[POLL] Highly educational activities

[Red Angel]

Well, I figure that if people can get away with polls about going to bed, I can get away with this one.

1) What country do you live in?

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?

3) What subjects are you taking?

4) Subjects you like?

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?

7) Any plans for the future?

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8) What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)

1) Canada

2) Grade 12

3) English AP, Math 12, History 12, Physics 12, Chemistry 12, Information Technology 12, Drafting 11 for arts credit O_o

4) Er… Infotech, English, and History

5) Physics… that course is 3v1L

6) Yes… Everybody has to do 30 hrs of community service to graduate.

7) Comp Science Degree

8) Town Hall! Rawr!

[Silver Ledian]

1) What country do you live in?
Ireland

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
I'm 17, in my 6th year of secondary school. Only one more year of it to go and then hopefully I'm off to Uni.

3) What subjects are you taking?
Spanish, Art and Geography

4) Subjects you like?
All of them, I chose which subjects I wanted to study (for the next two years) at the start of the school year back in September. ^^

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
I don't despise any of them but I have days when I get ticked off with Art and Geography because you've to put a lot of effort into them both, esp. Art

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
It's okay to use exams as a method of testing someone but when you do two years work and then they squeeze that work into one exam paper, it's a bit unfair. They should test you gradually throughout your course. Just my thoughts.

7) Any plans for the future?
Get my A-Levels, go to Uni for 4 years and then become a teacher. If I don't like that, I'll do something else but I want to be a teacher. I also want a nice place of my own and to travel a lot.

Randomness

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon?
Phone a friend? Alternatively...tell me what a peon is and I'll try to answer. =/

[Royal_Goddess_Tina]

1) What country do you live in?
-Canada...

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
- I am in grade 10.

3) What subjects are you taking?
- I dunno... Because I'm starting online schooling really soon and they didn't tell me which classes were available outa the ones I chose...

4) Subjects you like?
- English... History...

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
- Hmmmmmm... None...

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
- The teachers are stupid quirks in the education system...

7) Any plans for the future?
- Yes... Marry Vinay. Write books. Open the restaurant Vinay and I have planned on opening. Travel to as many countries as possible. Be rich. Have children.

Randomness

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon?
- I don't know and I don't care...

[dark_tyranitar]

1) What country do you live in?
The US of A.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
I choose not to answer this for a certain reason.

3) What subjects are you taking?
Just the basic math, science, social studies, language.

4) Subjects you like?
Everything but language.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
Language.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
None, really.

7) Any plans for the future?
Right now, I'm more worried about the earth's future. (I was reading this article that really got me thinking about the environment.)

Randomness

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon?
It depends on whether chronology is trilinear or quadrangular in its dimensional shift. Actually, I'd like to know what a peon is, first.

[RedStarWarrior]

1) What country do you live in?
USA
2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
Freshmen, junior standing in Uni.
3) What subjects are you taking?
Electrical and Computer Engineering courses...
4) Subjects you like?
Most of my courses....
5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
Just the high level CS courses because of the volume of work.
6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
None....
7) Any plans for the future?
House, wife, kids....

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8) What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)
Depends on the game and the map. Typically, the Town Hall and Peons exist at the beginning of the map, but occasionally, you only have Peons and rarely you only have a Town Hall (and a lot of money).

[Razola]

1) What country do you live in?
The USA.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
Second year of University, sophmore standing.

3) What subjects are you taking?
American History since the Civil War, Creative Writing, Intro to Poetry, Renaissance Literature, and Visual Media

4) Subjects you like?
Visual Media delivers.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
None that bother me that much.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
"Budget cuts" that somehow remove History as a requirement. Joy.

7) Any plans for the future?
Upper middle class. I have no desire to be rich, and will blow excess cash on charity, need it be.

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon?

Town Hall, since you start off with peasents when you have a Town Hall. Not peons.

[classy_cat18]

1) What country do you live in?
The USA.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
College sophomore

3) What subjects are you taking?
Intro to Writing, Pre-Calculus, Advanced Programming

4) Subjects you like?
Computer animation rocks!

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
Pre-cal, because I hate the professor.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
The emphasis on Greek life.

7) Any plans for the future?
Working for Square Enix, baby!

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon?

Peons! Bow down, lowly peons!

[stickachu]

1) What country do you live in?
U.S.A.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
College sophomore

3) What subjects are you taking?
Economics, Classical Civilizations, Biology, and Music

4) Subjects you like?
I like econ. I don't know why.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
Classic civ? I don't mind the class, I just never go. :P

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
Nah.

7) Any plans for the future?
Early retirement.

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon?

The peon, of course!

[Syberia]

"We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers, leave those kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall."

- Pink Floyd: Another Brick In The Wall Part 2

EDIT: ...and just so this post will have some point to it...

1) USA.

2) 10th grade.

3) All the stuff sophomores are required to take.

4) Math is alright because I'm good at it, biology is bearable because it's pretty much a guaranteed A if you show up to class.

5) English. Can't we ever read a good book?

6) You're required to have a year of fine arts to graduate but no practical arts whatsoever. I find it funny how you're required to learn what you will probably never use, but not skills that actually may be put to use sometime in your life.

7) Law degree, wife, children, etc.

[DarkTemplarZ]

1) USA
2) 9th Grade
3) The usual Math, Tech, Bio, Lit, Foreign Language, ect. then some electives and Programming + Networks

4) Programming's fun and easy, the rest of the classes are cool too

5) All my classes are great, I don't hate any of them ^_^

6) 8-4:30 classes, free time during the day, allowed to sit in the hallways when u don't have class, I think that qualifies as weird.

7) Nothing much, 150k+ salary, maybe 100k when I start out, something like that. Other than that, wife, kids, nice simple happy life. If I don't make the NBA that is :)

[The_Missing_Link]

1) What country do you live in?
2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
3) What subjects are you taking?
4) Subjects you like?
5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
7) Any plans for the future?


1) USA

2) 11th grade so one more year of high school before I go out on my own. I'm scared ****less actually O-o

3) Chemistry, Honors Modern History, Ceramics, English 11, Advanced Mathematics, Spanish IV, Sociology (first semester), Stress Reduction (second semester)

4) History and Ceramics. Sociology was my favorite when I took it though

5) I don't despise any class but Chemistry and Advanced Math is pretty tough

6) When our school was renovated, the people went overbudget and had to take away things such as late school bus and Mythology, which I've wanted to take for a long time

7) Go to college, get a good job and hopefully settle down at around 30

[en0miz]

1) What country do you live in?
United States.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
I'm a junior in high school. One more year. :>

3) What subjects are you taking?
I'm taking Pre-Calculus, Physics, English Honors, US History Honors, and my last year of Spanish. My elective this term is Desktop Publishing.

4) Subjects you like?
Desktop Publishing, because all we've been doing so far is BS'ing on the interent. :D

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
I hate Physics and Pre-Cal. I actually don't have to take either of them, but if I want to go to a decent college, I have to take these advanced courses.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
We never get a day off due to snow (even when the surronding tri-state did) and NYC Board of Education just sucks most of the time.

7) Any plans for the future?
Go to a college with a pre-vet major. :o

Randomness

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon?
Town Hall person. *shrug*

[Cheesey]

1) What country do you live in?
Scotland.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
I'm in my third year of high school. It's pretty cool for me right now - I'm enjoying high school a lot more than I ever have done.

3) What subjects are you taking?
Maths, English, German, Geography, Art, Music, Biology, Computing Studies.

4) Subjects you like?
I like English, Art and Music the most. Art's probably the best of those, because it gives me a feel of independence and I can experiment with lots of different ways of expressing myself. I also love to just draw stuff, and Art gives me a challenge. I also think I'm pretty good at it. I love making music and learning about it, so yeha... That's just enjoyable all round. English is a fun subject because I like learning about literature, and writing, and reading etc.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
I don't actually have any subjects that I loathe or anything, but Maths and German are the worst. They're still good though, and I like them.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
Not really. It's a pretty crappy school but since I like the subjects I think it's fine.

7) Any plans for the future?
I want to finish High School at 17, go to university, spend a few years there, get good qualifications, a job that I enjoy and then settle down. That's a rough idea of what I'd like to do but I honestly don't really know right now.

[titandude21]

1) What country do you live in?

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?

3) What subjects are you taking?

4) Subjects you like?

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?

7) Any plans for the future?

:yes::yes::yes:Randomness:yes::yes::yes:

8) What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)

1. USA, New Jersey to be more specific

2. 10th grade, 2nd year of high school

3. Pre-Calc Honors, AP US History, Business Management (2nd sem)/CADD (1st sem), PE, Chem Honors, French 3, English Honors

4. uh... math, and um... that's about it

5. English, b/c i can't read or write

6. The math program in America is mostly corrupt... i have a beef about other things as well, but not as much as math

7. idk... something w/ business, engineering, or sports broadcasting

8. no comment

[shazza]

1) What country do you live in?
-I currently live in Australia.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
-Year 10.

3) What subjects are you taking?
-English, Maths, IT, Literature, Indonesian and Conflicts and Battlefields

4) Subjects you like?
-IT, Maths, Conflicts and Battlefields.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
-Literature and Indonesian

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
-My school recently brought in to wear complusary hats, school hats that is. Quite gay, it is okay for primary/elementary school students, but it is just stupid for us.

7) Any plans for the future?
-Yeah, I am going to finish school and go to university and get a job :wave:

Randomness

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)
-The Peon, obviously.

[Jay Umbreon]

1.) What country do you live in?
England

2.) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
College - 2nd year.

3.) What subjects are you taking?
Psychology and I.T.

4.) Subjects you like?
Psychology/Criminology

5.) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
I.T.

6.) Stupid quirks in your education system?
Key Skills; a program which forces students to do lower insulting maths and english work.

7.) Any plans for the future?
In a few months, go onto university to study criminology and sociology. after 3/4 years, go join the police in the intelligence sector.

8.) wtf? -_-;

~Jay

[Ash_300]

1. I am from Australia.

2. I am in my final year of highschool which seeming unlike many other countries, university entry is not guaranteed by passing an easy aptitude test. You get ranked according to the subjects you do and how well you do in them. So I have to work hard.

3. I am doing Units 3/4 VCE subjects; English, Chemistry, Physics, Maths Methods and Specialist Maths.

4. I prefer the maths subjects but I have been able force myself to enjoy all subjects as all of them count towards my final score.

5. I used to 'despise' english but it is very important in the ranking process so again, I have forced myself to work hard in it and now I enjoy taking it.

6. I can't really think of any.

7. Plans can change. It depends on what my TER score is when I get it.

8. I choose not to answer this one as I do not understand the point of it.

[Toxicity]

1) What country do you live in?
2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
3) What subjects are you taking?
4) Subjects you like?
5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
7) Any plans for the future?

~*~

1. United States(Indiana to be exact)
2. 9th grade/Freshman in High School
3. Math honors, Earth Science honors(was chemistry), English honors, Art, History(would be honors, my school doesn't supply an honors class for that subject), Music(more specifically band...oO), and P.E.('cause it's required u.u)
4. Earth Science honors, History(though I'm boreded out because it's easy), Art, and Music.
5. Math honors(teacher is insane), P.E.(because I'm not physical), and English(the teacher hates me)
6. Not sure of any...but I don't undestand why my English teacher is a pain over me because I don't act like the other students.
7. Get outta the state and make it out of high school...and try getting a scholarship to a college and make it as a novelist and/or national news anchor.


Randomness
8. Uhh....Peon? oO

[The Rusted One]

1) What country do you live in?
New Zealand.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
Second year of university.

3) What subjects are you taking?
Classics, Biology, and a few others that can cross-credit into the relevant degrees.

4) Subjects you like?
Classics.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
Statistics.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
Um...well, it's more of a screw-up - we have to pay back student loans of over $40,000 (which no student ever, ever has), while those who decide to enforce the student loan scheme itself had a free education.

7) Any plans for the future?
Four more years of uni, at least, and then whatever comes next.

8) What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)

Depends entirely (given that what you have told us is correct) on whether the Peon originates in the town that the Town Hall appears in. If it's a refugee, or an abductee, then the Peon. Otherwise the Town Hall.

[mistysakura]

1) What country do you live in?
Australia.

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?
Year 10.

3) What subjects are you taking?
The usual: English, History, Geography, Science, Religious Ed, Phys Ed, VCE Maths Methods 1/2 (which is basically year 11 maths), Japanese, Intro to Literature, Science and Technology.

4) Subjects you like?
Intro to Literature, S&T, Japanese. Basically all my electives.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?
RE, PE. The first one's just stupid and the second I suck at.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?
In VCE, people who take English as a Second Language get extra compensation, while the Literature people get points deducted. Puhlease, isn't it already enough compensation that the subject ESL exists in the first place?

7) Any plans for the future?
Three more years, then uni, then...

8) What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)
???

[Deus Mortuorum]

1. U.S.A.
2. 10th grade...a sophomore in high school *poses*
3. Physics 2, Photography 1, Weight Training 1, Global 4, Math 6, Latin 2, English 4, Spanish 6
4. Physics, Photography, Weight Training
5. Latin 2 (I hate the teacher), English 4 (also the teacher)
6. It's the New York City Education System. Enough said. And our last day of school is June 28th.
7. Finish high school, experiment a bit in EMS then maybe become a lab technician for a pharmaceutical company. Word is they pay quite generously...
8. What is this, Starcraft?

[Aipom Of Doom]

1) USA :O
2) 10th grade
3) Spanish4, Introductory Analysis (Precalculus thing ;o), World Cultures, English.
4) Math and science. Which is why next year first semester I'm hoping to take math/science stuff for three out of the four classes :O
5) English and History can be really hard and wtfish =/.
6) They make Info Tech the easiest class ever, but they make it impossible to test out of unless you know all of the pointless details of powerpoint and excel that I didn't know because I don't use them regularly =/
7) Err... college... graduate school... stuff like that... Ph.Ds maybe :o.
8) the peons >=o. They will gather together and attack you now :O.

[Wolfsong]

1) What country do you live in?

United States of America

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?

I'm classified as a senior in college. Not too keen on telling how many years its been, but i have 100+ credit hours to my name ^^;;

3) What subjects are you taking?

Currently: intro to animal science and lab, intro to social work, swiming, economics, and intro to nutrition

4) Subjects you like?

Swimming because its fun, and Intro to animal science and nutrition

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?

Economics

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?

the fact that some people i know never had to do any student teaching because of ties with the board fo education

7) Any plans for the future?

Hopefully graduate sometime in the near future, and get a job

Randomness

What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)

Dunno *I guess peons. Let's see a reason.. Maybe cause peons have to produce the buildings

[Linux]

1) What country do you live in?

Australia

2) What grade/year of post-secondary are you in?

Year 8, secondary. Yap..

3) What subjects are you taking?

Ugh.... English, Maths, History/Geography, Graphic Communication, Information Technology, French, PE, Sport (Volleyball). Can't remember the other few.

4) Subjects you like?

I like maths because the work is easy and I always get it done before everyone else :) The Year 8 work is too easy, give me precalc :P PE is okay, I don't like the practical stuff where you have to weigh yourself and stuff which is like a requirement every week ~_~ Sport would be okay but some of them I'm forced to do just suck so much.

5) Subjects you despise but are taking anyway because you have to?

Graphic Communication. I have the worst teacher ever for it --; she is one huge *****. I'd swap her anyday. The others I'm fine with, I don't really like History/Geography either. I just find it boring.

6) Stupid quirks in your education system?

The kids are wankers.

7) Any plans for the future?

To pass high school :rolleyes: If that's not what we're talking about, I don't know.

8) What came first, the Town Hall or the Peon? (due to popular demand, I'll define what these are: a 'town hall' is the building that produces your worker units (peons) in real-time strategy games. 'Peons' are the worker units that produce buildings, including the town hall.)

Hmm someone needs homework help don't they ;) I wouldn't know. Others seemed to have answered it better than I could