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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:43 pm
by Red Squirrel
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:48 pm
by Chris Vogel
I have gotten a lot, but they all became eyesores when I realised all I gave up to have them.
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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:10 pm
by Red Squirrel
What type of awards were they?
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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:21 pm
by Chris Vogel
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:28 pm
by Red Squirrel
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 5:34 pm
by jryan
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:20 pm
by Wren
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:34 pm
by Chris Vogel
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:42 pm
by Red Squirrel
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:50 pm
by Chris Vogel
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:10 pm
by Red Squirrel
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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School Awards
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:16 pm
by Chris Vogel
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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School Awards
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:42 am
by manadren_it
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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