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Facetious — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:39:25 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 02/28/2014 05:39

I'm doing my O Levels, in the first year of the session currently. Apart from the "compulsory subjects" (Pakistan Studies [which includes its History and Environment], English Language, Urdu Language, Mathematics and Islamiat [the one subject I wish I could drop]) I'm studying Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and Additional Mathematics as an extra subject (maybe I'll study Sociology later on too, but I haven't started yet).

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junodog4 — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:17:45 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 02/28/2014 02:17

You phd types are impressive... in terms of dedication and insanity.

I'm finishing off my Masters in Psychology. I work as a counsellor. Working and studying is for smart people? I guess... or really silly people.

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Anonymous — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:48:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/27/2014 07:48

I currently work a crap-tastic retail job for survival, plan to either study a bit to become a Teaching Assistant or finally get that cosmetology certificate. I dropped out of (community) college a long while back, but plan to go back to school at some point. The only question is if I can still afford to live in Austin when my sweet ride (KKS's spare room) ends, if not then up to Denver, Pittsburgh or Nashville I go and will just further delay my attempt at finding affordable education. Anyways these days are busy but dead boring.

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Jjjoniee — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:03:07 GMT

Author: Jjjoniee

Posted: 02/27/2014 05:03

Well I'm a junior in high school who recently got into music and this website via my friend, I think he goes by SilverWalrus on this site.

Anyways, I'm a junior in HS in a town in Silicon Valley full of rich white kids, getting ready to go to college on the west coast somewhere. When I'm not listening to music or doing school stuff, I'm either at the gym, playing super smash brothers or settlers of catan with my friends, or walking dogs for pocket money.

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Jackwc — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:55:59 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 02/27/2014 03:55

Work two jobs - one at a new age tea shop and selling kitchen appliances to yuppies at another. I dropped out of law to pursue a path in creative writing and film studies (my parents are very proud); on the side I do modeling, though would also like to start giving cheap haircuts.

Used to volunteer for music zines around the city interviewing bands, thinking of getting back into that, too.

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creator — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:48:16 GMT

Author: creator

Posted: 02/27/2014 03:48

I have a bachelors and masters in physics, but I'm hoping to get a PhD in applied mathematics. Physics is more fun with mathematics. 😁

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Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:37:09 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/27/2014 03:37

Mix of 2nd and 3rd year Of Psychology. At this point I'm intending on doing another 6-7 years study so I can get my PhD but we'll see I might just want to get out and work much sooner than that.

Recently (as in a week ago) lost my job at an office so on the lookout for a job.

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HigherThanTheSun — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:10:24 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 02/26/2014 22:10

In final year of civil engineering and its mostly boring as, only chose it because i thought i had to do sonething at uni and this seemed like the least boring. Works out ok though, decided about halfway through I wanted to be a maths teacher which I can do from an engineering course, which is lucky I suppose. Got around three months left before i finish and the workload has got so hectic, spent all of today on a cw and probably most of tonight too, talking ten or so pages of calcs for a two line problem. It's dull because you can get software to do it in minutes, and irrelevant to me being a teacher anyway, oh well. Got dissertation and design project in for a month or so aswell and just cannot be bother with any of it tbh, I'd like my course to end now. Next year I stay at uni to do a teaching course which I'm pretty excited for.

Only finding time to type this on the train home, then more beam analysis, engineering is boring drakonium don't do it.

Also, iPhone typing paragraphs is effort, only time ill post bea from my phone.

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ButterThumbz — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:51:59 GMT

Author: ButterThumbz

Posted: 02/26/2014 21:51

None of the above. Was a cinema projectionist for the best part of 20 years. I'm currently unable to work but have my sights set on training to become a counsellor.

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Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:19:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 20:19

I'm a Junior in High School

Looking towards College!

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Jasonconfused — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:15:57 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 02/26/2014 19:15

I'm in my third year of university as a history major. I'm super interested in people, societies, power structures, and things like that. I'm really excited I'm taking a couple of really interesting anthropology courses next quarter.

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revolver94 — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:15:09 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 02/26/2014 19:15

I'm a math major and biology minor at the College of William & Mary. My classes all pertain to one of those or music. I'm going to take all of the classes for a music minor and see if I can do that instead. We'll see. I'm so close to that minor.

Beyond that, I basically just hang out with people. I have my radio show, but that's like... not a time commitment. Go out on weekends, blah blah blah. Pretty normal life.

Although I just started going to counseling! Which I'm digging.

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Dingerbell — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:14:17 GMT

Author: Dingerbell

Posted: 02/26/2014 19:14

In England, you have primary school, secondary school and then sixth form/college.

Primary school is pretty self-explanatory, its just six years of learning for little kids.

Then comes secondary school. From Year 7 to Year 9 (Grades 6 to 8, I think in America) there's a national syllabus of stuff everyone covers. For Year 10 and Year 11 is GCSE, where there are still compulsory subjects- such as Maths, English Language and Literature, Science- and the rest is free choice. Most people take either ten or eleven, but there is an opportunity, at some schools at least, to do more. At our school, Maths, English (literature and language), Science (done as a double award, where you do two exams of each Physics, Chemistry and Biology, leading to two awards- Science and Additional Science; some schools do a triple award, where there are three of each exam), Religious Studies and a language (I did German) were compulsory, but I also did IT, History and Geography as additional subjects. After GCSE's you aren't legally obliged to carry on with school, and so can leave school after this- so finishing at 16.

However, a lot of people go ahead onto Sixth Form/College where you study A-Levels. A-Levels are split up into AS Level and A2 Level- with AS Level being the first year, and A being the second year. For this, most people take four subjects for AS and three for A2. I took five subjects for AS- Maths, Physics, History, Chemistry and Critical Thinking- and am now doing Maths, Physics and History. I only dropped Critical Thinking because my school does not teach it at A2. Most people drop a subject for A2, but you can carry on doing all the subjects you were doing at AS, if you want.

Much simpler than what there is in France, then.

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drakonium — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:58:10 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 02/26/2014 18:58

So from what I've seen, you choose subjects to study? Three, apparently? It doesn't work like that at all in France.

Here we have primary school and shit, and after that, what we call "collège" (which is the thing right before our equivalent of high school (the "lycée") and has nothing to do with your college). Then, at the end of it, there is an easy as fuck exam, and we have to choose to either do professional studies (I don't know anything about them, they just are considered "bad" here; not my own opinion, just the general one), or to continue general ones and enter the "lycée". Then, after one year, we have three possibilities : S (science, maths, etc; the most pretigious one), ES (economics, etc; the "basic" one) and L (literature, etc; the one where are supposed to go bad students, and actual literature passionates). That's all, though, once we have chosen that, we don't have much options on anything, and the lcasses stay really varied : I did S, and still had history, French, English, Spanish, philosophy, etc, and many L students still do maths, and ES students still have biology. Then, two years later, there's the "baccalauréat", which is pretty easy (the hard thing being to have a "mention" like "good", "very good", etc).

That's when things get completely random, though, and where people actually choose what they want to do : university, ingeneering school, medicine, whatever. I'll just talk about my personal experience, which is, from what I've heard, one of the French specialities.

I do what we call here a "classe préparatoire", or preparatory class. The principle is that it's a two or three year cursus, which leads to a contest, where you compete with all French students to have the best results and go to the best schools. There are three kinds of these : literary, economic, and scientific (I do the latter). The most interesting thing about them is their reputation. These studies are known, at least here, to be the hardest ones (along with the ones to become doctor, congrats Cellar 😜 ). For the two or three years your are doing them, you have about 30 hours of classes a week, in a standard teacher-students format (no big screen in a huge room containing 3000 people, I mean), with a huge emphasis on the speciality you chose (maths, philosophy, etc). I currently have about 10 hours of maths and 10 hours of physics a week, for example, and only two of French and two of English. So basically, you are supposed to work non-stop for two years, with a possible third one if you fail the contests. Most of the classes are spent writing of your sheets what is on the board, at a pretty high speed, without you understanding much, and then trying to apply it to usually hard as fuck exercises. Then come the contests (in May), which are a kind of month-long exam, with about 6 hours of tests a day, everyday. The aim of the studies is literally to drive you nuts; to allow you no rest, so you're tired and want to give up. The tests are unfinishable, you usually get shit grades, there are far too many things to get in far too few time, etc.

What we learn is also completely theorical. There's barely anything practical (a few experiences in physics, that's all), and although I liked maths in high school and early prépa, many of us don't give a shit anymore about what we learn. I, for one, hate what I'm doing. It's uninteresting, always the same yet always different so you never manage to successfully do an exercise. But they are the most prestigious studies, so obviously it's what's better for me... Pfft. Anyway, once you manage to get decent results at the written contests (or, at least, better results than others; it's a contest, not an exam), you are accepted to pass the oral contest. And then, if you've done OK at the oral contest, you can get into a school (ingeneering, for me). There is pretty much no other way to get into the highest ranked schools of the country, whether they are economic, scientific, etc. So yeah, that's the "prépa".

Hope you didn't see it as a "oh poor me I'm working sooo harder than you" kind of thing, I'm just presenting you things as they were presented to me. A lot of it is exagerated. Teachers actually care about you, help you, and everyone is in the same shit, so people are cool, and I've made a lot of very good friends. It's not that terrible. Just fucking boring and tiring. About me, though, I've done OK on the first year, ridiculously shat myself last year, and now I'm in third year, waiting for the contests to come with not much hope, while still doing nothing and typing this long shit on BEA instead of trying to understand things.

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RockyRaccoon — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:30:32 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 02/26/2014 18:30

Norman Bates wrote:

If you're implying that I'm Stringer Bell then you are correct.

And to add to that, no, I don't know where the fuck Wallace is.

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HazeyTwilight — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:59:31 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 02/26/2014 17:59

As you can probably see from my age, I am currently a Fourth Year student in school. I haven't taken up studying subjects just yet, but I've got my eye on Art, Musicianship and maybe History or Home Economics.

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Dingerbell — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:48:57 GMT

Author: Dingerbell

Posted: 02/26/2014 17:48

I'm in my final year of school studying Maths, Physics and History.

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Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:47:39 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 17:47

A job... at least until my funding runs out (September).

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Norman Bates — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:32:39 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/26/2014 17:32

RockyRaccoon wrote:

I'm in my final semester of studying media and communication studies at University of Maryland Baltimore County.

RockyRaccoon wrote:

Also, I have a job selling jewelry and watches at JCPenney's at a mall.

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Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:31:36 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 17:31

I study English Literature, Politics and Graphic Design and I'm going to study Graphic Design further this September.

I'm currently doing freelance illustration to make money on the side.