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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:29 pm
sounds cool. From the small taste of college I get with dual enrollment, I'd have to say it's a lot better than high school. You can schedule classes around what's best for YOU. Plus, you aren't forced to be in that building 8 hours a day. I hate my 2nd period, because I have no class, and I do nothing, and since my house is like, 5 or 10 minutes away, I could go home, and I'd probably do more work there than I do in that stupid room (or I'd be able to find a better place to sleep).
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:33 am
Haha...I know what you mean. On the other hand, my dorm is a 15-20 minute walk from the CoSci building, and a 10-minute walk from the physics building and math tower. I only have 1 class that's on my side of campus.
Whoot! I got a B on my physics midterm!! I honestly was worried that I was going to fail. That was a really effin' hard test. The caveat is that I only got a B+ on my math test, which means that my GPA is still hovering around a B+/A- average. I guess it all depends on how my Galois theory midterm goes.
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:46 pm
Heh, looks like my grades are at about the same point for the end of first quarter. I'm doing some extra work to try to bring up AP Bio and AP Chem a little.
So for it looks like this is going to be the worst report card that I've had in about three years, as I had been maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:27 pm
Damn, a 4.0
I'm trying to beat one of my friends to get the valedictorian spot for graduation. It's really hard, not because she's smarter than me, I just make careless mistakes. Though I feel so proud because I scored 4 points higher than her on my calculus test. I gots a 84! I feel kind of dissappointed in it though, since I'm used to making A's. Whatever.
Good luck on your tests, Swordmaster!
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:31 am
I kept a 4.0 through high school, and now I can't get an A in any class sweatdrop . The closest I came was an A- in single-variable analysis (basically, advanced calculus) and all my other grades have been B+s. I don't understand it; I spent 14 hours working on my math midterm, NOT studying for either computers or physics class, and yet I almost got the same grade on my physics test as I did math. Grr.
On the lighter side of things, listen to this problem from my physics problem set:
A ballistic missile accelerates quickly from rest and then coasts until it hits the surface of the earth. A good approximation is to treat it like a projectile with some initial speed whose subsequent motion is determined by the Earth's gravitational field alone. Neglect air resistance and the rotation of the earth...(question part 1).
2) Use the result from the previous part to determine the minimal velocity needed to get an ICBM from P'yongyang, North Korea to Los Angeles.
Doesn't that sound like they're just preparing us for government work?
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:21 pm
Swordmaster Dragon I kept a 4.0 through high school, and now I can't get an A in any class sweatdrop . The closest I came was an A- in single-variable analysis (basically, advanced calculus) and all my other grades have been B+s. I don't understand it; I spent 14 hours working on my math midterm, NOT studying for either computers or physics class, and yet I almost got the same grade on my physics test as I did math. Grr. On the lighter side of things, listen to this problem from my physics problem set: A ballistic missile accelerates quickly from rest and then coasts until it hits the surface of the earth. A good approximation is to treat it like a projectile with some initial speed whose subsequent motion is determined by the Earth's gravitational field alone. Neglect air resistance and the rotation of the earth...(question part 1). 2) Use the result from the previous part to determine the minimal velocity needed to get an ICBM from P'yongyang, North Korea to Los Angeles. Doesn't that sound like they're just preparing us for government work? @missile: rofl This is gonna be the year you guys, I can feel it. This will be the year I beat Lauren for valedictorian.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:18 am
I wish I was up for valedictorian. The top 48 people have a 4.0, and most of them are going for multiple certificates and more classes. At least I'm the only one stupid enough to double-major.
But congrats! I take it that means calculus is going better?
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:25 pm
Swordmaster Dragon I wish I was up for valedictorian. The top 48 people have a 4.0, and most of them are going for multiple certificates and more classes. At least I'm the only one stupid enough to double-major. But congrats! I take it that means calculus is going better? Yes! Well... sorta. I understand it, there's just a LOT of room to make stupid mistakes. And that's where I kill myself, in the stupid mistakes. Yeah, when your graduating class is a leeetle over 20 (I think it's more than that now... not sure), and everyone else is lazy, you have a better chance. I think I'm doing better in English too, so it's getting really close. I got her worried at least. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:29 pm
Nice. My graduating class is 1200, and we definitely have future presidents and business tycoons and whatnot. My only hope is to be the only person gutsy enough to do two majors and a minor, which hasn't been done before. I'm basically just looking to get into grad school, NOT be valedictorian.
My graduating class in high school was a little over 200 (though my freshman class was over 1000 students) so I can't imagine how tiny your school is. I didn't get valedictorian there, either, but I did take the most classes, take the most college classes, take the most AP tests, and get the most 5's on APs. Honestly? High school is *insanely* easy compared to the rest of your life. I don't understand why these kids don't put in their whole half-an-a** to get A's.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:07 pm
My school is scary small. We barely have enough students for AP classes (AP English, AP American History, AP Physics, and AP Biology). And we only have enough because the teachers had to practically brainwash students to sign up for it.
I think the lazyness is a left-over of the Middle School mentality, because you're not cool if you get good grades. It's stupid, and defies logic, but whatever. They screw up their lives, and then complain and try to blame it on others. Who would've thought that such a small school would have so many people who just don't give a damn?
On the plus side, the people who do care about their future really do care, and they're well-rounded. We have cheerleaders in the Science Club, which we now call TACOS (Totally Awesomely Cool Organization (of Science)). We've also got an awesome Video and Theater Department (because of the awesome teacher), and it's made a bunch of students look into film for a career.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:08 pm
Large schools only have an even higher portion of people who don't give a damn. At my school, you weren't expected to get higher than a C, and most people (not some, but most) didn't even graduate. Less than half of those who did went on to any college, community or otherwise.
We had an engineering club, which was kinda kewl, but with no funding we couldn't really do much. It really should've just been a science club. Oh well.
Heehee! If I take this seminar in experimental physics next semester, I get keys to the labs!! That's like giving a pyro...well, keys to a pyrotechnic lab.
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 4:11 pm
Swordmaster Dragon Large schools only have an even higher portion of people who don't give a damn. At my school, you weren't expected to get higher than a C, and most people (not some, but most) didn't even graduate. Less than half of those who did went on to any college, community or otherwise. We had an engineering club, which was kinda kewl, but with no funding we couldn't really do much. It really should've just been a science club. Oh well. Heehee! If I take this seminar in experimental physics next semester, I get keys to the labs!! That's like giving a pyro...well, keys to a pyrotechnic lab. You know, I had to do a debate on whether or not education should be changed in America, and I found actual statistics proving you will get NO almost-okay-paying job without at least a high school education, and yet the drop-out rate is 30%. You'd think with the odds against ever getting by, people would try to at least give half a s**t, but no... Oh dear... how many labs will you be blowing up?
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:44 pm
I won't have access to the chem labs - i.e. explosives - but I'll have a lot to do anyways. There are some labs in nuclear physics, superconductivity, liquid nitrogen and helium, and lasers. That should be enough for me to take over a small South American country.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:34 pm
Swordmaster Dragon I won't have access to the chem labs - i.e. explosives - but I'll have a lot to do anyways. There are some labs in nuclear physics, superconductivity, liquid nitrogen and helium, and lasers. That should be enough for me to take over a small South American country. Oh boy. Might be useful for Novos then. rofl
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:29 am
Sweet, I finally got my courses set up for next semester, hoping I get into them all, which I should. Frankly, no one else is stupid enough to take both math and physics save my girlfriend and my friend Aaron.
MAT324: Special topics in algebra
MAT330: Fourier series and partial differential equations
PHY208: Quantum I
PHY210: Experimental physics seminar
REL210: Religion and evolution
So yeah, that last one is a BS course, but whatever. I need more humanities classes...after this, I only have my teaching credential classes (educational psychology and teaching methods) and a social analysis class left, and I can focus on math and physics. Then...5 years of grad school.
On the bright side, I'm working on a math paper. My algebra professor said that if I can develop it enough, he'd help me publish it!
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