Masaryk Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 I don't think I've ever had a student play a really worthy prank. It's kind of disappointing to me. I feel like everyone is so very uncreative. That was a pretty good prank that was played on your teacher with the cell phone. There was one really weird incident that comes to mind, but it wasn't really a prank. There was this one rather enthusiastic little girl, in a grade 4 class, that tackle-hugged me, picking me up off the ground! She then dropped me on the corner of the teacher's desk. I had a bruise on my leg the size of a grapefruit. Quote
-Ryan Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 What made it funny is that she didn't see it until she was at home. Apparently she went to sleep on her couch after she finished some ASU homework and when she woke up she looked at her phone and was like "Ahhh! Why is Justin on my phone?!" She lets us get away with alot of stuff. That is an awesome 4th grader. :O Quote
DeAndra Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 LOL that is the funniest prank I have heard yet :) And lol right monstro hulk 4th grader LOL reminds me of my 3rd grade sister who is like my height-___- Quote
Masaryk Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 She wasn't even a big kid, just really, really strong! I'm glad stuff like that doesn't happen very often. Quote
Spritzie Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 My best friend growing up, had a nephew like that. (His mom did drugs while pregnant, and it messed with his build and such) He was a scrawny kid, but ridiculously strong. When he was throwing a fit, you had to be careful. He was 5, when I was 14, but he could be dangerous. Quote
ThisIsJ Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 One of the only things I miss about school was having teachers as an easy target for pranks. One day I hid in the huge kitchen fridge, and had my friend ask various teachers to help him carry some things out of the fridge into another classroom. When the teacher opened the door, I popped out and screamed. They were rather shocked =) The thought of little kids being that strong scares me...lol. Quote
:)Doc Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Lol. I like it when a teacher goes like "and what is a bubble made out of, class?" and I go "BUBBLES!" or when the phone's ringing yelling "THE PHONE'S RINGING" :graduated: It's pretty fun. Quote
-Ryan Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 In Honors Science a girl would sing that song from Wonder Pets whenever the phone rang. xD -ring ring- "The phone! The Phone is ringing!" "SHUT UP!" Quote
antiaircraft Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Ehhh... throughout most of my school years it was the teachers playing pranks on the students. :P But there are none that were really good enough for me to remember... I kind of hate school lol. I feel as though school is full classes and information that we wont use 75% when we get in the real world. Like math, we all know in life you only use addition, subtraction, and mulitplication; why put us throught he suffering ! lol I think for the average person, math might be a bit over done. I don't use anything beyond the basics for work. But I use forumlas I learned in Algebra all the time in my day-to-day life. (I actually used my favorite equation about 10 minutes ago.) Its useless HS math I hate; Like I am in Calculus now, and to be honest, when will I ever have to know how to graph a tangent, sine, cosine graph or whichever ones. Like seriously ? Yea, I'm totally gonna be walking down the street one day like hey a parabola, Let us use the quadratic formula to figure out the equation for it. Come on ! LOL :laughingsmiley: You'd be surprised how applicable those equations really are but sadly when you tell people such, like when you spout off the equations of motion for say a projectile in a parabola, people usually just tell you to shut up. -_- or they throw things at you :rolleyes_anim: Indeed. There may be many fields where you won't have to do much more than basic mathematics, but as an engineer, well... Analysing the forces in all the components of even a simple, statically loaded (no changing forces) structure (you need to do this to make sure none of the components will wear down or break outright) requires you to know complex vector calculations like the back of your hand (and, by extension, basic algebra and lots of trigonometry). Designing the most basic electrical/mechanical/mechatronic control system will have you drawing on complex numbers, various number series, and literally every single calculus trick you've learned, from integration by parts to Laplace Transforms - and that's just the modelling stage. Programming is a little less intensive, but you still need to know at least enough about various mathematical tasks to tell a computer to do them all for you. Statistical analysis is also very important for programmers when they're looking to optimise their software for maximum speed. Yeah. Sometimes you need maths. Even if you're not an engineer, we're the guys that make sure your home doesn't collapse on you. :P Quote
Wembly Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Eww, Laplace Transforms :sick01: I know they are supposed to make integration easier but for some reason at the beginning there it seemed to make things much harder. And on the school prank side, our classes always tried to do group pranks but they were always dumb and not everyone did them making them fail even more, for example the one time some people wanted the whole class to stand up at exactly the same time :rolleyes_anim: whoopty doo, really threw the teacher off, not...but I think our failed attempts did make most of the teacher smile at our ineptitude. Quote
antiaircraft Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Heh, well, Laplace Transforms don't do a whole lot for most integration in my experience. xD But they're an absolutely beautiful way of solving differential equations. Pull out a table and do some quick Laplace Transforms and a complicated differential equation is suddenly a matter of simple algebra. Solve that, reverse the transform, and you have your result. :) Quote
xLaura Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Heh, well, Laplace Transforms don't do a whole lot for most integration in my experience. xD But they're an absolutely beautiful way of solving differential equations. Pull out a table and do some quick Laplace Transforms and a complicated differential equation is suddenly a matter of simple algebra. Solve that, reverse the transform, and you have your result. :) you sound really intelligent..it's slightly intimidating Quote
antiaircraft Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 I'm not really that intelligent. It's just that I'm so bad at integration that I'd have no hope of solving a differential equation without Laplace Transforms. :P Quote
Rose_682 Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 I have a friend like AA in Alaska... Every time I think I know something well enough, he shows me I need to learn more. Seems to know everything about everything. We've been best friends for like 5 years now, LOL. Quote
antiaircraft Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Well hey, I'll bet you could school me in StarCraft strategy no trouble. :P And I'm pretty hopeless at the visual arts. And poetry. The vast majority of my general knowledge is focused around operating computers. xD Quote
Rose_682 Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 He is, too. But he also knows a lot about other stuff, too. But I know more about home remedies, variety in music (he doesn't listen to much more than two or three genres), and art. And we are both well-versed in cooking, so :P <3 cooking! Quote
antiaircraft Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 I can't cook, have zero musical taste, and am only ever on the receiving end of home remedies. So yeah. xD Quote
Rose_682 Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Well, had my illness not been strep, I could have gotten rid of it, no matter the severity of the cold/flu, in three days flat. I have a system. It always works. :D With minor adjustments, of course. Quote
antiaircraft Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Oooh... sounds fascinating. ;) My way of dealing with an illness is pretty much to drink waaay too much water and ignore it. xD Quote
-Ryan Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 you sound really intelligent..it's slightly intimidating Theo is our official "Ohmygodi'llneverbethatawesome. Heslikeeinsteinwithoutthehair." guy. xD Then again, there is a chance that he's a robot. :P Quote
jumpingbeans Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Nah, because I wouldn't be supporting a robot for the TDN DD....would I? Quote
Spritzie Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 I'm not really that intelligent. It's just that I'm so bad at integration that I'd have no hope of solving a differential equation without Laplace Transforms. :P And might I add, extremely modest. *nods* I need to get you in a conversation with my husband. I'm smart, but not his level. I think he misses having crazy-smart intellectual conversations. :laughingsmiley: Quote
Iona Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Hello :) I am seriously tense right now. Been playing Wrath of the Snowager for the past 2 hours. I'm trying to get the Better Than You avatar & trophy but I keep losing the game because of silly mistakes. I got so close too.. was 20k out. I'm not giving up yet though. <_< I will not let it beat me. :ph34r: :grrr: Quote
Spritzie Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 That game drives me crazy. I barely have the patience to score 100k for 1k NP. I thought about trying for the silver trophy, since I already have a 3rd place, and avatar. But I quit at 300k. Quote
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