The 10,000 Post Thread v2

[RipRap 4,400]

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I have English as my difficulty too. My teacher is very strict!

[jacksunny 741]

4472.

The only reason I have trouble in LA (Language Arts aka. English) is because I suck at writing stories and our LA teacher makes us write a lot of stories. My grammar and reading comp. skills are pretty good, just my terrible stories bring down my mark.

[astronelson 339]

4473.

I'm decent at writing stories. It's just that a lot of what we were doing was Critical Literacy, and that is boring as heck. It has very few applications.

And by "difficulty" I mean it was one of the few subjects I tended to get a B in.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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I skated through the first three years of high school, well, really everything up to that as well. Book learning was easy, and sitting down and doing 15 minutes of homework during homeroom was a breeze. My senior year of high school I just wanted out, though, and that attitude took a toll on my grades. I graduated in the top quarter of my class and wasted my time treading water before heading off to college two years later to have the time of my life (as well as some great challenges). I am much more suited to that kind of lifestyle as opposed to the high school scene and I am looking forward to going back to learn more someday.

[Duke87 1,070]

(4475)

I dunno. I really enjoyed college, don't get me wrong, but I am more than happy to have it behind me. I've moved on with my life; going back to school now would feel like taking a step backwards.

[astronelson 339]

4476.

I'm listening to some 80's music. Currently: Take On Me. Next: Safety Dance. And cue Larks never having heard of them...

[Frdm920 50]

4477

I hated English, I always felt it was ruining good books/movies for me by forcing me to have to analyse them rather than read/watch them for my own enjoyment..

[Timmystwin 201]

4478

+1

I hated analysing Shakespeare and multicultural poetry. The stuff we needed to right about probably weren't thought of by the author. It didnt help what we were studying was immensely boring if you tried to analyse it.

I was good at stories though. Got full marks in Yr 8 for a piece of GCSE coursework where you wrote a story.

[RipRap 4,400]

4479

I also hate analyzing Shakespeare's plays because the vocabulary is hard to understand and I don't get what the heck he is saying!

[astronelson 339]

4480.

I quite liked reading Shakespeare. Analyzing it, not so much.

Something many people forget is that Shakespeare's plays were written to have some reaction and interaction from the audience, who were primarily three things: standing, poor, and drunk off their face. A great experience, although one that is rather expensive if you don't live in London, is to go see a performance of one of his plays at the Globe theatre (not the original, but a replica). Current prices are 5 pounds to stand as a groundling in front of the stage, up to 37.50 for good seats. I would like to do this some day. I'm not sure if they permit drinking nowadays.

I couldn't stand The Great Gatsby. It was quite possibly the longest 156 pages I ever read.

[Larks2242 251]

4481.

Other then nearly being blinded, i had an awesome fireworks show yesterday.

[RipRap 4,400]

4482

Always be careful when you're around fireworks

(I am a phobic to loud, sudden noises, such as popping balloons and fireworks)

  Edited July 5, 2011 by 111222333444  

[Timmystwin 201]

4483

I can make an insane firework noise if my throat isnt too dry.

[Larks2242 251]

Always be careful when you're around fireworks

(I am a phobic to loud, sudden noises, such as popping balloons and fireworks)

4484.

Wasent the fireworks, but the hand flare.

[RipRap 4,400]

4485

Be careful on that too...

[Duke87 1,070]

(4486)

We put a singe mark in the top of one of our recycling bins. They don't make good firework stands!

[Muck308 55]

4487

I didn't get any fireworks this year.

[RipRap 4,400]

4488

Awwwww. That shucks, but there's always going to be next year. Or you could just watch these:

LOL.

  Edited July 6, 2011 by 111222333444  

[astronelson 339]

4489.

Speaking of scorch marks, there was one on the ceiling of one of my high school's chemistry labs. The story goes it was from a sodium and water reaction that had too much sodium.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

4490

I finally set up my urban Minecraft server. It took me a week to prepare the land, build the framework, and set up the server but I finally did it. It works as local host and with my laptop (home network but different computer than host).

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[RipRap 4,400]

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What exactly is Minecraft for?

We are closing in our halfway mark, Keep it up! 509 more to go!

  Edited July 6, 2011 by 111222333444  

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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I have no idea what Minecraft is, but I see pictures of it all the time on imgur.

I have ambitions to earn my PhD, and the only way to get one is to go back to school. Of course, I'll end up never leaving a college campus for the rest of my career, but that's fine by me.

[Frdm920 50]

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Speaking of scorch marks, there was one on the ceiling of one of my high school's chemistry labs. The story goes it was from a sodium and water reaction that had too much sodium.

Try dropping a tin of sodium into the school pool. My teachers did that once, someone from another school apparently tried replicating it but let the tin sit on the bottom.

Needless to say, the pool wasn't in very good shape

[Timmystwin 201]

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Minecraft has no purpose, or goal. Which is why its awesome. You get dumped in a massive, amazing, randomly generated world. Then do whatever you want.

Also, we accidentally made TNT in Science. We aimed for MNT and missed.

[astronelson 339]

4495.

I no longer do chemistry, and thus no longer do chemistry labs. Possibly the worst thing I've done is dissolve a plastic weighing boat. I really have to be careful with what I'm putting non-polar solvents into.

[Ceafus 88 1,794]

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[You need something to say.]

[Larks2242 251]

4497.

Minecraft has no purpose, or goal. Which is why its awesome. You get dumped in a massive, amazing, randomly generated world. Then do whatever you want.

Its also really dated too.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

4498

Update: my friend cannot log in. His computer keeps saying things about the timer and a bad connection, sometimes saying that there is nothing at that IP. Can anyone here help me with that? If so, will you be so kind as to help me? If you help ms and my friend can log in, I will make you a server Op.

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  Edited July 6, 2011 by OcramSeattle  

[Duke87 1,070]

(4499)

I set a couple things on fire in chem lab by being overzealous with the bunsen burner. I can at least legitimately claim that both were accidents.

As for water/sodium, apparently they used to do that in front of students at the college I went to but don't anymore because by modern safety standards it's considered too dangerous to attempt with untrained people present. So they just show us video of it.

(American safety standards are known for being quite stringent, what with the high rate of lawsuits and all)

  Edited July 6, 2011 by Duke87  

[Chptrk 86]

4500.

Apparently I'm not dead.