So, Many, Projects

[shotgunneeley]

My sister was taking a comp writing class at the local tech school over summer intersession. The teacher assigned to write an essay...in groups of 4. How that's even possible for a internet class let alone an actual classroom environment I have no idea, but needless to say she dropped that one fast.

[EskimoJoe]

My sister was taking a comp writing class at the local tech school over summer intersession. The teacher assigned to write an essay...in groups of 4. How that's even possible for a internet class let alone an actual classroom environment I have no idea, but needless to say she dropped that one fast.

Quite a few essays turned in at public highschool have at least four kids that have worked on it.. hehe

[mensa180]

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.

Oh man, that last bit brought back Science Olympiad memories.  Stayed up the night before finishing the helicopter, balsa tower, battle bot, and mission possible.  Took 3rd, 1st, 1st, and 2nd respectively, woo.

[shotgunneeley]

Quite a few essays turned in at public highschool have at least four kids that have worked on it.. hehe

Mulling over how members of the Claim Jumpers made it through highschool is none of your dang business!  

Sure there are group presentations and group projects, but an assigned group essay? Essay's require much more flow and organization granted by a single mindset. Get a bunch of heads together and details get jumbled in or crossed causing confusion for the reader. This was an internet class, she had never met her other compatriots and half never responded to the teacher or her proposals to get together. Typical thing about group assignments is that you always get 1-2 people who just slack off and ride the coat tails of the hard workers or schedule conflicts prevent anything from getting done.

[phatzo]

When I was sixteen I decided to take auto prac and theory as something I would find non academically useful. Most of the guys in the class had been doing it for a couple of years and were fairly advanced. The teacher handed the three noobs an old Ford Consul engine and told us to dismantle and reassemble it on an engine stand until it ran well. The two other guys on the project dropped out of the class not long after disassembly, I fiddled around for weeks washing parts and rereading the manual until the time came that I had a pile of parts and two weeks until I had to turn the key. The teacher let me have a few hours every afternoon to work on it as well as regular classes, I was still tensioning the head studs on the last day, I was static tuning minutes before I had to start the thing. Thankfully it started pretty much first pop.

[5anders]

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.

I actually worked my way through four years of college just to keep my parents happy.  School is definitely not for everyone, I hated every single second.  There's just something about sitting inside all day I don't like.  Only good thing I found in college was the ole lady.  I Would have joined the army instead of going to college if I wasn't legally blind in one eye.

[Shuffler]

I once ate a whole watermellon