Random Raves XX: Unexpectedly Brilliant in Twenty Different Ways

[classical_hero]

Actually congratulations on the hard work.

 

[Verarde]

Teehee...we're graded with 4.0s if you get an A. Teehee.
And my GPA for the semester would then be a 4.0.

 

[Kennigit]

mooching--free!--donuts the IEEE. yummy yummy.


aka doughnuts for backwards people

 

[Takhisis]

Probably one of those is an A-, GamezRule. But that, my friend, is inconceivable.

 

[GamezRule]

Well thanks!

I found the problem. The 3.9(63) GPA is my Q2 grade. Where there are 2 A- grades but also an A+. The GPA listed is the Q2 grade, but the A's are all S1 grades. Stupid technicalities.

 

[cardgame]

My semester GPA is something like 4.26. Total GPA for all of High School is a 3.96



All converted to a 4.0 scale of course.

 

[choxorn]

Rant: High Schools with GPA's greater than 4.00 are stupid.

 

[GamezRule]

Rant: High Schools with GPA's greater than 4.00 are stupid.

I agree. On the bright side, my small somewhat rural high school doesn't have AP courses, but college recruiters won't look down on it. At least not from U-Mich, and that's all that matters right now.

 

[cardgame]

Rant: High Schools with GPA's greater than 4.00 are stupid.

So you hate weighted courses?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Had a bit of an odd dream.

Spoiler :

It started out with me getting a woman who practices witchcraft to perform a spell that would teleport me to Delta Trianguli, where I think the blue people I invented reside in RL. She accepted my request and we went looking for some magical wooden statuette that would do the job.

Then we found two women sleeping on mattresses on the grounhd, who had the statuette in a hard to get place, and she tripped over them, and woke them up, and the witch started pretending that we were just waking up too, and got me to participate. At this point I realized the witch was an idiot, and started shaking my head.

At this point we get busted by my dad, who appears out of nowhere, and lectures me, I tell him to refrain from saying Belle Hades' name out loud, but he does so anyway.

So I make my way back to my house, and apparently an apocalypse started, and people literally fell out of the sky. I make it back, only for mom to tell me to take my winter hat off before going inside, else I die. I comply.

Then weird dreamstuff happens, and I go somewhere, and all of a sudden, space aliens arrive and literally take a giant glass dome onto the Earth, and rip off a large chunk of the Earth's crust, containing Most of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and a few other states, and launch a singularity bomb into the now visible magma layer, destined for the core, and will literally blow up the Earth.

The piece of crust remains intact because the aliens want to relocate the surviving humans to Delta Trianguli. Just oooooooone little hitch -- I wasn't on that piece of crust.

But just in the nick of time, a woman in a personal FTL spacecraft arrives and picks me up, because I was supposed to be on that piece of crust they took, because I was the one the aliens were looking for. At this point, it is five seconds before the singularity bomb goes off, and we have to clear Earth's atmosphere first, which we do, and FTL our way to Delta Trianguli.

We get there, and we arrive at the nightside of the alien planet, and the piece of Earth's crust is safely there, resting at it's new location on the surface of the alien planet. Every one that was taken is already signed in through the aliens' customs office, so the alien woman and I get there just before they close for the night, and I get signed in too.

tl;dr version: I get a witch to try to teleport me to where the blue aliens are, fail, but the aliens come anyway and get me, blowing up Earth in the process.

Yay happy ending.

Not quite so happy ending for you poor suckaz.

And that's why it's a rave.

The aliens weren't blue, but I don't mind.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

a thousand pennies in penny-rolls is very heavy.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Had a good day today.

 

[madviking]

There's an ever-so-slightly-yet-awesome embarrassing video of me dancing to LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" circulating on the internet now.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

There's an ever-so-slightly-yet-awesome embarrassing video of me dancing to LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" circulating on the internet now.

See my avatar.

 

[classical_hero]

There's an ever-so-slightly-yet-awesome embarrassing video of me dancing to LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" circulating on the internet now.

You have to link it.

 

[madviking]

You have to link it.

a) It's on my friend's account
b) It was made for another friend's birthday
c) It'll eventually circulate to you

 

[Radio Noer]

Got third place overall in Radio Speaking in my first Forensics meet this year, my first trophy of high school

 

[Kennigit]

Rant: High Schools with GPA's greater than 4.00 are stupid.

nah they just have to weight things correctly; and it helps in the long run for class ranks, as things even out more overtime (B+ compared to A or A+ compared to A).

Still, I think it'd be better for transcripts to do marks (say "91 A" or "99 A") than anything else. Class rank is pretty stupid except in large percentiles (like top 5%, top 20%) and it'd be easier for colleges to assess transcripts.

Plus that way if someone is like #10 in their class by getting 98% in all classes while class "valedictorian" gets 90% in everything (assuming 90 = A and no +/- scale) but the "valedictorian" took a couple extra AP classes, colleges can more easily compare the "valedictorian" to the "#10".

anyways, lots of colleges--like georgia tech--just ignore your high school's grading scale and looks at your transcript with their own scale (can't remember what it is).

 

[madviking]

Today, I got a credit card, made a PayPal account, made my first credit card purchase, bought some things online, and made a LinkedIn.

Also see rants.

 

[NickyJ]

Davis-White did an excellent routine today. More skating tonight, with the first routine being done to the theme of Dr. Zhivago!