school subjects

lampliter · 2020-11-11T16:02:56.000Z

After 4 years of Tec school; full time days and some varied and sundry nite classes; I realized that I never really learned anything in high school that mattered; Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

HVAC-2 years
Welding-2 years
Horticulture-Nites
Solar Energy-Nites
Cabinet Making-Nites.

I liked em all.

wilkins1kc · 2020-11-11T16:11:53.000Z

richbuff:

I audited a post-graduate course Recent Advances In Neuroscience at Wayne State University.

I lived in the US for a few years and did some classes, the guy next to me told me he was auditing the class, which I assumed meant he had been asked to provide feedback on the course to the University. We ended up working together in a group on the final project. After we submitted the lecturer contacted us to ask who he was because he wasn’t registered for the class.

At school I liked Physics……my daughter studies Economics and some of that is very interesting.

turkeydance · 2020-11-12T01:44:04.000Z

“what was your favorite subject at school or college and why”

Favorite: Physical Education. i was good at it.
Best: Chemistry. Easy A high school and college.
Worst: French. did not like Nice. hairy, smelly girls.

80s_Fan · 2020-11-12T02:00:14.000Z

Wood shop, metal shop, and welding. It was fun and I still enjoy it as a hobby. If I had it to do over I would’ve pursued the metal working as a career.

Serlite · 2020-11-12T06:27:21.000Z

I rather enjoyed physics! Getting explanations for why things in the world worked a certain way had a certain appeal to me.

Wurkkos_Terry · 2020-11-12T08:09:32.000Z

I love history. I even face the starry more than once and imagined that if I could go back a thousand years ago, I would launch an industrial revolution and then rule all around world. But soon I realized that couldn’t even control the cells of the whole body.
‘Yes, I have caught a cold right now and sneezing constantly. That’s-so-sucks!’

Henk4U2 · 2020-12-10T09:09:28.000Z

My feelings are that it is not only the subject, but (also) who teaches it.

My first year in highschool we got a new dean, who was a PhD in math. And he was so kind as to give us a tast of his genius. Students were struggling to survive yet another hour. Grades were low.
Next year we got a lady who not (yet) had her masters. And looked if she was on a break from grooming her pony. When we stumbled on a certain subject she told us “you must have had that in your first year, why dont you remember?”. Well eh, the dean… So she gave us a crash course and in doing so, wiped away in a few weeks the primal fear for math our dean had gifted us a year long.
I still hate math. But sometimes you just need it.

wle · 2020-12-12T02:27:05.000Z

high school-trig, english, chemistry, physics

college - digital logic, electromagnetic fields, motor design, amplifier electronics, calculus

Marc_E · 2021-01-27T14:37:42.000Z

Interesting answers above. Never thought about this before and find my answers very strange though i doubt they will be to anyone else.

School : Pure maths, music, spanish, and electronics. Hated PE but loved to training for and playing competitive sport outside of school as a junior, probably because i loved the sport itself.
6th form: Electronics, but not maths, physics or chemistry.
Uni: I don’t remember liking any of my EE degree (which i didn’t get to finish for different reasons :D)

I’m naturally disposed to learning and have always self-studied in some form or other so am surprised how i liked so little during formal education.

Bwana · 2021-01-27T20:07:45.000Z

I went to a 2 year college in Newark NJ back in the late 60’s. I just opened as was in an old 8 story office building . A mix of students, drug dealer and gang bangers.

The joke was you were there to learn the 3 R’s - Rip Rape and Run .

Thom986 · 2021-02-21T23:16:44.000Z

Math for sure. Teaching it now.

JenkinsMatti · 2021-11-29T22:15:07.000Z

Lunch, study hall, recess, & Mechanical Drawing.

peg_matite · 2021-11-29T22:46:26.000Z

Economic Geology (field trips into NNJ mines), foosball and frisbee golf

djmcconn · 2021-11-30T00:38:00.000Z

My senior year I took PE, Advanced PE, free class I was a PE assistant and during study hall I was PE assistant. I also had Advanced Grammar and Composition and consumer mathematics. I also “enjoyed” a two year apprenticeship with Goodyear Tire and Rubber.

Kelly8 · 2022-01-12T10:43:27.000Z

I am very fond of chemistry. Children at school thought I was strange)) All hated this subject. In general, I am a big fan of the exact sciences. I think it should be given the main role in the school.

lampliter · 2022-01-12T16:05:13.000Z

None; I hated school.

Everything important, and that I wanted to know, I learned from others; like blf.

kodachrome

Jack_Kellar · 2022-03-15T11:07:06.000Z

RayanGoSS:

At school I really liked math, after college I started looking for a job, and this is where I needed a letter of recommendation, I buy a letter of recommendation, and I was satisfied, now I work in a great company.

Go away, bot. :cowboy_hat_face:

alpg88 · 2022-03-15T12:36:01.000Z

Graduated from school in a different country, liked gym, workshop, and especially last 2 years in school, in 9th and 10 grade, when 1 day a week we did not go to school, but went to a bus depot, where we actually worked fixing real busses, after i graduated i had enough experience to troubleshoot, and repair pretty much anything in those busses.
As far as collage goes, i graduated here in the states, only liked few classes, and only because of the teacher that taught them. no i did not have a crush on a teacher, lol, he was just one of a kind, would explain everything so good, that even most complicated things seemed easy and understandable, which by itself, is no big deal, other teachers do that too, but this guy was also a comedian, who actually performed in nyc comedy joints, on several occasions, as a standup comedian. his classes were like a comedy sessions, after which you actually understood a lot, from what i’ve heard, he is still there, 30 years later.

fogofwar · 2022-03-15T12:38:59.000Z

Jack Kellar:

RayanGoSS:

At school I really liked math, after college I started looking for a job, and this is where I needed a letter of recommendation, I buy a letter of recommendation, and I was satisfied, now I work in a great company.

Go away, bot. :cowboy_hat_face:

Wow that is an impressive bot - it’s even on topic.

Jack_Kellar · 2022-07-07T10:55:24.000Z

fogofwar:

Jack Kellar:

RayanGoSS:

At school I really liked math, after college I started looking for a job, and this is where I needed a letter of recommendation, I buy a letter of recommendation, and I was satisfied, now I work in a great company.

Go away, bot. :cowboy_hat_face:

Wow that is an impressive bot - it’s even on topic.

Its parent software combs the internet for keywords in forum sites like this. It’s a fully automated spam scheme. (I should mention that the original message had a sleazy link in the “letter of recommendation” bit that I expunged when writing my first reply.)