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[ben100604]

God I hate mondays! Theres a whole week of acne adventures just waiting for you. The weekend, which is the only time that I get to hide away from the world, seems a long way a way now

[scarred4lyfe]

I know I hate mondays too.... I love when the weekends comes...so I can hide....plus I hate wearing makeup and everytime I go out I have to put it on...and that's during the week when I have classes...Monday's suck...I wish they'd never come.... !

[o_Adam_o]

well i have monday morning off,,

and tuesday is the only time i have a full day, and its my worste day of the week !!!

[xXillusion]

err.. it's a holiday today!
are you all UKers?
not lucky

[scarred4lyfe]

err.. it's a holiday today!
are you all UKers?
not lucky

Yea I know...(thank god) but today still mean that I gotta get up tomorrow and go to class...so I still hate monday's

[adultAcne]

I'm unemployed (forced vacation!) so everyday is a holiday!!! Yaaaaaay! But, thanks for letting me know what day it was today.

[LadyLane]

I know i hate going to school with pimples...grr its the worst...
But wat i hate the most is when my friends ask me to go out and
i just dont want to
the worst was last week when i made up an exuse to my boyfriend
telling him i was grounded til the summer...
i said summer cuz thats just about when my accutane should be through
or at least have kicked in...
god i hate pimples
ruining my social life and my love life...
i just hope that accutane works for me
so ill never have to loose another guy over my
pathetic pimples

[GIMojo]

where do you go to school, what grade are you in? math class is such a bore. 123 minutes on crap ill never need. am i ever going to the donut shop and order using quadrilatic equations? hell no. you cant use any short cuts either, must show all work

[Graphite]

I had today off, I am pretty much clear but I got a few red inflamed spots and a few red scars but my face feels irritated so I am expecting some to bloom tommorow morning to frighten the girls at my school.

[Graphite]

In fact, school is useful if you get good grades, I live in the USA and go to Highschool, grade 9th. my current GPA is 4.0 (dunno what it equals in Canada), I take honors classes and hope that my effort will land me in a prestigious university, however that's just me, I guess you're asking "What the hell are you doing in a forum like this?", I don't even know.

I got a gpa of 1.7 in my sophomore year (currently), I admit that I made some REALLY BAD choices my freshmen year.

[I ride bikes!]

gah.....hate mondays, thank god we had a snowday today. Always wicked tired, and its a monday. Cant stand Adv. Alg 2....not only do I not get it, the teacher is horrible....and its boring. Last year was kind of fun, soph. year is just plain horrible though. Im happy with all B's except my F in algebra 2

[the.ronin]

I had back to back tests today...I really really hate mondays.

[xXillusion]

well my GPA is 2.8 and I'm not even embaraced to say it:)
it's proaby lower now
I hate school

my friend: I study so hard and I got a C for the quarter!
me: study hard? when?
my friend: 5 minutes before class starts!!
me: oh shut up

I study more than her.!!!!

[Melchior]

GPA proves nothing as to how much you know or how well you understand what you're taught. GPA = Mostly homework in most schools. Doing homework works for some people to reinforce what they've learned, but for me, it was just tedious busy work. My GPA was like 3, and I walked out of that school knowing more than most if not everybody else. I knew kids all along who received good grades (GPA = grades) and didn't really know much about the subject, because they just did all the homework and coasted. Well good for them, but will that help as much?

The good thing is, colleges looked at my applied knowledge and test scores and tossed my GPA.

[Melchior]

You think a 3.0 is good?  It may be good if you take AP's and other advance courses, but it would still not be good enough.  Let's say you want to apply to an ivy league school, I doubt your acceptance.  GPA doesn't always equal "homework".  It equals a weighed criteria that includes tests, participation, yes homework, of course someone who's worked hard enough will oviously make more than someone who didn't, that is if you can get into a 4 year university and get some type of well-earned degree.

Now, there's much to consider besides GPA's.  Community service is awesome, and so are SAT's, not to mention ec. activities (sports, clubs, etc.). However, I respect all of your feedback and opinions.

Ivy league school means nothing. School itself is a tool to help you learn, some people need it more than others. The colleges I applied to didn't care about my GPA. I proved to them I'm smarter and have a better capability to learn than most of the people coming in there with all AP courses and perfect GPAs. Also, you say it's weighted, maybe it's different where you live. Over here GPA was like 90% based on homework, that's not very balanced. You keep saying you doubt my acceptance as if it didn't already happen, I've BEEN accepted already. Sheesh.

Guys, intelligence isn't about having a piece of paper with a fancy ivy league title on it. More often than not those schools will have some good teachers. The point is, some people don't need to have such teachers. Some people can be just as smart doing their own research. I'm not worried about the GPA I had in high school because I still knew more than most of the people who did better. Do your work and such, but don't be bummed out about your GPA.

[Melchior]

Tell me, who is more elite, a Harvard Graduate, or some community college graduate?  Sure Intelligence is not based on knowledge, but monkeys can't go to college, right?  Ok, where do you currenly go to? Local State? Their good, but not what I would prefer.  Now, thanks to chemists and dermatologists, we are lucky to have such access to clear skin, not mention this forum, even Dan went to college.  How can you not be bummed about such GPA?  Unless you already knew the future.  A 2.0 will get you nowhere, 3.0 will, a 3.75-4.0?  I know even George W. Bush wasn't great, but he's not stupid, his SAT scores are about 1250/1600, however he went to Harvard because he's a legacy, so did Dick and Kerry(I think he went to Yale, and Dick Cheney I don't know, but did transfer to Yale or Harvard Law school).  As for doctors, wow.  Let me tell you that they're supposed to be the most respected field there is.  They have to go to a 4 year University, 4 years of Med-School, 1 year of intership and 4+ years of residency depending on the field they choose.  It takes 13+ years of study from the time you leave High School to become a heart surgeon. 

Impressive.

All right. This is my last post regarding this, it's just going back and forth and isn't accomplishing much. My point is one can be just as knowledgable about medicine and the human body as a doctor who went to all those years of school without going themselves. You need to think outside the box here. What you're talking about is getting certain jobs, which have requirements that aren't specifically practical. Practically, the prerequisites for becoming a doctor should be displaying your knowledge in the field, not waving your ivy league ticket at an employer. It takes work to do good in an ivy league school, big deal, you can still do as much work or even more to prove your skill in an area through PRACTICE. I'm very good with computers, I'm training to be a computer engineer. In many fields, college will provide the knowledge necessary but lacks the hands on training you'll need to excel in your field.

If you must know... in 5th grade I was selected as part of a national acedemic program to take the SAT. I haven't taken it since, nor do I need to. I scored higher than most students getting into college if I remember correctly. I scored a 35 composite on the ACT, some fields like math and science were perfectly answered by me. As far as I know that's 99.9% better than most of the people that take that test. All state and national tests I've scored above the 99% percentile. Sure this says something, you get a question, you answer said question correctly and understand the meaning, thats part of intelligence. Logic is also part of intelligence. My GPA was lacking, yet I was still able to look around in my advanced courses and prove I knew more about the subjects than the other students with perfect GPAs.

I already told you, in my case it was a lack of homework that contributed to my GPA. Some days I felt too depressed to do homework. This doesn't prove I'm any less intelligent than others. Some people like me fall through the cracks of the standard school system, yet I can be just as smart as the average doctor coming out of all those years of schooling. Studying at home is not different than at a school provided you do it right.

Don't judge someone on these kinds of things. If I hadn't been depressed and did all my homeowrk and had a lot more money from my parents, I could be in one of those ivy league schools. Would I be any smarter today? We don't know. All I do know is I'm good in my field, I make a nice living even now at my age. Jobs are very available to me, I'm not worried. Even though I'm intelligent, I don't think it's necessary. Most importantly, be a good person that inspires others to achieve their level of greatness.

I can tell you're really interested in this subject. You've also must have had a different experience than I had throughout your life. You realize colleges like ours didn't exist all throughout history. There were many marvels of intelligence before the notion of public schooling became commonplace. You need to go to special colleges to become a doctor NOT because without school you wouldn't be capable, but simply because that's the requirement. It proves to most people your capability even though every person going isn't fully qualified nor is every person not attending fully disqualified. You understand? There are people that never set foot in any college and can still be considered some of the most intelligent people on the planet just as there are some people that attend years of college and don't achieve the same goals as those around them.

If you're basing how much money people make on their intelligence then sure...

And why are you bringing up Dan? I'm not saying college is bad. I'm not saying people who go to college aren't better off. What I'm saying is it's not necessary for everyone. Especially not an ivy league college.

If you want to talk about this more PM me, this topic is way off track already.