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I just finished my last two finals so here is my update:
Math = Pass maybe B
Band = no final
English = Pass maybe A
Drivers Ed = pass A
Art = Pass Maybe A
German = Fail
Chemistry = Pass maybe B
History = Fail
I am not happy about just failing my damn history test. We had a stupid DBQ (for all you who didnt take AP history document based question) The stupid thing is worth half of your final grade. Well I knew when I walked in I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing. I wasn't sure about the question or how to relate any of the document. After rambling for the front and back of a page I stopped becuase I relized I didn't have a clue what I was talking baout. So I just put all my paper in the rigth order and sat there staring at a wall for 50 minutes out of a 2 hour test.
Peace and Trees you guys
~Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Garrett
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Registered: January 1970
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How exactly do you fail History(which is the easiest subject out of all of them besides art) and German(which is sooooo easy to learn, I learned it fluently in like 3 monthes)?
Garrett
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The debate over the relationship between the states and fedral government over the principles of interposition and nullifictaion began with the struggle to ratify the constitution and continued to the end of the civil war.
Documents:
marbury vs. Madison
McCulloch vs. Maryland
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullifiction.
Mississippi Resolution on Secession
Constitution of The Confederate States of America
Virginia Resoloutions
Kentucky Resolutions
Report and resolutions of the Hartford Convention
US Consitition.
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Garrett
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Registered: January 1970
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Sounds easy if you just studied!
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Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Garrett
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Registered: January 1970
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Registered: January 1970
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It always amazes me how history teachers can take something like the US War between the States and kill a student's interest with numbing essay questions like this.........
{{{huge hugs sweetie)))
smith
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Remember that the rules of timmy's MB say that we are here to help the person posting with whatever is troubling them. Andy is upset about his grades and needs some friendly hugs, not criticism  What's easy for one person may be difficult for another. That applies to personal problems too, you know. J
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Garrett
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Registered: January 1970
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I know, I said sorry. He knows I wasnt critcising. I know the rules!
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Back when I was in college I had three finals all in one day. Each was two hours long. It was Monday of finals week and I had spent the whole weekend studying. All three were pyschology classes, my major.
I aced the first two but was so drained that I froze up when I took the third. I couldn't think of any of the answers. I just stared at the pages until there was only about ten minutes left and I was one of three students left in the room. It was multiple choice so I just went down and marked every answer randomly. There were five choices for each answer so I should have gotten about 20% correct just guessing. NOPE! My final score was 12%. That one exam pulled down my grade in the class from an A to a D.
It can happen to anyone Andy.
Think good thoughts,
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But again I'd like to say I'm proud of you despite the fact that you're stuck in a crappy school and crappy system  As smith said, your marks aren't too bad and although your history exam was messed up it's still okay.
I think you know now that Garrett was just playing, but still, we all have our different strong points.
Now you just need to stop stressing and enjoy your last 2(?) days of school and then holidays!
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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There's a very simple answer to that, Garrett: Not everybody (indeed, nobody) is just like you.
Can you take some paints or colored pencils and use them to create a piece of art? I can't, but Andy can. Can you take some wire and beads and fashion from them a really beautiful cross or Native American dreamcatcher? I can't, but Andy can. Are you a member of an adult hand-bell choir? I doubt seriously I'll ever be, but Andy is. Are you a dancer, highly skilled in all dance disciplines? I know for a fact I'll never be, but Andy is.
I flunked math and chemistry in high school; Andy passed both of them. In spite of that, I still graduated high school (and I have no doubt Andy will, too).
Unless one happens to be a "super brainiac", everybody has (had) at least one "bugaboo" subject in school which gives (gave) them no end of problems (I obviously did); and those subjects will vary from person to person. So I would suggest you think thrice before doing the "how in the world could you..." routine, because somebody could quite easily say the same thing about you.
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Are you sure this was a Grade 10 history course? That all sounds like something only college students majoring in history and law would ever be confronted with. Yikes!
It reminds me of what happened the first week of chemistry class. The teacher gave us a "pop quiz" which consisted of just one question: "write down the names and abbreviations of all the chemical elements". My home-room teacher also taught chemistry, and when I told him about it, he admitted, "I doubt I could do that myself."
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Normally, I would not endorse anybody telling anybody to "shut up".
I will make an exception in this case.
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Registered: March 2012
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Food for thought Garrett,ask if you can sign up for dance lessons.we await your reply with held breath....rob..hehehe
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put a sock in it Ron...rob
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It never ceases to amaze me how a teacher of any subject can turn it into a total yawn for most students.
The problem, I think, is that too often these teachers know the subject all too well, but just don't know how to teach (my chemistry teacher was a perfect case in point).
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Three finals on one day (a Monday, to boot)? That's inhuman!
Even Ernie Banks never said, "Let's play 3!"
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Sounds like the HS I went to some 47 years ago.In AP 10th grade Chem,not only did we have to memorize the periodic table,but we had to remember atomic weights and numbers along with the valences of the elements.Our finals required that we draw the electron shells of some of the elements..AP PHYSICS REQUIRED THAT WE DESCRIBE AND QUANTIFY THE ENERGY LEVELS of these shells.I do hope that Andy gets to retake these tests-Im sure he will do well.And Garrett-I do hope you can find the answers that you are looking for.Right now,I suppose life seems a bed of thorns and they hurt a lot.Pain usually a method to get us out of the frying pan.sometimes we land in the fire.,sometimes not.Staying in that hot pan is not the wisest choice if you get my drift.Please dont give up and do keep us posted.we care....rob
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Garrett
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Registered: January 1970
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STOP! I was just asking, geez. You dont have to go all psyco! I was just joking and Andy knows that! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I chat with him all the time, he knows that I was just joking!
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Because it's not funny; and to do so on a forum such as this shows a serious lacking of propriety and decorum (look those up in your Funk and Wagnall's).
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Garrett
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Registered: January 1970
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Stop picking on me. Im not trying to be funny, its called sarcasm. he knows i was joking. let him decide! not u. You have no right to judge like that.
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Hey not bad grades, you know you can do better next time. I have being doing finals this week too and found out one thing, i will never, i repeat ever study chemistry. It just does not come easy to me like space science. ALthough i manage to do alright and still didn't like it.
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MMMM I had trouble with chemistry cjust cuz I am careless but loved it. Unlike Biology last year which I despised!!!
peace and trees
~Andy
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I gotta say that I'm with M about avoiding chemistry...I consistantly got C's and D's in all my science and math courses...
And I always thought that valences had something to do with window treatments and curtain rods...
But I always did really well in anything to do with languages, reading, writing, verbal stuff, history.
Altho I didn't start to really enjoy history until University...whoever it was that said that many HS teachers don't really make it interesting enough is for sure correct, sadly.
That DBQ thingie was an eyebrow raiser, Andy! I didn't have to answer questions like that until I was in University already. I think that all the study subjects are like that. What was studied in HS in the 70's is now taught in Junior High, and so on...more and more pressure on younger and younger people to learn more all the time, at younger ages.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Registered: May 2003
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... but that does not justify becoming anal retentive about it. Ron, friendly banted passed between friends happens all the time, especially with teenagers, what may seem like an insult is perfectly justified amongst friends because they know there is no malace behind it. So, lighten up, eh? There is no need to step in as someone's champion unless they ask you to. Andy is quite capable of sticking up for himself when the occasion arises, despite his seemingly innocent demeanour...
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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hs chem was always my fav.thats when i found out how to make explosives-you know,the stuff that goes boom.i suppose that bangs are cool,but gigantic booms are sooo much cooler.Nitroglycerin c3h5(no3)3 made with glycerin conc.nitric acid and per-sulfuric acid (h2(s2o7)) was the best.Cotton and a large gel capsule and a hefty slingshot were all this hot boy needed to cause mayhem at school.The jocks,the school bullies soon found their cars being targeted.never got caught.Then there were the iodized mercury compounds.What a blast.The school hallways turned into a minefield with purple flashes flaming.harmless of course,but still loads of fun.People called me MISTER.....rob
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