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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:24
Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I posted that because I felt that highschool=adulthood. My view hasn't changed. In other news: This is how I feel trying to convert bronies (which also happens to be my wallpaper: 

oh haha


I wish I was still in school. At least i'd have something to do then.
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:25
Originally posted by topographicbroadways topographicbroadways wrote:

Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I posted that because I felt that highschool=adulthood. My view hasn't changed. In other news: This is how I feel trying to convert bronies (which also happens to be my wallpaper: 

oh haha


I wish I was still in school. At least i'd have something to do then.

Your not attending Oxford like all stereotypical British people? Tongue
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I guess andy is right. They expect you to do work at a (at least) semi-adult level, but are still extremely condescending on you just for being a student, that's why I am going to finish reading Animal Farm in front of as many teachers as possible Tongue
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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:29
Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

Originally posted by topographicbroadways topographicbroadways wrote:

Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I posted that because I felt that highschool=adulthood. My view hasn't changed. In other news: This is how I feel trying to convert bronies (which also happens to be my wallpaper: 

oh haha


I wish I was still in school. At least i'd have something to do then.

Your not attending Oxford like all stereotypical British people? Tongue

LOL



I actually know somebody who got into Cambridge this year.


I wish I was clever enough for that. It'd have probably been useful
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Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I guess andy is right. They expect you to do work at a (at least) semi-adult level, but are still extremely condescending on you just for being a student, that's why I am going to finish reading Animal Farm in front of as many teachers as possible Tongue

Oh no it's not the teachers it's the students.

And Animal Farm? Please, that's like 100 pages long and not a very hard read. Read The Fountainhead if you want to "impress" your teachers, although they won't care anyway. 
The teachers expect you to be adults because they're training you to be an adult. That's essentially what school is. It's just lazy teenagers who don't get that and act like they're 5, which gives the image that all teenagers are 5. It's a vicious cycle.
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:33
Man.

This convo reminds me of high school.
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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:36
Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I guess andy is right. They expect you to do work at a (at least) semi-adult level, but are still extremely condescending on you just for being a student, that's why I am going to finish reading Animal Farm in front of as many teachers as possible Tongue

Oh no it's not the teachers it's the students.

And Animal Farm? Please, that's like 100 pages long and not a very hard read. Read The Fountainhead if you want to "impress" your teachers, although they won't care anyway. 
The teachers expect you to be adults because they're training you to be an adult. That's essentially what school is. It's just lazy teenagers who don't get that and act like they're 5, which gives the image that all teenagers are 5. It's a vicious cycle.
I'll have to check Fountainhead out. Also, I learned that Brave New World is on the required reading list for E1H, but I already read it and don't like re-reading books Disapprove /firstworldproblems 
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Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I guess andy is right. They expect you to do work at a (at least) semi-adult level, but are still extremely condescending on you just for being a student, that's why I am going to finish reading Animal Farm in front of as many teachers as possible Tongue

Oh no it's not the teachers it's the students.

And Animal Farm? Please, that's like 100 pages long and not a very hard read. Read The Fountainhead if you want to "impress" your teachers, although they won't care anyway. 
The teachers expect you to be adults because they're training you to be an adult. That's essentially what school is. It's just lazy teenagers who don't get that and act like they're 5, which gives the image that all teenagers are 5. It's a vicious cycle.
I'll have to check Fountainhead out. Also, I learned that Brave New World is on the required reading list for E1H, but I already read it and don't like re-reading books Disapprove /firstworldproblems 

I had to read A Brave New World for IB English this summer Shocked
I liked 1984 better.
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I've pretty much read everything we read in my English class this year, The Road, 1984, Brave New World, etc.
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Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I guess andy is right. They expect you to do work at a (at least) semi-adult level, but are still extremely condescending on you just for being a student, that's why I am going to finish reading Animal Farm in front of as many teachers as possible Tongue



Reading famous literature=/=High intelligence
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:38
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Man.

This convo reminds me of high school.

INORITE


omg 11 days till day 1 Cool
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Always carry around some Kafka to impress people.
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Originally posted by topographicbroadways topographicbroadways wrote:

Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I guess andy is right. They expect you to do work at a (at least) semi-adult level, but are still extremely condescending on you just for being a student, that's why I am going to finish reading Animal Farm in front of as many teachers as possible Tongue



Reading famous literature=/=High intelligence

tru dat


However,

High intelligence=High intelligence
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Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Always carry around some Kafka to impress people.


I carried it around for about a month and then it was Rimbaud. Cool
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Always carry around some Kafka to impress people.

Or Dostoyevsky
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Notes From Underground was boss.
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I couldn't carry any Rimbaud, because I don't poetry.
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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:42
1984 was good, but I thought that it was just too unrealistic, I mean yes people will want power, yes people want control, but the only way to get that is to have your people let you do that to them, not re-writing history (within living people's lifetimes) and making a new language. What was the point of Newspeak anyway? Also, for the first half of the book I thought it was News peak. LOL I really want to read The Road, but I will probably just end up watching the movie. I have to read Romeo and Juliet this year too, I don't know what it is, but I just hate Shakespeare.
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The Road is a must-read. It's spine-tingling good.
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:43
Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

Notes From Underground was boss.

I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov right now, and I have to read Crime and Punishment this year as well.

OMG The Oedipus Cycle is on my book list this year as well yusssssss


And Anthem as well Big smile

This is going to be an epic year in English. And my teacher is my best friend's mom so *bonus points*
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