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Post by Nightwish on Oct 28, 2007 21:58:58 GMT
I went home recently and was helping my brother with his schoolwork and it just reminded me of some of the terrors i went through whilst writing essays and things like that for all the different subjects. (It's alright at university when you write about something you actually like studying.)
Did any of you enjoy school that much? It was alright for me but distinctly hellish at times. What do you think?
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Post by Stacey W. on Oct 28, 2007 23:36:52 GMT
I barely liked school. It was just several years of struggling, so all I wanted to do was just get through it. I found English literature so hard, I could remember crying over an 8 page long essay I had to write about Romeo and Juliet . Thankfully I didn't have to take the final Religious Education exam.
I did like a few subjects though, like Music, Geography, French and Science. I wish I could have taken both art and music, at my school you could have art and drama [my absolute least favourite subject, because no-one would have me in their groups] or music or drama, but not art and music.
Oh, and I got teased an awful lot for a load of reasons - liking Sonic and Rayman, having a good singing voice, 'not walking properly', having frizzy hair, being short, it goes on. I've even been made to hand over pound coins and had a fist fight with one girl.
College was no better. I did an art and design course, and they way it was organised was just dreadful. We had to share computer and graphics rooms with other classes that had KISS 100 [radio station that plays RnB] blaring out, and even then I was still teased. Yet, I'm thinking about taking something in a college again because I feel the need to be qualified to be an illustrator, but I don't know.
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Post by serenity on Oct 29, 2007 9:53:00 GMT
When I was in the elementary school, the teacher (a terrible nun!) used to make us write an Italian essay in class EVERY Monday morning: maybe this nightmare was the reason because I hate Monday so much; however, I grew with the thought that I was not good at writing compositions, especially about Italian literature. Teachers said that my essays were too impersonal, and I did not know how to correct them. The situation changed at the high school; one day I tried to write an essay (it was about the scientific revolution of 1600) in a cynical and humoristic way, and I did it: I got a great mark, and from that day on essays were no more a problem. Anyway, I have always been good at school, never got bad marks in maths or Latin, which was my favourite subject together with history. Now I am trying to finish university, but it is not easy to do working in a office 8 hours per day…hope to be able to reach the end, one day! Then I have also attended the Conservatory of music in Venice, and graduated in piano 3 years ago: this school is long (it lasts 10 years, you begin as a child and finish as an adult!), but I really enjoyed it.
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Post by Gaston on Oct 30, 2007 14:57:55 GMT
'College was no better. I did an art and design course, and they way it was organised was just dreadful. We had to share computer and graphics rooms with other classes that had KISS 100 [radio station that plays RnB] blaring out, and even then I was still teased.'
Stacey, that sounds VERY familiar!
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