RavynousHunter on 27/4/2009 at 17:25
I, too, have started using statistical analysis in designing game systems (like D&D, not the Xbox). Knowing how to determine probabilities is good in making sure you keep the game fair, but challenging. Personally, while most of my classes did cover their subjects in "a very surface manner," some of my classes, like Statistics, did go rather deep into their given subject matter.
Personally, I think weather or not you go "deep" into a subject is more dependent on teacher and not school. All my school really did was dictate -what- the teachers taught, not -how-; which is probably why they went so deep into their subjects.
Then again, I was one of those kids who actually did research into their classes outside of school because the class was still going too slow for him. :laff:
ilweran on 27/4/2009 at 18:11
Quote Posted by Taffer36
Honestly I really want to say that if you can't at least find a few friends in a school of a thousand or if you can't get along with people, even on a superficial level, then you might not be trying hard enough. BUT like I said I haven't really seen any bullying (unless I'm not looking hard enough) so I can't really judge people who were in schools where it may have been a serious problem.
My school was split socially by class and where you lived and there wasn't much mixing between the two groups in my day, although by the time my sister started this had improved.
My group of friends did include a girl from the nice middle-class area and when two boys who were also part of the group started bullying her I supported her against them. Funnily enough I didn't particularly like her but hated the two boys and disapproved of how they treated her. After having a knife thrown at me and being pushed out in front of a car I stopped pretending any of the group were in any way friends. Unfortunately as the whole year agreed I'd grassed up my friends none of them wanted anything to do with me.
It didn't help that I was quiet, liked reading and listened to the wrong music.
