.
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Now that sounds like a fun utensil.
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My take on the subject of "useless classes" is this: I was told once that it isn't learning unneeded knowledge that makes us have to sit through the classes. It's learning how to learn, and how to think. In fact, all twelve years of school is spent basically learning how to learn, and then when you go to college you start learning what you need to know to do your job.
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Hm, that could perhaps be the case over there, but here, at grade twelve, there is absolutely no point being in a class that's of no use to me. It's not going to lead me anywhere and it's doing me no help. Due to its total irrelevance, there's no point to keep doing it when I already have five other subjects.
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