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2012-08-21, 07:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Serpentine's Secretly Sapphic Salacious Sacrarium of Random Banter #180
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2012-08-21, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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What does my name have to do with it?
Not really. Grades are meaningless, the only thing they do is help other people make easy decisions about your ability to function. As such, it doesn't matter what I can do, all that matters is having the high grades so that I might eventually be able to move forward into a place where my actual capabilities are valued. <hugs>Spoiler: This signature is a historical relic from a long-ago time of regular forum activity.Aww man! Even all the witty self referencing sigs are gone now!
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2012-08-21, 07:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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I assume she's suggesting that MoonCat is something hippies would name their child?
Ah. I'm...not sure I like that definition. But I suppose I'm a bit sensitive to the idea of...being non-functioning? =\
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2012-08-21, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-21, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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I do know a girl called Moon in my town.
But you aren't. The grades are meaningless non-measures. The only reason it's important to have good ones is because people who you need to impress give them importance. I never said they were accurate.
I've been considering college seriously since I was thirteen.
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2012-08-21, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-21, 08:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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I kind of am non-functioning at the moment, but I'm working on it. *snuggles* And I don't know how else you could define grades, honestly, so...dunnoes.
Ah. I just wondered if it was something that was coming up soon. Not that, I dunno, you shouldn't worry about it yet or something. I'm kind of jealous of your...driven-ness. =3Cobra Avatar by the lovely Miss Nobody.
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2012-08-21, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-21, 08:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Never call me 'dear' again.
<huggles> If you are as you say you are, whatever your grades are have nothing to do with it. Trust me, I was exceedingly depressed two years ago, and I barely dropped.
Not that driven. That's the one thing my parents do get on me about.
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2012-08-21, 08:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-21, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-21, 08:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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I did AQA, so I don't know how relevant this is if you're with a different board. Personally, I found most of the course quite straightforward, but that may be because a lot of it was maths based and the parts that were less mathematical were the parts I found most interesting (astrophysics and quantum phenomena). I've always had a fairly easy time with maths stuff
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2012-08-21, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, this has been fun to read. *chuckles* Personally, I think both Moonie and Trag are nuts. But people who aren't nuts are no fun. So eh.
ION: Our varsity soccer team just won by 9. 9 to 0. I was starting to feel bad watching.
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2012-08-21, 09:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-21, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, AT, you are the nuts.
You have been all along!
Heh. Our football team apparently won 14 to 0. So I guess that makes my school's winning team of one sport better than your school's winning team of another sport, because they owned more, faster.
How does it feel to lose.
All my classes are sooo easy. Even though we're only two days in, I foresee soft days ahead. One class is a little weird though, because it's me and a bunch of sophomores I've never seen before in a space-filling elective. Meh. Can't really ask for more from it.
Although I could ask that the teacher not grade me on how visually organized my binder looks to him. It's because it's mostly underclassmen, but still. Blah.
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2012-08-21, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Heh. Our football team apparently won 14 to 0. So I guess that makes my school's winning team of one sport better than your school's winning team of another sport, because they owned more, faster.
How does it feel to lose.
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2012-08-21, 09:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Grass can easily be defeated. For instance, I just have to take out my Rotom and he'll lawnmower it all. Easy as that
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2012-08-21, 09:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Uhh... there are a lot of better ways to impress such people.
Mega projects are one, there are hundreds and hundreds of kids with excellent grades. Children that have built nuclear reactors in their backyard?
Those get almost automatic admission.
Or the 12 year-old gal that linked all presidents to one common ancestors. That got in the news, that's tenfold better than straight A s.
Heck, I graduated with straight A s, top of my class and got rejected because I profiled as a psychopath (Anti-Social Personality Disorder) to a board of psychologist and deemed too unstable to work on the field of medicine mainly because prioritizing academia has a toll in your mental health, which shows through. This was after I applied twice, both times getting 90% and 98% on the entry test (which is needed apart from being on the top 10% to qualify).
The guy who graduated two places bellow me failed horribly because he had nothing to show other than grades (I did have stuff, mainly thanks to becoming friends with science teachers and making projects with them. That and taking one subject called introduction to investigation that forced you to present a "thesis", it was essentially a mini university thesis, you had to gather data, gather bibliography and heck, use statistical methods to interpret it and draw conclusions, those that passed went to a jury, those that the jury passed went to the school library. I took it two years straight: "Overweight and Obesity in Upper Class Peruvian Education" and one that ended up going to Congress and our recommendations getting passed as a law "Museum Access for Low Income Students, Descriptive Study and Recommendations".). The only guy on my class studying medicine was the one who had mediocre grades because he proved to the evaluating board that despite his 60% score at the entry test he was fully committed and wanted to actually do stuff beyond academia
Even in university what most people tell you is you'll get a cubicle job if you just do academics and should go out and make acquaintances, being connected is just better, having big stuff, like programming a teaching video game for national natives community gathers press and makes you matter more than an A+ in Calculus which other 400 people got. Hence me taking a workshop on making connections and another one on personal development apart from convincing some friends to do a game, because academia gives you tools, but only so far, and you need something to stand out, grades are not that good for most companies now, they want either experience or entrepreneurship.
I'm all in for preparation, but isn't that a little early, and in the sense of: At that age you don't even get to know what all the possible options are, what careers really mean and if the higher levels are fun (I don't mean that you are good at them) or absolute drag which you excel, but you wouldn't do even if paid.
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2012-08-21, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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From a philosophical perspective, it is interesting to consider whether a thing which has no inherent meaning in the abstract, but which is treated as meaningful by an overwhelming majority of the social authorities, has in fact become meaningful through this collusion, or if it only proves that all of the social authorities are equally wrong (and able to maintain authority in spite of their wrongness). I have pretty firmly made up my mind as to which, but it is still neat to consider the two possible perspectives.
Oooh...there's a story there, I'm sure, should you ever feel moved to share it.
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This to the **** yeah.
Meh, varsity teams have the biggest damn differences in talent ever. Some schools just have so crap players they take their freshman and stick em in the varsity because why not, just as good as a senior for all the good they can do. xD
WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE SWEET CARPENTER BABY IS A BEARTIC!?!
Grades are a part of society as much as some patriarchal traditions, but much harder to be rid of. Grades are THE useful bar for places to determine intelligence and how much you're willing to work (Hey, a B- in AP Advanced College Algebra is better than most other math classes.) to get a good result. In lue of any actual benefit from school work besides the immeasurable feeling of "knowing" the topic (Teenagers are crap at knowing what we know anyway, mostly due to the way how ost of what we learn as teenagers is bull) grades are the best and easiest way to get a semi-accurate measurement of your investment.
ION: Damn I want AP U.S. History so hard. But nooooeeeeee.Last edited by Mutant Sheep; 2012-08-21 at 10:14 PM.