- Jan 15, 2005
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Wow. I never thought I'd enjoy school. But guess waht? Guess the hell what?
IM TAKING ROBOTICS! This term I'm doing the engineering theories behind robots. Ex: the motors in robots (horsepowers, rotors, torque), mechanics behind robotics (pulleys, levers, etc), cooling the robot (radiators, etc)
-Next term I'm taking Robot Machine Shop where you physically create the robot.
-Next term is programming the robot using C++ (oh boy I'm going to have a hard time with this one , hard, but FUN!).
Then after that we do a "FIRST" competition (I forgot what it stands for) - where we build a Robot for a specific task. Ex: I saw a video of some kids in our school building a robot that swung on monkey bars!
Hmm...... let's see. Other courses?
The Good:
-Physics sounds fun. The majority of the wor dwill be hands on, not much textbook work, not many tests becuase my teacher feels they're a waste of time (she gives us end-of-term tests, midterms and finals, and a few assessments - but nothing else relaly).
-Math is all computerized (we do it all in Mathematica 5, a program designed by a physicist who hated math so he made his own program) and it's hands on. French
-French is fun as usual. I have a lot of fun attempting to speak the language (and our teacher insults us in french and we have to insult him back, the entire course is spoken in french, no english at all (some, but not a lot )).
-Engineering (Bridge construction, motion, thermaldynamics, etc)! One project (out of MANY) that we do is build a shopping cart that goes "up" (the bottom of the cart goes up) so that as you empty the cart, you don't have to bend your back reaching over for the items.
-Research Seminar - the majority of us will be going to the science fair so we'll be doing a large science project (I'm doing something that will cool your CPU, perhaps a new type of heatsink or something or another - I haven't figured it out yet). A few years in the past a few kids invented soap that changed color when al lthe dirt from your hand was gone and got patents. One kid made a device that could delay the "Walk" signal so that old people (ex: her grandpa) could get across in time and won a patent for that. In this course we'll have to contact some companies for more information and stuff (like the aformentioned person had to contact the FCC and the government) - so we'll be doign a Technical writing (see below) course to be able to talk to them.
Some electives that I might take
-"Drawing on the other side of the brain" is a cool elective. Kids that can't draw take this course, it teaches you how to use the right side of the brain (more mechanical, practical, and "straight" really) instead of the left side, which is more creative. Blah - it's just a blowoff elective just to make the year go by quicker.
-Robotics stuff mentioned above
-Electronics and Microchips - Insane eh?
-Cooking (Again, blowoff course to get a good grade, eat food, and have fun at the same time)
Our school has a reputation for .. erm ... hacking
. Too many computer geeks there --> Some kid put a smileyface on the president's webpage. Holy crap.
Hmm, we get our own Linux computer, they give us an ASSLOAD of software:
-Putty (to access our linux machines at home)
-AutoCAD (I had a ton of fun with this one at school)
-Visual Studio .NET 2003
-J2SDK with Netbeans IDE
-MATLab
-Mathematica 5
-Other stuff I can't remember.
-photoshop, macrimedia studio, the usual blahblah
The Bad
-English is boring. Sucks. Blah.
-Technical writing (to be used with Research Seminar, see above)
-Only 50 kids, BUT some nice girls there though.
The Ugly:
-US History sucks.
I look forward to having a fun year, but I know there'll be some MAJOR downhills along the road with an assload of work and such.
-The Pentium Guy
IM TAKING ROBOTICS! This term I'm doing the engineering theories behind robots. Ex: the motors in robots (horsepowers, rotors, torque), mechanics behind robotics (pulleys, levers, etc), cooling the robot (radiators, etc)
-Next term I'm taking Robot Machine Shop where you physically create the robot.
-Next term is programming the robot using C++ (oh boy I'm going to have a hard time with this one , hard, but FUN!).
Then after that we do a "FIRST" competition (I forgot what it stands for) - where we build a Robot for a specific task. Ex: I saw a video of some kids in our school building a robot that swung on monkey bars!
Hmm...... let's see. Other courses?
The Good:
-Physics sounds fun. The majority of the wor dwill be hands on, not much textbook work, not many tests becuase my teacher feels they're a waste of time (she gives us end-of-term tests, midterms and finals, and a few assessments - but nothing else relaly).
-Math is all computerized (we do it all in Mathematica 5, a program designed by a physicist who hated math so he made his own program) and it's hands on. French
-French is fun as usual. I have a lot of fun attempting to speak the language (and our teacher insults us in french and we have to insult him back, the entire course is spoken in french, no english at all (some, but not a lot )).
-Engineering (Bridge construction, motion, thermaldynamics, etc)! One project (out of MANY) that we do is build a shopping cart that goes "up" (the bottom of the cart goes up) so that as you empty the cart, you don't have to bend your back reaching over for the items.
-Research Seminar - the majority of us will be going to the science fair so we'll be doing a large science project (I'm doing something that will cool your CPU, perhaps a new type of heatsink or something or another - I haven't figured it out yet). A few years in the past a few kids invented soap that changed color when al lthe dirt from your hand was gone and got patents. One kid made a device that could delay the "Walk" signal so that old people (ex: her grandpa) could get across in time and won a patent for that. In this course we'll have to contact some companies for more information and stuff (like the aformentioned person had to contact the FCC and the government) - so we'll be doign a Technical writing (see below) course to be able to talk to them.
Some electives that I might take
-"Drawing on the other side of the brain" is a cool elective. Kids that can't draw take this course, it teaches you how to use the right side of the brain (more mechanical, practical, and "straight" really) instead of the left side, which is more creative. Blah - it's just a blowoff elective just to make the year go by quicker.
-Robotics stuff mentioned above
-Electronics and Microchips - Insane eh?
-Cooking (Again, blowoff course to get a good grade, eat food, and have fun at the same time)
Our school has a reputation for .. erm ... hacking
Hmm, we get our own Linux computer, they give us an ASSLOAD of software:
-Putty (to access our linux machines at home)
-AutoCAD (I had a ton of fun with this one at school)
-Visual Studio .NET 2003
-J2SDK with Netbeans IDE
-MATLab
-Mathematica 5
-Other stuff I can't remember.
-photoshop, macrimedia studio, the usual blahblah
The Bad
-English is boring. Sucks. Blah.
-Technical writing (to be used with Research Seminar, see above)
-Only 50 kids, BUT some nice girls there though.
The Ugly:
-US History sucks.
I look forward to having a fun year, but I know there'll be some MAJOR downhills along the road with an assload of work and such.
-The Pentium Guy