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At 6/6/09 12:56 PM, TheRadicalOne wrote: Cursive. My elementary teacher told me that everyone uses it, Later I learned people stopped using it in high school, and all my writing looks like normal print and cursive had an abusive drug baby together.

Seriously, we use a printer and print our damn essays.

Yeah, I'd have to agree... Cursive is completely pointless; in elementary school we were told that we'd be expected to write in cursive until we graduated college. But in JH / High School and College, I was specifically told NOT to write in cursive or I would lose points.

Wtf is that shit? The fucked up thing is, we had to practice the shit every single day. What a waste of time and money.

I always thought drawing the division method is fucking slow so I never learned it. Doesn't matter anyway.

At 6/6/09 02:26 PM, Jin wrote: I always thought drawing the division method is fucking slow so I never learned it. Doesn't matter anyway.

I learned the calculator method, it's so fast.

Joined-up handwriting.

When I was back in gnome school, for quite a long time we were taught to write like this, then one day everyone suddenly stopped writing like that, yet I continued as if I had missed an important meeting or something.

Anyhoo, as you can guess, joined-up handwriting looks like shit when compared to something printed (un joined-up before you start thinking of computers), so when we came on to use pens instead of pencils (ooohhh excitment) in year 6, they made me waste my lunchtimes on a "handwriting course" before they let me use a pen.

In fact they never let me use a pen, I still did use one though.

But, that course completely threw me off, causing my handwriting to become some hideous joined-up/printed hybrid mess, and I never really managed to get neat handwriting ever again. Something I get criticised for all the time.

If I take several hours over what I do, I can make it readable to other people, but if I'm in an exam (I don't do any wordy subjects any more thank God), I'm writing so fast that it almost becomes unreadable to me.

In short, FUCK PEOPLE WHO PRINT THEIR WRITING.

In Kindergarden, we had Mexican kids in all of are classes, which was only 2 classes, and they focused on the Mexicans. All of us Americans just learned the alphabet.
I then transfered schools and started having to do colors, which I didn't know, and spelling.

I got held back...

At 6/6/09 01:16 PM, Lost-Wisdom wrote: The teachers literally forced me into thinking that once you're in high school everything must be written in pen and that writing in pencil in unacceptable.

Lol. Actually, in my school you can't write math stuff and rough essays in pen.

A pencil is an indispensable tool, more than those fancy pens.

Santa clause is real.

Some fucker told me about evolution at a young age. I thought that humans were born as monkeys and evolved into humans as they grew older. Freaked me out.

My third grade math teacher had an invisible student named Suzy, who'd correct our papers for us.

I think that counts.

At 6/6/09 01:26 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: "Pluto is a planet".

Just because of this, I can't accept the idea that it isn't a planet; even though NASA has deemed it not a planet any more.

NASA can screw off, Pluto's a planet.

One thing I remember is "ROYGBIV." Its an abbreviation of the rainbow colors, but this includes "indigo." They stopped considering indigo as part of the rainbow.

I never properly learned how to use a coordinate plane to graph line equations, or convert standerd form into point slope, etc. This made Algebra 2 hell for me.

At 6/6/09 12:56 PM, TheRadicalOne wrote: Cursive. My elementary teacher told me that everyone uses it, Later I learned people stopped using it in high school, and all my writing looks like normal print and cursive had an abusive drug baby together.

Seriously, we use a printer and print our damn essays.

Ya my elementary school teachers always told us that cursive was one of the most important things I would ever learn. Now my handwriting is a hybrid.

At 6/6/09 01:52 PM, RubberTrucky wrote: Hmm, actually, I think the cosine rule is proved using Pythagorean theorem.
Scratch that, a way to introduce mathematically angles is based on the Pythagorean theorem. It makes sense that a person learns about Pythagoras first.

It was only an example... It was all I could think of at the moment.

Oh, and then you're not getting to Cauchy Schwartz inequality and Hilbert spaces yet.

Who to the what now? Just an architecture student here, remember?

Another thing I hated, was that when we were learning something new in maths, our teacher would explain what we were learning, but not what we were learning. We never learned what exactly a derivative is in the real world. What exactly an integral is.

At 6/6/09 01:34 PM, Nerubweaver19 wrote: i dont remember anythin gfrom my early years

You can tell..

At 6/6/09 03:56 PM, AngryCat wrote:

They stopped considering indigo as part of the rainbow.

WHEN?

At 6/6/09 12:45 PM, Fim wrote: I before E except after C...

...except when sounding like a as in neighbor and way

fix'd

and no teachers really ever messed me up that much

None of my teachers really taught me anything that messed with me.

At 6/6/09 12:45 PM, Fim wrote: I before E except after C - ITS NOT ALWAYS TRUE!!!

Yeah, just look at my name. Although that English rule does not apply in German.

multiples of 7 and 8 have always been tricky for myself

The alphabet. If it wasn't for the gay song I wouldn't have to whisper singing the stupid song to find out if R comes before S.

When I learned how to write a cursive letter. Yeah, it was only once. In 4th grade. When I transferred schools, everyone knew cursive besides me. Goddamn.

Ibefore E, not always is that correct

At 6/6/09 03:56 PM, AngryCat wrote:

At 6/6/09 01:26 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: "Pluto is a planet".

Just because of this, I can't accept the idea that it isn't a planet; even though NASA has deemed it not a planet any more.

NASA can screw off, Pluto's a planet.

One thing I remember is "ROYGBIV." Its an abbreviation of the rainbow colors, but this includes "indigo." They stopped considering indigo as part of the rainbow.

Actually, in space, there are over billions of things like Pluto. So you're assuming basically that all those billions of things are planets. The chances of that is zero.

I was raised to believe in God. Not saying anything against religious people but it's quite annoying when you're non-religious to have the little voice in your head going "but that's a sin!" every time you think of having a fap.

My uncle Ken saying the word n***** all the time since I was 6. Got suspended when I was ten, dad said "what am i gonna do with you?", said to sell me to some n*****.

Got my ass beat.

Thanks to an episode of looney toons I saw when I was really young, I always thought that the British actually put tacks in people's tea during the 1700's.

Right up to the 8th grade I quietly thought to myself in history class "when are they gonna mention the tacks?".

God, this is probably why I hate puns...

At 6/6/09 12:45 PM, Fim wrote: I before E except after C - ITS NOT ALWAYS TRUE!!!

A great example is my name "aleister"

At 6/6/09 07:27 PM, chowderbalboa wrote: Actually, in space, there are over billions of things like Pluto. So you're assuming basically that all those billions of things are planets. The chances of that is zero.

Actually, in space, there are over thousands of things like Earth. So you're assuming basically that all those thousands of things are planets. Using obscure logic, this must mean that the chances of that many planets existing is zero and there-fore, Earth is not a planet.

At 6/6/09 01:18 PM, Headshot777 wrote:

At 6/6/09 12:55 PM, Ejit wrote: Hahah that's terrible, what's the method? :S

Ah, it's kinda hard to explain. If you really want to learn it though, you can probably just Google "lattice multiplication", but I don't think it's worth learning.

Can't you just round down one of the numbers to the nearest ten and go from there?

Huh, maybe.
It's summer, though. No learning ;).

Wow, I thought I was the only one who has heard of lattice. That's what you use all the time?!

keep your hands to yourself

i have issues with people touching me and me touching other people now
it fucked up my last relationship too
thanks a fucking lot