School!

[Arsenic]

Way more practical with and objectively better for use.

maybe so but i prefer miles bc that's what i'm more used to, it's easier for me to imagine 10 miles than 10 km.

[Chronicler]

School has definitely upped the ante since I'm in college now. This is good, though. I've wanted a proper challenge for a while. I finally have a place to learn, speak my mind, and have a community full of people who are serious about school yet enjoy having fun as a community as well.

[Xevins]

my school has stupidly easy normal classes but super hard AP classes.

I finished every AP class I'm able to take but I'm still required to do this one year so I took just enough regular classes to fill my schedule.

It's mind numbingly easy.

[Chronicler]

my school has stupidly easy normal classes but super hard AP classes.

That's how it was for me in high school as well. I took normal classes to keep my GPA high and took hard AP classes so I could actually challenge myself academically lol.

[TheStormKing]

What are AP classes? Probably a stupid question

@BioKnight Cheers, we don't have them over here

[BioKnight]

What are AP classes? Probably a stupid question

AP is short for Advanced Placement. Basically, they're harder versions of classes

[Chronicler]

Basically, they're harder versions of classes

*That can give you college credit if you take an exam.

Never forget that little bonus. That's how I managed to get ahead in college.

[Sabretooth]

I was getting pizza with a few guys from my school's drama club yesterday. One of them randomly brought up a bionicle commercial, and I had to restrain myself from fully geeking out.

[Zero]

PS: I wonder if US people use Metric in natural sciences as oppose to the dumb Imperial system which actually makes math a lot harder with nonsensical measurements that dont exchange properly between each other? (Why do you still measure with feet, so primitive, also Farenheit measurement is a joke in the way it was created by subjectively assuming the coldest recorded temperature near Farenheit at the time being the starting point of the measurement instead of a universal constant like absolute zero, or freezing point of water in standard earth conditions).

We use both, at least in my line of study, and conversion between the two is annoying as heck and something we have to do all the time. I absolutely agree with this statement.

[Ultimate_TChalla]

For me we've always used metric, at least in Chemistry and Physics. Guess it just varies by school/teacher.

[OraNui]

I'm currently doing this thing called Pathways which is basically a program that will help me get into the college I want without having to take ACT or SAT. I'll be finishing a semsester before I leave on a long trip this December and then finish the last two semesters when I return, then head straight to college.

[TeslaEffect]

Anyone here going to Faculties instead of Colleges? I imagine those are quite rare in the states.

[Xevins]

Faculties

Not sure what this is.

Only aternative (besides foregoing the endeavor altogether) that I know of is Trade Schools that aren't as extensive as colleges but they teach you skills to get directly into the workforce.

[TeslaEffect]

Faculty is a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge.

Example: I go in a Faculty of Natural Sciences, but my department is Physics, but my specialty course is for graduated professor of physics.

[Xevins]

We have effectively the same however it's just more classed in regular college.

[TeslaEffect]

I doubt that you have more classes. Everyone has a standard amound with including extra ones.

[Ghosty]

i started school not too long ago and there has been nothing but bad news since then...

[Gilahu]

Sorted stuff on my shelves today and stumbled across old school things...

It's kinda weird that now I do look back at school somewhat fondly. There were funny things happening back then on a somewhat regular basis after all. I'm also glad that I decided to not play by the rules anymore during my last years - made some exams much more enjoyable.
Still I'm glad that I'm finished with school. No more completely useless classes to attend, no more weekly tests, no more getting up early in the morning every day. University is SO much better.

School sucked. But since it's over I can finally enjoy the good memories.

[EvilLobsterKing]

Did I ever talk about how this lead to me dropping out entirely?

I didn’t go to another day after those three.

For the last two years my life as been nothing, and I hate myself for lacking the strength to go to school everyday. My year have done thier exams, and had thier formal, and I remain a hopeless pathetic drop out, who contributes literally nothing to society. I only speak to one person from my school on a regular basis. People have told me more times than I can count that graduating highschool is only one of many paths you can take through life, but as I spend another night unable to sleep, I believe them less and less.

Don’t drop out of school.

[DannyBoyy]

I have a high B in one class and a high C in another, so these past weeks have a been a frantic rush to pull them up before the end of the quarter.