Random Thoughts on School

For my first real post, I’ll share some random thoughts on the topic of school subjects. Maybe this will help you get to know me better.

I like algebra. Some people think I’m totally weird for that, but in a hectic life like mine, there are few things that are as predictable as math. Yes, God is my only constant, but I can’t understand Him (He wouldn’t be God if I could). Right now, I’m working in Algebra II and it’s lots of fun. The course I’m using is well... let’s say systematic (if not a little slow) so I haven’t gotten to hyperbolas yet, but I think they’ll be lots of fun.

I like chemistry. Some of you are choking right now. But really, I think it’s incredibly interesting. I love the way everything just fits together, especially the units. Hertz is really cool. I mean, what cooler measurement could there be besides 1/second! Hmm... Come to think of it Joules/grams*Celsius (the unit for specific heat) comes pretty close. If there’s a downside to it would be the memorization (particularly the ions). I not big on that, but I’m having fun with it; I’ve written the names of the 14 most common polyatomic ions on the front of index cards and the chemical formula on the back. I took all of these cards and taped them on furniture around the house, for example, the microwave is Ammonium (NH4 +), I’ve got a poster that’s Dichromate (Cr2O7 2-), and the book shelves are Phosphate (PO4 3-).

I don’t like grammar. I mean, I speak okay already. I don’t need to know that “have run” is past perfect tense. I simply cannot see any practical outworking of this subject. Yeah... Not much else to say about that.

I like literature (mostly). I like reading most books and learning about the background behind them (is that redundant?). Of course, there are some books like The Tale of Two Cities that put me to sleep. I think that was mostly because I couldn’t keep track of the characters. The cliff notes made much more sense.

I don’t know how I feel about speech. I’m not big on practicing the same memorized persuasive speech over and over and over and over... and over. However, the tournaments are lots of fun (well, until it’s my turn, but that’s not so bad any more). I really enjoy talking with friends from my club between rounds. Watching debate is fun, too. Oh, by the way, last tournament, a debate team from our club won first place for novice debate. The two on that team are probably the two people I hang out with most at speech, so I flipped when they won.

Well, those are the biggest school subjects I have right now. Hmm... My stomach says I should grab some food, now that I’ve spent half of my lunch break writing this post.

I’ll be writing...