I love my math teacher. He’s not necessarily an amazing teacher, but he’s the nicest person ever and he does try to make teaching interesting for us (case: today in class, he did a demonstration of velocity and stuff and basically everybody was mind-boggled; another time, he set up a human pulley in class). If you listen to him in class, you will learn; but it’s your choice if you don’t. He’s really chill about what you do in class and is really understanding about homework and stuff (in some cases too understanding, but I’m not complaining). He’s got a PhD from Cornell, but he’s really soft-spoken and sweet and he’s the best math teacher ever (actually my math teacher from last year is also pretty great–I still visit him every day; perhaps I just have really, really good luck with getting good math teachers who really like me).
Same here. My math teacher graduated from Princeton or something and worked in finance for Dole Food Company and was also like, an engineer or something. He gives us so many meaningful life lessons that are somehow embedded into the topics we are discussing.
I’m going to major in Medical Science most probably
I’m going into Applied Linguistics for sure, but that’s what I’ll do in grad school,
I’m also thinking about joining the Peace Corps between undergrad and grad school (You work in a specialty, I’d be teaching English, it’s abroad, two years, and they have an AMAZING benefits program… they help you pay for grad school, give insurance, give you $8,000 when you leave to help you get started again (or invest, that’s the smart thing…!) and if you are qualified for a government position where there is an opening you get the job without having to jump through hoops and compete for it… etc.!!!) Plus they pay you during you service, and it’s an all-around amazing experience!!!
And for undergrad I’m thinking of doing some sort of double major, maybe even with the addition of a minor if possible… Linguistics+Chinese +a minor in Education,
I know I want to work for the United Nations or the Central Intelligence Agency (which have amazing summer interships!!!)
So this is what my plan looks like:
High School APs
Government
US History
Psych
Literatute
Language
Chemistry
Chinese
Spanish
Calculus OR Stat
~Graduate High School - 17y/o
Undergrad
Double Major - Linguistics x Chinese + possible minor in education
Summer Paid Interships at Central Intelligence Agency
~Graduation Undergrad - 21y/o
Peace Corps
In Education
~Finish PC Service - 23 y/o
Grad School
Applied Lingustics
~Finish Grad School 27 y/o (or maybe 26y/o if summer sessions are available)
Work in Translation OR Teaching Foreign Language at United Nations OR Central Intelligence Agency
All y’all taking so many APs.
Haha I have no idea what I’m going to do in the future. My mind is a whirlwind of a gazillion ideas.
Also, does anyone know what do do/write on the left side of a (handmade) card? I can’t just leave it blank because some stuff from the cover bled through… HELP. I have to go to a sixteenth birthday party in 1.5 hours.
@topaz1116 You could try to cut out a white rectangle of paper or something to glue on top of it so the bleed doesnt show. It mightve wouldve been better to write on top of something and glue/tape it on the cover if there was bleed
I didn’t realize it would bleed until after I did it xD I used cardstock, which normally holds what’s on the cover.
I’m thinking of putting pictures on the left side, but that takes searching through my computer and… effort…
And I haven’t been really good friends with that girl for long. So I don’t have many pictures of the sort.
6/10 on an easy open note government quiz because I took horrible notes lol rekt
preparing for my parents’ rage xD
Now I’ll have to explain the D- on my grades website.
Not quite sure what I want to do but maybe neuroscience or something like that because the brain very interesting. Also, my brother has very severe autism and I have a certain “mental disorder” as well so maybe I can figure out why we both have these seemingly unrelated afflictions. They say that lots of mentally unstable people go into psychiatry because they’re trying to figure out what’s wrong with them, I think that’s true. Perhaps I’ll go into research or something.
Not sure what job I want but I know that I definitely don’t want to be a doctor or engineer, even though my parents have suggested those jobs for me.
My parents don’t even look at my grades online, even though the school says they’re supposed to. The only thing they look at is the report card that comes in the mail.
@topaz1116 If you can draw, maybe you can draw something?
@dsi411 you are infinitely lucky. Five of my teachers post grades online, and whenever my grade drops, I am subject to my parents’ rage… It’s especially bad with precalc, where although I have a B, I’m in the top 40% (the top 40% are automatically guaranteed an A in the class).
@Faultystart lol I can’t art (verbification ftw) xD But I ended up drawing flower vines and flowers. Whoopee.
Procrastination.
Why can’t this thread be more active? I want something to do while I (don’t) study for finals).
I went swimming for the first time in 4/5 months. It felt so weird. I couldn’t even swim for half an hour nonstop. This is what 4 months of off-season gives me.
I got a 66 on my related rates AP Calculus quiz because she took off 3 points wherever i put (ft/sec^2) for my units because APPARENTLY it was supposed to be ft^2/sec.
But here’s the thing: ALL MY ANSWERS WERE RIGHT. IT WAS A FIVE QUESTION QUIZ AND SHE TOOK OFF THREE POINTS FOR EVERY SINGLE ANSWER THAT HAD THE UNITS WRITTEN LIKE THAT.
Oh and here’s another thing: SHE NEVER TOLD US WE HAD TO WRITE THE UNITS LIKE THAT SO HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW.
AND WHO TAKES POINTS OFF FOR EVERY. SINGLE. ONE WHEN IT’S THE SAME MISTAKE.
Okay it is wrong I get it, but was it necessary to do it off of every single one and totally butcher my quiz which was correct? Wasn’t a half point enough?
I vented to my AP Chem teacher and he was like "I would have taken it off just once and then told you in person or something, not go off on every single one.
My AP calculus teacher is just so bad–she doesn’t teach like the way she should, leaves off so much in the lesson, and then we have to pay the punishment for that.
My grade in the class is fine, it was a small quiz but I was so UPSET.
She did it to almost everyone… some people just plain out got one question wrong and with the units taken off, ended up with a 27 on the quiz.
She’s out of her mind sigh. And no one can say anything to her. Her head is huuuuge. She always says she could write the best review book. Yeah sure.
Hahaha I can barely swim 100 yards (or at least, that’s how much I could swim last time I checked; I bet I can’t swim that much now). I have a friend who is both on the water polo team and the swim team (although I’m not sure about if she’s doing the latter this year; I know her parents don’t want her to), and I can’t. How.
I’m not exactly the sportiest person… I can (sort of?) dance, though, if that counts for anything.
@SallyStephens Gosh, that sucks! I’m glad that I don’t have teachers like that.
@topaz1116 I used to be able to swim 3k. Now I can barely swim a 200 without stopping. I seem to have forgotten how to swim butterfly too. Don’t worry, I’m not a sporty person either. My brother is though, and he rubs it in my face all the time!
@SallyStephens that’s like my engineering teacher. And apparently on Friday, someone expressed their feelings about him to his face and asked him why he didn’t teach us what to do instead of expecting us to know it.
And apparently he replied, “You’re [abbreviated version of HS name] students. You’re already supposed to know the information.”
He basically thinks that if someone at my school was offered five extra credit points, they’d jump off a bridge. I really, really dislike him. He made me come over to his class in the middle of chem because he thought I accidentally took a ruler from his classroom. And it was a quiet work period in chem, so it was really awkward when my teacher called me out and told me to walk over there.
He literally gave everyone a zero on several assignments and graded them as all-or-nothing credit; although he allowed revisions, most people’s grades dropped to a B or a C in that class after the zero was put in (my grade report for that class looks like an EKG).
Ughh I hate teachers like ours.
@faultystart I haven’t swam since October…I hope to start when I join the school swim team again.
@topaz1116 None of my teachers are like that, thank God, but I really don’t like my CompSci teacher’s sarcasm.
@topaz1116 That sucks too. Isn’t the point of taking a class to LEARN the information? I think a teacher would understand that.
My worst teacher was my math teacher in 6th grade. Apparently “partial-credit” did not exist in that classroom. I got my first D (on a test) in that class.
@Cornbread1999 I quit swimming for a competitive year-round team earlier this year (no 4 am practices for me!) and stopped competitive swimming entirely. I’m trying to get in shape for water polo. It isn’t going that well.