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Posted on 07-29-10 06:43:41 PM (last edited by Terra at 07-29-10 03:45 PM) Link | Quote
Are there any bad habits you've picked up to get through school that haunted you either after finishing school or further down the road during your education?

As I discovered in the Let's Play Lone Wolf thread, pointed out to me by Madman200, I have a habit of skimming things. I blame all those tests and assignments where I had to read and comprehend a passage and put down specific answers lickety-split. I trained myself to summarize and pull out information as fast as possible and come up with something good enough to write down on the tests, but in the real world I can have trouble because I missed a particular thing.

You know, I think I would have learned a lot more in school without all the tight time limits with dire consequences like failing a whole class because you're 1 minute late to turn in 1 assignment (not many classes did this, but some did). Especially the in-class assignments. What does writing a whole essay in 45 minutes do for you? You don't learn how to write a good, high-quality essay. If you try that, you're likely to not have it done by the time the 45 minutes are up. Reading comprehension is the same way. When I tried to do it slowly and methodically, understanding everything thoroughly, I'd run out of time, especially on those damn SAT/ACT/MEAP* things. So I just learned how to bullshit things.

Another thing was my general poor work ethic and attitude toward work. I always had it drilled in "This is work, you're not supposed to enjoy it!", especially with things that I otherwise would enjoy, specifically writing and computer programming. But since I got into that mindset that they're work, I tend to procrastinate on them and not put my full effort into them. I didn't used to be like that, I used to code for fun all the time before I started doing it for school. After that, I tend to dread having to program anything

*Michigan Education Assessment Program. I'm sure that other jurisdictions, at least in the USA, by and large have equivalents.

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Posted on 07-29-10 06:45:26 PM Link | Quote
I didn't pick up any habits, just paranoia.

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Posted on 07-29-10 07:36:48 PM Link | Quote
Swearing. I don't think it became a bad habit with me until after I graduated high school. It's like all those years of constant exposure to it finally corrupted me. Too be fair though, I think what really did it was Chappelle show and Adult Swim. Once I learned how to use in humorously in everyday conversation, there was no going back.



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Posted on 07-29-10 07:48:08 PM (last edited by Darkdata at 07-29-10 04:49 PM) Link | Quote
Everything Terra said applies to me.


Especially the "generate bullshit".


"Did you know that in Animal Farm, the Pigs colors represent the contrast between the upper working class and the lower working classes apparent values?"

(I am thankful we got a decent English teacher later.)

Edit: Also, chewing nails out of boredom, I still have not broken that habit.

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Posted on 07-29-10 07:52:30 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by BlackNemesis13
Swearing.


I think this was Acmlm's for me. I had mostly come from boards where even something like "hell" or "ass" could get you in trouble or at least censored and was actually rather appalled at the casual use of fuck and shit at I1 at first, but I quickly got used to it and eventually started swearing a lot myself Mostly expletives though, I'm not the type to call someone a fag or nigger or whatever.

School actually countered that because of the harsh swearing penalty, and even "sucks" was a swear word in the context of "This sucks!".

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Posted on 07-29-10 09:17:49 PM (last edited by Onyx at 07-29-10 06:20 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
School actually countered that because of the harsh swearing penalty, and even "sucks" was a swear word in the context of "This sucks!".


your school sucked

Seriously, my high school teachers were pretty lenient and for the most part awesome. Worst thing I probably picked up was from middle school, and that's my tendency to be quiet and not-really-talkative because everyone there was an asshole.

To this day, I'm still kinda withdrawn. Sigh.

e: it's also for this reason that I get frustrated whenever I do something wrong, because I'm used to receiving hell for it

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Posted on 07-29-10 09:22:46 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Onyx
Worst thing I probably picked up was from middle school, and that's my tendency to be quiet and not-really-talkative because everyone there was an asshole.

To this day, I'm still kinda withdrawn. Sigh.

^ This applys to me too.

I have picked up quite few bad habbits from school study wise. For example, if anything is too boring for me to do, I simply can't make myself do it. I know I never was this before. :/

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School drove me insane. My mind still hasn't fully recovered.
I learned how to street fight. Obviously that skill is not a respected or honorable one.
My writing was really good from one school, but the other one forced me to write too fast, so now my handwriting is trash.
Talking behind people's backs was an art mastered with how many horrible people there were to gossip about.
I also learned various ways to hurt people's feelings, break things, and defy authority.

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Posted on 07-29-10 10:34:55 PM Link | Quote
General laziness, procrastination, typical teenager stuff. But also the misconception that everything is always easy for me. I didn't take honors or anything so I always aced my classes. Now when something is a challenge I get discouraged that I'll have actually work...

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Posted on 07-29-10 11:50:15 PM Link | Quote
General insanity. Seriously, when the realization came where nothing I was doing even mattered, I really lost my identity. And now I'm desperately clinging to this identity I've carved myself.

Ugh.

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Gabu: Yeah I hear that. When I first stopped to think about how pointless everything I did was, it nearly killed me. I really do feel like I built my identity from the ground up after, well, not just that, there was some other bad stuff too. The upside is you get to decide what's important to you and who you are all over again, with a few years more life experience to drive those choices. I'm a lot happier with who I am now than who I was then. But it sucked.

Other bad habits from school, huh...

I guess the worst one is talking down to people. Because I didn't want to play the social game anyway, there was basically no disincentive for alienating people I wouldn't ordinarily want to be friends with. So if I ever felt like I was better than someone, I'd say so. And I felt like that a lot, because I'm pretty good at taking tests. After a while I realized that I was treating even my close friends as though they were my intellectual inferiors. I'm trying to step back from that but it's a constant effort; it's so easy to fall back into old habits of conversation.
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Posted on 07-30-10 07:06:50 PM Link | Quote
Laziness.

When teachers didn't care that I did their homework the day it was due in their class on top of them not caring that we copy the answers from an answer book, it started becoming a bad habit of taking the lazy way out.

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Posted on 07-30-10 07:34:53 PM (last edited by Terra at 07-30-10 04:36 PM) Link | Quote
I've had a lot of teachers that only care if you did your homework, not what the answers were. So I'd put in obviously bullshit padding like "I do not know the answer to this particular question of this assignment." and get the full points.

Also, teachers throughout lower grades would all be like "You're so smart!", so I figured it would continue and I'd always be magically smart enough to tackle any subject immediately.

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Not sure if this is from school, but pretty likely...

When I was younger, like middle school, I would be picked on A LOT. I guess because I was albino, but also because of my .. reaction to them. I would have huge fits that they thought were hilarious, but didn't realize this until later on in my life. Possibly because of that I am extremely shy and social-phobic. I can remember always being a bit shy, probably because I can't see terribly well, I guess, but I wasn't nearly as bad as I was after that, and now.

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Posted on 07-31-10 11:52:55 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Miasmir
Gabu: Yeah I hear that. When I first stopped to think about how pointless everything I did was, it nearly killed me. I really do feel like I built my identity from the ground up after, well, not just that, there was some other bad stuff too. The upside is you get to decide what's important to you and who you are all over again, with a few years more life experience to drive those choices. I'm a lot happier with who I am now than who I was then. But it sucked.

Other bad habits from school, huh...

I guess the worst one is talking down to people. Because I didn't want to play the social game anyway, there was basically no disincentive for alienating people I wouldn't ordinarily want to be friends with. So if I ever felt like I was better than someone, I'd say so. And I felt like that a lot, because I'm pretty good at taking tests. After a while I realized that I was treating even my close friends as though they were my intellectual inferiors. I'm trying to step back from that but it's a constant effort; it's so easy to fall back into old habits of conversation.


Oh yeah. I was pretty much lost when I realize everything I was doing was going to amount to wasted time, yet I had to do it. Did not like the years of depression once that realization hit. Or even before the realization, because 6th grade was a crap hole with a traumatizing teacher, kids hitting puberty (including me), not wanting to grow up (because growing up sucks), being picked on at gym, piles of homework, and everything else going to shit at the time.

And I actually did the same thing with people during elementary school as well, though the more I got gloomy the less I would actually care about trying to alienate those I didn't care for. Then I just stopped caring altogether in middle school.

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Strange but true: eating insanely fast. When you're only given 30 minutes and you're waiting in line for food for at least 10 minutes, you learn very quickly that if you want food (and sometimes the only food you're going to get all day :/) you scarf that shit down.

It's taken me a decade to unlearn that and I'm still not where I should be.
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Posted on 08-01-10 02:11:15 AM Link | Quote
...30 minutes? what on earth!

We had full-period lunches here (usually 45 minutes or so)... and in both of my districts. Odd. Then again, lines were never insanely bad for me, so I might not exactly know how it's like.

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Posted on 08-01-10 02:12:27 AM Link | Quote
When I went to school, lunch was often just 20 minutes.

I didn't eat the school lunches though. I'd eat lunch from home at first, then just went without eating in the middle of the day.

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Posted on 08-01-10 02:23:17 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
When I went to school, lunch was often just 20 minutes.

I didn't eat the school lunches though. I'd eat lunch from home at first, then just went without eating in the middle of the day.


whaaaaaat

Were these small schools? If a lot of people were in lines, I wouldn't be surprised if people didn't get a chance at all to eat.

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Posted on 08-01-10 02:28:44 AM Link | Quote
Middle school had about 500 students, probably. Keep in mind that I spent more than half of my childhood out in the country. The school district was shared between like 4 cities/villages/dots on the map. (Michigan uses a very loose definition of "city", some cities are under 1000 people and are still cities in Michigan for whatever reason.)

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