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Ap Chem At Its Finest.
Topic Started: Jan 14 2010, 01:32 AM (363 Views)
Ww2nerd
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K, so AP = Advanced Placement, AKA Smart Kids.

However, their definition must be pretty lax.... we were doing a lab today to explore Charles' Law (Volume and temperature vary inversely).

Now, it involved something which is of great interest to AP students: Fire.
The non-AP students have all fooled around with it outside of school, so it's a meh experience for them....

Anyhow, during the lab, three separate groups lost 4 lab reports between them (4/6-8). How? All of them were incinerated when they dropped the lit match on the reports by accident. Then another kid had a big fire when he left the pack of matches on the hot-plate, which caused them to catch fire, putting paid to another lab report....

Overall, the lab was a success, minus a shortage of ice for cooling the water (our teacher gave the obvious order.... go outside and get some snow), and the almost constant fires breaking out from careless students.

Keep in mind, this is the SMART class.
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

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That would be book smart, not actual/street smart.
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There are reports of students waiting 10 minutes after the bell in front of a closed door as they thought it was locked, without actually trying it.

So, I'm not surprised people say that :P
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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That's funny, usually I would think it would be the other way around. And purposely burning things. I could never really get into chemistry, it just wasn't my thing. I took Honors Chem, sure, but I prefer Biology or Physics, even though I was never really in an AP version of those classes. I took Zoology though, which is kind of like AP Bio, I guess. I got to dissect a squid, fish, and frog, so it was definitely more satisfying than simply dissecting a frog in AP Bio.

Sorry for the rant, but you really don't give us much to work with in terms of discussion.

EDIT: "There are reports"? Who says that about an event at a school?
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Np. And I have no idea. It was arbitrary :P
I prefer bio and chem. I'm not a math person, so I avoid physics.
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Neither am I, but physics doesn't play out like math at all. Math is, well, math; just numbers and formulas. But physics is using math to describe something, so you can visualize it, and, more importantly, it's easy to tell when you get it wrong because you can apply common sense to it, unlike in lots of higher math.

For instance, consider this: A 0.25 kg arrow with a velocity of 12 m/s to the west strikes and pierces the center of a 6.8 kg target. What is the final velocity of the combined mass?

Sounds difficult, but it's actually really easy (the answer is -0.43 m/s, the negative indicating westward direction). Physics is easy, comedy, now that's hard. (ba dum, tsh)
"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays." - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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I failed epically at it in science 10.
Biology however is awesome :D

I'm studying out of my textbook as we speak.
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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I love biology. Of course I love all sciences, that's why I want to be a cosmologist, so I don't have to choose (but biology holds a special place in my heart). But I always tell my school counselor I want to be a polymath, because she has no idea what that is.
"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays." - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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I'll get an opportunity to talk to the counselor next year.
I'm not honestly sure what I want to do. I was thinking of trying for a school trustee, and using that experience to get into politics.
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Parasky
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I'm not sure what I'll do either. My family has no money left for college, we don't even have enough money for the state colleges, and scholarships and financial aid only goes so far, you know? They keep telling me "go for scholarships," but the scholarships are only good for the state colleges, and they're not enough for a good eduction. I would need to supplement the scholarships with a job, but there are no jobs available right now. Not even fast food place are hiring, though I had already told myself I would never work at any places like that (I'd rather be that fat homeless guy than that fat guy who works at McDonalds). And financial aid, well, they're not really "aid" at all. I end up having to pay it all back eventually, and I'd really rather not have to deal with the government breathing down my neck for payments for the rest of my life.

So I figure I'll either A) stay at home for a couple of years, get a degree in computer science from the community college and work for the USAF for a while until I can afford to pay for a better school myself, or B) share an apartment with a friend of mine in either Denver or Portland and simply get a steady job for a couple of years until I'm considered a legal resident of Colorado/Oregon and can go to school without having to deal with out-of-state tuition. It will probably be the second option, and either way I plan on moving to a different state. Kansas is home and all, but I hate it. It's completely opposite when it comes to my political and social views and nothing of interest is here. Plus there's hardly any jobs considering most people in this state are either farmers or work for Hawker Beachcraft or Cessna.
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ooo...
That's a predicament.

I'm lucky, there are a lot of government sponsored bursaries and scholarships I qualify for.

And if I'm really hurting, I can apply for the native scholarships and try to take some of their filthy money. (I'm not native, but the checks might not be that good :D)

I've already earned about $900 from the Rutherford alone, and since I'm in a lower income family, I can probably apply for a lot of the bursaries (basically loans you don't have to pay back)

I've also got a good sum in the bank from work with my father and my employer (I worked construction with my father for a while, but it's not my forte, so I found other work)
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Parasky
Jan 14 2010, 03:28 AM
I'm not sure what I'll do either. My family has no money left for college, we don't even have enough money for the state colleges, and scholarships and financial aid only goes so far, you know?

Sell the boat.
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Our boat isn't even worth $2000. Personally I would love to sell it, just because it would be a little extra cash we could have, but my grandfather refuses to sell it, since it's been his dream since he was a kid to own a boat.

We haven't used it in two years.
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That's a pity, Parasky. Here is enough work, maybe you have to change continent? If you do that, I think you will learn more than if you would go to uni lmao.

@First post: clever clever kids. I see a bright future for Canada.
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I can't help but think that has double meaning :P

(one as in sarcasm, the other as in a pun.... because fires are bright... ha ha ha)
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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