Survey posted 2000-10-23 23:38 by Nick Disabato.

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I have been home schooled my whole life. I am a grade ahead ( I'm 16 and I'll raduate high school this year) And for the first time I am taking classes at the local Community College. The Spanish class is killing me (I don't study) and the Pre-Clalc class is boring me (I don't study that either I know everything so far.) This really has no relevance to much but I thought I would share it.

just one question.. WHY?

Gives the smartasses a chance to show off their trillion AP classes and rub it in the face of those who aren't geniuses.

Of which I definitely am not... 3.0 GPA and all (I suppose if I was actually interested in the droll at HS, I'd probably do better).

=P

(heheheh)

Having 6 AP classes, I will get a 5.00!
I will be valedictorian! hahaha!

ya ya... i get about a 2.2, but i bet i could kick your ass.

-WILDFIRE

Danm look at all these nerds...I'm glad i'm not a nerd anymore. Yep, Yep i was a nerd at a point of time too. I remember it like it was yesterday.....Sitting in honors classes not paying attention, programming games for the 82....Danm the ti-82...that was back in the day when the 82 was the shiznit. Now i'm out of school and still programming games for the 82...i mean 89...(clearing throat)
I have no idea how i made it through 5 years of honors classes. Finnally I graduated with a 2.7!!! Whoo Hoo!! In my final years (11th),(12th) I was a total slacker, now i'm killing people and robbing banks for drug money. (just kidding, then again maybe not).
Well theres my whole life in a nut shell.

Huh?!?! You sound like you think being a nerd is a bad thing.

Being a nerd isnt a bad thing....to tell you the truth i miss being a nerd and regret not being one in my final years

Yeah, being a nerd is cool. If you miss being one there's no reason not to be. All one must do to qualify is go to sites like slashdot.org and calculator discussion boards, and when talking, mention linux every other sentence, list digits of PI, and say stuff that causes others to say, "cut the techno-babble." It sure is fun.

Don't forget bashing "Windoze" and the "Macintoy."

I thought it was Macintrash. Or maybe Crapple.

All you guys are so lucky. In the DoDDS (army school in Germany) school I'm in there is only 1 real AP class offered. There are a couple others offered, but they all work through the DoDDS distance learning program (more information: http://www.dlc.odedodea.edu/ )Right now I'm taking AP English as a Junior (that's the only AP class) and AP German through distance learning, so that's the only AP classes I'm taking.

The reason my school doesn't have any other honors/AP classes is because it is so small (less then 200 people, 7-12 grade). Take for example my AP English class: we have only 12 people and that's 11th and 12th grade.

The distace learning program isn't very popular either. There are only three classes being taken through it in my entire school and I'm taking two (AP German and C++ Programming).

So this pretty much limits me to getting a 4.2, although it looks like I'm getting a 4.1 this quarter since AP English isn't very easy (only one A right now)

BTW: My GPA for the AP classes do get 5 points, while all other classes get 4 points.

Dac

Of course, we are all nerds.

I have an A, but that is the calm before the storm, I am about to transfer out of no work classes into French and Algebra B so this could be unpleasent.

Being a semi nerd is better than being a nerd or being other...When you are a semi nerd people actually talk to you! thats good!

Right now I have a ti92plus and i am in 8th grade. (it is cool how you can write/play games in homeroom/other classes when your in 8th grade and none of the teachers care because they think that you are doing something useful (sometimes i am doing useful stuff but usually....) (not only that some of them dont know that you can program games) (hehe)
FUN!

You lucky Bastard you have a ti92plus in the 8th grade..haha...All i had was the 82 back in the 8th.
Some guys have all the luck.

When I was in the 8th grade, I still had a scientific calculator. 9th grade was the first time that I ever knew that graphing calcs existed!

Hey, I'm proud of myself. City record for lowest GPA ever at 0.0...yay!!! (...I guess I spent too much time on my old pathetic 83+)

I seriously hope you're kidding on that one... You have to TRY to get a GPA that low. Sitting there and pretending like you're paying attention will get you at least a C or a D.

That is not quite true. Right now i have an F in geometry, and I actually do try. I don't even play games on my ti89. Maybe if i stopped trying my grade would go up.

-WILDFIRE

Hey, I made a really good program that keeps trak of your grades in all of your classes. You can view points and total points, average, cumulative average, and it has a good interface screen to enter your grade. If you are interested send me the name of your classes and I will make a personalized grade keeper for you. thinkreal@yahoo.com

Or.. you could follow the URL link above, and download a premade customizable Grade program that keeps track of your GPA, and supports up to 3 grade scales for those schools that have weighted GPA.