What's one thing you never understood in school?

[Ytomyth]

Social rules and how to fit in, I never -ever- understood anything of it.
At least I wasn't the only one and we were pretty good at ignoring everyone else as long as interaction wasn't required.

Edit: Still don't btw.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Why the cute girl in Econ doesn't like me
Why the cute girl in English doesn't like me
Why the cute girl in Trig doesn't like me
Why the cute girl in Physics doesn't like me

OT:
Why you can take the iniative and take hard classes and do decently, but still have a lower GPA and worse looking transcript than the person who took art five times at the "easier" high school.

Spoiler: Explanation

I'm finishing up my final year at a high school that has some of the highest SAT scores California and is known for being the most difficult school in the district. I've taken 3 years of Spanish, a serious Film Studies class, and I'm taking one more year of both math and science than I need to. I have a cumulative GPA around 2.5 due to the difficulty of the classes--our academic classes are supposably on par with AP classes at other schools-- and decent SAT and ACT scores. I don't get why I'm only getting accepted by the local state school, while other people are being rewarded for taking easier classes and going to easier schools.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Algebra
seriously when will we ever use it in life?
I wanna go back in time and find whoever invented algebra and punch him in the face!

Well, a short list of some of the uses of algebra includes:

Navigation, surveying, artificial satellites, television, GPS, an understanding of the cellular mechanisms of life, statistics, radio, radar, communications, certain methods of oil prospecting, modelling the Earth's interior, data compression, noise removal from signals (very useful in communications and medical imaging), aerodynamics, more efficient engines, lasers, computer chips, cryptography, artificial intelligence, extracting meaning from DNA sequences, weather forecasting, population dynamics in ecology, modelling of earthquakes allowing buildings to be better protected against them, and an understanding of just about anything that happens.

You got that? Algebra is a little bit more important than you think. To desire to punch the inventor of algebra in the face for the heinous crime of making you think in maths lessons is to be ignorant of almost all advances in human knowledge.

Those careers are all science related. You completely forgot all the business ones, like:
Econonmist, broker, salesman, accounting, etc.