Off to school!

mnc2fan · Post by **mnc2fan** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 12:49 am

stickman where do you go to school?

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 2:09 am

I started on August 8th and I'm a senior at Plano East Senior High, one of the biggest high schools in the world (senior class of 1200, junior class of 1600, freshmen and sophomores go to a seperate school). Next yaer though, University of North Texas.

Stickmanofdoom · Post by **Stickmanofdoom** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 11:50 am

I go to West Ottawa High School in Holland... Michigan.

Spooner · Post by **Spooner** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 12:22 pm

I am a Sophomore in High School at a small school called Orange Grove High School. It is super small my class is only 120 people. So yeah its lame.

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 1:18 pm

5th year at VWO Natuur & Techniek (lit. Nature and Technics, it's Physics, Chemistry and Calculus)

Post by **Kozak** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 1:50 pm

3rd year Biology and 1st year Medicine at Rijksuniversteit Groningen (RUG). Yes I am a busy boy.

I have also started rowing for Gyas.

tokijnct · Post by **tokijnct** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 10:34 pm

Deland High School
IB Junior

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Wed 31 Aug, 2005 11:22 pm

I did IB as a junior, but quit because I didn't want to do Spanish 4.

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Thu 01 Sep, 2005 1:14 am

senior at ucsb, studying marine bio.

tokijnct · Post by **tokijnct** » Thu 01 Sep, 2005 10:10 am

I did IB as a junior, but quit because I didn't want to do Spanish 4.

lol

Can't wait to test out of Spanish

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Thu 01 Sep, 2005 3:16 pm

You can't you have to take the same foreign language in 9, 10, 11, and 12th grade. Even if that means taking Spanish 5 or 6.

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Thu 01 Sep, 2005 3:35 pm

I had my first school day today, was great, tomorrow i have 4 hours of Computer Science: Software class (which includes programming)!

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Sat 03 Sep, 2005 12:15 am

I'm a junior now (according to USA system). Next year senior, and after that probably off to high school!

Got my hour schedule today, if anyone's interested, it's here:

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                Monday   |  Tuesday  |  Wednesday  |  Thursday  |  Friday
                -----------|-------------|----------------|--------------|---------
1st hour    Dutch      |   Dutch     |     Maths       |    Gym      |  Software
2nd hour   Hardware |  History    |     Maths       |    Gym      |  Software
3rd hour   Hardware | Hardware  |   Software    |     Maths    |  Dutch
4th hour    Religion   | Hardware  |   Software    |    French   |  Economics
5th hour    Physics    |   English    |       /           | Economics |  Software
6th hour    Physics    |Geography |        /          |    Maths     |  Software
7th hour    Religion   |   French    |         /          |    English   |  French

In total:

- 6 hours Software
- 4 hours Hardware
- 4 hours Maths
- 3 hours Dutch
- 3 hours French
- 2 hours Economics
- 2 hours English
- 2 hours Gym
- 2 hours Physics
- 2 hours Religion
- 1 hour Geography
- 1 hour History

= 32 hours of class

/ = no class, in Belgium we don't have school Wednesday afternoon (i don't know if it's the same over there).

As far as I know of what we'll learn in Software and Hardware this year, I know practically everything. Maths shouldn't be a problem either, especially in the beginning of the year. Dutch is easy, French is a pain in the ass, Economics is easy, English is easy, I won't have Gym (because I get special guidance because of my "problem"), luckily, because else it'd be a pain in the ass too. Physics shouldn't be too hard, Religion is super-easy, but super-stupid too. Geography should be do-able, and History is easy

This year's in the bag (with a bit of studying)

Leumas · Post by **Leumas** » Sat 03 Sep, 2005 5:27 am

Recent Graduate of High School, could end up waiting a year because of Huricane K.

Kerey · Post by **Kerey** » Wed 07 Sep, 2005 10:22 pm

I'm studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was a fairly random choice, but Case is too close to home, Carnegie Mellon is too expensive (and in Pittsburgh), UTexas Austin and Berkeley are too far away. The classes have varied from "I'm paying out of state tution for this?" to excellent, and there are a lot of people here who are smarter than me, which I like. Also, I've worked on some cool projects, such as a firefighting simulator (I worked on the physics of fire propagation portion, something NIST said couldn't be done in realtime) and also two robotics projects. The CS program attracts good recruiters as well, from companies like Google, Mircrosoft, etc.

Some people consider UIUC to be a party school, but it seems pretty tame to me. There weren't any riots or anything after the loss to UNC, just a bunch of depressed drunk people.