School starts part 2

Crap, now it's starting for me too! Tomorrow is my first day, have to wake up at 8!!

What if you had admin rights to life?

That's a good thing? I hate the last day of summer vacation, cause it marks the beginning of the torture named school. So when r the next vacations or 3 day weekends?

What if you had admin rights to life?

Nope, no uniforms, but no shits w/ profanity either, although we still wear em

What if you had admin rights to life?

Ouch, uniforms huh? That must be tough... after a while, I'd probably go crazy!!

<i>Past mistakes may make you look stupid, but avoiding future ones will make you look smart!</i>

I got my books yesterday... and tomorrow will be the first real schoolday .

My peltier is so powerful I get Bose-Einstein Condensate beneath it .

Wow!! IIRC you're just starting Grade 11 right? That's a pretty heavy workload you've got there. And don't you have to take math and some language courses and stuff? Over here, I've gotta take at least a language and a math every year, but I'm gonna take all the math and sciences I can.

<i>Past mistakes may make you look stupid, but avoiding future ones will make you look smart!</i>

Just got my books for the first level of a 3 level course.
<pre>The Practice of System and Network Administration.....62.95
Solaris 8 Training Guide: System Administrator Cert...62.95
Your Unix: The Ultimate Guide.........................87.95
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server ALS Series.............132.95
Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory ALS Series...132.95
The Windows 2000 Server Lab Manual....................44.95
subtotal.............................................524.70
7% GST................................................36.73
Total................................................561.43
</pre><p>Two more levels after this.

Flame not, lest ye be phlegmed.

Whoa, dude, that's alot!!
Is that for one term/quarter or for the whole year?

Disregard my previous post.

Level one of three, second year of two.

Flame not, lest ye be phlegmed.

Well, I was going to take French and Spanish but learning different languages wouldn't appease my passions. I'd prefer VB and Java over French and Spanish any day.

Of course, I'm taking English. I'm also taking IAPS (Introduction to Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology).


Intelligence is not merely the wealth of knowledge but the sum of perception, wisdom, and knowledge.

Of course not. Then they couldn't rip you off.

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Muhaha! So I get an essay analysis assignment for English, a couple of pages of math. For comp sci, I have to buy a copy of VB .NET, and for Cisco, I have to buy $100 worth of technical manuals. It's not all bad. I'll have CCNA certification by the end of Grade 12!

Intelligence is not merely the wealth of knowledge but the sum of perception, wisdom, and knowledge.

Why do people expect schools to start off light? They should start hard and finish strong. It makes for a better class.

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LoL. Maybe they are being light on you, but summer has taken its toll so it seems hard... I doubt it. Teachers usually go full force from the start as they should. Nothing to get you back into gear quicker than a swift boot in the ass.

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People are telling me that we're probably going to have a Physics quiz tomorrow. Haha, how about that? A quiz on the third day of school!?!?!!


Intelligence is not merely the wealth of knowledge but the sum of perception, wisdom, and knowledge.

Homework? Wazzat?

My peltier is so powerful I get Bose-Einstein Condensate beneath it .

right on. I never did my homework at home. heh in chemistry I did it while the teacher was grading. she'd stand over my back and read the answers as I frantically scribbled the answers to the questions she hadn't got to. She thought she could catch me at first, but then just said pass homework forward... grrr.. anyways I made an A in that class and don't even remember doing anything.

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I had always done pretty well in school. Then only classes I got bad grades in were College Prep English 105 and Sociology. I had to do a term paper. We could do it on anything. It had to be 15 pgs long, we had to use at least 10 different sources and had to have 80 notecards of info form those sources. I did my on The Trojan War (cause i've always fancied that), well I only did 28 note cards cause that's all I needed. I typed my paper and had my gf's mom proofread it she's also an english teacher but for a different school district. She said it was probably an A- paper. No less than a B. I turned it in to my English teacher. Got it back and it said 50% F. I was so pissed. When she went over our papers she couldn't tell me why I got an F. She tried to make excuses like the sentences didn't transition or something like that but I showed her where they did. I took her to the Principal and confronted her down there and she told him that I had picked a topic that wasn't allowed. So basically she didn't like the subject (even though she had previously approved it) and gave me an F. So I ended up with a D in the class cause that paper was worth 2/3 of our grades. Oh and I had to do a research paper in Sociology and one of the topics was Mythology so I wanted that, but the sociology teacher told me that I couldn't cause I had already done my english term on that. I told her that the trojan war is just the tip of the Iceburg in mythology, but she wouldn't let me. Anyways to make a long story short I just didn't do one cause I'm stubborn. Ended up getting a C in that class cause that paper wasn't worth as much. Anyways other than that I had A's or B's in all of my classes.

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It's depends on the person. A 10 page essay in a subject you love is easy to spout out. I can do that in about 20~30 mins tops.

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lol, what kind of essay takes 5 min to write? What do you get on it? 10%? lol. Well, I just hope you can spell your name out properly. A good A+ multipage essay takes several hours to write and a couple of more hours to revise. I mean, teachers are very very picky about your style and your professionalism (especially if you're writing a formal essay). When I'm assigned an essay, we're usually given about a two week time period to work on it and for good reason. Don't think you can write an essay at the last moment and expect to pass.

Intelligence is not merely the wealth of knowledge but the sum of perception, wisdom, and knowledge.

easy.
I take my A+ paper I wrote 3 years ago, change the date, period, and class....voila! Instant magic, baby!!
LOL!!! boy, high school was fun......
to bad that didn't work for me in college (here, they actually care what I write).

Disregard my previous post.

No, they don't. I rarely get A+s on my essays. I'm usually an A student in English. My highest essay mark last year was for history. For a part of final project worth 20% of our mark, we had to write an essay on four significant Canadian figures in the 20th century. I got 96% on my essay. I was actually quite surprised I got so high. Of course, don't forget that the maximum you can get is 100% here. Really, though, the only reason I worked so hard on my history essay was because I got disappointingly low on my previous essay: a mediocre 82%.

Intelligence is not merely the wealth of knowledge but the sum of perception, wisdom, and knowledge.

thought I mentioned it before in some other thread....
at any rate...
high school, for me, was party/fun time.....yes i still took all the "impossible courses", as you put it....but I was different from my colleagues:
I didn't care if I got an A+ or B in an exam or essay....I didn't care if I graduated with an 4.0gpa or a 3.0 gpa....I wasn't the type of student that got "personal satisfication" from getting good grades and showing off to my peers because they got crap grades....
I just wanted to pass all my classes, score extremely well on SATs and AP exams, and get into a good college.
High school, for me, was a joke...not because it was ridiculusly easy, but because i never really learned anything in a classroom. I could just read the book and learn all i needed to learn to pass the class, mainly because thats just what the teachers did (except for one of my really talented math teacher).

Not only that, I knew college would be different, it would be totally opposite from highschool, for me atleast. That meant no more partying, slacking off and sleeping in class, et cetra. Just study, study, work, work, study, and maybe I can sneak in a few sex here and there, but mostly work and study. So i figured, I'll have fun while i still can, because I know i'll be working my arse off in college....guess what? i was right. though, YMMV.

Disregard my previous post.

Haha, colleges look at that greatly too in the US. I intend on going to Columbia or MIT, and they ain't very easy to get into. They look at your schedule and won't accept you if you don't take hard enough courses, and yes, how u do in school matters tremendously. SAT's for those colleges are simply the first test, if u get higher than minimum they ask, they'll look at your application. I have to take all the Math SAT 2's, Writing/lit SAT 2's, Chem SAT2, Physics SAT2 (heard this one was impossible), Bio SAT2. BTW, sticky, which college did u go to?

What if you had admin rights to life?

Holy Sh!T!!!!! R u serious? Damn, how'd u get in? What'd u get on ur sat's?

What if you had admin rights to life?