School Awards

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:43 pm

For those of you in school, anyone get any awards?

I got 4.

- for always being on time and not one day absent
- over acheived in co-op
- over acheived in English
- over acheived in Physics

My name was in the newspaper as well as they showed all the awards.

Anyone else get awards? Share.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:48 pm

I have gotten a lot, but they all became eyesores when I realised all I gave up to have them.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:10 pm

What type of awards were they?

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:21 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: What type of awards were they?

Various things, really. Knowledge bowl awards, reading awards, outstanding achievement awards, etc.

I have gotten perfect attendance awards for a long time too, but all you have to do is not miss a day for those, so it isn't a big deal.

I hate talking about these things because I always feel like I am bragging.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:28 pm

Yeah high attendance ones are quite easy to get. I know a girl who comes to school for the first week then skips all the way then takes her exam, I'm not sure whether she passes or not, but I find they should not allow that. If you miss more than X days for unknown reasons they should make you fail, but if it's a good reason such as sickness than it does not count. But it's not like that.

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 5:34 pm

I got a "Special Recognition for contribution to Theatre" along with a $20 gift certificate for a local music store, seeing as I give "Sound" advice (As was put in the card they gave me.) For those of you who don't know (I think Red's the only one on this forum that does) I do Lighting and Sound for my school's theatre, so a large portion of my time is dedicated to that.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:20 pm

It's always good to read about young people doing great things.

You're not bragging, tak. I like to hear about people's achievements.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:34 pm

I do Lighting and Sound for my school's theatre, so a large portion of my time is dedicated to that.

That seems like a neat thing to do.

I would love to do something like that, but I am not really the theatre type of person. I'm more of the math and science type person. I can't "think outside the box" as the old cliché goes...

I wish I could though.

I admire those kinds of people that can make beautiful things like music and art.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:42 pm

Nope, it's not bragging at all.

I got a 99% average in math.

Now that is bragging (coming from me) because I actually got a 30.

But I worked hard for that 30.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:50 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Nope, it's not bragging at all.

I got a 99% average in math.

Now that is bragging (coming from me) because I actually got a 30.

But I worked hard for that 30.

Everyone has his or her weak points, Red.

You're fluent in two languages, know multiple computer languages, etc. I would kill for that!

I can't wait to learn more languages. That is what I want to spend most of my life doing.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:10 pm

Yep, and being good in PCs but bad in math, I just don't understand why so many people associate both together.

You don't need to be able to know 10 formulas by heart and use them 100 different ways to install a video card or network a fiber network.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:16 pm

You don't need to be able to know 10 formulas by heart and use them 100 different ways to install a video card or network a fiber network.

Perhaps learning about computers is more practical than learning a million different formulae.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:42 am

I didn't really get anything in high school.. that I remember anyway. Thoguh my diploma was an honors diploma with gpa and nhs awards. But the gpa things was just for keeping a 3.5 average, honors for taking advanced courses, and nhs jus tfor being in the national honor soceity. Funny thing about nhs though. I stopped goign to the meeting after the 2nd or 3rd one... then I basically decided it wasn't worth my time and stopped going thinking I'd quit. But when it came graduation time they didn't know that, so I bs-ed some community service hours. Never got my special sash, never was in the club picture, but I still got the little sticker on my diploma, and that's all that matters

At ECPI [a technical college] I got attendance and academic awards all the time, but the classes were easy as crap, and I was late for class all the time, so I never really put much thought into them.

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