Last One to Post Wins! v4

All I remember from Chemistry is that if you heat a can of soda over a bunsen burner for awhile and then place it in a tray of ice it implodes. That's all.

At the very least, school keeps your brain active, even if what you're keeping it active with is not really going to help you in life. I remember every time a teacher was asked what we needed to learn maths for, they would always say, 'To get into university,' but never say exactly what we would need it for afterwards. It took until one community college Maths teacher to say how it can help us in life (I don't remember the exact details of the reason). I remember clapping after the teacher said it.

*Wins whilst everyone is discussing schools*
 
I would talk about something else, like that Uno game I tried playing with Lavender, but... it went a bit haywire...

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... A bit.
 
Come now FCG, everyone knows that the best time to blast another player with a bunch of Draw 4's is right when they think they've *got one card left! :p
Just like how I've blasted my way in here out of nowhere to take the win! :coolrim:

Edit: Spelling lol.
 
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I don't know how to play card games, but only know that they are used extensively in making questions of probability.
 
Delta Crowned Sword said:
For me most boring subjects were History and Social Studies. And hence I am happy to forget them.
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Ironically, those two might be the most underrated types of subjects. If we don't understand history we are bound to repeat past mistakes. And social sciences teach you that different people have different opinions and that we should respect that. Even if we don't agree.

Meanwhile all the natural sciences just teach you to strictly follow orders to get a specific outcome. It's a very convenient method if you want obedient worker slaves. But it doesn't really do you any good in regards to community building.

^it's one of the reasons why social sciences are currently frowned upon. ^^"
 
I never played Uno.


Personally I found history classes interesting depending on the subject (and also the teacher... there was this one teacher that turned it into a boring snooze-fest). Forgot a lot of it though :sadwick:
 
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My parents still buy me food I liked as a teen -.-
 
I remember my last semester at university along with a Sherlock Holmes fan-fiction class and Aikido I was taking this Chinese History class so I could get a minor in History (it was the last class I needed for it). The lectures were interesting, but the assigned readings tended to be boring or obnoxious and the assignments were stupid. For example, for one of the two 8-page essay assignments we had to do, we had to read this book that went into extremely painful detail on what was at an ancient Chinese market, who was selling it, how much it cost, what people bought it, whether it was thought to be a high class purchase, and etc. Then, after having read said book, we had to write an 8-page essay using only material from the lectures. If we were only using the material from the lectures, WHY did we have to read that book...? Since the teacher was going to give several prompts over the semester (and I only had a weekend to do it by the time I finished the book) I didn't do that one. Soon afterwards we had the first exam coming up. I'd really grown dissatisfied with the class by this point, so I decided I'd go to the last class we had before the exam and see if he said anything during the lecture that would make me want to stay in the class. The class came, and I sat through the lecture, which, as I thought, didn't do anything to convince me to stay with the class.

When I got home, I dropped the class- when looking for a job, employers are not really going to look at your minor anyway. I really enjoyed the semester after that.
 
Weasel D. Garp said:
I remember my last semester at university along with a Sherlock Holmes fan-fiction class
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Today I learned this is a thing that exists? That sounds wild, what was it like?

Also people mentioned history/social studies classes? There was a year where I scored a hefty 3% grade (out of 100% of course, just to clear up any confusion) in a Social Studies class, and it's always funny to me whenever I look at my transcript and see it on my grades.
I've always thought a good teacher makes or breaks how you feel about a class (and potentially an entire school subject in general) and I always tried harder and was more interested in learning subjects where I liked the teacher. I consider Science and Math to be my best subjects in high school and a lot of that has to do with often having great teachers for those subjects and feeling like I was respected in the classroom.
I've always found history/social studies to be pretty boring but there were some cool things about it. I remember really enjoying the time I spent studying the industrial revolution.

I'm (slowly and awkwardly) in the process of trying to apply for college so the most I can really speak from experience is things in high school.

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This is so cuuuuute... :plead:
 
Setsuna said:
Today I learned this is a thing that exists? That sounds wild, what was it like?

Also people mentioned history/social studies classes? There was a year where I scored a hefty 3% grade (out of 100% of course, just to clear up any confusion) in a Social Studies class, and it's always funny to me whenever I look at my transcript and see it on my grades.
I've always thought a good teacher makes or breaks how you feel about a class (and potentially an entire school subject in general) and I always tried harder and was more interested in learning subjects where I liked the teacher. I consider Science and Math to be my best subjects in high school and a lot of that has to do with often having great teachers for those subjects and feeling like I was respected in the classroom.
I've always found history/social studies to be pretty boring but there were some cool things about it. I remember really enjoying the time I spent studying the industrial revolution.
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I 100% agree in finding the Industrial Revolution/Gilded Age a fascinating period I've loved studying. Unfortunately, I've rarely gotten to because most of my history classes spent nearly all year going over the American Revolution-Civil War era in excruciating detail (not that those parts of history aren't important, but it starts to get extremely boring the 8th time you've heard about why the colonies split off from Britain), then they'd briefly talk about WWII & the Civil Rights Movement for like the last 2 weeks of school. I finally got to learn about it in detail this last year because I was taking a standardized AP class that forces a diverse curriculum and greatly enjoyed it! I almost always get great grades though, mainly because I'm very adept at memorizing information and regurgitating it on tests, which is all my school really expects. They also don't have + or - grades, so if I can scrape a 90 in a class, then it's still considered an A and treated identically to a 100.

I'm (slowly and awkwardly) in the process of trying to apply for college so the most I can really speak from experience is things in high school.
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What a coincidence, so am I! I suppose we're around the same age then, good luck with your applications!
 
CoolKid575 said:
What a coincidence, so am I! I suppose we're around the same age then, good luck with your applications!
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Most likely! I've taken a few years off out of school after graduating high school and my life's basically ended up turning into a whirlwind since. But the idea of people being younger than me doesn't exist, so we're likely around the same age.

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I'll be cheering you on, best of luck!!
 
Setsuna said:
But the idea of people being younger than me doesn't exist, so we're likely around the same age.
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So the literal second you were born, you died and were then resurrected as a zombie? It sounds like you should join an idol group when you've got a background like that! :D
 
I never liked studying History or Social Studies, despite they were my high scoring subjects in school days, along with others. And that was solely because I remembered the key points and explain them in my own words to lengthen the answers. Never enjoyed history as we were taught mostly about colonial era and things around that, followed by world war, history of clothing, etc.
Social Science was sounding like they want me to contest an election, and was extremely out-of-phase for me. Got very bored in it for sure. Geography was great and I enjoyed it a lot, because it made a lot of sense to me than knowing the other two.







I consider myself as science student, hence the subjects which I like are related to it. And I also consider Geography there, because it is quite analytical, unlike history and social studies. Luckily, those days are over and now I only study(ied) Physics and Mathematics related to Physics in Bachelor's (hopefully Masters in near future).

And once I am done with all that, then I will also be playing games like you all !!





But still, in first year there was a course of English but the literature was more of the history book, with grammar included !!
😓😓😓😓😓

And the exams of English were very lengthy and that 10 marks / 15 marks question strained my hands a lot, because I am not adopted to writing that much.
 
CoolKid575 said:
I 100% agree in finding the Industrial Revolution/Gilded Age a fascinating period I've loved studying. Unfortunately, I've rarely gotten to because most of my history classes spent nearly all year going over the American Revolution-Civil War era in excruciating detail (not that those parts of history aren't important, but it starts to get extremely boring the 8th time you've heard about why the colonies split off from Britain), then they'd briefly talk about WWII & the Civil Rights Movement for like the last 2 weeks of school. I finally got to learn about it in detail this last year because I was taking a standardized AP class that forces a diverse curriculum and greatly enjoyed it! I almost always get great grades though, mainly because I'm very adept at memorizing information and regurgitating it on tests, which is all my school really expects. They also don't have + or - grades, so if I can scrape a 90 in a class, then it's still considered an A and treated identically to a 100.
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Seems like every country has that historic event they go over in excruciating detail in History class. Germany really puts a lot of emphasis on the 3rd Reich and WW2, for example.
Delta Crowned Sword said:
But still, in first year there was a course of English but the literature was more of the history book, with grammar included !!
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I didn't learn English from school as much as I learnt from playing games, watching videos on Youtube, talking to people online and reading books from actually interesting authors.
 
I already knew how to speak English before school taught me from movies and games. There would often be no subs at all or dutch subs though so I didn't know how to actually write some words untill they started teaching English in school and some words just made me go 'wait that's how you write it?!' xD
 
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