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[Delightful]

You should draw Wayne stick figures all over them. Say they help you concentrate.

[Mashadar Mistborn he/him]

Ugh, note checks. I'm sorry. Seeing as notes are to retain information, making they're done a certain way makes no sense, but some teachers couldn't care less about logic and prefer dogma.Draw glyphs that say how ridiculous note checks are around the border of the page.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

When the teacher wanted the notes and essay handed in together, I always just wrote the paper, went back and added a few typos and called that the rough draft, and wrote the main points of my paper by hand.  

[Orlion Blight he/him]

I told one teacher in high school that I could write an 'A' paper without taking any notes. She said that was impossible, so I sat at the class computer, typity-typed for about forty five minutes and turned in an awesome paper...Well...Not that awesome, but it was an 'A' paper and better than the rest of the class.

[Mistrunner]

You should draw Wayne stick figures all over them. Say they help you concentrate.

This idea, I like it.

 

Ugh, note checks. I'm sorry. Seeing as notes are to retain information, making they're done a certain way makes no sense, but some teachers couldn't care less about logic and prefer dogma.Draw glyphs that say how ridiculous note checks are around the border of the page.

Exactly. Unfortunately, the notes are on Google Docs, because this school is very into the Integration of Technology. Hey, I can add a few Google Drawings...

 

When the teacher wanted the notes and essay handed in together, I always just wrote the paper, went back and added a few typos and called that the rough draft, and wrote the main points of my paper by hand.

I do something similar. It's especially annoying with the start of COMMON CORE, THE SOLUTION TO ALL OUR PROBLEMS IN EDJUMACATION.   Everything has to be done a certain way, and you must have the outline this way... I've written many outlines after essays just because they require you to have one.

 

I told one teacher in high school that I could write an 'A' paper without taking any notes. She said that was impossible, so I sat at the class computer, typity-typed for about forty five minutes and turned in an awesome paper...Well...Not that awesome, but it was an 'A' paper and better than the rest of the class.

Nice. It really just goes to show that people are not all the same when it comes to these things. Everyone talks about having diversity in everything, but in education you have to all be the same. You have to conform to what they think is the 'right' way to do things, even if it doesn't make any sense to you whatsoever.

 

I found a good comic on the subject. 

 

[Elbereth she/her]

This idea, I like it.I do something similar. It's especially annoying with the start of COMMON CORE, THE SOLUTION TO ALL OUR PROBLEMS IN EDJUMACATION.   Everything has to be done a certain way, and you must have the outline this way... I've written many outlines after essays just because they require you to have one.

Common core... No. Just no. It's a terrible thing.

[Mashadar Mistborn he/him]

Common core... No. Just no. It's a terrible thing.

Horrible and evil. It is what comes of people creating "problems" and trying to fix them. Which is why some genius In Tennessee came up with the perfectly logical idea of adding another month of testing to make sure we're learning.

And terms such as "selected response" and "visual text" don't magically make things no longer multiple choice or pictures.

Why? Just why?

[+Slowswift]

Does Finland live up to the hype? If so, I think a plane ticket and a Rosetta Stone program are a worthy investment.

[Zathoth]

While it is stupid I could argue that learning how to cheat idiotic systems is a good lesson... still makes me not miss school... Even if swedish edjumacation isnt quite as bad as yours...

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

The water in our house is out. 

 

While I'm not sure exactly how it happened, I do know that it was working when I left for work, and when I came home my mom gave me the bad news. Turn on one faucet, and they all start gushing water. She turned on the kitchen sink to wash the dishes tonight, and it turned on the upstairs bathtub, which overflowed and flooded the bathroom and downstairs laundry room (since we'd plugged it up to catch the water). 

 

The plumber is coming tomorrow morning, early. So we're not going to church. 

 

And on top of that, my laptop started overheating earlier. I caught it in time, and it seems fine now, but I'll have to be more careful. 

 

Also, my allergies chose right now to act up, and I'd hoped to get the next chapter of my Potterfic done today, but work was too distracting. 

 

Today has not been fun. 

[+Slowswift]

Ick, I'm sorry. Would a pic of Arthur Conan Pug help?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Ick, I'm sorry. Would a pic of Arthur Conan Pug help?

 

You have no idea how helpful that is.

[+Slowswift]

You have no idea how helpful that is.

 

I'm glad.

[Oversleep]

I just realised that I haven't seen my pack of friends for a long, long time. There's six of us and I suggested gathering at home of one of us (his parents are out of town) for New Year's Eve party... We used to do that every year, but turns out everybody has their own plans and the one which was to host said that he would like to spend it alone.
And that was when I realised we haven't met in a group larger than three of us since highschool. Which we left year and half ago. We used to see each other every day back then... We were so close once! It hurts

[The Honor Spren she/her]

Sleep, oh thou art an elusive creature.

I've been trying to relax for an hour. Nothing is working. I'm starting to remember why my previous slew strategy was to stay up until I was exhausted, then fall asleep quickly . . . Never mind that it was 1am.

Also, there's another thing. I'm hesitant to ask it, because even if this is the Super Nice and Supportive Shard, it is still the Internet.

. . . Advice on boys?

[Mistrunner]

Sleep, oh thou art an elusive creature.

I've been trying to relax for an hour. Nothing is working. I'm starting to remember why my previous slew strategy was to stay up until I was exhausted, then fall asleep quickly . . . Never mind that it was 1am.

Also, there's another thing. I'm hesitant to ask it, because even if this is the Super Nice and Supportive Shard, it is still the Internet.

. . . Advice on boys?

I have the same problem. Can't ever get to sleep at night, and if I stay up until I'm tired, it's technically morning. It's especially bad after moving, what with the time change and all.

 

(Does anyone else say "what with" like that? Is that just a me thing? Family thing? Area thing? Worldwide thing I just haven't really noticed?)

 

As for advice, try listening to this. The sound of rain is very relaxing.

[Kaymyth she/her]

Sleep, oh thou art an elusive creature.

I've been trying to relax for an hour. Nothing is working. I'm starting to remember why my previous slew strategy was to stay up until I was exhausted, then fall asleep quickly . . . Never mind that it was 1am.

Also, there's another thing. I'm hesitant to ask it, because even if this is the Super Nice and Supportive Shard, it is still the Internet.

. . . Advice on boys?

 

Hoo boy.

 

I have no advice for dating at the high school level.  I really didn't get into that until college.  One of the curses of going to a small town high school was that there were no boys my age into nerdy things, so I had no pool of potential dates to draw from.  Mostly, I was mocked a lot and suffered.

[Mistrunner]

Hoo boy.

 

I have no advice for dating at the high school level.  I really didn't get into that until college.  One of the curses of going to a small town high school was that there were no boys my age into nerdy things, so I had no pool of potential dates to draw from.  Mostly, I was mocked a lot and suffered.

On this particular thing, I do what is known as "hiding under a rock." 

[Kaymyth she/her]

On this particular thing, I do what is known as "hiding under a rock." 

 

It gets better down the road.  Being a teenager, though, is the worst.

 

Oh, and on the subject of insomnia, you guys do know that in the late teens through early twenties, your circadian rhythms go all out of whack and shift your natural sleep cycles later, right?  This is a documented phenomenon.  It's not your fault, but it's annoying as all heck and the rest of the world doesn't like to adjust to accommodate you.  It'll shift back eventually, right about the time you get out of college.

[ThirdGen]

. . . Advice on boys?

 

Don't be a teenager.  Unfortunately, they're insane.  They'll mean totally different things than they say, but you can't be sure what they really want because there's so much pressure at that high school level to not be found out as a real human being.

 

This advice may be completely out of date; social networking seems to have made for less cliquishness in the teens I've observed, but every school is different.

 

Disclaimer: I am not observing schools.

[Voidus]

. . . Advice on boys?

Avoid, if at all possible.

They're boring and just want to talk about cars or sports all day, neither of which I was ever particularly interested in.

[Aonar he/him]

. . . Advice on boys?

 

Coming from one of said male teenagers,* my advice is; don't. We're just generally a bad idea. The legitimately nicer of us tend to be horribly awkward; those that aren't tend to be jerks, or just incapable to developing meaningful relationships with others. The idealized chick-flic boyfriend-guy does not exist (or if they do, I have yet to meet someone who fits the description). As a whole, we tend to be immature, insecure chull-holes, with no clue how to go about a relationship, and only the best of us have even the slightest basic idea of what it means to respect another human being. Wait for another two+ years (it can take well over a decade, for some of us), when we're getting near the end of high school,  have actually started to figure out how to be decent human beings, and matured to something more like the level you're at now, then try again.

 

*I realize that this likely makes me even less qualified to speak on the subject than most people, seeing how my relationship experience, aside from being very limited, is also from the perspective of the guy, rather than the girl, but I happen to know a lot of my fellow guys, and we kind of tend to be jerks.

 

Edit: Ninja'd by Voidus.

Edited December 14, 2015 by Aonar Faileas

[The Honor Spren she/her]

Wait, having a changing sleep schedule as part of being teenager is a thing? Everything makes. sense now.

I . . . Don't even know. He never said anything for me to go off of. It's just that I think he's pretty funny, and that his smile is contagious.

I think. I'm not even sure.

I just try not to think about it. I have enough stuff in my life right now. A crush is not something I think I could fit in.

Edited December 14, 2015 by The Honor Spren

[Kaymyth she/her]

Wait, having a changing sleep schedule as part of being teenager is a thing? Everything makes. sense now.

 

Yes.  A lot of people don't understand/believe it, though, so they'll scoff at those "lazy" teens still in bed at noon without understanding that said teen was literally unable to fall asleep before 3AM the previous night, despite all attempts to do so.

[Guest]

It gets better down the road.  Being a teenager, though, is the worst.

 

Oh, and on the subject of insomnia, you guys do know that in the late teens through early twenties, your circadian rhythms go all out of whack and shift your natural sleep cycles later, right?  This is a documented phenomenon.  It's not your fault, but it's annoying as all heck and the rest of the world doesn't like to adjust to accommodate you.  It'll shift back eventually, right about the time you get out of college.

 

Careful, insomnia is a real issue and it does not necessarily have to do with your circadian rhythms. It is an insane never ending spinning wheel which makes you afraid you won't perform if you are too tired due to the lack of sleep which alternatively makes you afraid you won't sleep as you didn't sleep the night before and because you haven't you end up believing it is a pattern which will make sure you are never to sleep ever again. Your life is thus doomed to sleepless nights, twitching eye lid and endless staring at the ceiling wondering why is it you just can't sleep?

 

Human beings should be able to put themselves to sleep.

 

It is a true disease and when it happens at a young age, it is even more terrible as you just don't have enough life experience to figure out nothing it forever. You feel as if you are doomed with a monster in your head. Or a vibe. I used to think it felt like a vibe that pulses through such as to make you know: "You just aren't going to sleep tonight.".

 

Today, I can tell the vibe to go screw itself: I want to sleep, but back when I was younger I couldn't. I didn't know how to.

 

Some people have bouts of insomnia which comes and goes, but for some people it just is more than that. It is anxiety related and for some individuals this anxiety express itself through sleep patterns.