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posted January 25, 2009 07:27 PM |
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Omega:
Yeah, it went pretty well. Good luck with getting your job.
Doomforge:
That sounds a lot like some American kids. But some of them don't even show up for school.
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Why would I give away my real weakness? 
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Doomforge
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posted January 26, 2009 09:45 PM |
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So mvass, you're telling me US high school life is overrated? 
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mvassilev
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posted January 28, 2009 02:47 PM |
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It's not as great as you think it is.
And my high school life is better than that of most people (in a way), at least IMO.
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DagothGares
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posted January 28, 2009 03:01 PM |
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It's not as great as you think it is.
And my high school life is better than that of most people (in a way), at least IMO.
Out of curiosity (haven't read this thread a lot, sorry.) How is yours better? (except that your town isn't in the ghetto or that you ctually got an education)
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mvassilev
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posted January 28, 2009 03:09 PM |
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Me, actually getting an education at Noplace High School? loooool
No, I think I have a better high school life than a lot of the people who are going to my high school. I don't need drugs or alcohol to have fun, and my friends and I enjoy intellectually stimulating discussion and amusing humor, instead of idle gossip and tales of drunk parties.
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Doomforge
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posted January 28, 2009 03:22 PM |
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So it's not any different than Polish high school life. Oh well.
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DagothGares
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posted January 28, 2009 03:37 PM |
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Me, actually getting an education at Noplace High School? loooool
Degree is still a degree
even at Noplace, since there must be a curriculum.
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No, I think I have a better high school life than a lot of the people who are going to my high school. I don't need drugs or alcohol to have fun,
Same here.
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and my friends and I enjoy intellectually stimulating discussion and amusing humor
Bah...
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instead of idle gossip and tales of drunk parties.
Ah, I got what you mean, there!
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posted January 29, 2009 07:15 PM |
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and my friends and I enjoy intellectually stimulating discussion and amusing humor
Bah...
What's "bah" about it???
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posted February 01, 2009 01:52 PM |
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wow, the American system sounds irritating.
I didn't care about anything in 8th grade. In fact I was in the B class for Maths in 8th grade
I would hate to have a score from that long ago come and haunt me
You might have mentioned but I didn't see - where do you want to go to college?
I start university this year but I will still be living at home.
I got my results in december and that got me into my first preference of a Bachelor of Science. I have no idea what I want to major in.
I only needed a score of 85.00, which is an indication of the percentage of the state which you scored higher than, going up in ranks of 0.05, making 99.95 the highest possible score, hence I only needed to be in the top 15% of the state.
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mvassilev
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posted February 01, 2009 03:55 PM |
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I didn't care about anything in 8th grade.
Neither did I. Eighth grade was easily my least favorite year of all 11 (11, not 12, since I skipped 2nd grade).
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You might have mentioned but I didn't see - where do you want to go to college?
My first two choices are Harvard and the University of Chicago.
Oh, and back when I wanted to major in Political Science, I noticed that one college had a B.S. and a B.A. in Political Science. What could be the difference?
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Corribus
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posted February 01, 2009 04:11 PM |
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bort
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posted February 02, 2009 03:48 AM |
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Normally, when a school has both a BS and a BA in the same subject, the BS is considered the higher degree.
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posted February 02, 2009 03:55 AM |
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@Mvass: They wanted to skip me a grade back in elementary school...but my parents declined. 
In hindsight, best thing that happened to me.
But, you came out all right. 
I'm sure they'll take you in at Harvard.
@Corribus: Long time no see!
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mvassilev
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posted February 02, 2009 02:37 PM |
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Skipping a grade was one of the best things that ever happened to me. The grade below me is mostly full of losers. I don't think I would've gotten along so well with them.
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I'm sure they'll take you in at Harvard.
I hope so. It'd be great to go there.
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posted February 02, 2009 05:22 PM |
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what about MIT? Is it really that good? I've heard lots of good things about it.
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mvassilev
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posted February 02, 2009 10:46 PM |
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MIT... I've heard it's good, but it's really for nerds. And I don't mean people like me - I mean nerds.
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posted February 02, 2009 10:53 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 22:58, 02 Feb 2009.
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The school system in the US is a bit confusing.
In Sweden its like this.
First, you get to nursert when you are 3 to 6 years old. Then you start in kindergarten which is like a prequel to school (its located inside the school too).
Then 1th to 9th grade begins. It splitted into three areas.
Grade 1-3: Lower School
Grade 3-6: Middle School
Grade 6-9: Upper School
Im in the 7th grade. You get marks at the 8th and 9th grade, so it will be this autumn for me.
After that, you choose an orientation and go to high school for 1-3 years and can proceed to go to the University for lots of years if you want too.
And school in US seems so overrated. But then again I have just watched movies about it -.-
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posted February 02, 2009 10:59 PM |
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First, you get to nursert kindergarten when you are 3 to 6 years old. Then you start in kindergarten which is like a prequel to school (its located inside the school too).
In Norway we got the same system except we start in school at age of 6 and we got 10 grades instead of 9 <.< Well its practicaly the same consider how grade 1 was
Note: I just had to correcy ya mate
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posted February 02, 2009 11:02 PM |
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Oh, and back when I wanted to major in Political Science, I noticed that one college had a B.S. and a B.A. in Political Science. What could be the difference?
It's funnier telling people you have a BS in politics. 
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xerox
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posted February 02, 2009 11:08 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 23:10, 02 Feb 2009.
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But in Sweden there is "Dagis" and "Lekis".
There is two kinds of kindergarten so I separated it into Nursery and Kindergarten. There is one that has nothing to do with school between 3-6 years old.
Many children also have childminders instead. My childminder was my grandma (she is like 67 years old or something now >.> my mother is 36).
And the second kindergarten is in school but you dont work, its more like an introduction year and you just play all the time.
We got 10 years in school too, but as I said one year is like an introduction.
And I should have said that you are in kindergarten/nursery 3-5 because the introduction kindergarten begins at 6 years old.
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