What's one thing you never understood in school?
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Writing essays during highschool.. It was something I always got low grades for English classes
An intro paragraph, 3 body paragraph and a conclusion... It had to be in that rigid structure.
Pretty stupid considering you never use it in college and after.
An intro paragraph, 3 body paragraph and a conclusion... It had to be in that rigid structure.
Pretty stupid considering you never use it in college and after.
History.
At the time I absolutely could not manage to muster up a tea spoon of "give a shit" about a bunch of old dead guys and memorizing the dates when a bunch of other boring shit happened.
It wasn't until I had long since graduated and actually took an active interest in learning about the various parts of world history that I actually enjoyed the subject.
I feel pretty vindicated however. In having taken a more autodidactic approach to the subject I was free to discover that I could have slept through every history lesson I'd ever been given and the amount of provable historical fact that I would have retained would have been roughly the same as having successfully memorized a lot of the folklore and mythology that we pass off as "history" in the U.S.
At the time I absolutely could not manage to muster up a tea spoon of "give a shit" about a bunch of old dead guys and memorizing the dates when a bunch of other boring shit happened.
It wasn't until I had long since graduated and actually took an active interest in learning about the various parts of world history that I actually enjoyed the subject.
I feel pretty vindicated however. In having taken a more autodidactic approach to the subject I was free to discover that I could have slept through every history lesson I'd ever been given and the amount of provable historical fact that I would have retained would have been roughly the same as having successfully memorized a lot of the folklore and mythology that we pass off as "history" in the U.S.
Vault101 said:
See I really didnt mind sports, the problem was the sports they picked and how they allocated things. I LOVE badminton, Ive played it on and off since I was like 9. But on the ONE SINGLE occasion we didnt badminton for a 4 week period, 10 people took up 3 of the courts (2/4/4) while the last court was 6vs6 with 6 people rotation out. Needless to say I was in the 6. Then on another occasion we are all happy, for the most part doing hockey, than they ask what ppl want to do next, we all say we are happy doing hockey but if they insist we want to do X, mostly people wanted basketball or badminton, a few would go for rounders, 3 people said football, so what did we do next? Football (This is REAL football btw for you yanks, you know, the one where you use your foot). Cos thats what the teacher wanted to do. We staged a protest, within 2 weeks 1/2 the class were "forgetting" their kit every day.
Teach eventually caved cos it looked so bad on his record and said we could kick a rugby ball around on the astro-turf if we agreed to bring our kit.
Its just so ANNOYING!
The other classic is making set 3 face set 1 at football for 6 weeks straight. Woop de fuckin do. So you puck the people who get over 12 mins (might have been 14) on the 1500 metre against the group basically made up of the schools football team, cos THATS guna make us wana participate. We LOVE getting are asses kicked. Ironically on the one occasion we did rugby not football we thrashed 1st set because 3rd set were primarily made up of people who played for actual teams outside of school. Between us we managed to field in current and past players nearly a full 3/4 of the team and this is Yorkshire so even the youth teams take it pretty seriously. 1st set bitched so much we never did rugby again. Funny how that works isnt it -.-
nah it wasn't sarcasmDrenaje1 said:
and im in high school so we don't have "lectures"
and besides even if i did pay attention (believe me, i try!) MY head would explode!
but seriously, what is it used for in life?!
Well right now in ICT they're forcing us to touch-type with the keyboard at the very edge of the desk so you can't rest your wrists. Apparently it's not 'ergonomically correct.' But since I have to do it that way to pass the exam, I'll have to conform whenever she comes my way. I'm just baffled as to why resting your wrists is heresy.
Calculating chance.
Like having to calculate how many times a dice would land on 6.
How the hell can you calculate something that's totally random?
Like having to calculate how many times a dice would land on 6.
How the hell can you calculate something that's totally random?
At my Junior year, I just stopped trying to comprehend math. No matter how hard I tried, I was operating on about 3 hours of sleep during the school day, with only happy thoughts and puberty boners keeping my heart pumping.
That coupled with the fact that the teacher had a system where as long as you could show her numbers, she'd give you points for doing the homework, I basically just said "fuck it". (it got to the point of where I ended up showing her the same assignment over and over again for about a month, getting the same grade over and over). The test were luckily multiple choice, so I managed to bullshit my way through the course.
The sheer stupidity of how much useless shit they tried to teach you sort of made me resent the subject. No matter how much willpower I put into it, I didn't care.
And guess what? Didn't need to learn it.
That coupled with the fact that the teacher had a system where as long as you could show her numbers, she'd give you points for doing the homework, I basically just said "fuck it". (it got to the point of where I ended up showing her the same assignment over and over again for about a month, getting the same grade over and over). The test were luckily multiple choice, so I managed to bullshit my way through the course.
The sheer stupidity of how much useless shit they tried to teach you sort of made me resent the subject. No matter how much willpower I put into it, I didn't care.
And guess what? Didn't need to learn it.
fuck touch typing, I can type at a perfectly reasoanble speed thankyouverymuchNouw said:
to learn we had to play some bizare game where you touch type and this gay kola [footnote/] [footnote/] colurful shorts and an earing, could just be because this games was made in the 90's but hey [/footnote] would move across the screen, somtimes he would get chased by a dingo or crcodile with would make me freak out and SCREW TOUCH TYPING IM GOING TO GET BIT IN THE ASS
Essays... why on earth do people want to hear my opinion on something I don't even care about? And why do I have to structure it like I am writing to a freaking alien that knows everything?
EVERYTHING math. My last three years of high school I had 30%,20% and 10% on my math finals. But they always let me go trough to the next year they understood that having me redo the year wasn't going to help me understand it any better. I went to a tutor for years and everything, I also understand it has it's uses but I just didn't get any of it.
But I was pretty good at science, which I always found a little strange.
But I was pretty good at science, which I always found a little strange.
I'm somewhat confused about the fact that this is a gaming/nerd site and most people are answering with science/maths subjects... We're supposed to ace those
Anyway, for me it was languages (French, German, Latin and Greek), memorise shitloads of vocabulary and grammar, followed by the teachers getting mad because I got good enough grades in English so I probably just wasn't trying hard enough in the other ones...
Anyway, for me it was languages (French, German, Latin and Greek), memorise shitloads of vocabulary and grammar, followed by the teachers getting mad because I got good enough grades in English so I probably just wasn't trying hard enough in the other ones...
Looking back I can't really remember anything I straight up didn't understand out of the study material, but I did have trouble understanding the need of subjects like literature, especially the mandatory reading part, god I hate that. I mean, reading is something I enjoy as a passtime but when you're forced to read something, especially if it's some boring ass psuedo-literary piece of soviet propaganda, man does it make me mad and confused. And then these people go on to say how the modern generation doesn't like reading. Well yeah, I'm pretty sure if I was made to play games for most part of my school years, then had to "analyse" them, more often then not using the exact same words of a dead critic, yeah, I bet I wouldn't be playing games for fun right now. Needless to say I finished school with the minimal passing grade in literature.