The Arlong Park Official General Discussion Thread

Greg

1 + 1 is not always 2 if you're talking about a penis and a vagina.

That's literally the extent of my arithmetic.

Kitsune Inferno

@Robo:

By not doing the work.

This.

Really, I've been stressed with homework lately. >> I guess that's what sucks about college. In High School, I hardly ever had homework. In College, EVERYTHING is homework >>

Another factor that affects my schoolwork is that my personality and learning style do not mix. I prefer to learn, work, and study in groups, but I'm shyer than Hinata. :unsure:

loledinmypants

@Greg:

That's literally the extent of my arithmetic.

I'm glad you're teaching English and not mathematics then. Of course, my image of English is literature and fun stuff like that, whereas I assume your classes are a bit more akin to a (advanced? dunno what level you teach) foreign language. Given the nature it IS a foreign language…

@KI: The thing with college is, once you figure out how to manage your time to get the homework done comfortably, it's not that bad. Only terrors once you achieve that are challenging tests or big projects. The latter of which you usually have ample time for and just takes a bit more planning with time management and that.

Sheep

@Chocula:

How do you guys deal with stress?

Well, I really suck when it comes to dealing with stress. I usually smoke weed to relax, but that isn't always working either, especially when I'm in deep shit. Before said deep shit happens, I get really nervous , can't eat anything and I pretty much just endure it until it's over.

Kitsune Inferno

@loledinmypants:

I'm glad you're teaching English and not mathematics then. Of course, my image of English is literature and fun stuff like that, whereas I assume your classes are a bit more akin to a (advanced? dunno what level you teach) foreign language.

Creative Writing == English Composition.

I learned that the hard way. :ermm:

But, whenever I get stressed, I just come on here…. and never leave.

loledinmypants

@Kitsune:

Creative Writing == English Composition.

I learned that the hard way. :ermm:

hahaha, yeah, I pretty much immediately wished my major allowed for creative writing instead of composition. The latter is just tedious. I dread ever having to do anything akin to a lengthy thesis. Essay writing might have purpose, but I'd rather write a novel than an essay.

Robby

I'm so far removed from school at this point I've surely lost all advanced math skills, though I was a total nerd honors student.

Now I just go for the easy gag answer of "42" in response to everything.

On the other hand, I'm totally a writer/artist, so I can get away with that.

@Greg:

What's the Naruto thread doing here?

I blame grek, cut3 n0t m3an one.

And Inu Yasha. And Kagome. And Inu Yasha. And Kagome. And Inu Yasha. And Kagome.

@Hannyabal:

Another Warden,in order to change the world. :blink:

Welcome to the forums. Have you met BekadidAct?

Kitsune Inferno

@RobbyBevard:

I'm so far removed from school at this point I've surely lost all advanced math skills, though I was a total nerd honors student.

Now I just go for the easy gag answer of "42" in response to everything.

On the other hand, I'm totally a writer/artist, so I can get away with that.

Yeah, if I could do without maths, I would.

But my major is nothing but maths.

loledinmypants

@Kitsune:

But my major is nothing but maths.

For being computer-related, I'm surprised that my computer animation program is light on math. I'm rather glad I decided against programming in the end. The hells I'd have had to endure for a programming major… shudder
Edit: plus i get to work with animation. like cartoons and this stuffs. it's awesome. and 3ds max is nifty

Kitsune Inferno

Don't scare me, loled. I have no idea what I'm getting into.

I wanna be "surprised"

loledinmypants

@Kitsune:

Don't scare me, loled. I have no idea what I'm getting into.

I wanna be "surprised"

Wait, are YOU going for programming? I personally loved it in high school, but it'd take lots of tedious math at higher, more professional levels I could tell.

Kitsune Inferno

Yeah. Pretty much.

Luckily, I'm teaching myself early when it comes to programming languages.

Shuhan

Makes me glad that I got through all of the important classes and when I can afford to go back, all I gotta do is take the classes that pertain to my major…

KaizokuFan22

ive only had class for 3 weeks now and its pretty ok

plus in 3 weeks ..Project,Midterm,and Essay in the same week

loledinmypants

@Kitsune:

Yeah. Pretty much.

Luckily, I'm teaching myself early when it comes to programming languages.

In high school I only took 2 of the three offered classes and those were just simple languages. Qbasic and visual basic.
I do have some dabbling in web design in my program, so I got some html knowledge too, though dreamweaver makes that almost moot.

Kitsune Inferno

Well, I'm learning C++ an I'm currently reading up on 3-D modelling. I kinda want to be a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to game development. :)

loledinmypants

@Kitsune:

Well, I'm learning C++ an I'm currently reading up on 3-D modelling. I kinda want to be a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to game development. :)

I'm looking to get into either game development in animation/modeling or a more cartoonish application of computer animation. Either way I'll be involved in fun stuff.
Speaking of 3D modeling, I had a kind of intro class on 3ds Max before the summer and this semester I'm taking a more in depth course on it. It was one of the funnest classes I'd taken yet, so hopefully this semester will build on that :happy:

Kitsune Inferno

Hmmm, perhaps I can employ you in my eventual game development corporation.

But yeah, I've been fiddling around in Blender. I wish I could afford 3dsmax or Maya

I am Minoring in Business as well.

Greg

The worst subject of all is chem.

Physics you expect shit to get crazy but chem is fucking ninja math.

"WOOHOO! Chemicals! This is gonna be fun!

….wait what? I've gotta learn to calculate what?

Huh?! You want me to know where these electrons are going just by looking something that looks like a stick figure!?

YOU WANT ME TO CALCULATE THE GRADE OF PURITY IN THIS MIXTURE JUST BY GUESSING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN BASED ON THIRTY COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RULES FOR ELASTICITY!?"

Goddamnit. I was literally scared for my life every single time I entered the class.

4 semesters of that SHIT.

Sea

I haaaaaaaate chem!
It bored the fuck out of me.
Luckily I will never have to study it again.

Kitsune Inferno

I was spared the wonders of Science class.

My Science teacher was a douche, so I opted out of his classes.

Only Science I took was Physical Science, Biology, Zoology, and… uh... Small Animal Science... :unsure:

Greg

Yeah, I'm a Bio major so…

maxterdexter

@Kitsune:

This.

Really, I've been stressed with homework lately. >> I guess that's what sucks about college. In High School, I hardly ever had homework. In College, EVERYTHING is homework >>

Another factor that affects my schoolwork is that my personality and learning style do not mix. I prefer to learn, work, and study in groups, but I'm shyer than Hinata. :unsure:

Well Kitsune, you just have to go to the "leader", try to find a kind of close group with a well defined leader, who is nice. Speak to him/her and try to form a bond, if you can get to him/her through someone else that works too. Once there take some initiative, ask around when you think that they will study, if they blow you off, is failed mission, try again with another group, if success, it should be smooth sailing.

Take it from a man who most of the time is as shy as Hinata, not even unhealthy ammounts of alcohol can lossen me right, just being around my trusted people can.

And computer sciences. The art of creating worlds with words (that exist somewhere that isn't imagination). Honestly maths were kind of a "learn this to think more clearly" than a "must to know". Except in graphics computers (i don't know how to translate it..) vectors, phisics, weird stuff about the lights and shadows that I didn't trully understood, that one IS math heavy.

But as everything in this life, is just practice, and time.

Kitsune Inferno

In hindsight, I would've probably enjoyed science had it not been for said teacher.

Never have I seen such a disgusting display of bias.

@Maxter: Yeah, I've been working on that. Doesn't help that most of the school is filled with cowboys who could care less, and those preppy high-school kids who always talk shit about the teachers because it's "cool". However, I've been working on it with some of the people who actually go to learn. I guess that's what I get for starting in community college. :getlost:

Sai-chan

I love all my subjects. Some more than others, but I'm basically good in all of them. Especially Language Arts and History. Math and Science interest me a lot too, since I love math, but some math just gives me nightmares (fractions… density... D:) so I prefer Hist. and Lang. more. <3

I LOVE Biology though. :D Chemistry is fun too, especially conversions. <3

We had a thread like this at another forum I went on. We called it the 'Random Chat Thread' or RCT for short. It had like, waaaaaaay too many pages. I think it passed 10,000 pages a while ago... I haven't looked at it in a while though. It had the most pages on the entire forum, though.

maxterdexter

I actualy miss college, I didn't have to work in one proyect all year around, my "boss" changed every 3 months, my partners rotated, if I didn't like them I won't see them every day, if I did like them it wasn't weird to go and joke around with them, I could sleep ti'll 9 most of the days, I had hot water, I found weird and crazy creatures on my college room every month, the cat was the pet that I never had, never wanted to have, but would have been happy to have, as my "brothers" on that house.

And the study room.

It was practicaly MY Room. Well, not just mine, we were like a… guild? mafia? a mafia family. Those who didn't live on caracas just stayed there because it was better than go back to the rooms early, and just play or talk.. Once the group consolidated the locals would stay as well.

Now I'm lucky to make my workmates... (I think that word is wrong..) not eat at the chinesse restaurant just ouside the office and go the 3 blocks to the mall, nor the 6 blocks to the fancy mall.

Greg

Chemistry is fun too, especially conversions.

High school chem I presume.

Sai-chan

@Greg:

High school chem I presume.

Well, yeah. I ain't so smart to be in college/college level yet. xD But I still enjoy them. <3

Insider2000

I've already done all my science classes. Antropology (boring, but had the coolest teacher ever), Psychology (shit load of fun), and Biology (nice teacher and okay class….this was my Final Fantasy Dissidia class). My sisters always warned me about Biology. Chemistry is the REAL fucker. High school Chem wasn't bad. Boring as shit, but okay.

Any of you have to take 'Libral Studies'? It's these bullshit class relating to society and arts. I was forced to take four: Current Events (online class, pathetically easy), Eastern Religion (strangely easy despite my lack of interest), Disease and Its Effects on Western Society (HOW THE FUCK DID I PASS THIS CLASS!?!), and last but not least...THEATER!

Theater was the best fucking class ever! We had to learn the history of theater, and coming to class day after day was a HOOT!

"The name of the person who wrote the play is called 'the playwright'. Can anyone tell me why it is spelt 'wright' instead of 'write'?"
silence
"That is because English is the worst God damn language ever."

Outerspec

Chemistry and Society was pretty fun. That's the only Chemistry class I took in college though and the teacher was cool…even though he kicked me out one time because I didn't put my notes away fast enough before the quiz. Hoozah! I got an A in that class so who cares!

Kitsune Inferno

I have yet to take a college science class.

I'm dreading the day I actually have to take one, too.

Sai-chan

The theatre people at my school are weird. It's like they form a nonexistant cult for theatre and don't like any outsiders especially if they don't like theatre. o3o They don't like me very much.

maxterdexter

I always loved math, but when I started studying for the entrance test to college I really made me happy, it was a challenge, finnaly, my class was the mentality of "don't ask to make the class shorter" and as most of the subjects I didn't care, I complied, most of the time. So the classes for that test were exciting.

Physics and Chem, I liked them in hs, but once I learned that the teachers just were giving us a "extremly diluted" form of the subject, and I went to see the truth.. well, I wouldn't trade easy chem for anything of the "true" one. Phisics should have been less diluted though, specialy because the teacher was able to do more.

History here is… awfull, the same shit happened in this country 4 times, we are ending the 5th cicle as we speak. And learning the family tree of Simon Bolivar shouldn't be relevant. EVER.

Literature was lite as well, I didn't knew that my grammar and redaction skills were awfull 'till college, not counting my issues when there are words in spanish that are (vaya, valla) and there's no way to fit in my brain the diference. Again, conformist teacher. And the fact that most highschool literature here is about "a house in the savana where a family learns their DARK secret, involves incest" 3 times, 3 authors, 3 books that are practicly the same story.

And least Biology, once my favorite subject, it went down, hard, when the beautifull, smart and cool teacher was changed for the "hip" and kind of nice teacher, and then again to the bitch who keept insulting the students with backhanded coments, and reciting from the book for 2 years.

Kitsune Inferno

I LOVED getting to act in English and Communications. It's always fun, especially if you're the only one acting. (Or one of maybe two)

I always got cast as the hero's rival or the primary antagonist. Never did I get to be Hamlet or Romeo. :unsure:

maxterdexter

Only in english we made plays, or rather "people finding each other at the mall and saying hi, how are you, thanks, this is my mom".

freedom

@Kitsune:

Hmmm, perhaps I can employ you in my eventual game development corporation.

But yeah, I've been fiddling around in Blender. I wish I could afford 3dsmax or Maya

I am Minoring in Business as well.

Oh how I remember the days when this was my dream.

I'll just say that depending on the area you want to specialize in for game development, the level of maths varies greatly.
I've done programming with OpenGL, and writing graphics libraries from scratch.
I've done bezier curves, and all kinds of models. In the end, I went back to embedded systems. Graphics was just too much intense math for me. But I was not a straight A student in college. I figured I'd try to get a rainbow of grades :silly:

Oh wait, I just realized you talked about playing around in Blender, I remember playing with that too.
That's more Graphic Design, then game programming though. So, if it's graphic design you're going for, I say go all the way.
You could also get into designing ads, and what not on the side, it could be a good living.

Kitsune Inferno

Well, I'm aiming to be more "well-rounded", but I want to focus primarily on Game Programming. It would help to be able to do multiple tasks related to the field.

Or maybe I still have the amateur developer mindset of "do everything, nobody else will do it for you" :unsure:

LaCaSiNa

Oh hey, I signed up for an optional 3D graphics/animation course and they told us that we'll be using Blender. Can anyone tell me if it's hard or easy to learn?

Kitsune Inferno

Thus far it's been pretty simple. I can link you to the Wikibook I've been using.

Here we are:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

MagneticMonkey

Freedom is now giving math classes… :)
I didn't see someone using the formula a^2 - b^2 = (a + b) * (a - b)
That would have helped a lot while solving his whatever they call it in english stuff.

Mr. Zoro

I'm a Chemistry major, so yeah…

My dad is a chemistry professor, so that's probably where I get the interest from. ^_^

Airflow

Dropped chemistry in Year 10 and never looked back. Only subject that was anywhere near as bad was latin.

I'm a history/politics/philosophy man with a sprinkling of maths.

Fire-Fist

~~programming anyone?~~

yea totally hated chemistry. I was unlucky to get a B on 89% in my A levels though.

trappedolphin

huzzah, a general discussion thread!

i'm an English/Arts person. i took all three sciences in secondary school but my results were ugh, except for physics. i did find out that i'm allergic to bio, chem, and too many numbers, so that helped i guess.

currently, i'm majoring in psych, which i love. unfortunately we have to take stats modules and it's killing me. i can't read a news report or look at numbers/symbols of any kind without my mind immediately running off into a stats-related tangent, much to my own disgust. still, if that's what it takes…

someone mentioned something about stress! i completely identify. it's my second year at university and i'm still desperately trying to find the right pace. i have a rather unhealthy way of studying, which is to study from morning till night for particular days, and completely playing other days away.

@Fire-Fist:

~~programming anyone?~~

yea totally hated chemistry. I was unlucky to get a B on 89% in my A levels though.

i got a C. i "threw away" that subject to concentrate on my other subjects because i figured it wouldn't make much of a difference whether i studied or not. (yeah, i was kinda reckless.)

maxterdexter

@trappedolphin:

currently, i'm majoring in psych, which i love. unfortunately we have to take stats modules and it's killing me. i can't read a news report or look at numbers/symbols of any kind without my mind immediately running off into a stats-related tangent, much to my own disgust. still, if that's what it takes…

I remember when I was scared shitless about having to see College Phisics 1 for a third time that I studied so hard that I started to see movement vectors in everything, clouds, birds, cars, the wheels, people's face and everything in them.

I survived the buster call

Classes that we are taking or took, huh? You said we could share old experiences, so I'm taking you at your word, KI. Hope it's still ok, and not now off topic.

Hardest classes? As an undergrad it was a program writing class–everyone did poorly in that class, so may have been a poor prof. I can't recall really now. Kept missing steps, or writing far too many steps when something simpler would have been better. Music theory at advanced levels was hard--very math based in many ways, surprisingly enough, lol. (I was a music major until senior year, then switched) I got by in math because I'd taken extra math as a senior in HS at the local JrCollege for HS credit, but since it was a college it counted, lol. I took aquatic bio and Astronomy for science classes. Had all my friends and my then b/f in the classes with me, so we all had a lot of fun, though we learned very little in the end lol.

As a grad student, I think I felt like things got easier because I could concentrate on what interested me more than as an undergrad taking required core classes, yk? You guys have something to look forward to, if you go on. Hardest classes that I recall were those which required a LOT of reading and writing--I mean reams of paper. Not hard work, just a lot of work, especially when you usually had other classes and most of us were working as well.

Maths? I was ok at it, passed and all with decent grades, but now I can hardly keep my checkbook in order.

Kitsune Inferno

Not off-topic at all. I presume you are/were a teacher then?

I survived the buster call

Sorry KI–I felt my post was way boring with too much detail, so I edited the hell out of it, and now your question look out of the blue. I just graduated and haven't gotten a job yet, but yes, I plan to be a teacher when I can... LOL

Vivvi

Ï currently studying maths, swedish, english, spanish, natural sciences, chemistry, computer science (I´m not sure what the name would be in english, but it´s about computers anyway ::P). I´m in high schoolright now and have no idea what I wanna study later, but probably something thecnichal :P

@I:

Sorry KI–I felt my post was way boring with too much detail, so I edited the hell out of it, and now your question look out of the blue. I just graduated and haven't gotten a job yet, but yes, I plan to be a teacher when I can... LOL

So what subjects/grades are you gonna teatch?

Kitsune Inferno

That sounds pretty good. :) Not immediately, but I plan to teach eventually, once I retire. Or before I retire, however that works out.