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Post by chinesefireball121 on Apr 24, 2006 6:58:34 GMT -5
OH - you are do IB... I think there might have been 250 in the entire state doing it here... I met a few people doing it - they were always complaining about latin
There was around 200 people in my year - ok most of them I'm indifferent about - saw a few of them last saturday, which was intersting. I had forgotten how much some girls can scream and over analysis. I think I'm indifferent to most of them as I just get along better with guys - they just seem so much more rational. Which is good - my best girl:guy ratio in my classes is about 1:7.
Not liking uni at this particular moment - first day back and had two boring lectures - well the first one was alright as the lecturer doesn't really care if we talk so i spent most it helping a friend with his math assignment and throwing pens at people. Maths on the other hand - they care if we talk - and i really don't like vectors, may be that hard, but i don't care.
Good luck in your exams whenever they may be
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Post by nancy on Apr 24, 2006 17:31:27 GMT -5
Vectors are easy! I'm revising for exams in a little while now... We're having mock tests tomorrow for one of our subjects... and I don't have any notes or anything.... might ask my friend for it... It's a subject I like, but which I didn't like for the whole first year... so I have nothing from back then... Of course, I might get bored and do math mocks and stuff instead. My teacher said I'd be unable to get anything more than a 5. Well, I'm gonna show him I can get at least a 6. I need to work on showing my work and all.... but yeah. How can he say such a thing? I'm GOOD in maths. Really good. Boring lectures suck.... I can't wait 'til uni... at the end of May I'm going to be three taking placement tests... then some more in July... can't remember if three or two or four... Throwing pens at people is lots of fun. And very middle school. Off to do maths.
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Post by chinesefireball121 on May 2, 2006 20:33:58 GMT -5
Boring labs are bad too... but it is a programming one so I can go on the net, hence why i am posting now... Well the lab isn't bad - its programming so it is quite good. But i've done all my work, but have to wait aroung for 1/2 hour so i can get my test. You actually understand vectors? You've done 3D stuff, dot products, finiding perpendicular parallel stuff? I just start thinking about them too much and then can't do them. Well I can but it envolves alot of effort, and if I think I know how to do, but then the answer is wrong - I can't work out the right way to do it. So are the placements tests to get into different unis? Our year 12 marks get converted into a uai (university admission index) and then the unis say you have to get so much to get in this course and off you go. The maths out of 10? Maybe you can do my vector part in my math test - and i can do you math test, and we both kick arse
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Post by Nie on May 2, 2006 21:08:36 GMT -5
What language are you programming in, Pyro?
I'm unfortunately having to code in VB.
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Post by chinesefireball121 on May 3, 2006 21:28:36 GMT -5
You poor poor thing nie - had to use VB a bit in school ~shudder~ thankfully it was mostly in turbo pascal old that it is.
At uni we are doing c++ - next year a bit of java as well
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Post by hermoine on May 4, 2006 5:49:49 GMT -5
*shudders* Pascal can kill the fun out of any person who's programming. It's just so, limited. I had to do a quiz for a Pascal project once. It was a big pain and the graphics sucked. Those who choose Computing for their A' Level here have to work with Pascal on a couple of projects including a game like Pacman or chess, or a sort of systems database. Good thing they're changing language now and they'll be starting to learn Java. Ah...makes me want to learn it actually. My younger brother already is. He's obsessed with the idea of creating games and selling them. Java is cool though. Far more possibilities. Actually when you consider it, Java's a huge expanse of knowledge but it's far better to work with.
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Post by chinesefireball121 on May 5, 2006 3:21:26 GMT -5
I know pascal isn't that good for anything now - but i learnt basic programming with it - it is useful for simple programming. The most complicated thing I did with it was reading from files = i did once try to do different coloured text - but the cpu speed was to much, so it wouldn't work unless i had music going and I was downloading something. Besides its better then VB
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Post by Nie on May 5, 2006 6:42:51 GMT -5
The place I work for uses VB because they do alot of end user software for things like databases and it's faster and easier for them to use VB for that. I would really like to learn Python or PHP though...
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Post by chinesefireball121 on May 6, 2006 0:41:30 GMT -5
li did python once - it was at a computer science summer school about a year ago. Pretty much learn python and build a search engine in a week. Its a good language - liked the fact that the indention controlls the loop, so instead on what is is in VB (methinks) while <condition> <statement> wend
it is while <condition> <statement>
so everything indented is going to be in the while statement.
6 month kids are adorable - well at least my newphew is (i'm babysitting him at the moment) - he is sitting next to me (not allowed to sit on my lap otherwise he wacks the keyboard and I can't get anything done) undoing my shoe laces... And now he has fallen back, wacked his head and decided it hurt and started to cry... back to his grandad now
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Post by nancy on Jun 8, 2006 18:56:47 GMT -5
I have little cousins... I love the 5 year old one! Cute little boy... but mad. Kids are mad, no question about it.
Weell, should I look forward to uni? I'm staring at the schedule I made earlier today and thinking about the weirdness of it all! On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I have five hours of classes: Computer Science I, Japanese I, Remedial Physics, Maths I, and Economics. I also have 2 free hours, which is sort of good/sort of bad. So I start at 9 am, finish at... 4 pm. On tuesdays, I have 2 and a half hours of class, so I'll go to school between 830 and 11: Only Chem and economics. On Thursdays I got those two and a two hour seminar... so I leave at 130... And, ooh, the seminar is at the Biotechnology reseacrh center. Yay. =) This whole thing is insane, insane... I'ma miss my IB friends though, only 9 of us are going to my University...
I'm not sure I like this whole "uni" thing, and it hasn't even started yet.
*EDIT* Tomorrow is graduation. I have a blue graduation gown, robe, whatever the "toga" is called, and one of those silly hats I like, also blue, and it's gonne be awesome, great, I suppose. Yeah.
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Post by chinesefireball121 on Jun 13, 2006 8:50:24 GMT -5
look forward to uni - i'm finding it so much more enjoyable then school. For the last semester my scheldule was: Monday: 3 hours of class (1 Algorithms and Problemsolving, and 2 of maths) Tuesday: 7 hours (3 hours of Algorithm tutes (broken up into a two hour block and a 1 hour), 2 hour programming lecture, 2 of another maths) Wedneday: 5 hours (2 hour algorithm lecture, 2 hour programming lab, 1 hour maths tute) thursday: 4 hours (2 hour programming, 2 hour maths - this was an excellent day cause i didn't start to 3.30 in the afternoon) friday: 3 hours (2 hour maths lecture, 1 hour maths tute) Most days i had an hour brake It was a large amount of hours (well compared to the arts students who had about 12...) - but then i didn't need to do anything at home I love that timetable - not looking forward to the one for next semesta (two 8.30 starts... icky) Good luck with your graduation - enjoy the hell out of yourself
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Post by nancy on Jun 13, 2006 14:53:24 GMT -5
Art students went to school for 12 hours?? That's insane! That's... That's nothing!! I start at 830 twice two, and at 9 the other days, which is a great improvement, I believe, from my high school 730 starts. graduation = insane all my friends had honor mentions. I had nothing. those of us who had nothing screamed like crazy people when they were given the mentions. I tried to get a job today. I don't think they'll give it to me.
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Post by chinesefireball121 on Jun 23, 2006 2:44:20 GMT -5
Glad you enjoyed your graduation - mine has sort of turned into a blur now My parents went overseas for 2 1/2 month on wednesday - I don't so much as miss them - i miss having other humans around. Its not so bad cause most nights I go out and do some sort of activity - but today it was nothing . Was feeling all miserable - then i had a snooze, and felt better, then i think i felt guilty for not feeling miserable, now i'm just sort of bleh. Good luck with your job cheers pyro
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Post by Ritsu on Jun 27, 2006 7:34:09 GMT -5
*greetings*
My laptop is finally repaired, so joy
Just to say hello, that I'm back and that holidays are mankind's greatest invention and..and.. and that's all.
Turning 20 is scaring me for no reason.
*goes catch up*
Oh, and what's this Karma thing?
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Post by nancy on Jun 27, 2006 11:07:05 GMT -5
It's the money you have AND how much people like you. I'm giving you karma!! Holidays are boring me to no end. I wish my friends lived closer to my place. Either that or being let drive would be nice. The world cup's been quite interesting on the other hand. Though Mexico sucked in the game against Portugal, I gotta say; I wish they'd beat Argentina. Hell, they deserved it. Anyway... Germany for the cup! I want a Spain - Germany final. And I'm waiting for a call from my University to go to this interview. And then redo all of my schedule to include 74 course units instead of fifty. But I need only pay 57 even if I do that. I'm turning 19 in 5 months. My friend's scared she's turning 19 in 4 days. But 20's so much... older.
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