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Hi. - Auberon - 06-03-2010 12:13 PM Hey. As you can tell, I signed up here a little bit ago - I've been lurking around since then, and consuming hatred of school has finally trumped my social phobia, so I decided to take a proactive measure against going out of my mind and introduce myself. So, hello there, I'm a sophomore in high school, almost sixteen. I live in the U.S., in Washington, which I'm only mentioning because the superintendent of my entire state's educational system was recently arrested for driving drunk. Sweet irony, considering all the time our curriculum spends treating teenagers like accident-prone binge alcoholics who shouldn't be allowed to own automobiles. So, what brings me here, starting from the top: Hidden stuff:
I tend to be sarcastic and annoyingly long-winded, but I can occasionally get my act together and write something logical and persuasive. Hopefully you'll be willing to put up with me for that long. Things I hope to do in the coming months/years instead of caring about school are computer programming, philosophy, web/graphic design, psychology, history, drawing and writing. I'm also an obsessive linguaphile, at the moment trying to expand my knowledge of Japanese. (P.S. Sort of off-topic, but if anybody here perchance speaks Romanian, I would appreciate resources on the subject of learning it. All of my usual language-related websites like to pretend that it doesn't exist, and I'm getting impatient with that.) Re: Hi. - Raikuron - 06-03-2010 12:24 PM If you want intelligent conversation, make sure to post in the serious forums. Threads get derailed very often and it is pretty much illegal to rerail them. Re: Hi. - A.B.W.A.G - 06-03-2010 12:34 PM Seriously, ive seen some strange threads, some of which started as a serious question or topic... Re: Hi. - Raikuron - 06-03-2010 12:42 PM And thank you, thank you very much for typing correctly, OP. Re: Hi. - magikarp - 06-03-2010 12:45 PM Btw, your avatar looks like ultrasound images. The text confused me at first. Re: Hi. - Auberon - 06-03-2010 01:22 PM Raikuron Wrote:If you want intelligent conversation, make sure to post in the serious forums. Threads get derailed very often and it is pretty much illegal to rerail them. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. magikarp Wrote:Btw, your avatar looks like ultrasound images. The text confused me at first. Haha, I see what you mean! Thank you for the welcome. Re: Hi. - LOON_ATTIC - 06-03-2010 02:50 PM Hi, and welcome! One question, do or have your parents cared about what you do in school, threatening to punish you if you don't get good grades, and putting everything else, including useful learning, above school? Re: Hi. - Auberon - 06-03-2010 03:55 PM Lunatic Wrote:Hi, and welcome! Thank you kindly! Self-directed/relevant learning is a foreign concept to both of them. They both believe the school=good career idea, and the learning is secondary. I can get them to admit that high school is generally a waste of time and doesn't teach anyone much, but if told them I actually wanted to leave and study independently, they would oppose it on the grounds that I "wouldn't be able to get a good job". About grades, sadly enough, yes. They're not too bad compared to others (i.e. they don't scream and take away my belongings if I get less than a 4.0; I know a lot of people's parents do things like that) but they accept about B to A range of grades. If I got anything less than that, they'd be mad, and if I failed anything, they would punish me. They're mostly concerned with how I would look to a college (again because college=good career to most people), not what I'm actually learning. They do put school higher than my other interests, yes. If I told them that I studied something else instead of doing my homework, they'd think that was a mistake, regardless of what I learned from it. How about yours? Re: Hi. - Faby - 06-04-2010 05:55 AM Greetings, and welcome to the SS forum. It's always refreshing to see people who are able to express themselves clearly. Re: Hi. - LOON_ATTIC - 06-04-2010 09:32 AM Auberon Wrote:Lunatic Wrote:Hi, and welcome! No problem. Mine are exactly the same, except for their opinion on high school being a waste of time. Every time I speak to them about how school is being mostly a waste of time and that I could learn much more by myself, and that it's just an obstacle to my learning, they make an argument that I'll begin real learning once I start taking AP classes, and that I have to get good grades to "get there". Re: Hi. - Denied - 06-04-2010 10:12 AM It's always refreshing to have someone here who is intelligent. Have fun, and watch out for the postwhores. Re: Hi. - Auberon - 06-07-2010 03:58 PM Lunatic Wrote:No problem. Oh man, equating "real learning" with AP classes? For them to say something like that, I really hope the AP classes where you live are a lot different from the ones I've been in, though I doubt it. All AP does is offer you a ridiculous amount of busywork. If it helps, you can tell your parents that the administration generally doesn't care who takes an AP class as long as they don't fail and have to drop it at any time during the year. The school uses the number of AP tests taken as a status symbol, so they "encourage" anyone who looks even mildly able to make it through the class to the exam to do it. I know a lot of people at my school who can't write a proper paragraph, yet are in AP World History, where the whole curriculum is based on in-class essays. By the way, your icon is awesome. Re: Hi. - The Desert Fox - 06-09-2010 09:04 AM Denied Wrote:It's always refreshing to have someone here who is intelligent. Have fun, and watch out for the postwhores.ಠ_ಠ Also, welcome. |