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Rep Retirement Lodge #170: Fair Weather

Rep Retirement Lodge #170: Fair Weather

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I loved Honors Bio in 9th grade. I should've taken AP Bio instead of Physucks. Ah well, irrelevant to my current career.
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AP Bio in my HS (10th grade) was the exact same textbook as Intro to Bio/Bio 101/whatever at tUMD. I laughed at that. Obviously nailed that course in college; got a B+ in HS.
 
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Brenthoven said:
AP Bio in my HS (10th grade) was the exact same textbook as Intro to Bio/Bio 101/whatever at tUMD. I laughed at that. Obviously nailed that course in college; got a B+ in HS.
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My high school honors chemistry book in high school was the same one used at Tech for the freshman chemistry class
 
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Never took any honors courses in high school. My counselor didn't think I could handle it.
 
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My Chem professor told us that if we saw him in Kmart and had a question, it was okay to ask him. He was a good guy.

Thank you for the kind words. I woke up to the phone call, then dealt with an excessive amount of BS at the office. I know that soon, there won't be a 2-week notice. There'll just be either an exit or a firing. Frankly, I don't care which. When I leave, that practice will hit the ground. Hard.

Visitation on Thursday, full Catholic funeral mass on Friday. It's fitting. Everybody is holding up amazingly well. Mom said it best to Dad tonight: the phone call we've waited for for 8 years has come and gone. It'll hit me at some point, but for now all I do when the memories come flooding back is smile. *shrug*
 
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state of hockey said:
What English books did you use? ;)

I did honors English and AP History. The history courses were a blast.
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Took the English and History AP as well. I somehow nailed English, even though I was/am horrible at grammar/basics. Creativity and imagery were what got me there.
 
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leswp1 said:
I didn't have to take physics Thank God! (not blaspheming, totally heartfelt!) My brother is the whiz at all this stuff. Mr les is tolerably good at it. I am useless. He is taking anatomy and physiology. That I can help with.
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Anatomy is easy once you remember where all the answers are.

ShirtlessBob said:
Never took any honors courses in high school. My counselor didn't think I could handle it.
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I kinda wish that my Counselor had pushed me to do some AP stuff. Would have made College a little easier, and maybe got me out a little sooner. Oh well.

Hang in there Hammer.
 
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Good Morning, MEUSA! :)


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge! :)
 
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Brenthoven said:
Took the English and History AP as well. I somehow nailed English, even though I was/am horrible at grammar/basics. Creativity and imagery were what got me there.
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Ten years and almost 100K posts, and this is the first time that I found out that you went to tUMD. :eek:
 
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Didn't have an AP program when and where I went. Everyone just kinda went "uhhh, he's smart, just throw him in the next higher math and call it good."
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Never took any honors courses in high school. My counselor didn't think I could handle it.
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THey thought Einstein couldn't handle things either. How did that work out for them?

Twitch Boy said:
Didn't have an AP program when and where I went. Everyone just kinda went "uhhh, he's smart, just throw him in the next higher math and call it good."
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They had some advanced classes (not many) when I was in HS but I was a girl. There ended my opportunity. Would have loved to take sciences and history. Math and English- bleh.
 
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leswp1 said:
They had some advanced classes (not many) when I was in HS but I was a girl. There ended my opportunity. Would have loved to take sciences and history. Math and English- bleh.
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That's lousy.

I was the only girl in my senior class to take the AP Calc exam. Also took AP Lit. Not many other AP offerings at my school, despite a senior class size of ~700.
Was in the upper level science classes, but our highest level Physics class was a joke. We wrote poetry on Fridays and watched the Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle. At the time, I thought it was awesome, then I got to college and was way behind everyone else in Physics.
 
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Good Morning, Lodge!

I was in college prep classes in high school. They wanted me to take the AP classes, but I just got sick of the fact that other teachers labeled me "smart" because my mom taught at my high school. I, instead, enrolled in business classes and ended up having half days my senior year. I would go to school in the morning, and go to work in the afternoon.
 
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Morning.

Pirates won. So my adopted playoff team is still going for another few days.

In HS i only took one advanced course and that was College Physics. Ended up getting a scholarship for it, and in college realized it sucked (as in difficult).
 
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goldy_331 said:
Good Morning Lodge.



He didn't go there for long. I heard he couldn't drink enough so they had to kick him out. ;)
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:p

Hated classes, didn't want to go into debt, and found I loved blue-collar work, which was my summer job previous to my soph year in college.
 
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I slacked off in high school. Took tough classes, didn't do the work, and still got decent grades based on my pure intellect and test taking abilities. It was good, because there were a couple years in high school where in the fall I wouldn't get in from the field until 11:00. Not much time to be doing homework. School from 8AM-3PM, and driving tractor from 3PM-11PM, Hopefully asleep by midnight. Ah, the good ol days.

I did take 3 AP classes, didn't take any of the tests though. Luckily basic science and math classes in college were just as dirt easy as in high school.
 
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