@Dalmarus sorry I'm seeing this a bit late, but yeah I think that sounds good :) the room's fairly active and well moderated by our ROs IMO and not too strict on topic so I think it's a good place for new chat users
i wish i remembered much of anything in the past :3 i barely remember existing in early uni, high school i can only recount but i can't picture any memories, and anything before that does not exist in my brain
i filled a decent number of those without deviating too far from stuff i was interested in. covered one of them with a philosophy course that was basically just the CS logic course but easy mode
it was not too terrible for me but i am taking 1 combinatorics and 4 computer science courses this term so like. even though it may be more stressful i much prefer this
outside of my required courses i need to do 2 humanities, 2 social sciences, 1 pure and 1 pure/applied sciences, 3 depth (basically a chain of 3 requisites, which i covered using japanese language), one of anything outside of my faculty, and then one each from a list of communication courses
sometimes i read stuff from the notes during my. "studying". and then it makes no sense. and then literally during a final it suddenly makes sense to me and i feel like i am cheating and do not deserve to pass
@UnrelatedString it was nice but it also got me used to being able to just do well on things without needing to put work into things, which increasingly does not work in uni (i am in my last term before i finish my undergrad in CS at a program that is apparently very hard but i still don't even know how to study or take notes)
i still cannot focus on lectures (i am literally in class right now so uh, yeah.) and i still have no idea how to study properly and the worst thing is it still works :tfw:
i feel like that's approximately how it went for me as well, yeah. i wasn't bored because i just spent the time doing my own thing for the most part; spent a good chunk of class time playing minecraft with a friend because neither of us needed to do the math lessons and i aced every pretest so i didn't have to do any work and so that probably did terrible things for my ability to function as a student
and then in grade 6 that teacher left and we had a different teacher who i only had for 3 months fortunately but my brother had terrible experiences with her and she also got fired sometime later due to racism apparently?? my grade 7 teacher was meh, gave us some interesting opportunities but he was a long-term substitute. my grade 8 teacher had no idea what he was doing and he was permanent, my brother and i both did not like him
honestly, i do not know if the gifted program ended up helping or hindering my academics as a whole. in grade 5 and the first half+ of grade 6, i had a great teacher who is probably the only reason i survived the schooling system who actually knew how to deal with gifted kids (contrary to what everyone around me seems to think i am a TERRIBLE student and at the time i was academically behind because the only thing i cared about and was interested in was math)
the distribution of people in my gifted class was mathematically quite satisfying. 24 people so already a very nice number since it's highly divisible. 16:8 boys:girls (at the time, as far as discernible information goes), 12:12 grade 7:grade 8. of the 12 in my grade, 6 went to my HS, 3 to another, 2 to another, and 1 to another. no clue about the next grade
