----------------------------------- saltpro15 Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:31 pm Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Alright, I'm having a discussion with zero-impact, and though I know this will probably be biased since most of you are CS students, I'm NOT putting CS on here for a reason. ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:33 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- just realized I forgot the Arts :(, well I can't change it now ----------------------------------- zero-impact Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:34 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Math for me. ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:36 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- math for me as well zero-impact ----------------------------------- BigBear Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:37 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Science ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:24 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- looks like a tie for science and math so far, with english in second, no takers for history? ----------------------------------- Insectoid Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:31 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I like science. I love history and geography, but I like science better. ----------------------------------- abogaida Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:53 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I always liked science, Physics and chemistry. ----------------------------------- nike52 Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:56 pm Re: Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- aw come on, gym is more fun ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:18 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I added Arts to the poll. And my vote for the subject I'm interested in the most right now is Secondary Language -- Japanese. ;) ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:21 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- thanks Tony, and good choice, I'm going to Japan next summer actually, any good tutorial's you could recommend? ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:30 pm Re: Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I'm going to Japan some time this summer. For learning, I'm using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_(software) The Rosetta Stone software utilizes a combination of images, text, and sound, with difficulty levels increasing as the student progresses, in order to teach various vocabulary terms and grammatical functions intuitively, without drills or translation. They call this the "Dynamic Immersion method". The goal is to teach languages the way first languages are learned. Someone also suggested buying UW's (or I suppose any University's) Japanese 101 course-notes and a work-book, and go through the material on your own. ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:04 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- cool, have a good time and thanks ----------------------------------- andrew. Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:25 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Science. Physics and chem are always fun. ----------------------------------- Dan Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:10 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I added Trade Skills (like shop type clases) as it seems only fair and is common calss in high schools. Tho personally i went for science but it was almost tided with math for me. (Of cores computer Science would have been first if it was on the list ;)) ----------------------------------- btiffin Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:28 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- If I ever go back to school (not going to happen), I'll like to try and get into a Quantum or Astro Physics program and a chance to play with UofW's new particle accelerator. Cheers ----------------------------------- A.J Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:40 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Its math all the way ----------------------------------- jernst Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:05 pm Re: RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- If I ever go back to school (not going to happen), I'll like to try and get into a Quantum or Astro Physics program and a chance to play with UofW's new particle accelerator. Cheers +1 that stuff sounds interesting to me as well. I just attended a physics talk at guelph by Dr. Deb Fischer on finding planets similar to Earth that was really good. A nice change from the comp sci lectures all the time. ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:34 pm Re: RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- a chance to play with UofW's new particle accelerator. Which UofW are you referring to? ----------------------------------- btiffin Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:38 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Waterloo ... didn't I hear that news some 4 or 5 years ago? When they announced the quantum physics branch. Am I misinformed? Could be. I haven't been on campus since oh, 1982ish. But I was sure I heard news of the quantum lab getting an accelerator, in the 3 or 4 mega volt range? Cheers ----------------------------------- SNIPERDUDE Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:04 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Hmm, I seem to be the only one who put the arts (I made my avatar in case you were wondering). I also enjoy shop and English, but I really couldn't decide. Compsci is mainly a hobby for me, I'm not even going into that industry or anything close. Even though it is just a hobby, I seem to have come far in my programming skills - much farther than I even expected. ----------------------------------- bbi5291 Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:51 pm Re: Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- hmm. I wasn't sure whether to pick math or science. I spent virtually ALL of my free time doing math when I was younger (that is, before I discovered CS) but I've fallen far behind the theoretical curve obtained by extrapolating my mathematical abilities from younger ages... I enjoy math the most but my greatest time involvement went into chemistry (seems that most of the smart high-schoolers in this country don't consider chem worthy... or it's just boring) ----------------------------------- DanielG Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:54 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I would still choose math even if CS was on the list. However, that is because CS class (at least at our school) is boring. We don't learn anything at all and the teacher still manages to give us lots of work. ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:02 am RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- In high school, I enjoyed most of my courses equally (with a few exceptions). That said, I chose English since I believed it would have the least votes, guess I was slightly wrong. :) ----------------------------------- chili5 Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:52 am RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Kind of hard to make a choice. I enjoy math, computer science, and physics. I'm best in math and computer science so those probably my favorites. :) Another class that I really enjoyed was information technology. :D ----------------------------------- ecookman Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:11 am Re: RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I added Arts to the poll. And my vote for the subject I'm interested in the most right now is Secondary Language -- Japanese. ;) i've always wanted to learn that...watching anime kinda helps XD you pick up on one word ideas X3 hai=yes iterashai=have a safe trip okaraniisai= welcome home domo=a form of very or much lol i am not sure on the spellings but they sound like that --------------------------------------------------------edit--------------------------------------------- spelling error ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:58 pm Re: Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- it used to be physics. but recently i've realized how amazing biology is. ----------------------------------- Dusk Eagle Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:56 pm Re: Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I took Japanese in night school for ten weeks. I wanted to take a second, more advanced session but not enough people signed up :cry:. BTW ecookman, itterasshai is used whenever someone is going out somewhere (it could even be to the grocery store) - not sure if by 'trip' you meant what I just said or you were referring to a more vacation-like trip. Also, domo is a word with far too many meanings to be accurately defined without some sort of context (kind of like the word "set" in English). Domo probably can mean that, but it can mean a large number of other things as well (our sensei didn't give us any specific definitions, but did tell us that much). Back to the main discussion, I'd have to say my favorite subject outside of CS has been and continues to be math class. Doesn't balancing an equation bring such a joy to your heart? ----------------------------------- Tallguy Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:56 am RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- i really love my wood class, i'm the best for all my years in high school so far, i would do it as a job but i'm highly allergic to saw dust :( which reallys sucks so i'm going into IT:) ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:11 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- alright zero-impact, looks like I win, NOBODY, I repeat, NOBODY, likes geography ----------------------------------- Analysis Mode Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:59 pm Re: Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- biology, compsci, math, physics, chemistry, geography/history in descending order, of course of favouriteness (and skill) And i also like trivia (i'm on my school's reach team) ----------------------------------- chili5 Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:07 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Wrong! I loved geography. Although the numbers in geography are dropping at my school. :( ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:10 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- chili, the social experiment has ended, i still win :p. but seriously, geography was your favourite subject ? :S ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:26 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I find geography very interesting, just not the way it's taught in high school. At least in my experience. ----------------------------------- DanielG Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:49 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- many subjects which are interesting are turned lame by high school. Just look at my computer science class... ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:53 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- or my math class... I slept through half the classes and didn't take down a note all year, final mark of 85... -.- ----------------------------------- SNIPERDUDE Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:17 pm RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- Or even my Art, Photography, Gym & Fitness, Business... you know what, my school made ALL subjects no matter how much I liked them suck. Good riddance. ----------------------------------- ecookman Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:06 am Re: Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- I took Japanese in night school for ten weeks. I wanted to take a second, more advanced session but not enough people signed up :cry:. BTW ecookman, itterasshai is used whenever someone is going out somewhere (it could even be to the grocery store) - not sure if by 'trip' you meant what I just said or you were referring to a more vacation-like trip. Also, domo is a word with far too many meanings to be accurately defined without some sort of context (kind of like the word "set" in English). Domo probably can mean that, but it can mean a large number of other things as well (our sensei didn't give us any specific definitions, but did tell us that much). Back to the main discussion, I'd have to say my favorite subject outside of CS has been and continues to be math class. Doesn't balancing an equation bring such a joy to your heart? lol yeah oops ----------------------------------- chili5 Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:29 pm Re: RE:Your favourite Subject ----------------------------------- chili, the social experiment has ended, i still win :p. but seriously, geography was your favourite subject ? :S It was fun but not my favorite. Maybe third favorite. I liked the hands-on fun things we did. :D