School, AKA prison.

[astropapi1]

Well, I was out of school for six months this year (my father had surgery), so now I have to do lots of stuff to get good grades.

The problem is that I'm doing two times the work my classmates do, and my teachers won't recognize it. I spend the seven days of the week doing homework/school things, and hardly get any free time.

Edited September 4, 2013 by astropapi1

[YX33A]

School sucks, we all know that. After all, we all went to school. The point is it sucks less then being in the work force. Yes, your teachers hate you, yes, the food is barely better then US prison food, yes, you feel like you're learning nothing.

I didn't suffer from any of those for some odd reason but constantly heard it from my class mates and friends. I can easily see that school was awesome. I knew people and they didn't hate me. I could count on a steady lunch and summer was a time to kick back and swim. I didn't have to pay for my clothes or even the nicer things like hats or computers, or a new bike every year(long story). I lived it up and enjoyed my youth, and I look back on those days and wish I could relieve them. That is, between thoughts of throttling my younger self for being a idiot or being stupid. Sad fact? I haven't even been out of school that long. Those days were basically yesterday to me. And here I am acting like a bitter old jaded adult longing for the simple times.

Truth be told, my high school days were the best days of my life so far.

Anyway, that's enough rambling from me. I have things to do. Meetings. Tea parties. Buying clothes(and a new laptop). Enjoying a stiff drink with my family. Gazing longingly into my rum and coke. Building Space Planes and trying to get KSP to not crash. Possibly looking at porn, or reading Homestuck. Sometimes both at the same time. Or looking at fanart for Homestuck and wondering why the Homestuck fandom is always making porn of their ships. Or maybe, if things go well, sitting in a comfy chair with my family enjoying a Irish Coffee whist looking at porn and thinking up new Space Plane layouts after getting caught up in Homestuck.

Life is still enjoyable. But I miss knowing people who don't hate me and the stable lunches. Well, that and not needing to understand budgeting and going out to buy stuff with money that I'm stretching very thin.

[Deadpangod3]

But I'm pretty sure you don't have to get up at 6:00 AM to get ready, then be tired as hell while teachers are screaming at you

[SuperWeegee4000]

All the adults are raging at us because we're complaining about school.

Come on, guys, it's been summer the entire summer! We're not used to having to get up early, listen to teachers for an hour, and be fed food that an inmate in a federal prison would throw out.

[Diche Bach]

All the adults are raging at us because we're complaining about school.

Come on, guys, it's been summer the entire summer! We're not used to having to get up early, listen to teachers for an hour, and be fed food that an inmate in a federal prison would throw out.

[Xeldrak]

And how hard can being a adult can be lol?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! You'll see....you'll see....

[Kerbart]

Oh god the horror. School...

Last night I worked until 20:30 because we needed to get some numbers out by this morning

This morning I was told we're sorry, we gave you the wrong numbers. Can you do the work again with these?

School isn't that bad. Really. And be prepared that you'll have to continue learning things once you're finished with school/college. The difference is that now you have a day job next to it.

[EvilotionCR2]

Get outta here adults. I take back what I said,SCHOOL IS PRISON. YOU CANNOT EVEN GET OUT OF YOUR CLASSROOM UNTIL YOU HAVE TO EAT DINNER AND YOU CANNOT LEAVE WITHOUT EATING IT ALL!

Edited September 4, 2013 by EvilotionCR2

[TheSaint]

[SuperWeegee4000]

Again. All the adults are raging at us.

Don't even get me started on the public education system, because you'll never get me stopped. People are self-harming and contemplating suicide because of the pressures higher grade levels place upon them. This isn't an exaggeration. It's real and happening because the school system is horribly flawed.

[TheSaint]

Again. All the adults are raging at us.

Don't even get me started on the public education system, because you'll never get me stopped. People are self-harming and contemplating suicide because of the pressures higher grade levels place upon them. This isn't an exaggeration. It's real and happening because the school system is horribly flawed.

Not raging, chuckling. Mostly because we all thought the same things when we were your age. You somehow imagine that life gets easier after school is over, which is patently untrue. (Unless you happen to be a trust-fund baby.) You imagine that having the freedom to make your own decisions will make your life easier, but it will not, it will actually make your life harder. There are tons of decisions that are being made for you right now that you will have to make for yourself when you become an adult. And those decisions you will face as an adult have far more catastrophic consequences if they are made poorly.

The good news is that billions of people have made the transition before, and the odds are good that you will make it as well. And in twenty or thirty years you'll be laughing right along with us.

[SuperWeegee4000]

Not raging, chuckling. Mostly because we all thought the same things when we were your age. You somehow imagine that life gets easier after school is over, which is patently untrue. (Unless you happen to be a trust-fund baby.) You imagine that having the freedom to make your own decisions will make your life easier, but it will not, it will actually make your life harder. There are tons of decisions that are being made for you right now that you will have to make for yourself when you become an adult. And those decisions you will face as an adult have far more catastrophic consequences if they are made poorly.

The good news is that billions of people have made the transition before, and the odds are good that you will make it as well. And in twenty or thirty years you'll be laughing right along with us.

Of course I don't think that. But I also don't think that school is extremely easy compared to adult life. Especially factoring in peer pressure and "judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree" during tests that don't factor aptitude.

[Mercy]

Yer in fir a feckin shock when you have to go get a job.

And buy a house/apartment

And pay for food

And pay for internet

And pay for luxuries

Edited September 4, 2013 by Mercy

[astropapi1]

Guys, keep it calm, please.

We don't want a mod to block this thread, do we?

[Deadpangod3]

O.O ok someone has got to pinch me,

But before I explain, is it ok if I download ksp to a second computer to use for school purposes only, or will I get sued or something?

If its ok then either I'm dreaming or school is going to be just a bit more fun this year

[Mercy]

O.O ok someone has got to pinch me,

But before I explain, is it ok if I download ksp to a second computer to use for school purposes only, or will I get sued or something?

If its ok then either I'm dreaming or school is going to be just a bit more fun this year

KSP has no DRM, so no you won't get sued. Don't do that though, pay attention in classes and do well on your finals.

The last thing the world needs or wants is another kid working in McDonalds for minimum wage and living with his parents because he was too busy playing vidya gaems in classes.

[swiftgates24]

EDIT: And how hard can being a adult can be lol?

Alright, I'm 13, but really? This had better be a really awful joke. My answer to you is:

Yer in fir a feckin shock when you have to go get a job.

And buy a house/apartment

And pay for food

And pay for internet

And pay for luxuries

[Eric S]

People are self-harming and contemplating suicide because of the pressures higher grade levels place upon them.

Hope you don't expect that behavior to stop just because they graduate. It'll go on, just the reasons will change. Adults commit suicide or engage in other self-harming behavior over job or family issues all the time, and other reasons as well.

Of course I don't think that. But I also don't think that school is extremely easy compared to adult life. Especially factoring in peer pressure and "judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree" during tests that don't factor aptitude.

Hate to break it to you, but all that will continue into adulthood, just in a different form. I've got got a friend that had a well-paying job he loved, and he got fired because someone that didn't like him went behind his back to get him in trouble. Want to compare bad grades to suddenly having problems feeding and housing your family? My girlfriend almost lost her job for a similar reason. Almost every friend I've got has one coworker like that. And these are all nice, honest people that all get their job done and then some.

I won't say that school is extremely easy compared to adult life. Easier, yes, but not so hugely so. On the other hand, the stakes you're playing for in adult life are usually quite a bit higher.

[Sid]

If you think school is bad, wait till you try Real Life

[Kerbart]

Yer in fir a feckin shock when you have to go get a job.

And buy a house/apartment

And pay for food

And pay for internet

And pay for luxuries

Reminds me of a coworker; his daughter had been living at home for most of her college carreer and when she did live on-campus her father paid all her expenses.

So now she gets a job and moves out to live on her own. Next time she visits she complains on how expensive living is. “Do you have any idea how expensive car insurance is?!†she complains to him. He couldn't stop laughing. Yes, he had a pretty pretty good idea how expensive her car insurance was

[Eric S]

Next time she visits she complains on how expensive living is. “Do you have any idea how expensive car insurance is?!†she complains to him. He couldn't stop laughing. Yes, he had a pretty pretty good idea how expensive her car insurance was

Yeah. That friend that I mentioned that lost his job? He had a daughter that had just left for college a month before. She decided to pass up a full ride scholarship to her second choice college because daddy could afford her first choice (and yes, I find his decision to agree to this at least as questionable as her decision). From the way she treated him afterwards, you'd think he had quit his job just to piss her off. Sometimes the spoiled don't realize that they're being spoiled.

Most teens aren't this bad. As was said before, most survive the transition to real life, and some take to it fairly well. Those that equate school to prison, however, may be in for a bit of a shock.

[Sid]

Those that equate school to prison, however, may be in for a bit of a shock.

Especially if they ever do end up in prison

[SolarLiner]

I understand why you say that adulthood is harder than childhood. I'd say that these "states" aren't as comparable as you think.

You pass one third of your life learning things to apply half of them in your job whi h will take one third of your life too before getting into retirement to pass your last third of your life.

When I say "will apply half of learned things" I am not even joking. We are got to a point where history teachers do not believe in the moon landing and teaches it to the class. (True story, got 4 history teachers pro-hoax), and announce that the Cold War is the fault of Santa Claus. (Okay, might be exaggerating a little).

I speak as a French student freshly got out from college. There, you learn informatics. I mean you learn how to move a mouse and go to the internet to search for "USB Drive Images" on google. One teacher told us to type Google on Google to actually be sure that you are on the right page. And 2/3 of us on my class were "programmers"...

If you follow our current program on History, you'll find that the Alesia battle is more important than De Gaulle funding the 5th Republic (little free french history lesson for ya today )

The best still is in Mathematics. I am 15 and we are still on the fact that (a+^2=a^2+2ab+b^2; and we shall wait until f(x)=x^2 because it is a non linear function.

The fun thing is that I knew about almost anything this last year on the program thanks to the brady channels (numberphile, sixtysymbols and the rest) and the little researches. So my full last year can be done on 4 months with ease and good understanding because guess what? They explain better on the internet.

Oh and last thing: we didn't do anything at school regarding space, because it is "too boring and less important stuff". Welcome to the "Education Nationale" guys...

[MalletFace]

Most of the reason anybody dislikes school is because of how it is structured. Even teachers tend to dislike it and the students because of how they are forced to go about it. If all schools were structured differently, and education, too, school would be a place you wouldn't want to even leave for the summer.

My high school is an early college in America, and those tend to work really well from what I've seen. There aren't too many people going there, and everybody is generally friends with everybody else. The teachers in my school were also asked to teach there based on skill, and they are generally smart enough to find loopholes that allow them to fulfill the curriculum while doing things that are actually entertaining and informative for everybody. We didn't even have a building for all but a few months last year, and we still learned a lot, and had a lot of fun.

I'm going to hate finishing my fifth year at my school.

[WhiteWeasel]

Most of the reason anybody dislikes school is because of how it is structured. Even teachers tend to dislike it and the students because of how they are forced to go about it. If all schools were structured differently, and education, too, school would be a place you wouldn't want to even leave for the summer.

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