The Academic Thread

[Jukka the Sling]

@Mhera:  Interesting.  ^_^

@Soren:  ...Wow.  Congrats!

[Skyblade]

Thanks, Mhera. I'll keep writing

Cool, Soren!

But you do have to go through training first, which takes about a... year(?) and costs a couple thousand bucks, I think.  Anyway, I don't know what I wanna do.   What job do you want?

Okay, well keep thinking

I don't know which job I want It's why I don't know my major.

Thanks for asking Jukka, quite thoughtful of you

[Banya]

I'll just say "Sounds great!" to you all because it really does.  You all seem to be in a good place at the moment with regards to your future plans and current academic standings.

In a recent fit of exhaustion (with 18.5 years of schooling behind me already), I considered dropping a major.  This would clear me of extensive foreign language study and allow lighter course loads for the next 3 semesters, as well as enabling me to return to Istanbul next summer.  Lots of pros to dropping a major, but I've made it this far, so as it stands now, I'm keeping my two majors and continuing with my current foreign language, including studying intensively through the summer.  But I can't wait to be done, and the end doesn't seem very near.

[Wylder Treejumper]

Hmph, y'all are just copying me. I've wanted to go into aerospace engineering since I was 8 years old.

Well, actually I wanted to be a fighter jet pilot, but my vision is terrible and, of course, uncorrectable, so I decided I would design the vehicles rather than fly them.

[Banya]

I remember your saying that before.  A friend of mine just graduated with a degree in aerospace engineering two weeks ago.

[Delthion]

Hmph, y'all are just copying me. I've wanted to go into aerospace engineering since I was 8 years old.

Well, actually I wanted to be a fighter jet pilot, but my vision is terrible and, of course, uncorrectable, so I decided I would design the vehicles rather than fly them.

I was wanting to do something more along the lines of NASA...

[Hickory]

Hmph, y'all are just copying me. I've wanted to go into aerospace engineering since I was 8 years old.

Well, actually I wanted to be a fighter jet pilot, but my vision is terrible and, of course, uncorrectable, so I decided I would design the vehicles rather than fly them.

Ha, I wanted to do that to. 'Course, my dad was in the Air Force, as a civil engineer... The interest sort of faded away.

[Wylder Treejumper]

Hmph, y'all are just copying me. I've wanted to go into aerospace engineering since I was 8 years old.

Well, actually I wanted to be a fighter jet pilot, but my vision is terrible and, of course, uncorrectable, so I decided I would design the vehicles rather than fly them.

I was wanting to do something more along the lines of NASA...

Well, yeah, my interests have evolved over time. Now, I wouldn't mind working for SpaceX (I can't deal with gov. bureaucracy at NASA), and colonizing Mars is my ultimate ambition.

Although I did think about majoring in music... for about 5 seconds.

[Delthion]

My ultimate ambition is finding some way to travel at the speed of light, or faster, whichever comes first!

Also I really want to see nebulae.

[Wylder Treejumper]

First: Warpdrive or wormholes are the only possible solution to that problem.

Second:

You can't actually see nebulae with the naked eye, those are filtered by wavelength to have color.

[Banya]

I enjoy stabbing the life out of people's hopes and dreams with the knife of truth, too.

[Skyblade]

It's painful, but it must be done, I suppose

[Hickory]

I enjoy stabbing the life out of people's hopes and dreams with the knife of truth, too.

THE WORLD ISN'T FLAT! http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-flat-earth-bob-diss-track-20160126-story.html

[Mhera]

As for current school work, I'm on track to finish up the year (or at least most of it) by the end of next month...

Due life stuff, myself, and a quirk of homeschooling (namely, the ability for more course work to be spontaneously added at the discretion of the supervisor), this did not happen. Not a big deal (it should only be... I don't know, however long it'll take to read and be tested on a couple thousand pages of miscellaneous subjects), but I'm significantly less motivated

That said, English (or Literature, or English/Literature (the name isn't important, right? )) has gotten much more tolerable lately. After I had to give the family a rather painful oral summary of The House of Seven Gables, my dad decided I should be reading (his words) "proper literature", suggesting Heinlein instead of Hemingway. Since science fiction wasn't quite what my mom had in mind at the start of the year, a middle ground was found on first The Screwtape Letters and now with The Lord of the Rings. Much better than the The Great Gatsby

(No, we're not making (all) this up as we go along. I assure that there is a method to our madness.)

[Skyblade]

Yeah, school is tough. English sounds good, anyway