Guys I feel somewhat failed.

[MerkaMerka]

I'm in all great classes that will keep me up and each giving me 2 credits each session. But I just honestly FAIL at math. Even if I get the material I have a hard time remembering formulas etc, especially when I have to remember crap from last semester/chapter to go into this chapter.

So I decided to take regular math classes. I already knew I wasn't going to get the teachers approval to go on in the higher graded 2 credit math classes but I just feel a little lower than the rate. I've been told it won't effect me in any serious way, in fact after calculating the points, I'll be able to leave High school at 11th instead of 12th if I wanted. But the thing about it is that these classes just "look" better. I don't know. I mean have you ever seen chocolate but then you're like "oh I can't eat that, or I'm lactose intolerant, I'll get sick" so you don't do it and go with the lower less positive direction of sweets? yeah.

Anyways, I'm just venting and since I doubt you want to read that wall o' text of mine so.

ITT- I suck at math, decide to go into normal math courses.

Have you guys ever had to do anything similar?

[Serix]

I tried to get out of Honors Physics this year, I called the teacher a ******** and told her to stop talking to me in her failed english.

In front of the principal.

I'm still stuck in the class and I got a 1 day detention >.>

[Xeisur]

Latin and History. two of my most hated subjects and I fail at them.

I take all AP courses for my other classes but Latin and History I'm taking honors. ._. I'm switching to French next year and surprisingly I made it into AP History. I'm taking the AP History course as it would look better even if I fail the class, but Latin I can't take it. I have a lot of things to do so I can't focus it all on Latin.

[`doll]

I dropped AP Calculus because I was just like f-ck it, I'm not working this hard when I'm way past the math credits I need to graduate.
It's just sitting in a classroom and "writing notes" AKA staring off at the board that I can't stand.
I used to be a math and english person, pretty well rounded in all subjects, smart Asian girl. Never struggled with concepts & stuff.
I'm just a terrible-average student now because I've stopped paying attention in my classes. It's so tiring.

[blake414super]

I have the same problem as you Merka,

math is just impossible to grasp. im struggling along in academic because i cannot change courses now, and i just want to pass.

Every other course i get 80% and up, but Mathmatics is just too hard.

My teacher always says there 3 types of kids: Math, Science, and English.

[Wicked315]

I feel you. Sometimes math..and Science, it pisses me off. I dont care wtf an Atom does. I dont want to be a mother fawking scientist.

[Squeak2]

Haha, I'm like exact opposite of you guys. I don't love math, but it's understandable for me. I'm taking pre-calculus and I'm only a sophomore in highschool. However, English freakin sucks! It's like here's a bunch of rules to remember, but even though you know them it doesn't matter, they don't work 1/2 the time, anyway.

[Kriff]

AP calculus kicked my ***. I had all A's except for the D I got in that class. Luckily, they let me drop it. I'm in probability & statistics now, which is fun and seems to have a practical use in the future. Calculus sucks.

[NecromancerJali]

I failed math last year. :\ All because I didn't like the math teacher I refused to do most of the work. I'm paying for my stupidity now though.

[SimplyLuck]

I wish I was in AP and honors classes =O.

[takkun88]

I'm currently border-line failing in AP Calculus.
I've always had straight As in all my Math classes prior to this.

[Xente]

i get every single subject except math. f*ck math

funny think is im getting A's in chemistry when half of it is math lol

[Deimos]

I'm in all great classes that will keep me up and each giving me 2 credits each session. But I just honestly FAIL at math. Even if I get the material I have a hard time remembering formulas etc, especially when I have to remember crap from last semester/chapter to go into this chapter.

So I decided to take regular math classes. I already knew I wasn't going to get the teachers approval to go on in the higher graded 2 credit math classes but I just feel a little lower than the rate. I've been told it won't effect me in any serious way, in fact after calculating the points, I'll be able to leave High school at 11th instead of 12th if I wanted. But the thing about it is that these classes just "look" better. I don't know. I mean have you ever seen chocolate but then you're like "oh I can't eat that, or I'm lactose intolerant, I'll get sick" so you don't do it and go with the lower less positive direction of sweets? yeah.

Anyways, I'm just venting and since I doubt you want to read that wall o' text of mine so.

ITT- I suck at math, decide to go into normal math courses.

Have you guys ever had to do anything similar?

take how important education is to your parents/school authorities

divide it by fifty

thats how important it is in real life



sure you hear a bunch of crap every day about so and so who didnt finish highschool and whatever

sure everyday on the internet you hear about some guy with a 5.0 and taking a shite load of extra classes

its all a smoke screen man. it all matters for shit.

the reason that it gets played up so much is because everyone is a sucker and is buying into the media shitstorm.. "oooh you gotta be smart or you are ****ed" "listen X amount of kids get Y grades and if you dont then you are finished"

its a pile of shite which is right next to the Hope Merchants bullcrap (tv ads and such "buy this or nobody will like you")

basically...

not everyone in the world can be lawyers and doctors and supreme court judges

but they sell you the deal, they sell you the "check out this kid who became a supreme court judge" "look at this kid who became counterstrike world champ" "look at this kid who took his college majors at 8 years old"

they sell you this shit to make you think that you personally have the one in a trillion chance that these people had

bottom line is it doesnt count for crap, but the ultimate MEGA IRONY is that you dont REALISE until you are TOO OLD to do anything about it



take my (awesome) advice.

stop worrying, do your best, try as hard as you can, BUT plan for failure.

and IF (IF) you fail, dont worry about it man, you gave it your best shot.

dont listen to all these dickheads saying "if you want a good life you need X, Y and Z"

dont listen to all the people who are so full of knowledge, because most of the time those people are just sore about the chances THEY missed and are just trying to do you in whilst trying to gather the scraps of their lives.


tl;dr dont worry too much about higschool and what your "superiors" (parents/teachers/career adivsors) are telling you

age = wisdom, as everybody knows

BUT

age =/= common sense

age = common ignorance

[BGLamb]

Yeah I dropped out of 'high school' over here. Was in detention 3 times a week for never working and stopped turning up half-way through my GCSE year.

Now I run a bar and write about computer games.

Win?

[Deimos]

Yeah I dropped out of 'high school' over here. Was in detention 3 times a week for never working and stopped turning up half-way through my GCSE year.

Now I run a bar and write about computer games.

Win?

proof that Deimos' initiative is a fact of life, not a crock of shite

[darknight55]

Math gets harder... Right now I am taking math courses in which formulas are GIVEN.

[iMicro]

It's kind of hard to fail an ACAD Math class as long as you pay attention and study when neeeded. If you can't do that, then you should have joined Foundations or something lol. We don't have AP here(canada sucks) but we have IB.(AP w/ 100 required CAS hours)

[Chaotix]

I'm in all great classes that will keep me up and each giving me 2 credits each session. But I just honestly FAIL at math. Even if I get the material I have a hard time remembering formulas etc, especially when I have to remember crap from last semester/chapter to go into this chapter.

So I decided to take regular math classes. I already knew I wasn't going to get the teachers approval to go on in the higher graded 2 credit math classes but I just feel a little lower than the rate. I've been told it won't effect me in any serious way, in fact after calculating the points, I'll be able to leave High school at 11th instead of 12th if I wanted. But the thing about it is that these classes just "look" better. I don't know. I mean have you ever seen chocolate but then you're like "oh I can't eat that, or I'm lactose intolerant, I'll get sick" so you don't do it and go with the lower less positive direction of sweets? yeah.

Anyways, I'm just venting and since I doubt you want to read that wall o' text of mine so.

ITT- I suck at math, decide to go into normal math courses.

Have you guys ever had to do anything similar?

i have AP us history
if u get less than an 80 for a report card grade, the teacher berates you and criticizes you on everything until u switch out to regulars (theres no pre-AP) with the stupid people.
my class started out with 30+ people (2 ppl per table)
now its way less, theres 1 person per table with a couple empty tables

Yeah I dropped out of 'high school' over here. Was in detention 3 times a week for never working and stopped turning up half-way through my GCSE year.

Now I run a bar and write about computer games.

Win?

yeah...
no offense with this but i guess i just dont have the mindset to have the conversation with a friend thats says "i work at a hospital and make 200k a year, what did you do again?" and i have to reply "oh, i make drinks... and games..."

[XGrave]

nope :P im already stupid no need for me to take harder classes so :P