How serious do you take school?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:53 pm

vendetta wrote:What about the last one? You failed it?

No, it failed me.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:14 am

Make friends with the asian students, they have speed to get through
testing weeks.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:08 am

sprog wrote:I understand where you're coming from with psychology, I find it a very dry subject for some reason. However, if you can force yourself to study it avidly while you must, I do not think you'll regret it. While it may not be "useful" to you in the long run, you may be glad that you didn't sleep through it.

Besides, don't you wanna know stuff?

Don't mock psychology, it's cool.

Learning is a good thing, since the more you know the better you understand stuff that is based on formerly learned stuff, no matter how uninteresting it may seem at first sight, it may work out in the long run.
I was one of the laziest people in school, though, the one with the most "missing days" (is that the right word?) probably, but I liked school since my colleagues were for the most part pretty cool and the girls were nice.

edit: what the hell, someone stole my custom title.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:47 pm

I could've sworn this topic title changed to How Serious Do You Take Alcohol...

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:47 pm

VasikkA wrote:
vendetta wrote:What about the last one? You failed it?
No, it failed me.

So that's how it works in Soviet Finland?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:09 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:
VasikkA wrote:
vendetta wrote:What about the last one? You failed it?
No, it failed me.
So that's how it works in Soviet Finland?

Well, at least it *works*.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:39 pm

VasikkA wrote:Aren't you supposed to have final exams and shit right now?

Yup. Doing fine and they still don't mean squat.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:59 pm

VasikkA wrote:
S4ur0n27 wrote:
VasikkA wrote: No, it failed me.
So that's how it works in Soviet Finland?
Well, at least it *works*.

Mean

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:26 pm

I enjoy reading articles and books that pertain to the subject of my study. My interests extend well beyond the field of science that it covers though. This often times results in a schedule that puts too much emphasis on reading stuff covering irrelevant but intriguing subjects, for my personal entertainment, at the cost of my understanding of the stuff I am expected to be in control of.
I like reading about the ww2 era, about medieval European society and warfare, ethymology, genetics, microbiology and a whole bunch of other topics. Quite a diverse, incoherent bunch of themes hm?
As I said, I find it difficult to confine myself to one subject for an extended period of time. Consequently my method of studying isnt very effective. It takes time to fully acquaint yourself with a given subject whereas I usually tend to quit after having read through a fraction of it. I learned something....but just part of the bigger picture, often times not enough to fully grasp a system or network described.

I need some coffee.

Antimeasure · Post by **Antimeasure** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:27 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:
VasikkA wrote:
S4ur0n27 wrote: So that's how it works in Soviet Finland?
Well, at least it *works*.
Mean

I didnt give a crap about school and look at me now! all working for the big money! quote me!

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:35 pm

Money? That's the pinnacle of what a man (or woman) can reach in life? I detest people who;s only ambition is to make money.

Jesus Christ · Post by **Jesus Christ** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:37 pm

If you really whant to get ahead... start saving your caps.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:42 pm

Lynxer wrote:Money? That's the pinnacle of what a man (or woman) can reach in life? I detest people who;s only ambition is to make money.

As do I, but it has become the life goal for populace at large. Along with that weird facination of religion.
If only the populace at large wasn't such a bunch of fucking morons.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:43 pm

Lynxer wrote:Money? That's the pinnacle of what a man (or woman) can reach in life? I detest people who;s only ambition is to make money.

Yeah, fuck money. It's the bling-bling that counts.

box · Post by **box** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:01 pm

I worked hard for my degrees, and will continue working hard for some more. Maybe even some from, like, accredited colleges, and not my buddy at Kinkos.

Seriously, I used to have responsibility issues, whereby I put in more hours in at my fastfood shit job than at my college career. At any rate, I left HS with all sorts of accolades and college credits and stuff, but then I was in college, humping 80 hour work weeks for less money than I made temping for the 2000 Census and getting Incompletes and F's and such. So I looked in the mirror and I asked myself, is this me?

Saved up a year's pay, quit with a veritable coup at my job, leaving in grand fashion, and didn't work for one year. Just school. It was heaven.
Working full time and going t school full time s simply nuts. I couldn't handle it, and my hat's off to anyone who can.

Oh, and can you admin guys change my tag to 'Rustbelt Princess'? That would be awesome. 'Long-Haired Motherfuck' would also be acceptable...

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sat May 13, 2006 7:01 am

box wrote:Oh, and can you admin guys change blahaha !

And things were going so well . . .

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sat May 13, 2006 10:25 am

box wrote:Oh, and can you admin guys change my tag to 'Rustbelt Princess'? That would be awesome. 'Long-Haired Motherfuck' would also be acceptable...

I would but my power has been usurped

Fa11lloutfan_15 · Post by **Fa11lloutfan_15** » Sat May 13, 2006 2:12 pm

I am currently attending a public, Swedish junior high school (well, the equivalent) and therefore do not have to take school seriously to get very good grades and get into a respected, private school. It wouldn't even pay to put more effort in studying in public school at this level. With classes being increasingly adapted to the less talanted students (with some exceptions in my case, this being mainly Swedish and English, but that has more to do with luck concerning which teacher you get than anything else) many have to learn most things after school. With the ambitions I have, this includes myself, when it comes to language, law, critical thinking, argumentation, etc. Fortunately, this will change at the gymnasium I'm going to.

For example, the most important things to do in order to achieve good grades in English in the national tests (fortunately only a small number of tests are national) is to be "self-confident" and to "show good will", and not being good at English. I am lucky enough to have a teacher who thinks this is bullshit, and is extremely good in general, but as I said, that is being lucky in the Swedish school system.

And if this wouldn't be enough: If the Social Democrats get it their way they will remove all grades except Pass and Fail, and thus even further limit the amount of academic performance that is actually registered and rewarded. This is, purportedly, done so that the lesser students will not be offended and to avoid putting students in different groups. I'm glad I'll be leaving this sinking, Communist system in a matter of weeks.

Anyway, I have my ambitions set on studying law, either in Sweden or in Britain, and therefore I will have to work very hard and take school very seriously in the following years. But then I am interested and motivated, as well as will be going to a very good gymnasium, so I'll be up for it.

box · Post by **box** » Sun May 14, 2006 8:15 pm

It ain't the money so much as it's the stuff that I buy with it. I enjoy things that I have, as methinks we all do, and money is a means to an end: my time. Media that I pay for, assorted gadgetry, various doohickies with little to no practical utility, some halfway decent clothes, a driveable car. Hey big spender...

In the long run, I'd like to have enough money so as not to be a burden on society when I'm old [no elderly welfare like medicare and social security], and to live confortably in the time I have. My dream is to buy enough acreage in a place like Montana where I can live in total solitude. I want to be able to look out my front door and see trees. No neighbors, no nothing. Bliss...

I'm no goddamned Bolshevik. I don't blame people for working three jobs and selling Avon on the weekends to 'get ahead.' It's just not my thing. Personally, I don't blame people for beng greedy-- I simply don't care. So, since anyone can't come up with something better, Go Capitalism Go!

Oh and thanks for the tag change. I'm a beautiful butterfly now!!

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:08 pm

Which one is better: big-ass earnings or big-ass fortune?

(Excluding the fact that usually the first thing leads to the other)