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1. Zerpentos
   

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   Yes, I know what you're thinking. "Zerpentos, halt your faggotry immediately. Don't bring school and education into our lovely abode full of games and plotline theories."

   Well, geeze, I'm sorry for bursting your bubble of entertainment. But I've been pondering upon this for a while now and I think it'd be interesting to talk about what we're doing in school, what are our career goals, and something more intriguing, what areas of knowledge are of interest (i.e. trivium, quadrivium, etc.) to us.

   So, I'll begin by listing my courses and what I'm doing in each of them.

   World Politics - Political Science and Theory (currently focusing on realism and theorists like Machiavelli and Hobbes)

   American History - Industrialization after the Civil War

   French - Nothing Important

   Physics - Waves and Optics (currently examining diffraction grating, polarization, etc.)

   English - A Doll's House and Madame Bovary (novels with feminist themes selected for a later world literature paper)

   Theory of Knowledge (or Philosophy) - Language (nothing specific, we just talked about the definition of race and the affirmative action plan)

   Mathematics (Advanced Functions) - Vectors (we started scalar products, and we're doing scalar products in component form next)

   Chemistry - Atomic Structure (in particular, mass spectrometry, doing atomic spectroscopy and Bohr's Model soon)

   I'd like to be an engineer of sorts. I'm focusing on chemical engineering or computer/systems engineering.

   As for things I'd like to learn... My two great goals in life are to become a polymath and polyglot. In terms of knowledge, I'm not sure what I'd like to learn, because I love everything. I'm interested in learning some languages like German and Latin; currently I speak English and am somewhat fluent in French, Polish, and Spanish).

   Your turn...

   (Watch this thread have a number of replies that is equivalent to infinity approaching 0.)

   

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   (Watch this thread have a number of replies that is equivalent to infinity approaching 0.)

   Infinity doesn't approach 0. I think you meant to say the replies will be equal to the limit of 1/x as x -> infinity. (To all you non-calc people, the limit of that function is equal to 1/infinity and when you divide by a huge number you get closer and closer to zero, there fore 1/infinity = 0 which is also the limit of the function.)

   Here's what I'm taking:

   Spanish 3: learning a new language, nothing that major

   Physic B AP: currently we are doing buoyancy. Most of my classmates complain about it and how hard it is, but I love it.

   AP United States history: kind of a requirement. I think history is alright, but it's not my forte.

   Honors English 3: requirement I can't do anything about it. I hate writing essays but still manage to use my BS skills to get A's.

   AP Calculus AB: I love math. I also love how calculus and physics are pretty much intertwined, however since I'm in high school, our physics course does not involve calculus since most people have not taken (or finished) a calc course.

   What do I want to work? I am still not sure. It would either involve computer science, or something that involves physics. I haven't really had any experience in looking at quantum physics though that also looks interesting.

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   @Zerpentos: Are you in the IB program? (I just noticed Theory of Knowledge there. )

   Oh, and:

   Chemistry: Polarity of molecules and a few other things.

   US History: Imperialism and the Spanish-American War.

   English: "Death of a Salesman"

   French: Nothing at the moment; we just finished reading a book.

   Latin: Book IV of the Aeneid (Summary: Dido gets annoyed at Aeneas for leaving her, and kills herself.)

   Music Theory: Melodic Structure; phrases, etc.

   I'm taking a break from math this year. Calc BC was hard enough last year, and, anyway, what would I take after it?

   Also... wow, you have a lot of courses, Zerpentos.

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   Are you in the IB program? (I just noticed Theory of Knowledge there. )

   I noticed that too... I'm doing IB and next year (my senior year) we're gonna have to do a bunch of that...

   English: "Death of a Salesman"

   We're reading The Great Gatsby right now. I think we're reading Death of a Salesman next.

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   We're reading The Great Gatsby right now. I think we're reading Death of a Salesman next.

   Cool, Great Gatsby will be our next book.

   I hate writing essays but still manage to use my BS skills to get A's.

   I wish I knew how to do that.

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   Infinity doesn't approach 0. I think you meant to say the replies will be equal to the limit of 1/x as x -> infinity.

   Fuck, I forgot how to state that. I haven't done limits yet.

   @Zerpentos: Are you in the IB program?

   Indeed. I am an IB zealot.

   I hate writing essays but still manage to use my BS skills to get A's.

   Lol, essential skill for IB.

   Very nice courses guys. I didn't expect 4 replies right away. 0_o

   I hope more people answer.

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   Well, I'm still in elementary, so not much interesting here.

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   You can still tell us what you're learning in elementary.

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   heh
   you yanks' have odd courses
   >_>

   i'm just doin what we brits call A-levels in
   english lit[funnily enough, we've done the great gatsby], physics, biology and chemistry

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   Fire walk with me

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    Fuck, I forgot how to state that. I haven't done limits yet.

    Yes the limits are essential to doing integrals... Well you don't need them, you just need to understand them to understand how integrals work (but who cares about that you get a nice formuler that works everytime ).

    Indeed. I am an IB zealot.

    Suicide by school: HIGHFIVE!

    I hate writing essays but still manage to use my BS skills to get A's.

    Lol, essential skill for IB.

    

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    Marbles and robo are my two new best friends.

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    Here is my cornucopia academia:

    AP World History: Rise and fall of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires.

    English Honors 2: Charles Dickens' A tale of two cities.

    Chemistry 1 Honors- Balancing combustion reactions

    AP Environmental Science: Dirt

    Spanish 1: Sleeping

    PC Support 1: Currently we are in the very basics of computer repair. Which again brings me to sleeping.

    Algebra 2 Honors: Natural Logs (whom for which I have an extremely passionate hate for along with all math)

    
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    Natural Logs

    You hate natural logs? Try differentiating and integrating that shit... (the former is actually almost pleasant however the latter is a pain).

    Spanish 1: Sleeping

    Last year in spanish 2 I had the same teacher I had for Spanish 1. I would walk in class, do the class work, finish my homework, then spend the rest of the time playing games on my calculator. I love how lower level language classes are chill classes

    If you think I'm a slacker: I aced that class and am passing Spanish 3 (with a really tough teacher) with flying colors as most of the other people struggle.

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    I have to agree that lower level language classes are a joke. I'd do my other homework in them.

    Tbh, they're piss-annoying when they assign random assignments like presentations in the middle of a load of other things you have, from more important courses.

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    Tbh, they're piss-annoying when they assign random assignments like presentations in the middle of a load of other things you have, from more important courses.

    "Ok class, a 10 minute presentation on what you and your partner are like, what you like to do, and your hobbies, all in spanish, due tomorrow. What's that? You have an english essay, a calc quiz and physics chapter test all tomorrow? Well I'm not those teachers so I don't care."

    Yep. That has happened.

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