Question #6

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This is in answer to the frozendoll meme I started earlier.

#6) Your favorite and least favorite subject in school

Biology was my favorite class in highschool. I liked all science, except chemistry, but biology was my favorite. I liked it so much I took it twice. The first time was the standard bio class sophomore year. Then senior year I took the AP version in the hopes of getting college credit for it. (That didn’t work as WPI did not accept AP credit for biology.)

In the sophomore class it was set up as a series of independent study modules that you could do in the order you wanted at the pace you wanted.
¾ of the way through the year I had finished all of them and some that they had never used before. So, for the last ¼ of the year the teacher had me sit in the back room and grade the other people’s submissions. (I was told never to tell anyone about that. But, it’s been more than 33 years I think it is OK.)
The senior year AP one was lots of fun as well.
Geometry was my second favorite subject and what I use to make my living now. So, it deserves some recognition as well.
In elementary school and junior high my favorite study was astronomy. But, I didn’t get any formal classes until my senior year of highschool. That’s when I found the text books I had been reading in 6-8th grade were college text books. So, while I still love astronomy, it was never a favorite school subject for me.

My least favorite was gym class. Although I did swim team and was in the best shape of my life, I did not get along with gym.
Mostly because of one gym teacher, Mr. Tucelli.
If you took the Incredible Hulk, took away the green and shrunk him to about 5’3” you’d get Mr. Tucelli.
He was also the defensive football coach and wanted me to join the team.
I hate football and always have. I said no.
So from that day freshman year, I was always the one picked as an example of things.
This actually did work to my advantage in his “dirty fighting” class he taught. But, most of the time it was to use me as an example for how you shouldn’t do things.
“Frank, throw the ball.” I would. “See if he had kept his hands together when he threw it, it might actually have gone where he wanted.”
Things like that.
For all four years.
But, as much as I didn’t like that, he was vastly better than the junior high gym teacher that I outright hated..

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[cissa.livejournal.com]

Well, gym class was my most-loathed, no doubt about that. I am not an athletic girl. Oddly, there were a few things I was decent in: at that point my eyes were good, and I could pull a heavy bow, so i did well in archery (to the disgust of my gym teachers); for some reason folk dancing was a gym class and i was OK at that (I apparently lost my rhythm later); and I had an odd and unexpected knack for power volleyball and certain field hockey positions.

Mostly, though, I was hopeless. Both uncoordinated and not game.

I can't honestly remember a favorite class. Even the ones in which I was interested in the subject had us doing crap that I was NOT interested in. Like, I wasn't fond of math but was good at it (excepting geometric proofs).

Mostly, my parents would go ballistic if i got less than an A (and then they';d demand why I hadn't gotten an A+), so I pretty much liked whatever classes it was less-hard to do that in for me.

I did like chem enough to major in it in college, particularly since my college had a really respected chem program. At that point I was aiming for vet school.