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[Pale Dim]

I took a year long break before starting this semester. It felt goooood.

[Mysterious F.]

It's nice having little breaks every now and then, but I don't really like the idea of long ones. You lose so much during those long breaks, especially in math. I think that's part of the reason a lot of people struggle with math (including me); with all of the other main subjects (English, Science, Social Studies), you only need to remember general information when you move on to new material, and not specifics. With math, you must remember all of it perfectly for years while new and increasingly more complex information gets added, and if you can not, then you're going to fall behind as a result. So summer break doesn't do much damage for English, Science, and Social Studies classes, it does for Math students what breaking an arm does for sports teams members.

[Twilight Wolf]

Me, I'm pretty much the master of English class.

I had a project due yesterday that, due to an insanely busy weekend (going to a con AND having a wedding to attend), I was unable to even begin work on until the night before. I threw it together in five minutes and went to bed. The next day I ended up being 15 minutes late for class, which could easily have been much more awkward, as I will explain, and just as I sat down I was called to present my assignment to the class. So I did. I made it all up as I went along, but it satisfied the teacher. While everyone else presented theirs I got my in-class writing assignment done, and class was let out 25 minutes early since seven people didn't show up. I used the extra time to get that day's homework assignment mostly done while I waited for my math class to open up.

How could being late have been more awkward? I bought myself a collar with a bell on it at the con I attended and chose to wear it to school, minus the bell. Turned out to be a good decision -- had I left the bell on I would have made quite a bit of noise as I entered the room, and since I had been in a rush and my hair was still wet, and I had a hat on on top of that, I would likely have drawn some straaaaange looks.

[Hi no Seijin]

Also, I'm really, really turned off by the number of people who use their Sociology or Psychology majors as excuses for making smarter-than-you assumptions about everything.

Has anyone ever noticed that in family sitcoms, if the wife goes back to school, she's always majoring in Psychology, and she's always trying to psychoanalyze her family after her first class?  Even if she's the smartest member in the household, she just grabs the Idiot Ball and starts driving everyone crazy with her unsolicited "advice," despite the (highly probable) warning from her professor that she should not be doing so until she is certified to treat people.  Does anyone else think writers need to stop doing this *bleep*?

[Mysterious F.]

At first setting minimum and maximums on graphing calculators made my head hurt the mostest, but after thirty minutes I'm kind of used to doing it. That's basically what today's lesson was in Calc, we're just setting the two in the way that best represents how to graph certain types of functions.

Me, I'm pretty much the master of English class.

I had a project due yesterday that, due to an insanely busy weekend (going to a con AND having a wedding to attend), I was unable to even begin work on until the night before. I threw it together in five minutes and went to bed. The next day I ended up being 15 minutes late for class, which could easily have been much more awkward, as I will explain, and just as I sat down I was called to present my assignment to the class. So I did. I made it all up as I went along, but it satisfied the teacher. While everyone else presented theirs I got my in-class writing assignment done, and class was let out 25 minutes early since seven people didn't show up. I used the extra time to get that day's homework assignment mostly done while I waited for my math class to open up.

How could being late have been more awkward? I bought myself a collar with a bell on it at the con I attended and chose to wear it to school, minus the bell. Turned out to be a good decision -- had I left the bell on I would have made quite a bit of noise as I entered the room, and since I had been in a rush and my hair was still wet, and I had a hat on on top of that, I would likely have drawn some straaaaange looks.

Heh. What was the project? What level of math are you in, too?

Your a senior too, right? I think we're the only ones left on this site still in high school.

Also, I'm really, really turned off by the number of people who use their Sociology or Psychology majors as excuses for making smarter-than-you assumptions about everything.

Has anyone ever noticed that in family sitcoms, if the wife goes back to school, she's always majoring in Psychology, and she's always trying to psychoanalyze her family after her first class?  Even if she's the smartest member in the household, she just grabs the Idiot Ball and starts driving everyone crazy with her unsolicited "advice," despite the (highly probable) warning from her professor that she should not be doing so until she is certified to treat people.  Does anyone else think writers need to stop doing this *bleep*?

That's because Psychology is usually taken as a major by:

1. People who do not really know what to make their major yet and/or
2. People who don't actually know what they want to do after college, so they take it out by analyzing what is wrong with everyone around them and/or
3. People who do not want to major in something that is actually difficult and skillful, like a science or a math or a history, or in education.

My problem with Psychology is more with how it is (mis)used by many people rather than with the subject itself, though. It's interesting stuff for what basically amounts to guesswork, but it might be the most abused subject around.

[Darth Wyndisis]

Also, I'm really, really turned off by the number of people who use their Sociology or Psychology majors as excuses for making smarter-than-you assumptions about everything.

Has anyone ever noticed that in family sitcoms, if the wife goes back to school, she's always majoring in Psychology, and she's always trying to psychoanalyze her family after her first class?  Even if she's the smartest member in the household, she just grabs the Idiot Ball and starts driving everyone crazy with her unsolicited "advice," despite the (highly probable) warning from her professor that she should not be doing so until she is certified to treat people.  Does anyone else think writers need to stop doing this *bleep*?

Now, just because you have a [insert technical word here] complex doesn't mean you need to take it out on the writers.

On a serious note, I actually kind of miss some more basic science classes, like organic chemistry and physics.  I find it so much easier to learn by working through practice problems than I do by trying to absorb the information from a book or lecture notes.

[Mysterious F.]

Ehh, I'm the opposite. I like to learn from reading, not practice.

[Twilight Wolf]

Actually, I graduated this June. I'm a college student now. :P

I'm taking Math 126, by the way. Pre-Calculus.

As for the project, you were supposed to assemble some pictures that represent important memories or something like that. Kinda dumb, really, but I got it.

[Mysterious F.]

Damn, that means I'm the only high schooler left here.

This is dumbdumbface.

[Darth Wyndisis]

OMF I hate assignments where I have to give my opinion on something and defend it.  It's darn near impossible for me to do because I have mixed feelings about most things.

[MagmarFire]

If you have mixed feelings, though, you can just mention the reasons why you have a tinge of positivity there. ...Actually, you can mention the reasons why you have a tinge of negativity there, as well. Looking at "both the good and bad," I think.

[Mysterious F.]

A lot of classes will take off points for neutral position papers, though. As for me, I love those, since I am (notoriously) very opinionated.

What I dislike, though, is in a math class, when the examples themselves are easy and at the level most of the class would understand, but the homework problems are on an entirely different level of difficulty. Just ugh.

[Keaton]

You?  Opinionated?

nowai

Honestly, I flippin love math.  Math homework was really the only homework I ever did.  Actually, looking back, I think 10th grade algebra was the only class I did all the homework for in my entire junior high/highschool career, and I ended up with a 103% for the year and 100% on my SOL's.

yeah

[Hi no Seijin]

There's a mosquito in my house and it refuses to let me kill it.

[Pale Dim]

FINALLY a change in subject!