Highschool is important. It's not always something specific that makes it so, but it just is. Not finishing highschool means you'll be working at a factory. So unless you're a rock star, or millionaire, finish it and try your best.
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Highschool is important. It's not always something specific that makes it so, but it just is. Not finishing highschool means you'll be working at a factory. So unless you're a rock star, or millionaire, finish it and try your best.
Granted, I'm not setting the world on fire and unlocking the mysteries of cold fusion, but I got through a shitty public High School and a University degree without "working hard". I just made sure I listened in class, handed everything in on time (usually just on time), and didn't fuck up too much. However, I do work hard in the workplace and think that anybody that doesn't has no respect for themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
There you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
School is easy compared to a job. Teachers these days are extremely lenient, sometimes too much so.
You want to make video games then trig and physics are a wee bit helpful - just sayin'Quote:
Originally Posted by Swift
Indeed. But I've always thought that school was more an exercise in understanding your teachers than actually learning. If you can empathise with your teachers and understand what they "like" and "dislike" you can always write something catering specifically to their tastes to get good marks. I once had a man-hating commie history teacher, so I wrote a WWI essay on the emancipation of women due to the proletariat uprising of female ammuntion production lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roufuss
The most important things you learn in highschool are social skills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swift
Also, anybody who say's "I can't remember a single thing I learned in high school" or "how are quadratic equations going to help me when I am working" is a moron. One, most of the knowledge you gain in high school will become such a part of your "knowledge base" that you will take it for granted; and secondly, learning something isn't as half as important as learning how to learn something. When your teacher gives you a report like this, they don't do it so you will learn more about how things have changed the world, they do it so you will learn skills on how to research something and compile it into a coherent report.
What was your major again?Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
Oops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swift
Video games haven't changed America in any meaningful way.
*waits for flammage*
If highschool didn't rock, would they have made totally awesome movies like Rock and Roll Highschool Forever and totally awesome tv shows like Saved By the Bell?
He will also need to know calc, which uses everything he ever learned in algebra, on every problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibbits
Even simple calc is like that. To find the answer to one problem can take up an entire page.
well he could write about how they are used forQuote:
Originally Posted by The_Meach
Training our armed forces
To run real world scenarios on new designs for cars and plains to help find flaws
To train pilots
probably helped pay for the technology that does CG movies
Give the handy cap a way to compete against non handicapped friends
Give modern man an outlet for his more basic desires.
Saved by the Bell fucking lied to me. The breaks between class do not last 30 minutes D=Quote:
Originally Posted by Revoltor
btw, I think that gay show, Thats so raven, uses the set for SBTB for the school.