Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124

[Dallas-Dakota]

Curly: Sit-ups, Pull-ups and running. That aught to train most muscles...

[DraPrime]

Curly: Sit-ups, Pull-ups and running. That aught to train most muscles...

Don't forget push-ups. Those also train upper body strength, but with different muscles than pull-ups.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Don't forget push-ups. Those also train upper body strength, but with different muscles than pull-ups.

Ah yes, very true.

[Recaiden]

Hence why I mentioned investigating your university's offerings. Since you're paying through the nose with them anyway, what little in the way of services you can get from them should be capitalized upon.

Also, unless you're a goddess of the grotesque, you're still supposed to be physically ideal.

And do you actually, y'know, Walk, and Swim. Enough for it to really be strengthening and hardening your body?

He's right. Although swimming's always a good idea. Can't do too much swimming. Until your skin starts to melt, anyway.

[Dragonrider]

I have a dumb question for my fellow Americans.

Okay. So I'm writing a story about a seventh grader. It doesn't focus much on school, but for the purposes of said story, I need to know a very simple thing that anyone who has BEEN to an American junior high school would know but that I don't.

Still with me?

I know that each day is divided up into a set of periods by a bell and I know that there are somewhere in the vicinity of nine or eight or seven periods over the course of the day.

What I need to know is:

Are classes the same Monday through Friday, or do you have different classes in each time slot on different days?

....

Yeah.

Dumb homeschooler, here.

[Player_Zero]

Murder? It doesn't count if you kill monsters, so find someone dubbed as such by sensationalist media of some form and you've got consequence-free leveling. I mean, er, wite teckts lolz

Doesn't work like that. You murder someone and BAM 'For the glory of Amn!' or 'Stop right there, criminal scum!'.

[DraPrime]

I have a dumb question for my fellow Americans.

Okay. So I'm writing a story about a seventh grader. It doesn't focus much on school, but for the purposes of said story, I need to know a very simple thing that anyone who has BEEN to an American junior high school would know but that I don't.

Still with me?

I know that each day is divided up into a set of periods by a bell and I know that there are somewhere in the vicinity of nine or eight or seven periods over the course of the day.

What I need to know is:

Are classes the same Monday through Friday, or do you have different classes in each time slot on different days?

....

Yeah.

Dumb homeschooler, here.

For me, classes were always in a different order for each day of the week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday all had a different order of classes.

[Recaiden]

I have a dumb question for my fellow Americans.

Okay. So I'm writing a story about a seventh grader. It doesn't focus much on school, but for the purposes of said story, I need to know a very simple thing that anyone who has BEEN to an American junior high school would know but that I don't.

Still with me?

I know that each day is divided up into a set of periods by a bell and I know that there are somewhere in the vicinity of nine or eight or seven periods over the course of the day.

What I need to know is:

Are classes the same Monday through Friday, or do you have different classes in each time slot on different days?

....

Yeah.

Dumb homeschooler, here.

Most schools have the same classes each day, in the same order.
A rare few have different classes Mon-Wed-Fri and Tue-Thu
And it's usually 7 periods around here, although 6 and 8 happen as well.

[DraPrime]

Most schools have the same classes each day, in the same order.
A rare few have different classes Mon-Wed-Fri and Tue-Thu
And it's usually 7 periods around here, although 6 and 8 happen as well.

Most schools have the same order each day? I never knew that...

I feel stupid now

[Dallas-Dakota]

Not for me back in elementary.
Each day had seperate schedules(though same periods), but that schedule didn't change per week orso. Only very rarely.

[Nano]

Yeah, for me in school all my periods were in the same order, all the time.

[Phase]

Yeah, I had different classes every day. I guess it's variable.

[CurlyKitGirl]

. . .

How does complaining about a really poorly done blood test and the resulting bruise evolve into free exercising tips?
Only here.
Walking; I do lots, swimming: not so much due to the fact that I haven't seen summer this year.
I don't run. But everything else I pretty much do. Except push - ups. I'm a weak, geeky little girl who happens to be a walking library. Push - ups aren't necessary when you can carry thirty books at a time. Providing they're in a box..

@Fred: Y'see, when you ask for a 'present' like that; you're actually wasting money that could be spent on better things. Like a trip with Best Friend to Plymouth!

@DeeRee: even over here we vary the days! From Y1 onwards each day has its own schedule. I can still recite what I had for Mondays in Y7 for some strange reason. Mostly because it was pretty awful.
Math (period 1)
Geography (period 2)
Double Science (3 and 4)
DOUBLE PE (5 and 6)
Nobody likes double PE last thing. Especially on a Monday. The only other worst time it could be would be Double PE first thing on a Monday.
Which was what I had in Y8. It was good that one time it snowed in the morning and they let us have a 'snowball fight'.
But that was when there were six periods to a day, a twenty minutes break, an hour for lunch and each lesson lasted fifty five minutes.

[wadledo]

Hey, my school did it on a 4 per day schedule, with every other day (known as A days and B days) having different classes.
Also, the "8th" block of B day was rotating black, meaning that every B day had a new class at the end of it.
It was not pleasant, as you can tell.

[Dragonrider]

Not for me back in elementary.
Each day had seperate schedules(though same periods), but that schedule didn't change per week orso. Only very rarely.

But you're not American, silly!



So it looks like it's totally variable by school. Excellent. That means I can do whatever I want.

Edit: It's slightly embarrassing, but I was re-reading Harry Potter last week (sorry, Curly ) and I FINALLY GOT that "double potions with the Slytherins" meant not that it was a double-sized class (both houses), but that it was a DOUBLE PERIOD.

DUH.

[Cyrano]

Doesn't work like that. You murder someone and BAM 'For the glory of Amn!' or 'Stop right there, criminal scum!'.

Aha! Not if you get someone to ask you to do it beforehand.

[Dallas-Dakota]

But you're not American, silly!

No, but I would like to implement various dutch school systems upon the USA. Oh the confusion and chaos would make me shudder with delight and glee!

[Player_Zero]

Aha! Not if you get someone to ask you to do it beforehand.

You think The Flaming Fist cares for your excuses? No! You'll pay the fine, or it's off to jail for you.

[Cyrano]

You think The Flaming Fist cares for your excuses? No! You'll pay the fine, or it's off to jail for you.

I didn't see them complaining when I killed Sarevok nanana shush logic be damned

[Recaiden]

I didn't see them complaining when I killed Sarevok nanana shush logic be damned

Law enforcement has an elevation limit. If you can dig deep enough, you can get away with any crime.

[Player_Zero]

Scrabble game is going on after I get some tea if anyone is out there who wants in.

Lexulous.com. Multiplayer Room. We'll wait a wee while.

[Coidzor]

Are classes the same Monday through Friday, or do you have different classes in each time slot on different days?

First things first. Only squares and old people refer to it as junior high unless this is a regional thing I am unaware of, or the school is actually named a junior high school. Otherwise it's just called Middle School.

It varies depending upon scheduling, but I believe most places either have the same blocks (Math, Language, Lunch, Whatever, Elective, Other Thing) and then the elective area is different depending upon the day or there's an A and a B schedule with MWF being different from TTh. Though some places have it so that MWF and TTh alternate depending upon the week with which one is A and which is B.

It varies depending upon the school/state/school district. As my high school actually was using a different scheduling system from at least two other high schools in my school district (the joys of living in a small city of 300K.)

My experiences are a bit jumbled due to going to middle school in three different states, so, yeah.

And while you can do what your squelchy guts demand, remember to keep it consistent if you do.

[Dragonrider]

First things first. Only squares and old people refer to it as junior high unless this is a regional thing I am unaware of, or the school is actually named a junior high school. Otherwise it's just called Middle School.

I was using the term because the school in question in the story IS a jr. high, not a middle school - it's a 7th/8th/9th (this for narrative purposes)...

Sounds like the schools are pretty variable in scheduling. thanks...'s been most helpful.

[Pyrian]

I went to an actual Junior High back when they were being phased out (I was in the last 9th grade class where it was still a Junior High before becoming a Middle School the next year). It was the same schedule every day of the week.

[Coidzor]

I was using the term because the school in question in the story IS a jr. high, not a middle school - it's a 7th/8th/9th (this for narrative purposes)...

When is this set? Because that's most unusual as of the past... oh, 20 odd years...

[Dragonrider]

When is this set? Because that's most unusual as of the past... oh, 20 odd years...

Really? One of my good friends goes to a school like that, and where we lived in California, it was the same...I thought it had more to do with the population of the area than anything (having fewer kids in the high schools).

[Philistine]

First things first. Only squares and old people refer to it as junior high unless this is a regional thing I am unaware of, or the school is actually named a junior high school. Otherwise it's just called Middle School.

It varies depending upon scheduling, but I believe most places either have the same blocks (Math, Language, Lunch, Whatever, Elective, Other Thing) and then the elective area is different depending upon the day or there's an A and a B schedule with MWF being different from TTh. Though some places have it so that MWF and TTh alternate depending upon the week with which one is A and which is B.

It varies depending upon the school/state/school district. As my high school actually was using a different scheduling system from at least two other high schools in my school district (the joys of living in a small city of 300K.)

My experiences are a bit jumbled due to going to middle school in three different states, so, yeah.

And while you can do what your squelchy guts demand, remember to keep it consistent if you do.

All of those are regionally- or even locally-varying things, Coid. For example: where I am there are no "middle schools," they're all still Junior Highs, and they are referred to as such. And they all teach grades 7-9 (save for one which teaches grades 6-9 - it's in a tiny little town where keeping the JHS open would not be economically viable if they moved the 6th graders to the elementary school; but grades 10-12 are bused to a neighboring town).

Locally, scheduling generally follows the traditional US pattern, with the exact same schedule every day, M-F. The electives are the same every day, as well.

I have also subbed for a school system in another state which used "block scheduling," with alternating A and B schedules, at the high school level; in that district the block scheduling did not kick in until Senior High, and the Junior High was still run on the "traditional" schedule (as the other staff referred to it). (And in that district, too, the older- and younger-level schools were referred to as Senior and Junior High respectively - even though the Jr High was, by name, a Middle School.) Block scheduling was not universally popular - while acknowledging that there are many things which one can do in a single two-hour period which cannot be done in two one-hour periods, critics pointed out that two hours is a very long time to expect some teenagers (or adults, for that matter) to stay in their seats, alert, and focused. That, AFAIK, was the reason the district was in no hurry to implement block scheduling for the younger students.

[Alteran]

Hmm, I'm interested in playing Risk tonight. What website do we use for that? I've heard it mentioned here, but I've never actually played online.

Edit: Also, is anybody else interested? I think it's best with 4 or more people.

[Sneak]

Hmm. I might be up for a game of Risk. I'm in the process of playing a game right now with my cousins (long-term game, as in a week, not a day). I just made a huge gamble to wipe another player out in order to get her risk cards (I would have ended up with 7 risk cards at the end of my turn). It came down to one last soldier to defeat, and I was rolling with one die. I lost.

Still worth it.

[Alteran]

That's two players, then! Any other takers?