High School memories

[n3rdfu3l]

I made this thread b/c its fun to hear what happened to people in high school and I bet people will agree with me on that,

lets hear your high school memory

[Gano]

I was unhappy! So fun to reminisce~

[Nyokou]

I get tons of homework and it wears me out every day!

[Bynary Fission]

Hmm...it's too easy. All there is to say.


~Bynary Fission

[sumzup]

Aren't you homeschooled, though? Unless you're just talking about the coursework...

[JKPolk]

You must learn to sense the sarcasm, young padawan.

He's also 14.

[sumzup]

No, I know he's currently homeschooled and some genius kid who wants to go to a Bill Gates Foundation funded school from a previous thread. My sarcasm detector's fine :P

[xinpig]

the thing i will remember is a fight between a 5foot ~100lb kid Vs a 6'5" kid that weighed twice that...

[Bynary Fission]

Originally Posted by sumzup

Aren't you homeschooled, though? Unless you're just talking about the coursework...

I mean in general. Too d*** easy. Almost to where I wanted to drop out.

Originally Posted by JKPolk

You must learn to sense the sarcasm, young padawan.

He's also 14.

Wrong. I find high school insultingly easy, and really I hate it, lol. No sarcasm.

~Bynary Fission

[JKPolk]

Yeah, I almost wanted to drop out, too. Then I remembered I liked making teachers cringe when they saw my name on their list of students for the next year, and that was too fun to ignore.

[Bynary Fission]

Originally Posted by JKPolk

Yeah, I almost wanted to drop out, too. Then I remembered I liked making teachers cringe when they saw my name on their list of students for the next year, and that was too fun to ignore.

Wow, that made me laugh. xD I must admit, that's enough incentive to stay in school if I were you. Teachers see me as some star student, but really I never shoot for straight As, though if I get them I am happy. However, if angered I can be a nightmare to deal with...but many people aren't stupid enough to do that. Still, the fact that you can do that is nice.



~Bynary Fission

[JKPolk]

A friend of mine has a mother who's a teacher at my old middle school. A year or so after I graduated HS I was talking with the mother and she let me know that I was common talk of the teachers in the break room. I even had a rule made at the school named after me. In a 7th grade science class I managed to not do a single homework assignment, but get high As on every test. The teacher wanted to arbitrarily fail me by ballooning the percentage of homework calculated into the final grade. The administration laid down a rule saying that homework could only be 30% of a total grade so that I would pass, as I obviously understood the material. Needless to say, I thought that was hilarious when I heard it later.

[All_That_Chaz]

I have a couple decent stories about Chaz in high school. Both happened in senior year.

I was returning a book to my computer science teacher during homeroom when the flag salute came on the closed-circuit tv. Now, my cs teacher was coincidentally the ROTC homeroom so he's pretty patriotic. This was early 2003 so 9/11 was still a hot-button issue, and since I was all "lol punk effing rawk damn the man etc" I didn't salute the flag. On a more mature level, I also didn't salute the flag because I found it to be a very hollow way to show patriotism. People feel like they've done their civic duty by putting their hand on their chest and reciting a few lines. I saw that as bogus. Anyway back on topic, my cs teacher started snapping at me and pointing at the flag telling me to salute it. I just shrugged at him. Well anyway after the flag salute ended I returned the book and left. A couple periods went by and I got called down to the office. I had no idea why, figured maybe I had won another scholarship or something, lol. So I got to the vice principal's office. I had a nice rapport with the guy because I often played defense attorney for my "lol punk effing rawk" friends when they got in trouble. He told me that I had been written up. I laughed and asked what for. He said, "Disobeying a direct order of a teacher." Now, this is one of those rules that was put in place after Columbine. It's meant to give teachers the authority to tell students what to do in a crisis or to order the student to "put that gun down." So naturally, first offense is 2 weeks external suspension. It wasn't very funny anymore. I told the vp that his order was to salute the flag, so this write up goes against both school code and the US Constitution. He agreed, but it came down to the fact that he really couldn't let me talk my way out of the most serious punishment in the school code. I took a day's detention on some random day. The story doesn't end there though. That teacher held a grudge against me for the rest of my time at that school. When final project time rolled around he individually assigned projects to everyone instead of some sort of randomization. That made it so the smarter kids had harder projects (they were methods of sorting integers). Anyway when he got to me he gave me a sorting method I had never heard of. I started to research it and couldn't find anything. I mean seriously, when google can't find anything you know something's wrong. There were methods of searching that used this logic, but not sorting. I told the teacher this and he dismissed my claims as me being lazy. Well whatever, I had gotten accepted into Northwestern for CS I should be able to handle a high school project. I worked my ass off trying to fudge something using that logic, but I just couldn't get it to work. Presentation time rolled around and I still didn't have anything that worked. I gave a talk on how it's supposed to work logically. He told me repeatedly to run my program. I told him it didn't work but he seemed intent on humiliating me. Well I ran it and it blew up and he failed me. Ruined my day I tell you. Well whatever eff him I got a 100 on his final exam and still aced the quarter and the class. I was still pretty torn up about failing that project though. I thought I was stupid. I switched the major I was going to take at NU from CS to Econ (a switch that I'm happy I made in retrospect). Anyway I was still pretty pissed about the whole ordeal so I found a CS professor and asked him how he would do it. He looked at me blankly and said, "He asked you to do what?!" It was impossible. The jerk gave me an impossible project just so he could fail me. I switched my major because of that dick. What a tool, haha.

Second story. So in my senior year I was dating a girl from the next town over and she was active in a gay-straight alliance over there. I had done a lot of my growing up in a theater/music/art summer camp so I had been around gay culture for a long time and I was pretty pro-homosexual. There wasn't a GSA at my school so I went to the office to see about starting one. I had a number of friends behind it so we could really get started right away. I scheduled a meeting with the vice principal who was in charge of setting up clubs. It was really weird. I scheduled meeting after meeting after meeting, in his own office and he never showed up. He was just never there. He did this until I graduated. I let it go, I didn't really care if there wasn't a GSA at my school since we really were all friends and did stuff together anyway. Well I came back during Winter break during my freshman year at NU and friends told me that there was a huge protest about how I was ignored and the GSA never got started up. My friends organized a walk-out and eventually that vp got fired. I was like, "lolwutk." Nice to know I affected people. (:

Wow that was really tl;dr haha.

[EnR]

compared to middle school or w/e 1-8th, highschool is better becasue the teachers know how teenagers are.

[Bynary Fission]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

I have a couple decent stories about Chaz in high school. Both happened in senior year.

I was returning a book to my computer science teacher during homeroom when the flag salute came on the closed-circuit tv. Now, my cs teacher was coincidentally the ROTC homeroom so he's pretty patriotic. This was early 2003 so 9/11 was still a hot-button issue, and since I was all "lol punk effing rawk damn the man etc" I didn't salute the flag. On a more mature level, I also didn't salute the flag because I found it to be a very hollow way to show patriotism. People feel like they've done their civic duty by putting their hand on their chest and reciting a few lines. I saw that as bogus. Anyway back on topic, my cs teacher started snapping at me and pointing at the flag telling me to salute it. I just shrugged at him. Well anyway after the flag salute ended I returned the book and left. A couple periods went by and I got called down to the office. I had no idea why, figured maybe I had won another scholarship or something, lol. So I got to the vice principal's office. I had a nice rapport with the guy because I often played defense attorney for my "lol punk effing rawk" friends when they got in trouble. He told me that I had been written up. I laughed and asked what for. He said, "Disobeying a direct order of a teacher." Now, this is one of those rules that was put in place after Columbine. It's meant to give teachers the authority to tell students what to do in a crisis or to order the student to "put that gun down." So naturally, first offense is 2 weeks external suspension. It wasn't very funny anymore. I told the vp that his order was to salute the flag, so this write up goes against both school code and the US Constitution. He agreed, but it came down to the fact that he really couldn't let me talk my way out of the most serious punishment in the school code. I took a day's detention on some random day. The story doesn't end there though. That teacher held a grudge against me for the rest of my time at that school. When final project time rolled around he individually assigned projects to everyone instead of some sort of randomization. That made it so the smarter kids had harder projects (they were methods of sorting integers). Anyway when he got to me he gave me a sorting method I had never heard of. I started to research it and couldn't find anything. I mean seriously, when google can't find anything you know something's wrong. There were methods of searching that used this logic, but not sorting. I told the teacher this and he dismissed my claims as me being lazy. Well whatever, I had gotten accepted into Northwestern for CS I should be able to handle a high school project. I worked my ass off trying to fudge something using that logic, but I just couldn't get it to work. Presentation time rolled around and I still didn't have anything that worked. I gave a talk on how it's supposed to work logically. He told me repeatedly to run my program. I told him it didn't work but he seemed intent on humiliating me. Well I ran it and it blew up and he failed me. Ruined my day I tell you. Well whatever eff him I got a 100 on his final exam and still aced the quarter and the class. I was still pretty torn up about failing that project though. I thought I was stupid. I switched the major I was going to take at NU from CS to Econ (a switch that I'm happy I made in retrospect). Anyway I was still pretty pissed about the whole ordeal so I found a CS professor and asked him how he would do it. He looked at me blankly and said, "He asked you to do what?!" It was impossible. The jerk gave me an impossible project just so he could fail me. I switched my major because of that dick. What a tool, haha.

Second story. So in my senior year I was dating a girl from the next town over and she was active in a gay-straight alliance over there. I had done a lot of my growing up in a theater/music/art summer camp so I had been around gay culture for a long time and I was pretty pro-homosexual. There wasn't a GSA at my school so I went to the office to see about starting one. I had a number of friends behind it so we could really get started right away. I scheduled a meeting with the vice principal who was in charge of setting up clubs. It was really weird. I scheduled meeting after meeting after meeting, in his own office and he never showed up. He was just never there. He did this until I graduated. I let it go, I didn't really care if there wasn't a GSA at my school since we really were all friends and did stuff together anyway. Well I came back during Winter break during my freshman year at NU and friends told me that there was a huge protest about how I was ignored and the GSA never got started up. My friends organized a walk-out and eventually that vp got fired. I was like, "lolwutk." Nice to know I affected people. (:

Wow that was really tl;dr haha.

Wow, those are...interesting stories. And in the first one, I can't believe a dick like that got to teach at all. I hope they fired him. And on that same subject, you piqued my interest. What exactly did he assign you to do? I've just gotta hear it.


~Bynary Fission

[All_That_Chaz]

Hashing. Sorting by hashing. It's been 5 years since I thought of this but if memory serves it's a method of searching by using some aspect of the elements in the array other than plain value to search. Couldn't get it to work in C++.

[Bynary Fission]

Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz

Hashing. Sorting by hashing. It's been 5 years since I thought of this but if memory serves it's a method of searching by using some aspect of the elements in the array other than plain value to search. Couldn't get it to work in C++.

Ahh...alright I see. Did the teacher get fired? Because if not I would report him to ensure it; no real teacher would facilitate failure in a student because of his own personal issues with somebody.....


~Bynary Fission

[All_That_Chaz]

I'm not petty enough to try to get him fired for trying to get me in trouble. We were actually really good friends before all of this went down since he had been my teacher before and we were in community theater together. And even after failing the project I still aced the class and it was the last quarter of high school so it had no bearing on my college acceptance. IIRC the project was 30% of my grade and I got a 50 on it so it was 15 points off my grade and since it was an AP course 10 percentage points are added to the grade. I eneded with a 94 that quarter.

Two wrongs don't make a right. He's a decent teacher, just hyper-patriotic, which was kind of common right after 9/11.

[arsonistsgetallthegirls]

At my school, I'm annoyed by the bitterest teacher EVER. You'd expect her to be some 60 year old woman who is frustrated by problem students and menopause, but no, she's 24. The best memory I had of high school was of my freshman year, where somebody gave my friend a stack of the most horrible pornography I have ever seen printed on paper as a "secret santa" gift. My friend ripped out the worst pictures and used a glue stick to glue all of the pictures to her desk and computer during lunch. She's a strict christian too...

[All_That_Chaz]

Rofl that reminds me of this crazy substitute homeroom teacher I had once. Right before spring break me actually made us go around the room and say why we were thankful for jesus and he made it very clear that we were celebrating Easter and it's not spring break. Well, I told him my family was going to celebrate Passover, since I'm, yknow, Jewish. He muttered something I didn't catch and moved to the next student. haha.