So, Many, Projects

[Penguin]

The end of the year is awful, so many projects, I just finished one at 1:40 AM over here.  I can't wait to sleep early tomorrow, because that was the last one for a while.

-Penguin

[mensa180]

One of my favorite memories from high school was a Latin project where I was to, the best of my ability, document and give a lengthy oral presentation with power point over the history of Roman law and how it evolved with the class struggles.

I stayed up literally the whole night working, went to school, presented, then came home and went right to bed.  It was great.

[Pigslilspaz]

I love the all nighter reports.

[MachFly]

I don't remember a single project from high school that was actually useful.

[5anders]

I don't remember a single project from high school that was actually useful.

  Me either.  Then again I skipped as much as possible, NEVER did any of the work, and still somehow managed to graduate.  I think it probably had something to do with the fact that I live in a very small town, and most of the teachers I had taught my dad as a kid.

[gyrene81]

sheesh...ya'll think you got it rough...try doing those projects/reports with a pen, a notebook and the sneakernet for finding research material.

my biggest challenges came in 8th grade, before computers...build a 3 dimensional machine with moving parts out of heavy card stock...10 page report on any subject in latin...put a fully disassembled 3.5hp briggs and stratton motor back together then run it...make a garment that you would actually wear (home ec teacher was a hottie).

[MachFly]

I just finished one at 1:40 AM over here. 

That's early, wait until college, I had stuff that I had to stay up for four days in a row.

[SmokinLoon]

I don't remember a single project from high school that was actually useful.

Mind you, young padawan, that it is not the actual assignment you learn from but instead by the process in which you obtain your knowledge.    That, especially at such a young and tender age is where you learn how to differentiate from story, truth, and what floats between.  If you retain the information you absorbed then all the better, just be wary of the pitfalls of complatency.    

[MachFly]

Mind you, young padawan, that it is not the actual assignment you learn from but instead by the process in which you obtain your knowledge.    That, especially at such a young and tender age is where you learn how to differentiate from story, truth, and what floats between.  If you retain the information you absorbed then all the better, just be wary of the pitfalls of complatency.    

If all they cared about was for us to do research they'd let us choose a topic instead of making us write ten pages on something I don't give a sh** about (and probably never will) and base 50% of the grade of how pretty it looks.

[Maverick]

Me either.  Then again I skipped as much as possible, NEVER did any of the work, and still somehow managed to graduate.  I think it probably had something to do with the fact that I live in a very small town, and most of the teachers I had taught my dad as a kid.

That's about as good an example of social promotion as one could ask for. Great job of the school graduating a "student" without any of that nasty education thing getting in the way.

[Babalonian]

Middle school was a lot harder for me project wise that High School, computers were just comming into use as an option for doing a school report, but more common during my middle school days were teachers that weren't accepting of it and who made you hand write everything.  I would type a single page out, spellcheck it, then hand write it.  Typing class was actually done on 60s-era typewriters, no surfing the web if you were bored or backspace keys to hide mistakes from the teacher.  By the time I was finishing middle school and entering high school the district finally adopted a policy to attempt having one computer in each classroom and to accept printed works with references cited.  By the time I graduated HS most teachers still didn't have a working computer in their classroom or knew how to turn them on.

[Penguin]

Thanks guys, I feel a lot better now.

-Penguin

[5anders]

That's about as good an example of social promotion as one could ask for. Great job of the school graduating a "student" without any of that nasty education thing getting in the way.

I actually agree with you, but my diploma doesn't mean dick to me.  I enjoy hard hands on work, and regardless of whether or not I'd gotten that diploma I'd still be doing the exact same job.  Not everyone wants to be a doctor or have a kushy desk job.

[gyrene81]

I actually agree with you, but my diploma doesn't mean dick to me.  I enjoy hard hands on work, and regardless of whether or not I'd gotten that diploma I'd still be doing the exact same job.  Not everyone wants to be a doctor or have a kushy desk job.

amazing, i actually thought the same b.s. when i graduated from high school...nothing like good ole fashioned hard working...redneck...where every change of the economy forced me to change something in my life...at 30 i realized that high school diploma no longer meant what it did when i was a kid...20 years and an associates degree later, i'm still working with my hands...and my head, in an office.

considering that diploma got you to the point where you could read, comprehend what you read, perform the necessary math to work with your hands with some precision instead of guesstimating and taught you how to get the information you needed to do your job...i'd say it has more value than you want to acknowledge.

[Soulyss]

I still remember the last week before I had to turn in my AP (advanced placement) portfolio for my studio art class in high school.  The routine that week was to get to school around 7:00am, stay till the teacher threw us out around 6:00-7:00pm, go to my friends house where we had cleared out his garage and stuck around there till around 2:00-3:00am.  Went home took a shower, grabbed an hour or two of sleep then got up and did it again.  After about a week of that I broke and ran a temperature, was borderline delirious and had to have my friend fill out all the forms for me on the day when we shipped everything off because I saw so out of it.

A month later we had to submit our final physics project which was to build a manned boat out of paper products and do a lap on an Olympic sized swimming pool.  Our final design measured 10' x 10' x 4' or so and carried our entire 6 man team, we literally stayed up over night the last night to get in done in time and almost killed each other in the process but it was worth it. I even think I have an old picture of it here someplace.