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How to make the best out of it?

When I go to school, I really don't want to be there. I sit there, and just sit there, barely talk to anybody. I want to know things that I can do during the my school time, to keep me from being so bored.
03-19-2012 10:47 AM
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

I play brickbreaker
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

Read a book nigga.
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Troll the teacher
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

Draw some random things in your notebook, doesn't matter if you're good or not at drawing.
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(03-19-2012 11:08 AM)Luizão876 Wrote:  Draw some random things in your notebook, doesn't matter if you're good or not at drawing.

That reminds me, watch this guy's series of how to draw stick figure wars. They come in handy in school


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RE: How to make the best out of it?

Why can't you talk to people?
(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

In math class my buddy and I text, talk, tell each other racist jokes, and troll our teacher when she calls on us. Good fucking time except when I'm pissed.
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

Drawing is surprisingly entertaining in class.
I would always try drawing the back of the head of whoever happened to be sitting in front of me in class, or try drawing the whole classroom from the perspective of my desk. Sometimes I would do simple caricatures of the teachers.

Reading is good too, especially if it's something related to the class you happen to be in. For instance, "A Brief History of Time" in science classes.

Origami's fun.
Take a pen apart, play with the pieces a little bit, then put it back together.
Imagine strange circumstances in the classroom. What if the room were half as big? What if the teacher was Dirtbikemike? What if YOU were Dirtbikemike?
Do some isometric exercises.
Learn to circle-breathe.

This is silly. Why does school have to be so uninteresting that we need to do this?
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

School and 'funny', 'interesting' 'best out of it' in one sentence => no way
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

Just buy a bunch of books you're seriously interested in and read them at school. If you feel you don't have the attention span for regular books, try out graphic novels.
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Books are the best...they would take me from whatever boring and pointless math we were "learning" that day to wherever I wanted to go. I would open the book, and it would feel like 5 minutes later the class was over.
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RE: How to make the best out of it?

Do what I do. Do really hard long division problems throughout the class. It gives everyone the impression that you're working.
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