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Post by raptor-chick on Jan 25, 2006 1:24:12 GMT -5
Yikes! I worked with sulfuric acid in grade 11 too. The teacher told us that once he dumped it on his pants and they started to dissolve on him. He dripped some on paper towel and we got to see it eat through. We didn't get to work with very dangerous things and make explosions and stuff. I don't think the teachers trusted us. I was good at the labs and part of the organic chemistry, but I failed. The first class I ever failed; it was horrible. I only joined because I thought it would be many spiffy experiments. We made pure silver once from sliver nitrate. I kept the stuff we made in our lab. The teacher told us that he learned how to make LSD in university. He also burned cool stuff for us.
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Post by InsanexBandit on Jan 25, 2006 17:13:21 GMT -5
Ooooh, neat =D. I remember one time My friend and are were messing around with...fiber glass I think. The strands of stuff that when it heats up, it turns into glass. Anyways, we were supposed to do some experiment, bu instead we kept grabbing it and we got a bunch stuck in our hands. Hurt a lot D=.
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Post by Mullet Fish on Jan 26, 2006 19:39:18 GMT -5
Yikes! I worked with sulfuric acid in grade 11 too. The teacher told us that once he dumped it on his pants and they started to dissolve on him. He dripped some on paper towel and we got to see it eat through. We didn't get to work with very dangerous things and make explosions and stuff. I don't think the teachers trusted us. I was good at the labs and part of the organic chemistry, but I failed. The first class I ever failed; it was horrible. I only joined because I thought it would be many spiffy experiments. We made pure silver once from sliver nitrate. I kept the stuff we made in our lab. The teacher told us that he learned how to make LSD in university. He also burned cool stuff for us. Oh, we got to do the silver thing. It wasn't that interesting. You just take a coil of copper, I think it was, and keep it in the silver nitrate for a few days and eventually the silver collects on the coil. I think there was a bit more to it than that though. Chemistry is pretty cool. Next year I'm dropping that physics and biology crap. I hate them both. Then I'll be taking the university level math, english, and some other stuff. We have this awesome course that starts next year that's all about composing and arranging music for movies. It sounds kinda neat. I love movies, and I love music, so it seems ideal. I just can't see what use it might have... Still, it would be fun. Ah! Freedom tastes oh so sweet. I finished exams yesterday, which means I have a 7 day weekend. Next semester starts on Feb. 1, and it's only a half day. 7ish days of freedom! My exams went fairly well. On the English exam we had to answer some questions on The Telltale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe. luckily for me, I studied that one, as well as The Cask of Amontillado in grade 7, and I'd done a biography on Poe in grade 6. That part was easy. Then I needed to write a five-paragraphy essay one some topic longer than this post, using examples from Lord of the Flies or Romeo and Juliet. I read the former for fun in October of 2004 after I read Hearts in Atlantis, by Stephen King, so the choice was obvious. Science was a bit tricky, mainly in the physics section. I hate motion so much. Then math was annoying. I was trucking along at a steady pace. Through linear systems, through trigonometry, through analytic geometry. Then came quadratics, which I hit like a wall. I think I answer two out of five quadratics questions. All that factoring and partial factoring and completing the square and converting it from standard form to factored form to vertex form and back again nearly drove me up the wall.
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Post by Ravenmaster on Jan 26, 2006 23:29:01 GMT -5
Gawwwwd!
I'm never going to get into Hartvard (sp? XD) !!!! I go to such an easy school. I don't want school to be easy (well thats a lie) but I think after these observations about how much Brad knows about chemistry and he's in highschool <.<...I think my friend isn't going to Hartvard to study law... ;D I was ahead of everyone in my class last quarter so I get official bragging rights.
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Post by Trey Keies on Feb 25, 2006 21:40:32 GMT -5
It seems that this topic has drifted away from the first page, but oh well. Personally, I'm a Jehovah's Witness and /I/ don't even like Jehovah's Witnesses...for the most part. I mean, a lot of them are REALLY nice people who catch a lot of nuts going door-to-door, but that's their choice. I know I won't do it...but there's one religion I kinda have a resentment for;
Catholics. Not all Catholics, mind you, but a good many of them who ridicule Witnesses and Protestants in general. A lot of people wonder why Kingdom Halls don't have windows, so I'll tell you;
A few years ago, several Kingdom Halls were BOMBED in Australia by Catholics...women, children, men and elderly people were killed. Molotovs were thrown through the windows and the doors were blocked off...it makes me sad that things like that happen. A lot of people don't seem to realize that the Jews aren't the only ones ridiculed; Hitler killed Witnesses too.
Anyway, I just needed to get that out of my system. Oh, by the way Raptor, I have no problem with you being Wiccan or anyone here being Catholic and whatnot. I really don't care what religion you are as long as you're a cool person.
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Post by InsanexBandit on Feb 27, 2006 19:46:35 GMT -5
We do that way too much. The off-topic stuff. Didn't Hitler try to get rid of anyone who wasn't...whatchamacallit...Arein or something. Blond hair, blue eyes, white skin something like that.
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Post by Mullet Fish on Feb 27, 2006 21:34:17 GMT -5
I picked my courses, more or less.
Math (University) English (University) Chemistry (University) Core French (University) World History to the Sixteenth Century Marketing: Goods, Services, Events Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology Understanding Canadian Law
Yeah, no non-academic subjects. It is going to be a brutal year.
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