While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Nuka-sama]

I resent the fact that there is no "rich jock" on that list :/

 

[Kal'thzar]

Valedictorian, Salutatorian, GPA....

Research

Terrible American High School Shows/Movies make a bit more sense now.

Anyway, Symphony go back to saying incisive things

*popcorn*

 

[madviking]

madviking 4 av club prez

 

[Lord of Elves]

I had a 2.7944 GPA in high school, so lol.

Sweet Christ, Symphony, how did you even college. I have a 4.4 GPA and the parental units are convinced no respectable university will have me

 

[North King]

Well some of us didn't go to the schools where AP courses inflate your GPA.

 

[Nuka-sama]

Some of us did those AP classes and pulled off a respectable 2.5 GPA

 

[ork75]

Some of us did those AP classes and pulled off a respectable 2.5 GPA

You're rich; doesn't count.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Some of us actually haul ass and get good grades.

Excuse me while I ardently ignore my AP course summer work as the beginning of my senior year approaches like the business end of a guillotine.

 

[Symphony D.]

Anyway, Symphony go back to saying incisive things

Takes too much time, think I'll retire at 6:0:1 or whatever it is currently.

Sweet Christ, Symphony, how did you even college. I have a 4.4 GPA and the parental units are convinced no respectable university will have me

Never having to do college applications helped. Also I only got out of high school on time due to earning some college credit; stingy bastards wanted 6 semester hours to make up for a single class. Let me tell you, doing college algebra in 8 hour sessions both Saturday and Sunday for 4 weekends on an Air Force base was fun times.

Watching the very first YOGSCAST series is really weird because it's actually Simon who knows what they're doing and Lewis who's clueless. Simon is also actually bearable. Very weird.

 

[Shadowbound]

Sweet Christ, Symphony, how did you even college. I have a 4.4 GPA and the parental units are convinced no respectable university will have me

On a scale of five. Seeing as some of our schools don't even offer APs, most people use a 4.0 scale.

It also really helps to pick up college credits beforehand.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

I'm only taking 1 AP course this year (only 1 is available to my grade without wasting time on summer school), so I'm not that worried academically.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

I think I've got about 12 college credits accumulated going into my freshman year at MTU.

 

[madviking]

aps are great. i got a 5 on chem, bc calc, e&m, and mechanics and i was able to skips all the dumb 101 level classes when i got to college. i think i was like 5 credits short of entering as a second year.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I... Went into college with a years worth of credits... But ended up taking the full 4 years, because real life, and university is better.

 

[madviking]

same here. i'm using the space i've freed up to take classes for my minor.

 

[Symphony D.]

Oh China.

China will construct a "Chinese Christian theology" suitable for the country, state media reported on Thursday, as both the number of believers and tensions with the authorities are on the rise.

China has between 23 million and 40 million Protestants, accounting for 1.7 to 2.9 per cent of the total population, the state-run China Daily said, citing figures given at a seminar in Shanghai.

About 500,000 people are baptised as Protestants every year, it added.

"Over the past decades, the Protestant churches in China have developed very quickly with the implementation of the country's religious policy," the paper quoted Wang Zuoan, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, as saying.

"The construction of Chinese Christian theology should adapt to China's national condition and integrate with Chinese culture."

Disappointed the phrase "... with Chinese characteristics" was not used.

 

[Luckymoose]

Sweet Christ, Symphony, how did you even college. I have a 4.4 GPA and the parental units are convinced no respectable university will have me

Because GPA is a meaningless metric and there are alternative means of higher education. What you make in a course has absolutely no bearing on what you got out of it, or how you apply that. If you haven't figured this out by now you're a lost cause.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Because GPA is a meaningless metric and there are alternative means of higher education. What you make in a course has absolutely no bearing on what you got out of it, or how you apply that. If you haven't figured this out by now you're a lost cause.

You're a lost cause if you think talking about education in America is something that has anything to do with actually learning. I would be very surprised if any college admissions department has any means of assessing a candidate's worth independent of GPA, course records, SAT and/or ACT scores, etc, that isn't based in extra-curriculars or character assessments by teachers et al.

The lion's share of degree paths remaining in post-secondary education are basically checkmarks on your "middle class membership" form.

But please, tell me more about the state of pedagogy in this country.

 

[Luckymoose]

You're a lost cause if you think talking about education in America is something that has anything to do with actually learning. I would be very surprised if any college admissions department has any means of assessing a candidate's worth independent of GPA, course records, SAT and/or ACT scores, etc, that isn't based in extra-curriculars or character assessments by teachers et al.

The lion's share of degree paths remaining in post-secondary education are basically checkmarks on your "middle class membership" form.

But please, tell me more about the state of pedagogy in this country.

Let's just ignore that you called Symphony D. a lesser person and make this about the state of American politics. Right. No, I won't buy into your stupidity here. He's a far more capable and intelligent person than you. What does that 4.4 mean now?

 

[Lord of Elves]

If you were paying any attention to my post at all instead of scanning it leisurely for an excuse to indulge in Internet-based crappy character assassination sniping you would have understood that I was implying the exact opposite of "A 4.4 GPA makes you a capable, intelligent person."

The quality of discussion -- in terms of being able to hold a topic instead of indulging in petty and insipid interpersonal rivalries -- on this forum is complete crap. Period paragraph.