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What where your favorite classes when you where in High School?
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Electronics.
Electronics.
Drivers Ed, even though the only thing my teacher taught us in that class - that if you have drugs in your car, keep them in a coffee can so the dogs won't find them - was disproven by Mythbusters a few weeks ago.
Oh, I take that back, he did teach us one other thing, such as hand signals you should use on the road. And no, they weren't the same hand signals in the textbook
Probably explains the at fault accident and two speeding tickets......
Oh, I take that back, he did teach us one other thing, such as hand signals you should use on the road. And no, they weren't the same hand signals in the textbook
Probably explains the at fault accident and two speeding tickets......
My favorite high school classes were math, physics, chemistry, and (to a lesser degree) biology.
I also enjoyed history, but I wasn't as good at it.
I was good at - but didn't enjoy - English.
I also enjoyed history, but I wasn't as good at it.
I was good at - but didn't enjoy - English.
How did you get into AP Chem as a sophomore? Isn't a prerequisite that you take Chemistry?
But yeah, AP Chem is what I'm taking this year, and it is very difficult. Our warmups are really hard, and my teacher grades super-crazy-like. She almost took off two points for me not putting a /10 in the date section. (I just put xx/xx not xx/xx/xx). But then she realized she was just being mean, and gave me those points back. The Labs are fun, and I have friends in the class, so it works out well. The tests are really hard, even though I'm paying attention in class, and doing everything. Basically, the thing that brings down my grade are the warmups. I get like 2/20 on them. (My teacher does unit warm ups where you have a warmup every day that we don't do a lab, and at the end of the unit, she grades all the warmups together. Oh, and they're all timed. Can't look at our notes or anything.) Each warmup is worth 3-4 points.
Back on topic:
1st period- Honors Precalc w/ Trig. Fun class, I like math, so it's interesting. And I know people that sit around me.
2nd Period- Web Page Development. Complete joke of a class. My teacher truly sucks at teaching. I play Tetris every day.
3rd period- AP Chem. Described above
4th Period- AP US History. Amazing class. Fun to be in. Tests are hard, but that's what test corrections are for. My teacher is completely awesome. He's crazy, but in the good "I make fun of myself for looking like a crack addict" way. And he's a good teacher also.
5th Period- Personal Fitness. I like being active, so I took this. All we really do is lift weights, and it works out well, as I don't get any homework.
6th Period- English 11. Fun class, since it's not an honors or AP class, we don't really do anything. Couple of my friends are in there, and they sit next to me.
7th Period- Spanish 3. I had the same teacher last year, and while she does teach and grades hard, she gives fun lectures. And if you pay attention, you do understand her jokes. Not that many people like her though....
My favourite were Comp Sci, Comp Eng, Accounting, Chem, and Physics.
I wish my school/school board offered more language courses other than French (mandatory for grade 9) and spanish.
I wish my school/school board offered more language courses other than French (mandatory for grade 9) and spanish.
My favorites:
History, Science, maybe the one year of English. PE was nice too as I usually got to play Tennis or at least Volleyball.
Best Grades: Typing, Drafting, Home EC. Not really interesting, just easy.
Worst: Biology, Algebra, Geometry and GERMAN! Ugh!
Have Fun,
Keri
History, Science, maybe the one year of English. PE was nice too as I usually got to play Tennis or at least Volleyball.
Best Grades: Typing, Drafting, Home EC. Not really interesting, just easy.
Worst: Biology, Algebra, Geometry and GERMAN! Ugh!
Have Fun,
Keri
I enjoyed sociology and psychology, and little else really. Occasionally I'd enjoy science, depended on what we were doing. Other then that though, I really really hated that place.
I'm currently a HS Senior and have been taking Drama/Theatre since 7th grade (middle school)
I'm currently a HS Senior and have been taking Drama/Theatre since 7th grade (middle school)
*high five* Me too!
Drama is where I met my gf of 5 years....
I had an aviation class my sophomore year, we got to fly on weekends with the teacher for extra credit....that was my fav. I had metal shop, that too was a blast. Home ec was really fun because of the female element. I also had a marriage class where I married a girl from my home ec class. These are my top four. Science and history are five and six.
I really liked accounting, but hated Algebra because I couldn't see any practical purpose for it. And I was right!
my schedule this year
Ap bio - its really hard test wise since its a lot of memorization. but the teacher is amazing and I had the same teacher for bio H.
Ap micro/macroeconomics - pretty easy, i love my teacher because she makes the class really fun.
Graphic Design - even though we only have 4 computers for a class of 28, I still like the class, even if some parts of it is just art 1 over again.
Student Government (leadership) - class is awesome, had it for 2 years now.
British Lit - I wanted to see what it was like to take a non honors/ap english class. the class is overly easy and I practically do nothing and have an a.
Had AP calculus this year too, but dropped it.
but my overall favorite had to be AP euro or student gov.
Ap bio - its really hard test wise since its a lot of memorization. but the teacher is amazing and I had the same teacher for bio H.
Ap micro/macroeconomics - pretty easy, i love my teacher because she makes the class really fun.
Graphic Design - even though we only have 4 computers for a class of 28, I still like the class, even if some parts of it is just art 1 over again.
Student Government (leadership) - class is awesome, had it for 2 years now.
British Lit - I wanted to see what it was like to take a non honors/ap english class. the class is overly easy and I practically do nothing and have an a.
Had AP calculus this year too, but dropped it.
but my overall favorite had to be AP euro or student gov.
my senior year consisted of" (8 Block)
Day 1.
English 1.
AG
AG
PE
Day 2.
Algebra 2
AG
AG
Writing
I think my senior year was pretty much worthless.
Day 1.
English 1.
AG
AG
PE
Day 2.
Algebra 2
AG
AG
Writing
I think my senior year was pretty much worthless.
Electronics, Physics and bizarrely GCSE religious education.
I'm atheist, always have been and have little interest in excessively studying religious texts, the class was just very enjoyable as it was run by the then head teacher of the school who had lost his faith over the prior year after his wife died. There was no real structure to classes as every one took the form of a class wide open discussion whereby he would lead with a topic and the conversation would go wherever we took it.
It was primarily enlightening to peer into the thoughts of my classmates in a way that would be impossible under any other situation.
I'm atheist, always have been and have little interest in excessively studying religious texts, the class was just very enjoyable as it was run by the then head teacher of the school who had lost his faith over the prior year after his wife died. There was no real structure to classes as every one took the form of a class wide open discussion whereby he would lead with a topic and the conversation would go wherever we took it.
It was primarily enlightening to peer into the thoughts of my classmates in a way that would be impossible under any other situation.
Foreign languages (French and Spanish), computer science and Drama were probably my favorites.
I took Typing as a freshman and did pretty well. So when computer science came around during my sophomore year, I could knock out a chunk of Applesoft BASIC code in 5 minutes while everyone else took nearly the whole hour. Yes, that last sentence probably dates me, doesn't it?
Spanish was pretty easy for me, and I won a couple of regional competitions, so my Junior year I abandoned my AP English course when I found out it was all Classical Literature (UGGGGHHHHblechHWARF) and took French instead. My counselor honestly thought I would fail either or both. I surprised her and my French AND Spanish teachers by acing both languages simultaneously-- and went on to get my Bachelor's of Arts in college with these as a double major. (Computers was my minor, and that's what has paid the bills.)
Drama... well, it was a "bunny" course, but it was loads of fun, and it was the last class of the day-- a great way to de-stress.
I took Typing as a freshman and did pretty well. So when computer science came around during my sophomore year, I could knock out a chunk of Applesoft BASIC code in 5 minutes while everyone else took nearly the whole hour. Yes, that last sentence probably dates me, doesn't it?
Spanish was pretty easy for me, and I won a couple of regional competitions, so my Junior year I abandoned my AP English course when I found out it was all Classical Literature (UGGGGHHHHblechHWARF) and took French instead. My counselor honestly thought I would fail either or both. I surprised her and my French AND Spanish teachers by acing both languages simultaneously-- and went on to get my Bachelor's of Arts in college with these as a double major. (Computers was my minor, and that's what has paid the bills.)
Drama... well, it was a "bunny" course, but it was loads of fun, and it was the last class of the day-- a great way to de-stress.
Marketing.
My teacher was amazing. I then majored in Marketing in college. It worked out pretty well.
My teacher was amazing. I then majored in Marketing in college. It worked out pretty well.
Personally I hated high school. It wasn't until college that I actually enjoyed classes. Since you have so much freedom in choosing a schedule.
Though I would say my two favorite classes in high school were US History and Government. US History because the teacher was awesome.
Government since I could incessantly debate politics. At which point I would usually end up debating with the teacher as other students would run out of fuel to counter my points. Though I think the teacher just enjoyed a student who would debate and was simply trying to encourage me.
Auto shop was decent since we could just goof off in the back and smoke. Plus screw around with welding equipment and bring our own cars in to work on.
Though I can say without question my most hated classes were art and PE.
Though I would say my two favorite classes in high school were US History and Government. US History because the teacher was awesome.
Government since I could incessantly debate politics. At which point I would usually end up debating with the teacher as other students would run out of fuel to counter my points. Though I think the teacher just enjoyed a student who would debate and was simply trying to encourage me.
Auto shop was decent since we could just goof off in the back and smoke
. Plus screw around with welding equipment and bring our own cars in to work on.Though I can say without question my most hated classes were art and PE.