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aboxofchocolates

Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Location: on your mind
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject: How hard can it be? |
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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/physics/physics/
I am sick of people with all their- "Oh, I have more of a science brain," and "I thought of you as more of an artistically minded person," and so forth. I call BS on that. Sure I skipped a lot of math in high school. Was it because I have an arts brain, or was it because smoking and being cool were more fun than class? I think the latter. I found this course online a while back, and it was fun. But drinking and hanging out proved to be even more fun (or at least easier) so I kind of gave up on it. Now I am bored and sort of done with having fun, so I think I am going to try this course. Physics is just math- piece of cake!
Anyone else want to try? |
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hockeyguy109
Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: How hard can it be? |
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aboxofchocolates wrote: |
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/physics/physics/
Was it because I have an arts brain, or was it because smoking and being cool were more fun than class?
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It's an artistic brain. |
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andrewchon

Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:30 am Post subject: |
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It looks like a fun course, not like the dry physics I learnt. You should go and do it. |
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aboxofchocolates

Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Location: on your mind
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:38 am Post subject: Re: How hard can it be? |
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hockeyguy109 wrote: |
aboxofchocolates wrote: |
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/physics/physics/
Was it because I have an arts brain, or was it because smoking and being cool were more fun than class?
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It's an artistic brain. |
Really? Seriously? You read my post and thought I and other readers would benefit from correcting "arts brain" to "artistic brain"? This is how your mind works? Unless you are being ironic. Please, I am losing faith in humanity, tell me you intended that to read as irony. |
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aboxofchocolates

Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Location: on your mind
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:40 am Post subject: |
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andrewchon wrote: |
It looks like a fun course, not like the dry physics I learnt. You should go and do it. |
Thanks, dude! It'll help me love "fringe" and "warehouse 13" even more, which is really all anyone needs. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: Re: How hard can it be? |
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aboxofchocolates wrote: |
hockeyguy109 wrote: |
aboxofchocolates wrote: |
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/physics/physics/
Was it because I have an arts brain, or was it because smoking and being cool were more fun than class?
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It's an artistic brain. |
Really? Seriously? You read my post and thought I and other readers would benefit from correcting "arts brain" to "artistic brain"? This is how your mind works? Unless you are being ironic. Please, I am losing faith in humanity, tell me you intended that to read as irony. |
Perhaps, having been hit in the head by too many pucks, hockeyguy109 can no longer say the letter "r" and he was merely repeating what others had said about him. |
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JMO

Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:47 am Post subject: Re: How hard can it be? |
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aboxofchocolates wrote: |
hockeyguy109 wrote: |
aboxofchocolates wrote: |
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/physics/physics/
Was it because I have an arts brain, or was it because smoking and being cool were more fun than class?
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It's an artistic brain. |
Really? Seriously? You read my post and thought I and other readers would benefit from correcting "arts brain" to "artistic brain"? This is how your mind works? Unless you are being ironic. Please, I am losing faith in humanity, tell me you intended that to read as irony. |
Not even that, but he is wrong. I assume by 'arts' brain you mean english, history and other 'arts' subjects. That is obviously a different meaning from 'artistic'.
Also, that course looks interesting and I will check out the first module. |
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Draz

Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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*clicks link* Omigod, kinematics. That made no logical sense to me in high school and I had to actually put effort into memorizing the correct way of answering the questions. I was used to "just knowing" so that was annoying. Statistics, trig and whatever else was taught in high school math, biology, and chemistry (in that order) were all much easier to grasp.
Maybe it would make more sense now. |
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aboxofchocolates

Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Location: on your mind
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Aw, man, the existence of matter is dependent on time- atoms are just the space where electrons circle protons. In any particular point in time an electron can only be in one place. The only thing that makes them appear solid is their spinnyness around the nucleus. So, if time were to stop, everything would be pretty much invisible, intangible, and if you moved at all you’d end up bumping into other stuff’s atoms (not that it would matter to you because you’d be in the middle of having all your insides bursting out into the sudden vacuum that appeared around you) and if time started again, shablooee!! So stopping time is out of the question. Forget a time machine, and fyi, there is no way you are going to be able to find the space in the universe the planet was when you want to travel back to. Well, you might, but you’d probably miss and then you better figure out a) how to get there, b) when to get there and c) how to displace matter without causing a big explosion- inter-galactic travel plus other stuff. Physics sucks. |
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hockeyguy109
Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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"Arts brain" is not correct. An artistic brain is the proper phrase. Are you thinking of "Artistic brain"? Sorry, the only people I have heard say Arts Brain are my 6th grade Korean students. Please explain to me how that is correct. |
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hockeyguy109
Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, maybe I misunderstood. Where are you from? In America, we would never say Arts brain. Are you from Afghanistan or maybe Peru? I'm not sure how people talk over there. Maybe Arts Brain is correct depending on your region. |
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aboxofchocolates

Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Location: on your mind
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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I could give two craps if it's correct or not. It's a useless theory, and I am not going to any lengths to adopt the pop-collocations people use to describe it. Further, like most people whose first language is English, I pay attention to my medium and alter my use of language accordingly. E.g.: this message board is a medium where I can use more colloquial terms. Here, communication of my idea is more important than being a pedantic twit and appearing socially artistic (hat's off to you, ontheway, I loled). |
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hockeyguy109
Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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aboxofchocolates wrote: |
I could give two craps if it's correct or not. It's a useless theory, and I am not going to any lengths to adopt the pop-collocations people use to describe it. Further, like most people whose first language is English, I pay attention to my medium and alter my use of language accordingly. E.g.: this message board is a medium where I can use more colloquial terms. Here, communication of my idea is more important than being a pedantic twit and appearing socially artistic (hat's off to you, ontheway, I loled). |
You're a fu*$ing English teacher. For your students sake, don't say "Arts Brain." |
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Old Gil

Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Location: Got out! olleh!
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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hockeyguy109 wrote: |
aboxofchocolates wrote: |
I could give two craps if it's correct or not. It's a useless theory, and I am not going to any lengths to adopt the pop-collocations people use to describe it. Further, like most people whose first language is English, I pay attention to my medium and alter my use of language accordingly. E.g.: this message board is a medium where I can use more colloquial terms. Here, communication of my idea is more important than being a pedantic twit and appearing socially artistic (hat's off to you, ontheway, I loled). |
You're a fu*$ing English teacher. For your students sake, don't say "Arts Brain." |
Think about the children, great angle when losing an argument. |
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hockeyguy109
Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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It's not really an argument. I'm just curious about the phrase. Can anyone please tell me why anyone would say "arts brain". I'm not trying to fight, just please explain why anyone would say that. |
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