<p>Haha, I'm not rich. My dad flies all the time for work, so we go for free... it will be a struggle to afford UVA if I get in. But I am sure you will find plenty of gorgeous rich guys at UVA who will take you places you want to go. Just save one of those guys for me ;)</p>
<p>haha yes, my dad is in the hotel business so we get to do tons of traveling (just got back from south america. so cool!!!). UVA will be a struggle to afford also for my family(assuming i get in...), but nowhere near as bad as some of the private schools out there. </p>
<p>littleol'me- save me a rich UVA guy too. I need a nice rich husband to take me to cool places ;)</p>
<p>irish- i've lived in TX all of my life. i really like it here :)</p>
<p>Ohhhh where in South America? I'm kind of scared to go there. A family that my family knows went a few years ago and their son got incredibly sick from the water or something and then the hospital wouldn't take their international insurance or something... he almost died. Anyway I still want to go someday... I need to hit up Europe and Asia first... Prague and Moscow and Greece and Madrid and Japan and the list goes on and on. Yep, I definitely plan on studying abroad one year!</p>
<p>Anyway I need to get to bed. It's past midnight here and I have a big day tomorrow (not really... but some friends and I are going somewhere to do something)... we have no idea what though. We are incredibly indecisive.</p>
<p>Oh how lucky to have parents in the right business! My dad owns a small business and my mom's a teacher...so that should be explaining some lack of travel. I too, plan to spend a year studying abroad, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to. Where are you considering studying, irish?</p>
<p>ITC- I'll be around dallas if I go, any spots you know I should beg my friend to take me?</p>
<p>irish- Your plans sound like the plans I have with my friends. My parents(and theirs) gave up asking where we'd be long ago, and now just ask us to call when we get there(at least, if we leave town).</p>
<p>Actually, I was planning on setting up a nice little group of wealthy, good looking boys all for myself. But, I guess I could spare a few...maybe. ;)</p>
<p>hey...save one for me too...and make him have a sense of humor</p>
<p>Women are all the same, lol</p>
<p>In that, do you mean superficial gold-diggers? Yeah, you're probably right on that one. ;) Lol, just kidding. We're really not as bad as you think.</p>
<p>Haha, there are so many places that I'm considering studying, but it really depends on what I decide to do. When I wanted to do law and politics, I was really interested in studying in the UK and compare their parliamentary system to ours... I was on a government team this year and that was one of our questions and it really appealed to me. But now I decided against that kind of career and I'm at a loss. All I know is... I hate math. I loved it when I was a kid, but now it's insane. I guess I haven't had good teachers since about seventh grade. The one I have now is a good teacher (insanely smart)... but he's got a weird sense of humor (if you want more details I can give them, but seriously... I could go on forever...) He plays this "magical trevor" animated cartoon thing that's online during our tests and it drives me CRAZY. Go here to watch it: <a href="http://gprime.net/flash.php/magicaltrevor%5B/url%5D">http://gprime.net/flash.php/magicaltrevor</a> anyway, try doing Calculus with that playing in your mind!</p>
<p>Oh, wow, that must be incredibly disturbing!</p>
<p>Haha, you can only imagine!</p>
<p>That was really horrible. Animation was some sweet action, but that song....</p>
<p>irish-What made you change your mind about law/politics? what other sort of weird stuff does your math teacher do?(details, please :) ) </p>
<p>nagah- No boys will be admitted without good senses of humor; it shall be mandatory. It will be a very prestegious group; all will beg to be chosen. A boy shall be saved for you. :) </p>
<p>jmione- you shall not be admitted. You may request a second review, but you should probably refrain from generalizing women in your rebuttal. We do not like our intentions to be questioned. ;)</p>
<p>Wellllll... I was on government team and my teacher was a state representative. She was amazing (that's what really got me interested.) Every year she takes our team to nationals to represent Alabama and last year they got fourth. So we were all really excited to be part of the team. We studied and practiced (the competition consists of dividing your team into six panals, each panal focusing on a particular part of government. I was on two units, one which focused on the future, and the other that was mainly Supreme Court cases. Anyway, each unit must prepare three opening statements based on three questions provided. You don't know which question you'll get so you must be prepared for all of them. After your 4 minute opening statement, you are asked 6 minutes worth of follow up questions.) Anyway, so we won congressionals easily, and advanced to state. We were almost flawless (two of our units received almost perfect scores.) But at the awards ceremony they called us out as second (meaning we couldn't go to nationals). We were all upset but assumed the other team must have been amazing... so they deserved to go. Anyway, turns out that the state coordinator later admitted to our teacher that we were obviously the better team and the other team had no chance at nationals... so she had the audacity to ask her to coach their team to help prepare them. (She said no, obviously). Anyway we found a possible discrepancy in one of our scores, but the state coordinator wouldn't do anything about it. She wouldn't let us see the judges' score sheets or anything... So anyway... it made me really upset that the whole organization was to teach us about our rights and due process... and here she was denying us just that. So I said "to hell with it all... I don't want to be involved with this."</p>
<p>Okay, so maybe it's a crappy reason... but now without doing government team, I've lost interest in watching the news every day and debating people and all of that... Sooooooooo yeah...</p>
<p>Let's see... math teacher. Last year in precal he had a duncecap that he made people wear whenever they asked a stupid question... it was a cardboard box. This year I got beat with a long PVC pipe (it really hurt too!) And his door locks automatically when it closes, so you can't move the handle from the outside... so if you're late (even for a legit reason)... then he plays this "game" with you. He flips the handle so you have a brief second to open the door... but you still can't get it. And it goes on and on for about five minutes until he'll finally ask the class if he should let them in. Let's see... he does this staring thing where he'll stare at any particular person for a really long time... without blinking for about five minutes (which is really a long time to not blink if you think about it)... anyway it's really creepy. Bah, then when he wears his squeeky shoes, he purposely makes them squeek while he's teaching. Sometimes he teaches in a Scottish accent. If people do something to make him mad... he pulls out lines from Napoleon Dynamite (Flippin' idiots! or You guys are retarded!) He has this really massive Expo marker that he sniffs in the middle of class. Anyway... he makes the class semi-fun, somewhat humiliating. But he's really a good teacher... better than the other math teachers I've had (like the one who tried to dye her hair blonde but came in with green and complained about her personal life... or the guy who did a hula dance to demonstrate the numberline- he also danced to the lunch menu... or the teacher who ALWAYS smiled... even if you just failed a test. Yeah, I'd take my Cal teacher over them anyday.</p>
<p>thanks littleol'me</p>
<p>haha no problem, nagah. </p>
<p>irishred, your math teacher sounds...as odd as you describe? They still allow corporal punishment in Alabama? Did not know that...what did you do?</p>
<p>How was everyone's Easter/Easter weekend(even if you don't observe the holiday)?</p>
<p>Well yes, corporal punishment is still allowed... but it had nothing to do with that. He just felt like doing that.</p>
<p>Easter was good. I had to dress up as the Easter Bunny for my neighbor. It was extraordinarily hot and I felt more stupid than I ever felt in my life... almost.</p>
<p>he can do that?</p>
<p>that was very nice of you, how old is your neighbor?</p>
<p>Um, he doesn't care. He's tenured, but even if they fired him, he'd just go back to doing nuclear physics. </p>
<p>My neighbors are 4,3, and 2... imagine trying to babysit them! Anyway, there were about 15 other kids over there too. Some were terrified of me... kind of sad... but it was fun (or as fun as dressing up as the Easter Bunny can be I suppose)...</p>
<p>haha I love little kids. My GC's kids are 4 and 2 and I love babysitting them, but I don't know that I could babysit a third that young as well. Props to you. The 4 year old is TERRIFIED of the easter bunny. she wouldn't even go down to the bottom floor of the mall where the easter bunny was. </p>
<p>Nuclear physicist, and he chooses to annoy poor math students, instead? One of my school's math teachers is a former CIA agent; weird guy. Isn't it odd how people who do/have done such...unique...things turn to education?</p>
<p>i always thought that once i felt accomplished enough in whatever profession (research, maybe? i'm so undecided it's not even funny) that it would be fun to teach high school. you know, torture kids like us</p>
<p>oddly enough, me, too. But why when we so desire to LEAVE school, would we want to come back and put up with snot-nosed(and, quite frequently it seems, dumb) kids? Other than the excellent work schedule, vacations, and relative stability once tenure is established?</p>
<p>i'd have to do honors or ap littleol'me... you're right about high schoolers being dumb. if i hate them all now, just imagine after 30 years!
but still, for some odd reason i think it would be fun</p>