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Ahh, from full annoying self-deprecation mode into complete annoying arrogence and superiority complex in a day. I'd like school, if it didn't bore me stupid quite so often.
A prime example of total idiocity tho - our school has decreed that 6th-formers can no longer eat in form rooms, 'cos they have the Common Room to eat in. Said Common Room can hold, ooh, about half of the sixth form in relatively cramped conditions? And as for eating in the canteen, that's out 'cos there's five years' worth of people scrabbling for seats there, and it's either the same size or smaller than the common room... ah well, hypothermia here we come again I guess.
As for the rest of the day, after two hours in the morning of total boredom (Form Time and assembly) we got some lessons on stuff we already knew (not *entirely* fair, they managed to teach us some notation in Stats, although in such a scattershot way I can't see it effectively sinking in really). I'm still rather angry with them for messing up our nice cozy little Further Maths group with their silly Accelerated Maths idea (let's get a load of ppl who are lazy to come join the further maths group with the promise of more frees in the second year! yeah, *great* idea...), and I'm in the larger of the Physics groups, and Economics was dreadfully oversubscribed, and so on and so forth. It's all just little niggles - the important stuff like lockers (I got in early and managed to claim a top locker with a shelf!), transport (my form tutor gave the impression she'd be happy if I just managed to turn up at some point during registration, and there's plenty of time after school to get my train then) etc was all fine and good, but hey, I have earache again and so I feel like having a good rant.
On the subject of rants, they've privatised the school canteen, it's now called 'Choices Cafe', although apparently the food hasn't improved and the noise levels and smell certainly haven't. As I said above, I believe our proud tradition of sitting out in all weathers to eat may continue for a long time. At least we can now get to The Beacon (no queues at lunchtimes 'cos most ppl aren't allowed out, and invaluable when you forget to pack half your lunch *whistles innocently, or at least attempts to*).
Anyway, I hope tomorrow goes better (I oughta have a Pure Maths lesson tomorrow, and the one we had of them during 6th-form-induction was pretty good, so hopefully things will pick up on the teaching front - also Sath said that the stats teacher who I felt I actually learnt something from and quite liked the teaching style of although I can see how it'd confuse many ppl is like Mr Moore, the Economics teacher (who took her class for history), so Economics might be up to scratch too).
*Chess quietly falls asleep at the keyboard*
A prime example of total idiocity tho - our school has decreed that 6th-formers can no longer eat in form rooms, 'cos they have the Common Room to eat in. Said Common Room can hold, ooh, about half of the sixth form in relatively cramped conditions? And as for eating in the canteen, that's out 'cos there's five years' worth of people scrabbling for seats there, and it's either the same size or smaller than the common room... ah well, hypothermia here we come again I guess.
As for the rest of the day, after two hours in the morning of total boredom (Form Time and assembly) we got some lessons on stuff we already knew (not *entirely* fair, they managed to teach us some notation in Stats, although in such a scattershot way I can't see it effectively sinking in really). I'm still rather angry with them for messing up our nice cozy little Further Maths group with their silly Accelerated Maths idea (let's get a load of ppl who are lazy to come join the further maths group with the promise of more frees in the second year! yeah, *great* idea...), and I'm in the larger of the Physics groups, and Economics was dreadfully oversubscribed, and so on and so forth. It's all just little niggles - the important stuff like lockers (I got in early and managed to claim a top locker with a shelf!), transport (my form tutor gave the impression she'd be happy if I just managed to turn up at some point during registration, and there's plenty of time after school to get my train then) etc was all fine and good, but hey, I have earache again and so I feel like having a good rant.
On the subject of rants, they've privatised the school canteen, it's now called 'Choices Cafe', although apparently the food hasn't improved and the noise levels and smell certainly haven't. As I said above, I believe our proud tradition of sitting out in all weathers to eat may continue for a long time. At least we can now get to The Beacon (no queues at lunchtimes 'cos most ppl aren't allowed out, and invaluable when you forget to pack half your lunch *whistles innocently, or at least attempts to*).
Anyway, I hope tomorrow goes better (I oughta have a Pure Maths lesson tomorrow, and the one we had of them during 6th-form-induction was pretty good, so hopefully things will pick up on the teaching front - also Sath said that the stats teacher who I felt I actually learnt something from and quite liked the teaching style of although I can see how it'd confuse many ppl is like Mr Moore, the Economics teacher (who took her class for history), so Economics might be up to scratch too).
*Chess quietly falls asleep at the keyboard*
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Pure math is fun. Mechanics becomes interesting, once you can do some more pure, stats. is a waste of everyones time (and I was told this by a stats lecturer at Newnham... we don't have the pure to deal with it properly, so it's basically a 'learn it by rote and use the formula sheet' class. Stats requires attention 1 lesson in 5, mech. 1 in about 3 or 4, pure requires more like 1 in 2 (especially at the start) [the trick is to not miss the new stuff amongst the repeated stuff] physics requires little to no attention untill November, then you have to worry about exams, so moderate to little attention is required.
Attendance is, of course, mandatory and necessary because the teacher might tell you something of use- there is _some_ stuff you don't know. My tip for things to do is to act all interested, ask the physics teacher for recomendations of books to read that will enhance your understanding of the sylabus, loan it from the library and read it in class, they can hardley tell you that it's trivial nonsense...
Economics is by all acount the most boring lesson in the school. Read the textbooks (many and heavy) thouroughly and sleep in class.
Allways do the work set... it won't take long. That way you will know if there was something that you missed. Read the textbook. As a last resort ask the teacher, they won't mind... they explain it all several time anyway (but wait and see if anyone else is gonna ask - save you the embarassment.)
I would like to add that I know Chess and Sath very well... this is not the recomended strategy for ppl who can't cope with the work... this is a strategy for ppl who find it all too easy.
Also, you could always come to STEP classes wif me on Friday lunch, week A... show some _reall_ enthusiasm!!!
Being Bored
"Only boring people get bored."
Work with it for a while, it's not obvious why it's true but it'll grow on you.
Neil