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College Educations, Part II; Now with less sketchiness
Topic Started: Jun 2 2010, 11:24 PM (5,453 Views)
Rhadamanthus
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Jun 4 2010, 09:24 PM
Thanks NH :lol: I can always count on you :love:

Me and you both RD B)

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Two more weeks of school! Thank god!


Is it just me or is the damn school year for public education a hell of a lot longer than it use to be. Actually it has to be because when I graduated in 2005, we walked the 20th of May, the weekend after the school year officially ended. Now its June before kids here get out...I don't understand it...I know if I had to do it all over again I wouldn't be able to survive...I mean what time do kids have to go to the beach :unsure:
Telo is from NJ and we always got out of school in mid to late June. No change. Probably more of a regional thing.
Edited by Rhadamanthus, Jun 4 2010, 09:29 PM.
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Jun 4 2010, 09:13 PM
I wouldn't do that. I was teased, the subject of jokes, and isolated for the entire year. Now that I'm useful I should roll over and give them what they ask for? Hell no. Soon as finals end, I'd just return to my previous status as "nobody". You need to earn my trust first. If you said absolutely nothing about me or to me the entire year, I'd be more inclined to help you. I still might not, but you've a better chance.

I had to work hard to hear what the teacher was saying. Understanding whats being said is a challenge when people are acting like immature children at a daycare; more so with a hearing disability. Speaking of which, the fact that I wear hearing aids was discovered in my Italian class when my teacher accidentally made a comment about how the one with hearing difficulties had the highest grade. The reaction of the class? Teasing. Jokes. Mouthing of words to imply that I'm deaf. Playing games where you get points for seeing how close you can get to me without me hearing them.

And these same people want my help to learn something that was incredibly difficult for me to hear in the first place because of them, and after such torment in addition. They expect me to help them? If it weren't for the fact that all of them might fight back at once, I might've punched these people at the conclusion of their request for help. I mean, seriously? I can't even describe the frustration.
To err is Human, to forgive is Divine.

Really I can relate. My father was diagnosed with Asbestos cancer when I was three months old, we had to stay under the poverty line to get him medical care. He died when I was eight, and my mother, with what little life insurance money she got, she invested in real estate. We didn't spend money on new clothes, cars or good dental care. I grew up in an area that had a large portion of black people, I went to school with a large group of black kids. They where merciless, I was picked on every day for having old cloths, old shoes, old school supplies, most of this happened in elementary school but it continued into middle school. (Even though many of their families where on welfare, they picked on me. Oh yeah and the white kids did it plenty too. And being a scrawny little kind until I hit puberty didn't help)

You know how I won in the end? I didn't let them know they bugged me was perhaps the biggest thing. I also showed them I forgave them, although I made sure they knew what they said to me (Yeah I rubbed their faces in it), I think the Psychology behind that is that they realized I was a better being(I was not only one of the biggest, but also one of the smartest in my school), and they wanted to be around me, but not if I was bitter.

High School friendships are sad (Ones made before and after are truer friendships), most of them are based on bribery. Teens want to be around some one who will give them something (Money, food, status, rides, etc). The best way to make real friends is to join some group or sport.
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Ulgania
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I just put myself through the hoops of high school and recovered my self-esteem in college ^^

I also went out of my way to find like-minded people who were not from my school, but within a reasonable distance. I deal with the day-to-day stuff, but afterward I go to the people I can count on. At first this came from the internet, but that soon turned to people in other schools who I found I could get along with. It was like a fresh start.
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Toussaint
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Telo, you should read Notes from Underground.
Edited by Toussaint, Jun 5 2010, 01:49 AM.
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Al Araam
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At the very least, cash is cash. Furthermore, passing around copies of your notes can't get you in trouble. At least I don't think it can.
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Hell, at some universities its institutional. I sell my notes to the academic office, and they sell them to other students are markup. :P
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Rhadamanthus
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Jun 6 2010, 12:28 PM
Hell, at some universities its institutional. I sell my notes to the academic office, and they sell them to other students are markup. :P
Can you sell direct, or do they require you do sell through them?
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Rhadamanthus
Jun 6 2010, 01:09 PM
Union
Jun 6 2010, 12:28 PM
Hell, at some universities its institutional. I sell my notes to the academic office, and they sell them to other students are markup. :P
Can you sell direct, or do they require you do sell through them?
Hmm, I wonder if there is a market for faculty notes? :evil:
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Ulgania
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Jun 6 2010, 01:15 PM
Rhadamanthus
Jun 6 2010, 01:09 PM
Union
Jun 6 2010, 12:28 PM
Hell, at some universities its institutional. I sell my notes to the academic office, and they sell them to other students are markup. :P
Can you sell direct, or do they require you do sell through them?
Hmm, I wonder if there is a market for faculty notes? :evil:
My chemistry professor writes all his notes on a tablet, and puts them online for everyone in the class anyway :lol:
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Toussaint
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I graduate today.

There will be cake. :love:
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Ulgania
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Congrats!
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I'll be a junior next year. T.T Not only will I have the most demanding courseload I've ever had (Calculus AP. Help. Dx), but I'm dead if I don't get all A's. According to my parents, I'm "advanced" enough to do it. I think I need to learn how to study.

On the bright side, it will look good for college. And I'll get to rub in all of the seniors' faces the fact that I'm so much younger than them (I'm younger than most kids in my grade anyway) and getting A's.

Not looking forward to the college search because my parents are going to be crazy, but I can't wait for the freedom when I finally get there.
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My college search went as far as me refusing stay in Vermont for it :lol:
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Telosan
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Congrats, Tou!

My next year should be interesting. I finally managed to get into all honors classes, after having to climb the stupid difficulty scale. My school doesn't let us go from a normal class to honors. I have to go to a college prep class first. There are no freshmen honor classes. Sophmore is the lowest grade for honors classes and I only managed to get half my classes past the required grade level after missing the last month of school last year. I'm taking all the usual classes, but I finally got into TV production! I needed an art credit, but I'm the least artistic person in this hemisphere, so something tech-related should allow me to pass with a decent grade.
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Art History (very easy credit) wouldn't cut it??
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Woohoo! Got my grades for the spring and I did well enough to pull my accumulative up above the 3.0... Freshman mistakes officially done... Into the college of business!
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
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Jun 16 2010, 09:17 PM
Art History (very easy credit) wouldn't cut it??
That's not available. There's not broad art class; every option is specialized in some way. Tech Draw, Background & Scenery, Cartoon, Sketching, etc. Of those, tech draw would be the easiest for me since it's on the computer, but my friend said it was one of the most difficult classes he took. I signed up for Photography, but, as you can imagine, so did 80% of the rest of the school looking for art credits. They didn't have any space left for me.

TV Production should be easy and fun. It's usually something that the freshmen pick up and I've already figured out that most of the class will be freshmen, with a few sophmores, and one other junior besides me. From what I've been able to figure out, I'm the only one who's already taken a tech class, so I should be able to spend the entire year sitting at the camera control board thingy. I can't act to save my life, which is especially bad considering all projects done in TV production are broadcast on the television during lunch all day.
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Jun 16 2010, 09:33 PM
Woohoo! Got my grades for the spring and I did well enough to pull my accumulative up above the 3.0... Freshman mistakes officially done... Into the college of business!
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
We are all so proud of our little college alcoholic! :lol:

Seriously, freshman year is always the most difficult - now, 3.8 or bust!
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Is a 29 on the ACT good?

It says I'm in the 91% percentile in California.
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Yeah, I think so.
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Jul 10 2010, 07:48 PM
Is a 29 on the ACT good?

It says I'm in the 91% percentile in California.
A 27 got me into plenty of schools..... And my GPA blew in high school!

But yes, a 29 is very good.
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Good job. I got a 32.
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I had a 28 many years ago, but the test WAS harder then! 28 got me into just about any public school I wanted and I, lake Flumes, had really crappy grades in H.S.
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Jul 11 2010, 07:59 AM
I had a 28 many years ago, but the test WAS harder then! 28 got me into just about any public school I wanted and I, lake Flumes, had really crappy grades in H.S.
I have a lake named after me!!??!!?!! ^^
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Jul 11 2010, 10:11 AM
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Jul 11 2010, 07:59 AM
I had a 28 many years ago, but the test WAS harder then! 28 got me into just about any public school I wanted and I, lake Flumes, had really crappy grades in H.S.
I have a lake named after me!!??!!?!! ^^
Nahh, you're named after the lake. :rolleyes:
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