Lol! I don't think it's too hard or too much work, judging by the fact that I get many hours of free time after school. I'm not really looking forward to college workloads lol.
School started for me about 3 weeks ago on a wednesday. Currently a senior in highschool. Listen, I have been studying hard, enrolling myself in dual inrollment classes. I really want to be a mechanical engineer. So yes education will be first than games as you seen my time on emc has been slashed. A reminder for incoming high schoolers... Grades are SUPER IMPORTANT!! Keep that GPA high and make sure your electives are flexible with you. Just some advise from Foxy
calculator... lol, in the real world as an engineer in most cases you will always have a calculator on you, and even then all you need to solve polynomials are basic algebra skills.
I'm assuming that all of you have school in America or Europe. Well, guess what. Over in Asia, school starts at 7:25, but I have to wake up at 5:30 to get to school. Then including CCA (co-curricular activity), I end at 7PM. So, it's over 12 hours per day spent on school. And I'm only in Grade 7. ARGH. Thank goodness I figured out how to play FIFA 15 on my phone without the teacher catching me.
Learning to problem solve starts early in life. You can't be handed the shortcuts early on and expect to be able to innovate later on. Learning BS math is all about weeding out those who can't problem solve. Same with BS physics.
lol, I'm pretty sure I can problem solve considering I'm valedictorian and in all the best classes... oh and yes you can..
ive been home schooled up until 7th grade, im now in 9th grade and go to a small school of about 50 people, and yes, when i was home schooled i went to boy scouts, 3 different youth groups, and i volunteered at my church, i met many people and those people are still my friends
I hate to say it, but what you are in high school means nothing after you graduate. It is not uncommon for the top of the class students to not do nearly as well as many of those under them. Don't let the idea that your title and current position are what makes one successful. I can guarantee you that if you were to discuss with a prospective employer that polynomials are useless, and that you don't need to learn the core aspects of things that you can do on a calculator, they would chuckle and recommend that you consider taking up a "non-skilled" position.
I like how school teaches you stuff 99% of the world's population will never use, and does NOT have a class called "Common sense". I mean, I feel like most teenagers nowadays need this.
I'm a senior now and both of my brothers had gone through high school and college already, so i'm the last. One of my brothers is a graphic designer and the other is in Med-School studying to become a Pediatric Cardiologist. The greatest advice they had both given me was, in high school you have two options, take a short cut, or don't. They told me to take the short cuts in high school because once you get to college there are none. I take all honors or AP courses and by taking the short cuts and i've been able to balance, family, boy scouts, school, 6-7 days of sports a week, video games, occasionally relationships, and maintain a B+ average. I'm not here to say that taking every short cut is good or bad, but personally i found that some, or most short cuts are beneficial. Most high school alumni on here state that you don't use most of what you are taught after 8th grade. I'm finally a senior now and i can vouch that, that statement is 100% accurate. Unless you are going into a physics major or history major, 99% of history and math you learn is pointless. If i was to give all incoming freshman some advice for high school, it would be "freshman years a joke and sophomore year is an extension of freshman year, but dont slack off, keep a B to B + average. Junior year is important so make sure you try and get A's in all classes, but also, have fun and stay out of trouble. Also, take extra classes in topics you want to be in life, so if you wanna be a doctor or vet, take extra sciences."
I think you should probably define shortcut so people don't get the wrong idea. Shortcut meaning like, summaries of books instead of the whole thing, or shortcut meaning cheating off people. One is still legit, and the other is wrong and you shouldn't do it. I don't generally take short cuts unless there's literally 0 difference between doing it properly and the short cut. If there's anything at all I have to sacrifice to take a short cut I say it's not worth it.
yeah, i didn't mean for it to sound like that, i meant it be like, if you are confronted with two options, both get you to the same place, but one is a lot shorter, take the short cut.
I'm going to recall my original post due to the fact that it made no sense because I typed it up after marching for hours in 100 degree weather. What I have meant in this whole "argument" which you have clearly misinterpreted (I will admit though that I wasn't very clear) is that the factorization of polynomials is useless. And quite the contrary, if you don't do well in high school, except for in extremely rare cases, you won't do well in life. Valedictorian doesn't guarantee you doing well in life, however, it does determine what colleges you get into on scholarship especially if you are in a class of nearly 800. Furthermore, I never said core principles are useless. The last time I checked, what they ask you to do with most polynomials is just another way of doing the same exact thing as basic algebra in a much more complicated way which is thus irrelevant. The truth of it is that in the real world for jobs that require the use of polynomials you can use basic algebra and/or a calculator. Furthermore, employers are obsessed with efficiency and quality, so never will they frown upon the use of a calculator. Finally, why is it that the US government expects us to learn irrelevant math while a huge part of the population doesn't know how to file taxes, balance a checkbook, or even just take care of themselves.
