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I should have stayed at home!!
Topic Started: Nov 1 2005, 04:00 AM (201 Views)
***musical princess***
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HOLY CARP!!!
I got into school this morning - pastoral tutor doesn't bother showing so we wait for the length of pastoral then give up and just go.

Get to music - teacher's at the hospital and the other music teacher is at a conference so Mr L is in to supervise the music dep. (baring in mind he is about 85 and retired YEARS!! ago, but he has to be one of the funniest and most interesting people i have ever met! :P ) Anyhoo, he was looking after a year 8 class next door so me and the other 4 people in my class put on some Shubert and spent the whole lesson chatting and chilling out - driving the PE dept. insane as the music rooms are directly above them and we had the music BLARING loud and MR L is so cool (and to be fair - mostly deaf :P ) he didn't care we had it so loud. One of the PE teachers came up and told us to turn it down so Will just looked at her and said 'But it's the Unfinished Symphony - it would be sinful to play it anything BUT load.' :rolleyes: - she left looking rather sheepish and embarrased - clearly not having a clue what the Unfinished Symphony is. :D

Next onto Chemistry and most of the class are out on a Geography field trip which is on today so we were all like - 'there blatenely isn't any point in us being here' but MR R was like - no i can't let you just go, so instead Will went up to the common room and got Monopoly and the 7 of us that were left and Mr R had a huge game that lasted all lesson - but he wouldn't let us play unless it had something remotely Chem related so we re-named all of the streets as elements and if you went to jail you could only get out if you answered a chemistry related question correct :P.

And to think i have AS modular exams just after Christmas! :rolleyes:

I wonder what this afternoon beholds. :D

:sombrero:

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kentcouncil
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***musical princess***
Nov 1 2005, 07:00 AM
And to think i have AS modular exams just after Christmas! :rolleyes:


Yeah, good luck!

If they're not framed in the context of a Monopoly game, you might be in trouble!

:P
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

- P.G. Wodehouse
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***musical princess***
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Well that was the morning - then on came the afternoon.

First lesson after lunch - Physics (:wub: my one TRUE passion in life). And he had finally marked our midterms - top of the class - woohoo!! 7/8 of forces and kinematics and 11/11 on Dynamics. Though i was quite perturbed by the 7. It was a question about a ball fallinf displayed on a velocity/time graph and it was the sub parts to one of the questions was what does the slope represent. I answered - the objects acceleration - but he marked it wrong - he was really nitpicky and said i should have said 'the object's acceleration due to freefall' :rolleyes: It's the same thing when it is being 'released' and not fired in a gravitational field of 9.81ms^-2!! Never mind - Not bad considering the class average was 2/8 and 4/11!!!!!! :D

Then to Further Maths. We were going over the second derivative of stationary points and the penny finally dropped. Yay. :D

And that was about it - a day in the life of a princess.

:D

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***musical princess***
Nov 1 2005, 12:16 PM
Well that was the morning - then on came the afternoon.

First lesson after lunch - Physics (:wub: my one TRUE passion in life). And he had finally marked our midterms - top of the class - woohoo!! 7/8 of forces and kinematics and 11/11 on Dynamics. Though i was quite perturbed by the 7. It was a question about a ball fallinf displayed on a velocity/time graph and it was the sub parts to one of the questions was what does the slope represent. I answered - the objects acceleration - but he marked it wrong - he was really nitpicky and said i should have said 'the object's acceleration due to freefall' :rolleyes: It's the same thing when it is being 'released' and not fired in a gravitational field of 9.81ms^-2!! Never mind - Not bad considering the class average was 2/8 and 4/11!!!!!! :D

Then to Further Maths. We were going over the second derivative of stationary points and the penny finally dropped. Yay. :D

And that was about it - a day in the life of a princess.

:D

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I thought I was your one true passion in life!

Congratulations on your test! And yes, your teacher was being nitpicky! Boo! :angry:
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

- P.G. Wodehouse
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***musical princess***
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Sorry KC - i really do love you but Physics is just in a whole other league. :wub: :D

Meh - he said i would have gotten the marks in an actual exam which is all that matters really - makes me wonder why he couldn't have just given me the mark though if it would have been allowed in an actual exam! :rolleyes:

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***musical princess***
Nov 1 2005, 07:16 PM
It was a question about a ball falling displayed on a velocity/time graph and it was the sub parts to one of the questions was what does the slope represent. I answered - the objects acceleration - but he marked it wrong - he was really nitpicky and said i should have said 'the object's acceleration due to freefall' :

This is crap of the purest kind !

The slope of a graph is the rate of change , in this case the rate of change of the velocity being acceleration. So your answer was complete. It does not matter what caused the change, a graph cannot - and it is not supposed - to show what is the source of the data plotted on it. I would not keep my mouth shut !

I had a dumb, DUMB, physics teacher in the 10th grade. She had absolutely no idea about physics. She also hated my guts. First term she did not understand the way I solved a problem in the term paper. It took another physics teacher to explain it to her.I had to fight her all along the year, every week, with the help of the other physics teacher . I won ! Next year she asked me to teach the class some topics she never heared about.

BTW, my son had a BAD physics teacher. She admitted that she was in fact a biology teacher. He had to learn from an Internet site. The next year , the new teacher (a rather "weird" man) appreciated very much my son's knowledge and agreed that the Internet was a far better source than most of the teachers.
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