WhiteWulfe Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 For me, I wound up being bored out of my mind with school because a) class was boring for most of them, and b) the pacing for classes was absolutely terrible. Except physics. And chemistry. ..Especially when those teachers collaborated, and gave us problems that involved both for bonus questions.... That were fourth year university questions, and you got bonus points if you got close, or were creative about your answering (I suspect they were trying to find who the ones most interested in the subject were, and to encourage various things). Chemistry was fun though, because our teacher liked to light things on fire.... Sure kept the attention of the pyromaniacs, and he only had three rules - no stupid things (such as throwing acid at others, turning people's skin purple without their permission, etc), no making tnt, and no making nitroglycerin. Gym was the worst though. Stupid football jocks trying to be tough, and then getting taken out by the geeks at dodgeball.... Girls sure had fun mocking our football team for that.. (then again, the football team was mocked because curling, badminton, AND the swim teams were all in the top quarter for the city and football was dead last in the city...) 7 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argentee Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 5 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? K-12 My favorite were art classes, but I did well in everything EXCEPT handwriting or classes where the teachers refused to let me type assignments 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zink Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 6 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? Chemistry in high school. I also did well at the various maths and sciences. Oddly enough tanked at chemistry and physics in university. Too big of a jum in difficulty and other more interesting things going on. 2 hours ago, Doug Sundseth said: Bizarre history is everywhere, especially the kind that will keep the attention of teenagers*. You have to work to make history boring. But a set of perverse incentives has made history textbook writers work very hard to do exactly that. Textbook history is written to appease as many school boards as possible. So American History books (for example) will have at least two pages on every president (even John Tyler ), so that they can sell to the state from which the president came (Virginia buys a lot of books). * E.g.: Friedrich August I, Elector of Saxony, was a champion fox flinger and fathered perhaps as many as 400 children, one of which was even legitimate. He bribed his way into becoming the King of Poland (as Augustus II, the Strong), twice. And his court alchemist was responsible for the first European creation of true porcelain. I love to read and love history. In school english literature and social studies were my least favourite classes. Didn't like their focus. All through high school we had the same social teacher. He could make the most interesting subject soooo boring and lots of time he was lazy and just said, "go read chapters x-y. He loved long essays on politics. I dislike writing essays and prefer keeping my politics as a background to the interesting facts. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rahz Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 On 10/2/2019 at 8:29 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 2: What is your favorite gemstone (precious, semi-precious, or otherwise) and why? (Multiple choices are welcome, mostly because I won't be able to keep it to just one.) Anything with a nice colour to it... Rubies, sapphires top the list. On 10/3/2019 at 10:19 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 3: What do your favorite dice look like? Plain black with red numbers. My D20 eats PCs for breakfast... doesn't roll as well for me when I'm a player though... On 10/4/2019 at 8:02 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 4: How is Fall progressing in your corner of the world? October 5-6 (Weekend Quest): Get out and enjoy Fall, take a picture of Fall prettiness and show us. Cold is coming quickly. I expect sub-freezing temperatures within a couple weeks. On 10/7/2019 at 8:03 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 7: What sorts of pests invade your home, and how do you deal with them? (For the record, teenagers and other human larval forms do not count as pests.) Mice, though I don't see them or hear them often anymore. We sealed up all the gaps we could find when finishing the basement. I know there are still some, but I don't see them anymore. Raccoon using my window well as their outhouse is my more pressing issue... apparently flamethrowers are not an ok solution to this problem so I'm looking into other options. On 10/8/2019 at 7:35 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 8: What not-so-fun project is keeping you from painting your minis or that you are blithely ignoring while painting minis. Work... Federal Election in 11 days and it affects my work A LOT. The next 3-4 weeks are going to be totally insane. Then I will take a holiday. On 10/9/2019 at 7:56 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why? Whichever planet out there has a population that can live in (mostly) harmony.... There has to be one and it would be great to visit... 6 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? Biology and beer drinking (often before class....). High school in Europe was a very good thing!!! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarg1 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? K-12: I would say sciences in general, and high school biology in particular, with honorable mentions to my 12th grade English elective on satire, and 7th grade Latin. College: Operating Systems, with an honorable mention to the literature course I took on Russian science fiction. Grad School: I was admitted to the masters program, but elected to take a job instead. I went into college thinking seriously of trying to become a marine biologist, and came out with a degree in computer science. I occasionally regret my decision not to push harder on pure sciences, but on the whole I would say my chosen career fits me pretty well. I also regret not taking at least the basic intro/fundamentals art class while I was in college. Getting that kind of training is much harder to line up with adult life. Edited October 10, 2019 by klarg1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Kane Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 6 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? Best/ favorite: History, I loved Astronomy, and Chemistry, thought we did not do much in either as it was more of a general science class. I enjoyed art, but was never any good at it. I also enjoyed woodworking, even though I did not pass it my senior year..... That was more the teacher tell me I could not do a project so I sat and read the entire class. I liked math, but had trouble with algebra my Junior year I failed the second half, so I needed a half credit of math to graduate, so I got Geometry my Senior year..... I was the class Hellion. I was the student that teachers tell horror stories about, but the class made sense to me. I was usually the first done with the homework, and passed every test. Pulled an A out of that class. I passed English by the seat of my pants and only because I had to. My senior year that was all I passed English and Geometry. That was all I needed to graduate. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper_the_2nd Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 7 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? High school: physics and comp sci, probably. English was fun but I never really considered it something to focus on, even with my grade 12 teacher telling me I should consider writing for a career. Most of the rest were fine. I like history but can't remember names, dates or places for any length of time, so had to cram for tests to keep it in short term memory. French was a problem. My brain doesn't like to learn other languages, unless they are nice logical programming languages. My problem in high school was I didn't have to study (3rd highest was fine for me, Theresa and Joanne were super keen, and I was a long haired metal-head (it was the 80s!) who didn't want to do work) , so I never really developed a method of doing so. This became an issue in college. College: all the programming courses, oh and English. I started as a Physics major, but my first prof for Calculus was useless. This was also when I developed sleep apnea and my marks plummeted (I couldn't get up for my 9 am courses and was falling asleep by 9 pm). I also realized that I didn't enjoy the more advanced physics, but really like the programming I was doing, so switched to comp sci...and had a UPPP to fix my sleep apnea (at least for 20 years or so). Also, Comp Sci meant I didn't need to learn to study... I include English because 1) I'm apparently pretty good at it, or at least BSing my way through it enough to get an A- without trying, and 2) I took 3rd year courses in Fantasy and Sci-Fi. Prof was an expert on Arthurian legend so even the Sci-Fi course had more books involving Arthur than not. Was a fun couple of courses. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranky Dog Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? I always had an affinity for the science classes (I was born to be an engineer). So physics, chemistry, geography, biology, etc. all clicked. So it's also surprising that as a science nerd I loved my art classes in high school. It was one of the very few optional classes, and I took it every year I could. The alternate choice was music class, and I got enough of it home. A unique case would be my English classes. Since I grew up in the French part of Canada, English classes were a second language class. Since I've always been fully bilingual (born in Ontario, French speaking parents, English speaking environment, I picked it up easily), the difficulty level of my English classes were laughingly easy from my point of view. So I found them fun and relaxing. This strongly contrasts with my disdain of my French classes. Our grammar is ridiculously complicated, and conjugated verbs almost never write out the way they sound. Edited October 10, 2019 by Cranky Dog 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werkrobotwerk Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 8 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? I was good at a bunch of ones I did not want to be in. I was ok at art, but I mostly wanted to be there. home ec was pretty ok, but I only got a quarter of a year of it in all of k-12 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illithar Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? English for the most part, especially during Junior/Senior year. They had classes broken down by genre, we had things like British Literature, Folklore and Fairy Tales, Sci-Fi, etc. I did OK in math up until more advanced Algebra. Failed Chemistry, but I enjoyed biology and earth science. Into college English courses became more difficult, specifically in the writing portion. I did great in Human A&P though, Anthropology and Sociology were fun too. I remember simultaneously hating philosophy and enjoying it. Oh yeah, art classes. Did pretty good there all around. Edited October 11, 2019 by Illithar 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManvsMini Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 15 hours ago, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? That's a tough one, at different levels of education I had varying success and interests. I did well in all of my schooling, but in high school I had an affinity for foreign languages (French and German). During my first run in college, I would say organic chemistry was the class I enjoyed the most; it was a well-deserved break from all the calculus and physics I also studied (it's literally drawing pictures and counting atoms/electrons). During my return to college after 6 years in the work force for a career change, I think human physiology was my favorite; it really showed how all the previous chemistry and physics was applied in the human body. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezler the Polychromatic Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 12 hours ago, Dilvish the Deliverer said: Pretty sure that the definition of Evocation IS property damage. Obviously you were never in MY chemistry class. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Sakura Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 On 10/10/2019 at 7:07 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? I really enjoyed art classes, until I majored in it in college and came to largely hate producing art because of the garbage instructors I had. 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 On 10/10/2019 at 7:07 AM, TaleSpinner said: October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school? Chemistry by a long shot. For some reason I could easily do equations, often in my head, immediately. I probably should've pursued it (I found this out in AP Chemistry in HS) though maybe not since my first actual college attempt was as a biochem major because I wanted to create a mind/machine interface to enable deep space exploration. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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