Unless your school has low standards for acceptance.
Actually my school looked at ACT and high school GPA (mine was a 3.6, so not what my ACT score implied). And my college isn't a crap college, just not as prestigious as others.
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Unless your school has low standards for acceptance.
Actually my school looked at ACT and high school GPA (mine was a 3.6, so not what my ACT score implied). And my college isn't a crap college, just not as prestigious as others.
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Unless your school has low standards for acceptance.
Actually my school looked at ACT and high school GPA (mine was a 3.6, so not what my ACT score implied). And my college isn't a crap college, just not as prestigious as others.
True true. Mine was easy to get into, but I needed money to be able to go there, and I knew I wasn't getting need-based aid. My unweighted GPA was 3.7, weighted was over 5. So I got into their selective honors program and got a huge amount of money. Going to a school that isn't prestigious is by no means a bad thing, especially financially.
Yeah, my school is considered cheap compared to other universities around the area. Plus, a lot of universities require you to stay on campus or commute. So I chose the university that's in my hometown and lived at home to save thousands of dollars. Plus, if you stay in the dorms you have to buy a meal plan here, so I'm saving hundreds of dollars there. College is just so ridiculously expensive. I'm glad that I like French and went through all four years in high school, otherwise I'd be paying thousands of dollars there, too. And I got a 3 or 4 credit class for free for taking an accounting class in high school. So I'm basically getting a free semester.
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That's good. School should be an investment financially, not a hardship. And languages are always good. I started Spanish in middle school and took it all the way through high school. Only 12 of us took the AP this year. I think it teaches you to think differently and helps you in other subjects as long as you're not struggling through it. It was not an easy class. APs were definitely worth it since I've basically got a semester full of credits before I've even started.
I did Spanish in middle school, but found it difficult and I wasn't into it that much. So in high school I switched to French and loved it and found it easy. It was weird, because everyone says that Spanish is an easier language to learn than French because of the pronunciation. With Spanish you can pretty much sound out every letter, which helps with spelling and reading. In French you're screwed if you try to pronounce every letter.
Foreign languages do teach you so much more than just the language itself. It helped my with English. I never knew how many words that we use in English are actually French words pronounced terribly.
And I learned more history/geography/civics in French that I did in any of my high school social studies classes. That could be credited to my lack of good social studies teachers, though.And I had a fantastic French teacher in high school, so that helps with everything, too.
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Exactly my problem with french.I did Spanish in middle school, but found it difficult and I wasn't into it that much. So in high school I switched to French and loved it and found it easy. It was weird, because everyone says that Spanish is an easier language to learn than French because of the pronunciation. With Spanish you can pretty much sound out every letter, which helps with spelling and reading. In French you're screwed if you try to pronounce every letter.
I'd love to learn it, but I'm going to finish Spanish first! Spanish is very phonetic, which I like, and I see why Spanish speakers have trouble with English. At least you were able to figure out the language didn't click and switched to one that did. Better idea than dropping it altogether.Foreign languages do teach you so much more than just the language itself. It helped my with English. I never knew how many words that we use in English are actually French words pronounced terribly.
And I had a fantastic French teacher in high school, so that helps with everything, too.
Fantastic teachers always help. My Spanish 1 teacher was great (and her daughter is named after me, but that's a different story) and was from Spain. I inherited her accent. An accent with a lisp that annoys some and amazes others, but I like it, so that's all that matters. My Spanish 2 teacher was great. A lot of the Spanish 1 kids got the other teacher who wasn't as good (actually, she was nuts) and she managed to catch them all up from a year of learning nothing. I went to visit her and had an entire conversation with her in Spanish. I'm sure she went and lectured her kids about working hard in Spanish and the results. We had daily lectures on life in general.
Several of my friends who took the AP credit her with even getting as far as they did. My spanish 3/6 teacher is tough and rather scary, but I give her a lot of credit for getting me ready for the exam and for knowing verbs as well as I do. It doesn't hurt that she's also a scorer and really brings her kids up to the level they need to be at for the exam. Spanish 4 teacher: horrible. Spent Spanish 5 catching up. Teacher was pretty good, but not as good as my Spanish 6 teacher. You definitely get a lot of culture. I stink a geography, though, so those map quizzes killed me. History can be pretty boring without the right teacher. I took AP World sophomore year (bad idea) and it was so boring. But she did teach us to write essays really well, even if I did teach myself a lot because she was so boring. I tutored in it the next year, and they got a second AP World Teacher who I discovered was way worse. I did get a 4 on the exam. I dropped back to Honors US history and my teacher was the best. He's really goofy and way too energetic in the morning, but he's great. That, and I was the teacher's pet. Which also meant I could get away with a little sassiness. My english is definitely better because of Spanish! Sentence parts, verbs, all these grammar thingys I didn't know existed until Spanish. The subjunctive, for instance. And yes, words like churro are spanish words pronounced badly, just like french
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Fantastic teachers always help. My Spanish 1 teacher was great (and her daughter is named after me, but that's a different story) and was from Spain. I inherited her accent. An accent with a lisp that annoys some and amazes others, but I like it, so that's all that matters. My Spanish 2 teacher was great. A lot of the Spanish 1 kids got the other teacher who wasn't as good (actually, she was nuts) and she managed to catch them all up from a year of learning nothing. I went to visit her and had an entire conversation with her in Spanish. I'm sure she went and lectured her kids about working hard in Spanish and the results. We had daily lectures on life in general.
My english is definitely better because of Spanish! Sentence parts, verbs, all these grammar thingys I didn't know existed until Spanish. The subjunctive, for instance. And yes, words like churro are spanish words pronounced badly, just like french
I'll just do some bullets instead of break up that entire block of text.
- I've never had a native speaking French (or Spanish) teacher, but I will when I start a French conversation class this fall because the normal one is going to be on leave. I'm excited for the opportunity to get a first hand look at the language, but also kind of nervous because I haven't ever had a 100% accurate French accent.
- I only had one Spanish teacher, and only one French teacher (though the French teacher does know and teach Spanish, too). There's not enough students here for there to be more than one French teacher (there's two Spanish). The only time I switched French teachers was when the normal one had twins. Her replacement was the old French teacher from when my dad was in school. She knew her stuff, but didn't speak in French the entire time. She also hates everyone.
- My French teacher was a very difficult grader for the first two years. She'd take off a half point for every accent you had wrong on homework assignments. So if you missed accents you were screwed. Then when she had her babies she decided to go for completion grades (as long as all of the answers weren't wrong). I got over 100% one quarter, and in my senior year I was 1% away from being the best student in the class. I just couldn't get to the top because of these two girls, and one was pretty much fluent it seemed like.
- I was really good at the map quizzes. I consistently got the class high scores with those. We had to learn all of the francophone countries in Africa and know how to spell them (accents and all) in French. We also had to learn all of the countries in Europe (again, accents and all) in French along with seas, and important bodies of water around Europe. Oh, and we also had to know where these were all located. Then we had to learn all of the regions in France (32 of them, accents and all), their capitals, and where they were located. On top of that we had to know stuff about the regions (like two or three things for each), and mountain ranges, rivers, etc in France. I'm glad I'm good at geography.
We also had to learn history about France. It was a boring unit, but we went from the beginning of the French language through the 19th century. The only part I was interested in was the French Revolution.
- We never wrote essays. We were supposed to, but we never did for some reason. But yet we read in old French for some reason.
- My history teachers consisted of the following: a fun one with great stories who lacked great teaching skills, a boring one who read from a textbook, and a crazy one (although nice) who got off topic way to easily... he told us about a lot of current events even though that wasn't the topic of the class - he also showed us random movies in civics (example: Gran Torino... why??)
- I didn't even know the subjunctive existed until I learned it in French.
- Another reason I didn't like Spanish was because I can't do the tongue roll for a double R.
- A word that is commonly mispronounced by Americans is "crêpe." Most people pronounce it as "crape" but there is no "A" in the word. That's one that always makes me mad.
Okay, I think I covered most of that. I might as well have written a book there.
Also sorry if there are typos, I didn't reread it.
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Be prepared, this is a rant.
So we called the dealership about my car today. Based on the information my mom gave the mechanic, they said it could be something as simple as a bad sensor or more brake fluid needed...or it could be $1000 repair. In which case my parents will go get my dad a new car over the weekend, my mom will get the Buick (less than a year old) and I will get the old SUV. We assumed this would eventually happen.
But then the guy from AAA who came to tow it took it to the wrong dealership! The other dealership called and told us they had my car. So then we had to call AAA again, call for another tow truck and have him take it to the right dealership. And it didn't get there until 5:30 when it should have been there at 1:30. So I won't get a diagnosis until at least tomorrow, if not Wednesday.
Sorry. A bit hard to lose your first car. You get attached
So we called the dealership about my car today. Based on the information my mom gave the mechanic, they said it could be something as simple as a bad sensor or more brake fluid needed...or it could be $1000 repair. In which case my parents will go get my dad a new car over the weekend, my mom will get the Buick (less than a year old) and I will get the old SUV. We assumed this would eventually happen.
But then the guy from AAA who came to tow it took it to the wrong dealership! The other dealership called and told us they had my car. So then we had to call AAA again, call for another tow truck and have him take it to the right dealership. And it didn't get there until 5:30 when it should have been there at 1:30. So I won't get a diagnosis until at least tomorrow, if not Wednesday.
Sorry. A bit hard to lose your first car. You get attached
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I'll just do some bullets instead of break up that entire block of text.
- I've never had a native speaking French (or Spanish) teacher, but I will when I start a French conversation class this fall because the normal one is going to be on leave. I'm excited for the opportunity to get a first hand look at the language, but also kind of nervous because I haven't ever had a 100% accurate French accent. Spanish 1 was the only native speaker, but I've got friends who are native speakers. For some reason I've retained the original accent.
- I only had one Spanish teacher, and only one French teacher (though the French teacher does know and teach Spanish, too). There's not enough students here for there to be more than one French teacher (there's two Spanish). The only time I switched French teachers was when the normal one had twins. Her replacement was the old French teacher from when my dad was in school. She knew her stuff, but didn't speak in French the entire time. She also hates everyone.
- My French teacher was a very difficult grader for the first two years. She'd take off a half point for every accent you had wrong on homework assignments. So if you missed accents you were screwed. Then when she had her babies she decided to go for completion grades (as long as all of the answers weren't wrong). I got over 100% one quarter, and in my senior year I was 1% away from being the best student in the class. I just couldn't get to the top because of these two girls, and one was pretty much fluent it seemed like.
- I was really good at the map quizzes. I consistently got the class high scores with those. We had to learn all of the francophone countries in Africa and know how to spell them (accents and all) in French. We also had to learn all of the countries in Europe (again, accents and all) in French along with seas, and important bodies of water around Europe. Oh, and we also had to know where these were all located. Then we had to learn all of the regions in France (32 of them, accents and all), their capitals, and where they were located. On top of that we had to know stuff about the regions (like two or three things for each), and mountain ranges, rivers, etc in France. I'm glad I'm good at geography.
We also had to learn history about France. It was a boring unit, but we went from the beginning of the French language through the 19th century. The only part I was interested in was the French Revolution. It becomes more interesting with Les Mis thrown in.
- We never wrote essays. We were supposed to, but we never did for some reason. But yet we read in old French for some reason.No essays? I had one every other week by the time I was in Spanish 6!
- My history teachers consisted of the following: a fun one with great stories who lacked great teaching skills, a boring one who read from a textbook, and a crazy one (although nice) who got off topic way to easily... he told us about a lot of current events even though that wasn't the topic of the class - he also showed us random movies in civics (example: Gran Torino... why??)
- I didn't even know the subjunctive existed until I learned it in French.same here
- Another reason I didn't like Spanish was because I can't do the tongue roll for a double R.
- A word that is commonly mispronounced by Americans is "crêpe." Most people pronounce it as "crape" but there is no "A" in the word. That's one that always makes me mad.
Okay, I think I covered most of that. I might as well have written a book there.
Also sorry if there are typos, I didn't reread it. I'm not the grammar police
Les Mis actually took place in the 19th century. I thought it took place during the French Revolution, too, but apparently it isn't. And then I watched the movie later and it does say at the very beginning that it's X amount of years after the French Revolution.
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You're right, but the history is still applicable.
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In case any of you is interested, my Disneyland trip report is linked in my signature. It's not done, and won't be done for several days, but there's plenty to read already!
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Car update: Apparently there was something wrong with the brakes and something with the back axle, so it's going to get repaired. 
It's $500, but certainly better than having it go completely.
It's $500, but certainly better than having it go completely.
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Well I'm glad we got that whole quest thing outta our system before it became too ridiculous. I found this video showing the dangers of quest addiction.
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I'm still wondering where the trash can is in the room...
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@Darth Tater, love your new signature.
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He looks remarkably good for someone who disposes of trash and terrorizes certain children who are now teens that I've met
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