General Chat Thread

[Pesky Persian]

@Profesco:

We do a lot of psychosocial evaluations. We're on the unit once a week and we pick out a patient to evaluate. We have a whole sheet of information to get on them. The five axes of their psychiatric diagnosis, their meds (what they're used to treat, their interactions, side effects, and if they match up with the diagnosis), status upon admission, current status, and potential status. And of course nusing diagnoses and outcomes. The facility I'm at has four units: child, adolescent, adult, and older adult so I'll get shifted around to a different unit every week. It's nice to have the opportunity to see mental illness across the lifespan, as bad as that sounds.

We also attend their group therapy sessions and just hang out and talk to them to get a better perspective on what they're experiencing. At some point I have to find time to attend a support/self-help group (AA, NA, something like that) and write a paper on it. It's a lot of stuff to do in 8 weeks, but it's interesting work.

[blaze boy]

I agree. School is pretty fun once you get past the shitfest that is high school.

I don't know about that.

My High school years was awesome since it challenged me about life how we came to be and were we are going, which is what led me to decide that I no longer believe in god and I am an atheist.

Of course announcing that you are an atheist your religious "friends" was not the smartest thing to do, which then led them to break off our friendship and they wanted nothing to do with me thus making the last two years of high school very lonely and annoying.

Actually thinking about it now, high school sucks big time.

[sweetie]

high school was okay for me. i got along with *almost* everyone, and really started to change in my senior year. i used to be the really shy type, but i opened up more and now i'm an exuberant, fun person. everyone around me really appreciates it. ^^;

[Kreis]

go ahead. youll miss me if you do.

I only miss sexy people.

[Vern]

Play hockey, not hookey.

But I don't want to have my teeth knocked out. :O

[iFi Salamander]

high school was okay for me. i got along with *almost* everyone, and really started to change in my senior year. i used to be the really shy type, but i opened up more and now i'm an exuberant, fun person. everyone around me really appreciates it. ^^;

I have grown enough spine to not be shy anymore, and just say what I feel. People really don't appreciate it.

[sweetie]

I have grown enough spine to not be shy anymore, and just say what I feel. People really don't appreciate it.

yeah, people don't appreciate WHAT i have to say but they like the fact that i at least try to talk more. some people like my sarcasm and bluntness but some also take offense easily.

[kuzronk]

I'm shy but just because most people don't understand what i say.

[iFi Salamander]

yeah, people don't appreciate WHAT i have to say but they like the fact that i at least try to talk more. some people like my sarcasm and bluntness but some also take offense easily.

I think I'm in love.

[KickAsh]

I think I'm in love.

It's... it's like my heart is getting hard.

[iFi Salamander]

It's... it's like my heart is getting hard.

That can't be healthy.

[Phoopes]

So I started sophomore year in high school on Monday...

It's a shame when one teacher just seems to ruin what could be a wonderful class. Surprise test on summer reading that counts for 80% of our first quarter grade on one of the first few days? Not fun. And it makes me wonder, what exactly are we going to be doing if 80% of our grade is taken up in the first four days? That's a horrible way to teach, in my opinion.

[GrizzlyB]

Platinum and Emerald are the top two Pokemon games they've yet made. Of course you really can't go wrong with any Pokemon game you buy, because even if you've bought the worst Pokemon game of all the Pokemon games, you're still going to be enjoying some Pokemon gaming.

Actually, those are probably my favorite two of the main games, behind Crystal. Sinnoh is probably my favorite region, what with Snowpoint and all, but D/P were not stellar games. I also hold that same logic about playing the worst game in a series, except it applies to Tales games.

I agree. School is pretty fun once you get past the shitfest that is high school.

I liked high school way more than I do college. Apparently, I'm a small minority here. :V

I started yesterday. One of the teachers I have is very strict, like as far as grammar and style go, although I'll probably need it if and when I go to grad school.

Every teacher at every level irregardless of subject should be strict on writing guidelines, otherwise shit like "irregardless" will continue to propagate.

Don't those only exist in low-budget movies made by Disney and Nickelodeon?

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My existence is a lie!

Good kids, though, but highly stratified. In all of my classes, there were me and two black kids and the rest were white. In all of the other classes, the numbers were swapped. Living it every day at the time, it wasn't something you take much notice of, but looking back, it offers up all kinds of thoughts.

My high school was like this, too, but more like two half-black people and three Mexicans. At least my freshman year, but then one of the half-black siblings graduated and more Mexicans showed up every year. Oh, and we got one Korean girl before I graduated, but she was completely American anyway, so eh. 'Course my school had 200-250 kids and is right between a rich community and the sticks, so I guess it goes without saying.

Play hockey, not hookey.

That's what you get for living too close to the border. >:V

Also, as weird as it feels to condone skipping classes, if they're just boring electives/prerequisites that you'll never care about anyway and you can do well without going to class, there isn't really any harm to it. It also partially negates one of the popular complaints high school-dropouts have about being forced to go to classes they'll never use, otherwise they'd like school. But beyond that point, there's no reason to skip classes unless you get off on wasting large quantities of money or something.

high school was okay for me. i got along with *almost* everyone, and really started to change in my senior year. i used to be the really shy type, but i opened up more and now i'm an exuberant, fun person. everyone around me really appreciates it. ^^;

I was like that, too, except it happened my junior year. But I think it was more because my jackass brother graduated/was expelled and I didn't feel like I was walking on disciplinary eggshells anymore (seriously, I got called into the office by the SRO dozens of times just because I was in his vicinity when he harassed people). But yeah, there was, like, one person in the entire school I didn't get along with, but everybody else hated him and loved me so it was OK.

That can't be healthy.

But it is a great line from an even better sitcom, so what the hey.

[Phlogiston]

I liked high school way more than I do college. Apparently, I'm a small minority here. :V

I think they're about equal. Then again, I loathed my high school as an institution because I felt like it cared more about test scores -- standardized test scores, mind you -- than me as a student. All of the major pushes seemed to be "LOOK AT OUR TEST SCORES" -- again, standardized test scores -- and nothing about the qualities of the students. Granted, most students didn't have much quality at that facility...

[iFi Salamander]

I think they're about equal. Then again, I loathed my high school as an institution because I felt like it cared more about test scores -- standardized test scores, mind you -- than me as a student. All of the major pushes seemed to be "LOOK AT OUR TEST SCORES" -- again, standardized test scores -- and nothing about the qualities of the students. Granted, most students didn't have much quality at that facility...

I think you will enjoy the following paragraph, because this is my literal opinion of middle/high school.

"Hi kids. You just graduated from elementary. You now potentially know everything on a basic level to be able to survive in a real world. However unfortunately you are still minors, and daddy and mommy have to work. So now you have to go through another six years of school! Think of it as an eight hour a day daycare that your parents paid for with their tax money. Meanwhile let us all give the the facade that you are actually learning anything you will use when you leave here in six years! Wait you actually care about learning? You actually want to have a better career? Well then you need COLLEGE! It is a wonderful place that you must go to, or you'll be flipping burgers I assure you. Prepare to drop a hundred grand of your parents savings or be miserable for the next forever of your life on education that we should have given you while you were loafing around here for six years. Now you get to learn REAL English and REAL Science! What is that you say? You think you've learned about these things already? Nonsense, that was just information we pounded in to your head so you could excel on these standardized tests that directly correlate to our school funding and salaries. Getting a 99% on your standardized test is a great addition and will look awesome on your resume when you apply for a job. After all, this means you are a mindless drone like everyone else that passed through here. You are now ready to be successful! Congratulations!"

[GrizzlyB]

I think they're about equal. Then again, I loathed my high school as an institution because I felt like it cared more about test scores -- standardized test scores, mind you -- than me as a student. All of the major pushes seemed to be "LOOK AT OUR TEST SCORES" -- again, standardized test scores -- and nothing about the qualities of the students. Granted, most students didn't have much quality at that facility...

Yeah, that does suck. I really hate prep schools, they just ooze... I dunno, pretentiousness or snobbishness or something (I assume yours wasn't a public school?). And they're usually way too narrow-minded from what I've seen, generally on aforementioned test scores so that they make sure all rich kids who pay exuberant amounts of money get into more expensive colleges so that future rich parents will want to spend money putting their kids through the system, ad infinitum. And sports, they'll also let kids who are unusually good at sports in, too, I've found.

It's weird, though, because most schools that do well on tests focus exclusively on them and are henceforth shitfactories, but my school district was one of the best in the state and, as far as I could tell, we were never focused on any sort of test material (of course, since we were also one of the smallest, we got fuck-all for funding. Hooray!). Everybody who went there with me loves it just the same. I think it was the teachers, because I had, like, one teacher throughout middle/high school who was mediocre and I didn't like, but the rest were amazing instructors and people. But then I got to college, and before I found ratemyprofessor.com, it pretty much went: if you're lucky, you'll have a good teacher; if you're not, you'll get a terrible one; and if you're really lucky, you'll get a great one. Also, you're usually unlucky. And it's just sad, to me, that one of, if not the most important, professions in the world is, by-and-large, filled with incompetent, immature vagrants, or whatever generic insults you want to apply.

[Phlogiston]

Yeah, that does suck. I really hate prep schools, they just ooze... I dunno, pretentiousness or snobbishness or something (I assume yours wasn't a public school?).

Public. High standards, but public. The name though, did make it sound like they wanted so badly not to be -- "Northside College Preparatory High School." Like they wanted to place so much emphasis on "preparing you for college" -- and there are a shitload of colleges out there (really, look it up -- there are, very literally, "a shitload" of colleges out in the world; they gave up on counting them and just started using cussing to describe it). Oddly, though, for something that should be so massively varied, it's very conformity-enforcing. My vaguely-friends basically had different hobbies but were pretty much identical inside if you sloughed off all of that useless "fun."

And they're usually way too narrow-minded from what I've seen, generally on aforementioned test scores so that they make sure all rich kids who pay exuberant amounts of money get into more expensive colleges so that future rich parents will want to spend money putting their kids through the system, ad infinitum. And sports, they'll also let kids who are unusually good at sports in, too, I've found.

While it never really was mentioned, I think that was pretty clear. I think it's telling that, as a class graduated, they released what colleges you were going to. I guess so they could see my name and go "Ha! Look at the fat, bearded hikikomori wannabe! He's going to a community college! He's going to fail life harder than Willie Nelson fails a drug test!"

It's weird, though, because most schools that do well on tests focus exclusively on them and are henceforth shitfactories, but my school district was one of the best in the state and, as far as I could tell, we were never focused on any sort of test material (of course, since we were also one of the smallest, we got fuck-all for funding. Hooray!). Everybody who went there with me loves it just the same. I think it was the teachers, because I had, like, one teacher throughout middle/high school who was mediocre and I didn't like, but the rest were amazing instructors and people. But then I got to college, and before I found ratemyprofessor.com, it pretty much went: if you're lucky, you'll have a good teacher; if you're not, you'll get a terrible one; and if you're really lucky, you'll get a great one. Also, you're usually unlucky. And it's just sad, to me, that one of, if not the most important, professions in the world is, by-and-large, filled with incompetent, immature vagrants, or whatever generic insults you want to apply.

This too. Also, it's similarly distressing how poorly paid some of them are. Like, some of my bad teachers (and I have had some really bad teachers -- the droning, useless sort; my Calc 2 teacher was so bad I stopped going to class) probably shouldn't have gotten that much money (aforementioned professor should probably have been charged by the school to teach there), but what incentive is there to get really good educators? Almost none. In general, the education system, quite frankly, sucks donkey balls in America.

e: Speaking of appropriateness: Could a mod tell me how much trouble I'd get in if I changed the Professor Genki gif in my sig to this?

[Jb]

As small part of me kinda wishes we finished this.

http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthr...SPP-Misc/page1

[sweetie]

i clicked the video where the xbox gets destroyed and i giggled so much ahaha.

[Pansy :]]

Gahhhhh I don't want to start school :P turns out that my counselor completely ****ed up my schedule and put me in a "preparing for algebra" class or something, ie. a class to prepare for a class that I took in eighth grade (and passed btw) I called her to fix it, and she said that she would about a week ago but I've checked online and there aren't any changes, along with her not putting me into an ap class I was really looking forward to, and already read a book and wrote a 5 page essay for, because she "didn't think it would be a good fit", which I probably shoul have been told 3 months ago before I wasted so much time... Plus she put me in a P.E. class when I've already finished my P.E. credits, making it a complete waste of a schedule slot seeing as there are plenty of other credits I need, and of course for the cherry on top, the P.E. class is weight lifting :P