What do you guys find very boring?

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What do you guys find very boring?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Cthulthu, Oct 16, 2010.

  1. Cthulthu

    Cthulthu New Member

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    What do you guys find very boring? and why? I find English to be a very boring subject (not the language). Because I'm terrible at it.
     
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    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    I find english to be boring, because the rest of my class is horrible at it and I am pretty good at it, so the teacher will always give standard vocabulary and grammar while I sit around being bored.
     
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  3. The Arizonan

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    I found Calculus to be a boring subject because even when I understood it, I don't feel a connection to it.
     
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    I find math boring because they try to teach me stuff i would never need.

    What sort of normal job do you need to know what equals pie?
     
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    IMO math should be exciting, but it typically isn't taught that way. The problem is they don't unite teaching it with applying it in the areas students are interested in. Instead you get boring hypotheticals or worse, pure problems with no application at all.

    The times I found math most interesting were the following:

    1) Physics, which was basically half a semester at our highschool. What made it interesting? We were applying math to actual and often interesting problems, and did real world applications in addition to abstract pen/paper problems.

    2) Computer programming. See above. Making math do something beats just scratching out problems.

    3) Statistics, were I used in in conjunction with a senior project on sentencing disparities amongst minorities.

    I think if more effort was made to keep math paired with actual projects and applications of it then students would like it more. Like the Arizonan complained, not feeling a connection to what your learning makes it a lot more difficult to get interested in it.
     
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    Aurora The Defiant

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    this
     
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    Trying to sleep.

    Hate it.
     
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    ^ this!
     
  9. The Arizonan

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    Learning grammar is kind of boring to me, but at least it's psychologically satisfying because you're learning something you'll use later on, but that's just me I guess.

    While first semester calculus is relatively easy, the second semester is f***ing hard. I never took third semester.
     
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    Maths is utterly beautiful. Because pi is a fundamental constant of nature it is extensively used in engineering, physics, surveying, mechantronics, statistics, biomathematics, epidermiology, biology (although that's phi), geochemistry, geology and so on. Mathematicians think that statistics isn't really maths (and they're right), now statistical mechanics on the other hand..... is freaking awesome. Also mmmmmmm Calculus. Here's a joke that no one will get:
    A group of functions are having a party but e^x is alone and crying when asked why it's crying e^x replies "I can't integrate with anyone but myself".
    Comeon comeon comeon. Someone tell me the punch line.
     
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    He said pie, no pi.

    And of course you don't need to know what equals pie. In fact, that is a trick question. Pie has no equal.
     
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    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    I actually got that one, chtultu.



    Needless to say, I am not proud of that fact, though I am proud of the dutch education system.
     
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    I find some forum posts to be very boring on alot of forums. :)
     
  14. Cthulthu

    Cthulthu New Member

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    Right you are.
     
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    I find this thread boring because people are talking about school. xD

    I found english class boring except for a few rare occassions because I love to write and I've always been good at it but the classes always expected such BS things and made you write about the most retarded things possible that I just sorta started sleeping through every class. If I ever have to write an essay with the topic being.. "The school grounds have began to be cluttered with litter, write a 5 paragraph essay about how you can change that and why you should." again I'll shoot myself after hunting down the creator of said topic and curb stomping them into oblivion after making them write said essay for me so I get a perfect score. o.o

    Though I sort of found such assignments fun because I used to do the complete wrong ideas on them. I once wrote a paper about how I did not care and would simply keep littering and etc and so forth. Was ammusing.
     
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    Hey I hate the environment too.
     
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    But what if the increased litter increased awareness in the school about the litter problem so more people picked it up. Moderate amount of litter = no action A ton = action :D.

    But yeah...i prefer essays which encourage arguement over talking about the themes and techniques used in Othello...
     
  18. Takaim

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    I like writing short stories. Remember one time in 8th grade I wrote this epic story for english and my teacher was all like... Wtf? This is amazing, but you didn't follow any of the rules and failed me. xD Had to include the rinkidink vocab words into it....just couldn't find a way to include them into a story about demons and killing and crazy **** going on. xD
     
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    Interacting with others, even online.

    Some people just can't understand why I don't even bother to ditto back gl hf gg.

    They prolly never will. This post is of course an anomaly. :p