Geeky moments...

[Dragon Writer]

...i don't know any languages other then english, and a little french. i love the english language, but most others just seem to lack sense...for example, in french, masculine and femine words without any way of saying which is which, but rather you must mindlessly memerise it...i like creating languages, and i like learning them, i guess, but not in a class room, i suppose...
and i feel increadibly geeky, when i start spewing out stuff about history that was never actually taught in class, but that i picked up from obscure refferences througout varous books, along with common sense and reasoning. :P

[the_peridexis]

I'm like that...picking up random thoughts and then kind of spewing them out when a teacher inquires and doesn't really expect anyone to know. >.< And that's "memorize", YR. And maybe I should go to New York...*sigh*

In English lately, our teacher has a gotten a little impatient. Not that I blame her...our "dilemma" if frusturating and really rather stupid: many people in my class do not know the difference between the words their, they're and there. God give me patience. We are an Honors class! What in the world...? So we've had to go waaaaay back and learn that stuff all over again. I don't pay a speck of attention, and my teacher doesn't mind at all; in fact, for the people who know it, we just read the whole time. Yay! Though the problem is, you have to admit, very irritating.

My geekiest moment today...was when somebody asked me how fast I read. Without looking up from my book, I mumbled "college level..." but the person didn't hear me. I looked up, kind of annoyed (don't bother reading freaks when they're reading XD) and said "I read at a college level." She kind of smiled and was like, "right..." Ugh.

Speaking of reading (of course!!) I finished Twilight and New Moon, by Stephanie Meyer. Yayayayayayay!!! I luuuurrrrrvveeed them! I was so excited when I FINALLY got my hands on them that I finished the first in a day and the next one the next day. When I told my friend that, she was like, whoa, those were like 500 pages each! And I was so hyper because I <3 the books so much. XDXDXD

-peri

anyone ever have to do a presentation when you are suddenly deprived of one of your tools? yeah, i had to do a philosophy presentation. the number one thing that any powerpoint user must know is that the powerpoint is only there to assist you, not to run your whole presentation. so i go to class first period and i find that we booked the powerpoint for half the period. i had confirmed with my teacher to make sure he had it. it turned out another group was going (i was going solo because there was a particular person who i did not want to work with). the group, as it turned out, needed...like seriously needed a powerpoint projector. and so, i gave it up. i said, "yeah you can have it. i can manage without one." good samaritin thing (<-ooh cant spell). so i also needed bibles to do my presentation. my topic was "Can science influence the literal interpretation of the bible" and it worked out for me. turns out i did well and was, in a sense, better off without a powerpoint presentation. so i didnt have any visuals, not that i needed one. i had this children's book bible handed out, and the only thing everyone would be missing are the dinosaurs i placed on the presentation (i used to be a dinosaur fanatic). then i left for half the period to see guidance. when i returned (and i was said that i missed someone's presentation...) i asked him "so how did i do, you must have deducted marks because i didnt have my powerpoint running" and he said that i got a high A. which seems clear, but not clear because an A is an 80-100. so i dont know why he didnt give me a more accurate answer (btw, i dontuse letter systems in my school, for high school anyway). all im goingto say is that i am very relieved to be over this presentation, and if i had more opportunities to do presenations, i would definitely jump for it. i love presentations! hehe

[marina salem]

i hate presentations. i get really nervous and i can't speak without stuttering, which then makes me think that people are laughing at me and i end up doing even worse. i screwed up a scripture presentation that way but my teacher still gave me a 96, which was surprising but whatever. i never have liked presentations and i never will.

i dunno, i get so into the zone when i do a presentations. one way to ward away the stuttering is to know your stuff and promote some laughs (calms the mood in the room...). i used to be scared too, that why i tell people to use a powerpoint, or something to ward away the twenty-sum eyes that are preying on you. hehehe

[marina salem]

too bad this doesn't have sound, cause i'm laughing (no offense to anybody meant). i just can't seem to make people laugh (i tell jokes that nobody gets) and i was using a powerpoint and i didn't look at anybody. i was doing fine until my teacher asked me a question. that screwed me up big time.

[jwiz]

i do not like Geometry. the teacher is a long term sub and acts like he knows everything and doesn't let most of us get a word in otherwise. So the other day, my friends and I were all working on this problem together and asked him for hwlp finding a theorem for a statement. He was going about it in his head and making no sense as he explians in more technical terms then the book so I blocked him out and did it on my own. i got it done and looked up. They were in the same spot becuase, big shocker, he wasn't istening to them. We had asked him to help us prove these two segment off a parallelogram were congruent and he was trying to prove htese other two were that had nothing to do with it. And I go
"Mr. Penn, i solved it." and he ignores me. So i shout at him and he takes it ans tells me I left an important step out. And starts trying to prove the wrong two seg. cong. i am trying to tell him but he ignores me. And I know he can hear me cause he keeps raising his voice so he is louder than me, so i shut up. Then he leaves to look at another group with the smart guy who has to let everyone know he knows everything, and says
"Oh, you guys! see, you were trying to prove the wrong seg. cong." I sreiously wanted to slap him. Argggh!!! I told him along with everyone else that he was and he still won't listen and shows us how "they did" blah blah blah. So finally I go
"No, Mr. Penn, YOU were trying to prove that. We were trying to tell you that that was what you were supposed to do. And that is just like mine only a little less steps." So he tells us "Oh, well, I was just trying to slove my own confusion" and laughs. I was about a second from leaping up and strangling him. Arggh!!!! I HATE HIM!!!!!! And then in science that same day, I was reading and the sub came up and asked me if I had finished the reading. I told him most of it, except a few parts i didnt understand. And the he wanted to kmow if I did the questions. Well, i just look at him bscuase he added questions the teacher didn't assign because some people were already done. He wanted us to od all of them when we only had to do a few. So then he tells me to go do them so I did. Omly, I also covertly read the book by hiding it inside my science book. And I finished the quetions. SO then he trys to act like I'm dumb and starts explainng why he wouldn't let me read, I i interrupted him and said yeh, I know. It was not a good day. I was about to rip off and teacher who decided I was stupid head off. Well, my dad's waiting and i have to og. BUH BYE!!!!!!

[the_peridexis]

Oral presentations bring back a lot of memories...not all of them good. I used to be irrevocably people-shy and extremely nervous when presenting something to an audience. I'd stutter, they'd laugh, I'd get really upset...they didn't go well. But ever since about fifth or sixth grade, I've been improving. Now I get A's on all my orals and I'm fairly happy with my myself in the speaking area. My only problem is going overtime. *grimace*

balthasar, an 80 is an A in your school? 0_0 Wow. A 93 is an A in mine. If an 80 were an A, then I'd have flawless grades....*broods*

Sorry 'bout that jwiz. I've had obnoxious teachers before, so I know how you feel. Best of luck!

-peri

about your geometry jwiz, i can totally relate. i have an idiot physics teacher. if you want to get an idea check out this link:
rate my teacher...snopek

and yeah...its horrible. he doesnt know what he's teaching, never ready, and overall the most unstimulating teacher i have ever had. www.ratemytacher.com is the coolest site...when you want to get to know a teacher. evil man, i have officially left his class <wipes forehead>.


peri, actually i think and A is 80-100. i thinki got a 90 something....so that's cool.

now i must stop posting because i have a nasty headache from a retreat (not my choice). it doesnt help when everyone sings xmas carols for 30 minutes... .

[jwiz]

An 80 is an A?! A 90 is an A at all of the schools I've been to.
And I really hate complaining about Mr. Penn agian, but I just have to tell you about his teaching methods: They Suck!!!
We had a test yesterday. He puts questions where you have to memorize the postulates and theorems and makes the proofs, which everyone(or nearly) have trouble with, half the points!!!! So if you fail those, you lose. It is ridiculous!!!
And he doesn't halp us at all, because he uses technical terms that he won't explian and we have to yell at him for an hour (our classes are an hour and a half long ) before we actually understand! and he solves it to himself and gives us homework where we COPY the pages from the book and he expects us to know and get it all!!! I HATE MR. PENN!!!!!!!!
Now that I have that out of my system, I want to thank you guys for being understanding. I really need to learn not ot rant like that.

Yep...totally like my teacher. Well I'm through with him, he's not helping me with my marks. I need to get some dazzling averages for the Universities by January 10, so I left his class...and am so relieved. Today is a course fair...but now they announced its over, so I must go back to class. Im such a loser, I have never officially skipped a class; only been absent for school affiliations. hehehe.

[Dragon Writer]

the_peridix: My geekieats moment today...was when somebody asked me how fast I read. Without looking up from my book, I mumbled "college level..." but the person didn't hear me. I looked up, kind of annoyed (don't bother reading freaks when they're reading XD) and said "I read at a college level." She kind of smiled and was like, "right..." Ugh.

I've had worse...i once informed someone, a year ago, that i had a twelth grade reading level...it's actually higher, in colledge, but i often just say twelth grade, and he's been trying to mock me by saing "i have a twelth grade reading level" for an entire year, and still finds it funny. he also thinks i'm retarted for being that smart...which makes absolutely no sense when you think about it. :P

[Dragon Writer]

well, since i'm still way back at the part of the topic where people are saying how much they stirnk at presentations, i'd like to say i'm actually good at them...and geeky moment: when you get your psat scores, find out your better at critical reading then 98% of sophtomres nationwide, and 96% of sophmores at writing, and go "ah man...i bet everyone in my honors class did higher then me...you know, if they didn't do it so early i would've gotten a better score..." of course, no one did do better then me, and i might have gotten a better score, but it was good enough...though i still wish i had been more awake for the mathr part....

[Dragon Writer]

geeky moment: when our substitute teacher tells us that our teacher said that we had reached our goal of reading one hundred books, in this read for chairity thing, someone said: "good job kevin!" kevin being me. :P other geeky moment: having interpeted some lines in the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy to say i know everything, and being yet to be proven wrong about what the book said.

[knieve]

a geeky momenet every bus ride:my friend
{she sits across the aial}always askes if the book im reading is a new one{different from ther last bus ride}and the answer is always yes.it is so sad when she is surpired by this.