Journal tuxette's Journal: tuxette's Thursday poll - time for school! 12
Since little tuxette is a "student" again, this week's poll has to do with schooling. Topic: favorite subject(s) in school.
My favorite subject(s) in school was/is:
A. Maths
B. Comp sci
C. Biology
D. Chemistry
E. Physics
F. The mother tongue (English, German, whatever)
G. Foreign languages
H. History
I. Music
J. Art
K. Gym
L. Home Economics
M. Wood/metalshop
N. Other
ABEFHI (Score:2)
Mitochondria my ass.
For A, it would have to be 1) Calculus 2) Differential Equations 3) Algebra 4) Trig in that order. I miss math classes, so I'm taking one next quarter! Well, a quasi-math class.
What are Tuxette's answers, hmmm?
A, E and M (Score:2)
tuxette's answers - ACDG (Score:2)
All of the above (Score:2)
Actually, the odd thing was that the subjects I liked least were also usually the ones where I did best -- calculus, sciences, etc. -- but didn't do so hot at the ones I liked -- creative writing, German (!), French.
Comp sci wasn't even offered back in my day, at least not at my schools. In '82 we did have an Apple II in my fifth and sixth grade class, but then we moved to Minnesota, where they weren't as enlightened. (Parents couldn't afford a c
ABDEFHJM (Score:2)
My first exposure to IT took the form of a punishment, believe it or not - I'd nicked another lad's comic from his bedside locker, and the housemaster caught me. I was told to go to the new computer room if I was that bored. So that is how I ended up learning how to make funny patterns on the TV screen with the then state-of-the-art ZX-81s the school had purchased.
The rest, as they say, is history...
CompSci was taught as a extension of Maths at that time, but as I'd had plenty of
J... (Score:2)
E.) (Score:2)
Foreign Languages (Score:3, Interesting)
I went through school with a fairly mild undiagnosed case of dyslexia. Math (except for geometry), chemistry, anything that was expressed with a "left side" and a "right side" ---these were impenetrable to me. We used slide rules (yes, it was a long time ago), and I could make no sense at all out of mine.
It took a rather astute and compassionate instructor at a local community college to figure out what was wrong with me. I was over 30 when he handed me an HP calculator, and my life was changed forever. I spent a couple of years drinking in as many higher math classes as I could--sitting in rooms with people ten years younger than I was, enjoying every minute of it. It seemed natural for me to begin coding, and from there to move on to networks, and I never looked back.
The disability manifests itself in the oddest ways. I have problems backing up my car sometimes, and I occasionally look at a clock face (analog) and read it backwards. It never interfered with actual reading, hence my ability to take in foreign languages at a great rate.
Some day I want to be one of those little gnomish retired folks who go back to school. I would like to study chemistry and possibly physics--just for the sheer joy of knowing something more about them than I do.
Two's complement, anyone?
Anne
C,I, and N (Score:1)
I am now a network and system support tech so go figure. heheh
E. Physics (Score:2)
What made his classes interesting is that he hadn't always been a teacher. He had worked in the private sector (doing scientific physics and chemistry stuff including research) so he had lots of real life anecdotes relating to whatever topic we were learning.
I still recall the story he told of some research they were doing with rubber seals on vehicles intended for sub-zero temparatures (for antarctic use). They dipped blocks of this new rubber
Re: (Score:2)