~The Council Of Youngers of BYC! (COY)~

[eenie114]

lol, that's what I was thinking when in chemistry we were given some ear-bashing about why Van der Waals forces increase with molecular mass. My answer: BECAUSE THEY DO.

You wanna know though? If a number is rational it can be represented by a fraction m/n where m and n are both integers and have no common factors besides 1 and -1.
However if you take "sqrt2 = m/n" (square root of 2 as a fraction) and do some rearranging, you'll arrive at a contradictory answer, and therefore the conclusion is that no such fraction can be reached and therefore square root of 2 is irrational.

I'd write the whole thing out but it's kind of impossible to do fractions and powers here without it looking ridiculous, lol.

Well you're almost there! The last year is always the best round here, at my school the year 12s have their own common room, and get to do a run through the school grounds making lots of miscallaneous noise at the end of the year. There are lots of fun year 12 events to be silly in. (Exams not included.) Do you guys have any of that?

Yeah, I knew all that, but it takes some remembering and mental energy that I was not at all willing to devote to the cause.

Thanks, though.

Alas, I am homeschooled, and what's more, as of this semester I am a homeschooler without a co-op, so I literally am the entire class all by myself. So I have to finish this year and then year 12 and then I'm FREE. Free to go onto the next class, that is.

 

[Fierlin1182]

Yeah, I knew all that, but it takes some remembering and mental energy that I was not at all willing to devote to the cause. Thanks, though.

 Alas, I am homeschooled, and what's more, as of this semester I am a homeschooler without a co-op, so I literally am the entire class all by myself. So I have to finish this year and then year 12 and then I'm FREE. Free to go onto the next class, that is.

Oh great! I didn't know any of it, so I was up for going on incessantly as soon as I'd actually acquired some tiny speck of knowledge. (If you couldn't already tell, I'm not very good at maths It's the only part of this whole engineering business I've been slightly concerned about. But I got through HL Maths in IB with a 6, so I should be able to, you know, pass. lol.)

That's pretty interesting, I can't imagine being a class by myself. I think I would get a bit lonely. But yay for impending freedom!

 

[Fierlin1182]

Well how about some updates on everyone's favourite iconic Australian airline? Qantas's credit rating recently got slashed to junk status, and the government refuses to give them a handout, debt guarantee or any sympathy. Left with no other choice, Qantas has committed to the axing of 5000 jobs in an attempt to maintain the feasibility of its corporate bonuses keep the airline afloat and save the rest of the workers. The prime minister's come up with a dandy solution though, proposing to lift Qantas's foreign ownership restrictions and flog the airline off to the Middle East, opening up a brand new export industry: Australian jobs (source: Bill Shorten. The standard of insults in Australian politics has really been improving recently!) This bill is probably going to be stalled by Labor and the Greens in the senate, so while democracy enacts its usual bureacratic inefficiency over in Canberra nothing will change at Qantas, which will continue down the route of gradual disappearance from the skies.

 

[eenie114]

Oh great! I didn't know any of it, so I was up for going on incessantly as soon as I'd actually acquired some tiny speck of knowledge. (If you couldn't already tell, I'm not very good at maths

It's the only part of this whole engineering business I've been slightly concerned about. But I got through HL Maths in IB with a 6, so I should be able to, you know, pass. lol.)

That's pretty interesting, I can't imagine being a class by myself. I think I would get a bit lonely.

But yay for impending freedom!

Wait, you're an engineering student who hasn't displayed a natural inclination for mathematics? This is a new concept to me.

Hopefully after we move I'll be able to take college classes in my last year of highschool. That is, if all this paperwork ever gets resolved. You know, it's really hard to attend orientation meetings when you're out-of-state!

 

[ducklingsweety]

Well don't get too offended. A lot of "misunderstandings" can happen on the internet, because all you can see are words. You hear no tone of voice, see no body language or facial expressions; which is mainly how we as humans interact. I understand where your coming from though.

So do you have ducks? Your username suggests you might...but you never know!

nope! no ducks!

 

[Fierlin1182]

Oh great! I didn't know any of it, so I was up for going on incessantly as soon as I'd actually acquired some tiny speck of knowledge. (If you couldn't already tell, I'm not very good at maths It's the only part of this whole engineering business I've been slightly concerned about. But I got through HL Maths in IB with a 6, so I should be able to, you know, pass. lol.)


That's pretty interesting, I can't imagine being a class by myself. I think I would get a bit lonely. But yay for impending freedom!

Wait, you're an engineering student who hasn't displayed a natural inclination for mathematics? This is a new concept to me.

 Hopefully after we move I'll be able to take college classes in my last year of highschool. That is, if all this paperwork ever gets resolved. You know, it's really hard to attend orientation meetings when you're out-of-state!

That's right, my maths isn't fantastic. My areas of semi-expertise (okay, that's a stretch) and nerdy extracurricular reading are chemistry and physics. Unfortunately such degrees aren't particularly conducive to the acquiring of a job in their respective fields, and I've always been rubbish at research anyway. Thought I would prefer to do something more observably useful to society. So I'm willing to put up with some maths because engineering is cool. On rare occasions, I begin to have an idea of what I'm actually supposed to be doing, but usually I just waffle my way through the questions and fortunately I seem to have a penchant for somehow reaching the correct answer. Or at least displaying acceptable evidence of intelligence somewhere along the way, which the IB liberally awards marks for as well.

That sounds awesome! What subjects? Hope it works out for you. Don't worry too much about orientation, if it's anything like this university they'll still be offering tours well into the first week. I completed all the enrolment tasks from another continent despite them labelling the enrolment support sessions as "compulsory to attend" - as most of it's done on the internet they have tutorials on there anyway, and it didn't turn out to be too difficult.

 

[eenie114]

That's right, my maths isn't fantastic. My areas of semi-expertise (okay, that's a stretch) and nerdy extracurricular reading are chemistry and physics.

Unfortunately such degrees aren't particularly conducive to the acquiring of a job in their respective fields, and I've always been rubbish at research anyway. Thought I would prefer to do something more observably useful to society.

So I'm willing to put up with some maths because engineering is cool. On rare occasions, I begin to have an idea of what I'm actually supposed to be doing, but usually I just waffle my way through the questions and fortunately I seem to have a penchant for somehow reaching the correct answer. Or at least displaying acceptable evidence of intelligence somewhere along the way, which the IB liberally awards marks for as well.

That sounds awesome! What subjects? Hope it works out for you. Don't worry too much about orientation, if it's anything like this university they'll still be offering tours well into the first week. I completed all the enrolment tasks from another continent despite them labelling the enrolment support sessions as "compulsory to attend" - as most of it's done on the internet they have tutorials on there anyway, and it didn't turn out to be too difficult.

Pffff... I barely survived physical science my freshman year. (That would be year 9 for you.

) I learned everything for the test and forgot it the next day. I can't imagine what the higher-level stuff is like. By the way, what I bolded just described my entire life.

Not sure what subjects- while I struggle in math, I'm in the 95th percentile in the country for English/reading, so I'm hoping to knock out some credits in those areas. Literature, composition, et cetera. That part about another continent is very comforting, so thanks. I'm hoping that if I manage to sound really adorable on the phone, (yeah, right!) they will let me bend rules.

 

[Fierlin1182]

Pffff... I barely survived physical science my freshman year. (That would be year 9 for you. ) I learned everything for the test and forgot it the next day. I can't imagine what the higher-level stuff is like. By the way, what I bolded just described my entire life.

 Not sure what subjects- while I struggle in math, I'm in the 95th percentile in the country for English/reading, so I'm hoping to knock out some credits in those areas. Literature, composition, et cetera. That part about another continent is very comforting, so thanks. I'm hoping that if I manage to sound really adorable on the phone, (yeah, right!) they will let me bend rules.

I did that for biochemistry, which I remember virtually nothing about these days. After I spent so long memorising how to draw a glucose molecule too... (Don't be fooled by the symmetrical simplicity of the chemical formula) I guess it all depends on one's interests. I was considering dropping biochem, but I'd already switched out of medicines & drugs (my school seemed to be of the opinion that everyone willingly studying chemistry was doing so to become a doctor) and I didn't feel like teaching another topic to myself, because that was what it was coming down to.

Thanks for all the year level conversions, by the way. I still haven't managed to compile a comprehensive directory of American terms, despite having watched at least a few minutes of every well-known movie to come out of Hollywood (some of them four times - our TV stations are very creative like that, or they just like their profits.)

Well that's brilliant, you should do quite well in those subjects then. They shouldn't be too stringent if circumstances beyond your control are involved, there are usually pathways available to accommodate all sorts of new arrivals I reckon trying to sound awesome on the phone is easier sometimes, because one doesn't have to expend energy on making sure one is making the appropriate amount of eye contact. So good luck!

 

[chickenboy190]

eh, tea is way better!

I love tea!

 

[ducklingsweety]

I love tea!

thank you!