When do we use this stuff?!

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 7:40pm

Ok, this will probably be banished to the student board (which should really be called no-mans land) but when am I going to use the stuff I'm learning in school!? The Kreb cycle? Multiplying matrices? Graphing in 3D? I seriously can't stand going to school at the crack of dawn every morning to learn stuff I will probably not even remember by the start of next year!

[Overthemoon6]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 7:42pm

Haha yea. That's the way I feel, too.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 7:53pm

oh dork........who do you think YOUR kids will come to for help when you have kids that are in school? hehehe, that's why you need to know it!

[soapguy17]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 7:57pm

I feel the same way too. I'm good at that kinda stuff so I'm not as vocal about it :p.

[Marlene]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:00pm

Never. Then you sort of forget about it, and then they put you in some advanced class, and you sit there a little dazzed and hopefully it will all comes back.

I say atleast 60% of what I learn in school will not be useful to me in real life, unless I'm on jeoprody or something... Updated On: 2/6/06 at 08:00 PM

[zepka102]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:03pm

you also need to know it to pass your exams, so learn now, forget later

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:14pm

As a student I took several years of French. I didn't know why I had to take a foreign language. Little did I know that MANY years later I'd be doing volunteer work in France every summer and now wish I'd gone even further in my studies of the language.

My basic French vocabulary came in very handy when I visited Disneyland Paris last summer!

You never know when your education will come in handy.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:17pm

..college applications

[Marlene]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:19pm

Can someone please resurrect the Roman Empire so I can put my Latin to good use, asides from etymology...

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:26pm

Yep. I forget everything by the next year anyways.

Why do I need to know the distributive property?
Or how Texas received it's independence?

Who cares?

[jasonf]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 8:29pm

That's part of why I teach English. Though the specific rules of grammar and SPECIFIC things I teach might be forgotten, hopefully the majority of the important stuff will stick in some way. You will never use higher level math or science again unless you're in a profession that SPECIFICALLY uses it - like engineer -- or math teacher.

[YessicaB]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:41pm

School stinks. I still laugh about how we were told that highschool are the best years of your life. It's a lie!!!
The one good thing you do learn though is that even though you might not want to do something (like study for that mathtest)you just have to suck it up and do it. No way around it. That's life.

[singdanceact]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:42pm

Amen, sista.
I HATE school. Like.. it brings me to tears.

[DG]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:44pm

The process of learning isn't necessarily about the specific information, but more in training you where to find what you need to know and how to use the information once you get it.

And THOSE skills are what can determine the quality - and maybe even the quantity - of the rest of your life.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:45pm

I hate school very much, but I still think about where I would be without it, what I would be doing with my life..

The answer to both is nothing.

If there was no school, we simply might not exist, the technology of today would not exist... everything. It boggles the mind.

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:49pm

I can understand a lot of what we learn... I suppose its mostly that stuff that doesn't come easily to me that I don't see the point in.

I mean, I could read required reading forever and see it's benefits but I'm sure someone who hates reading would be able to argue against it.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:49pm

BOGGLES I TELL YA!

boooooooooooooooooooggggggggggggggggggggggggggles!

[DG]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:51pm

Drama (I'll be nice and not call you dork ) - if it doesn't come easy to you, then the greater value is learning how to focus and find a way - how to network, use your resources - MAKE it happen for yourself. Matrices may never appear again in your lifetime, but if you've learned those other things, your life will have more substance and power.

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 9:58pm

Actually math is fairly easy for me. I'm good with a list of rules and stuff. It's science that kills me. I pull a B but god, I hate it. I'm definetly a more literary type. I love english/history/french but anything scientific kinda knocks me for a loop.


Thanks for being nice DG! hehe

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 10:07pm

My class asked my college algebra teacher last year why we needed to learn about logerithsms (sp?), combiunation/permutation, etc...- especially since we have calculators and computers.

His responce was "To help your kids learn it"

Back to "Why does anybody need to learn it- especially if we aren't going into any field of the like"

His responce "All fields of work use it."

Out responce "And why can't calculators or computers be used?"

His responce- "Because they weren't many years ago"

Out responce "yes, but now we have computers and calculators"

His responce "I don't know! Just learn it- you need it to pass college."

Class responce- *sigh*

[Marlene]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 10:13pm

^^haha, my dear math teacher from last term gave up on me, and just resorted to saying "You need to know this to pass my class, Marlene."

[elphatine]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 10:15pm

Jeeeeez, I hate school. As we speak, I'm making a flipbook on the activity of digestive enzymes and such.

A flipbook.

And while we're at it, Geometry is just ridiculous.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 10:16pm

schools just ridiculous. I'm never going to need to know how to graph parabolas and ellipses.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 10:17pm

"I HATE school. Like.. it brings me to tears."

My suggestion is that you quit school and go on welfare.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 10:18pm

better yet, quit school, commit a crime, and become Bubbas, or Large Marges roommate at the state pen

Updated On: 2/6/06 at 10:18 PM