What was your favorite subject/ subjects in school , any grade. Mine were Art, Sciences and Social Studies, And you?

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[AZJonnie]

1. Science and Math classes were my favorites (nt)

[debm55]

2. Thank you very much for sharing with us, AZJonnie.

[Americanme]

3. I liked math, it was an easy A

I loved world history, it was just story time. Music class was cool, I played french horn. Gym was great when I had bowling, our high school had a bowling alley.

[debm55]

5. That is great. Thank you for sharing with us, Americanme. Wow, your school had a bowling alley. We just did duck pins at

mine.

[Americanme]

16. I can't remember for sure, I think it was a 10 lane alley

The cereal tycoons, Post and Kellogg families, did a lot for our public schools back when rich people cared about their communities. Now, it seems rich people only want to help for partisan political reasons, help their own religion get power, or just grow their wealth to obscene levels.

[debm55]

21. Very true, Americanme, very true. Wish it was still the way it was. Do remember, Box Tops for Kids. Schools could buy

computers and equipment by saving enough box tops.

[Americanme]

33. I live in Battle Creek, used to be known as Cereal City.

The Kellogg family and the Post family lived here, they pretty much built this city.

[debm55]

47. Thank you very much for sharing with us.Americanme. That is interesting.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. We cooked a hot dog with an electric current.

I think the shop teacher and the home economics teacher must have been having a fling.

[debm55]

6. HAHHAHAHAHHA. That is neat. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Frasier Balzov.

[Soul_of_Wit]

7. I was 12 and the year was 1971

Thanks, in part, to the lovely Miss DuPont, I would have to say Biology. There may or may not have been a crush involved. I also had stellar math teachers in high school. Thank you to all my teachers/professors through the years. You made a difference.

[debm55]

12. What a great post. Thank you very much for sharing with us Soul_of_ Wit. I loved school and the teachers that taught .

It was one of the reasons that I was a teacher for 42 years instead of a nurse. like I orginally wanted to be.

[BlueKota]

8. History and English.

I excelled in both, but really sucked at math and PE.

My sophomore year though when I retook Algebra, the teacher was married to my English teacher. They figured out between the two of them, I had a learning disability, and he taught me how to use the right side of my brain to help the left side do math. It worked. The only math class I didn't loathe because I wasn't embarrassed or feeling stupid in.

[debm55]

13. Thank you very much for sharing with us. BlueKota. Actually I loved all subjects in school. It was a place where I

excelled.

[Grim Chieftain]

37. Same here

I hated math and P.E. Later, in college, I loved not only English and History, but Philosophy as well.

[BlueKota]

39. Philosophy was a favorite of mine too.

Our professor was great. Apparently he had spent two years teaching at a University in Ireland.

[stopdiggin]

9. study hall ... (little to none, actually studying involved .. )

(but there were always dirty limericks and caricatures of unpopular personages to compose .. )

actually I was fairly decent at most of the subjects ... and if I wasn't pulling a B/B+ in something - it meant I was getting 'the stink eye' from the instructor (and most likely parents too).

[debm55]

14. HAHAHAHAHHHAH. Our HS Study Hall was in the auditorium. Massive amount of kids. Got my work done and played cards.

[BlueKota]

31. I actually got kicked out of a study hall my senior year.

We were in a big auditorium right next to the front doors of the school. One day someone accidentally let a black Labrador Retriever in. He ran down the aisle, and lifted his leg and peed on one of the study hall monitors. It happened to be my Spanish teacher from my Freshman and Sophomore years. He wasn't mean he was just kind of curmudgeonly.

Some of my friends and I couldn't stop laughing, even when the really nice shop teacher, who was comonitoring us asked nicely. I apologized and said I am sorry I can't. I was bored in there anyway because
I either had done my work at home or in another study hall.

So he finally gave up and wrote five of us a pass for the rest of the semester to have an extra 30 minutes for our lunch period. He said he'd clear it with the principal since we were all "normally well behaved."

[MIButterfly]

10. English

I liked reading and writing.

[debm55]

22. Thank you very much for sharing with us. MIButterfly. A book will take you to places that you have never been.

[Polly Hennessey]

27. And you meet people that are fascinating, exciting, and just plain fun.

[debm55]

48. Agree. Thank you Polly Hennessey.

[FM123]

11. My favorite subjects were Music and English!

Never pursued in college or career, but to this day, my favorite ways of relaxing are listening to music and reading books....

[debm55]

18. Thank you very much, FM123. for sharing with us.Enjoy your books.

[hlthe2b]

15. Science, Math, History. English was poorly taught--even AP English, though I did well.

Later on, I felt really stupid for knowing so few of the classics that I spent much of a decade trying to read many of them and at least acquaint myself with what I was missing. Ditto, foreign language. I got a little foundation in German, but others were just horribly taught.

[debm55]

59. Thank you hlthe2b for sharing with us. You were NOT stupid. The books selected were from the school district and the

teachers.

[CincyDem]

17. Thermodynamics all the way. Gimme some of that entropy, enthalpy, and Gibbs free energy. Lol

Some of y’all know of which I speak.

[cloudbase]

20. I enjoyed thermo.

A good professor makes all the difference.

Some of the exams were interesting, with Mollier diagrams spread out on the floor or taped to the walls.

[debm55]

62. Thank you very much, CincyDem for sharing with us.

[MichMan]

19. Science and biology for sure

Did really well in Math, but didn't enjoy it nearly as much. In college, I probably enjoyed Vehicle Dynamics, and Manufacturing Processes the most.

[debm55]

63. Thank you very much, MichMan. Are you a mechanical engineer?

[MichMan]

69. Yes, I am (retired)

[debm55]

72. Thank you very much, MichMan.

[LoisB]

23. History and English.

[debm55]

64. Thank you very much, LoisB for sharing with us.

[electric_blue68]

24. Art! Some science, and some history.

Had mostly good to great art teachers in JHS, special Art HS, and Art College.

A good science teacher in JHS. While I didn't think of it then; I wonder how common a Black woman science teacher was.

I'm mixed when it comes to science. I wish we'd had Astronomy, Oceanography, maaaybe Geology.

And History? I think it was how it was taught. There were probably some things I might never had much interest in; but idk; maaaybe if a teacher could connect things events, and people to wider issues at times, that probably would have made a difference!
I had 2 really good history teachers in HS.

[debm55]

65. Thank you very much, electric_blue68. I really attended a great and large (2100 students) HS and teachers . Classes were

based on a college format and there were so many classes to pick from I took special Art in HS. As I had planned on going into Nursing. I was able to take Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology.I have to say the school was wonderful but some of students -no. At the time it was a very progressive school in areas. I am glad you went to a progressive school too.

[electric_blue68]

67. Oh, very interesting! 2100!

Ohhh, did I drag through one post College anatomy course, or maaaybe it was in college. While i had several life drawing classes in college not sure I had anatomy. Maybe I avoided it as an elective.

But then there was this after college course taught by this guy who developed this 3D mostly skeletal model. I say semi bc he added some subtle additional features.
But the idea was to use clay to model muscles, and attach them to this form. Thus building up musculature plus perhaps other certain features

ETA You might be interested
His name is Jon Zahourek.
his site is the Maniken sysyem,
Anatomy in Clay.

There are several model now of the human form in different positions. They are around ? 2 1/2 ft tall. Plus, now: a shoulder; the hips, legs & feet; and a horse.

Now back then in the ? 80's i don't remember the model he showed us being that tall. And it was only one at the time. He did have the horse, but we didn't see it.

He made anatomy fairly interesting to me. Before him, it was it was nearly a snoozefest! 😑 So if you could get me interested- that's really saying something! 😄👍

[debm55]

71. Thank you . electric_blue68. I will look him up

[electric_blue68]

80. YW! 👍

He -really expanded- his initial idea; which was interesting in the first place.

Whenever you get around to it; please tell what you think as you have an interesting combination of nursing studies, and art studies that his invention I think would intellectually & artistically appeal to you. I m h o. 🙂

[GreenWave]

25. Whichever classes had many curly haired gals in them

and subsequently

[debm55]

66. Oh you. That you GreenWave.

[Polly Hennessey]

26. History, Literature ,and Geography.

Put Grammar in the mix. I loved diagramming sentences.

[debm55]

58. Thank you very much, Polly Hennessey. I also liked diagramming sentences.

[Diamond_Dog]

28. The only thing I was good in was Art so I liked Art class.

Being a bookworm, I did like English, too. I loved to read and draw.
I sucked at math (except for Geometry). Hated gym. Hated chemistry. A lot of my likes/dislikes depended on the teacher. When I got to College I loved world history.

[debm55]

56. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Diamond_Dog. It is very important for the teacher to be able to get across the

skills and knowledge and do it in an interesting way. If not they lose the student.

[OLDMDDEM]

29. Mathematics. Straight As in all of them.

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50. Thank you very much, OLDMDDEM. for sharing with us. Did you go into a Math field as a career?

[OLDMDDEM]

68. Company controller

[mgardener]

30. Science

And history.

Does lunch count as a subject?
Like nutrition?

[debm55]

46. HAHAHAHHAAHAH. Thank you very much. mgarderer. Nutrition would count, but not lunch.

[SheltieLover]

32. Art & in college art therapy & personality theory.

[debm55]

44. Thank you very much for sharing with us. SheltieLover.

[3catwoman3]

34. Biology, advanced biology, and German.

Freshman math/algebra was a disaster. I didn't do very well, and I thought I just didn't "get it." The teacher was in her first year. After her second year, she got fired. It turned out there were a whole lot of us who hadn't gotten it.

Geometry in sophomore year was OK - I liked it, thought doing proofs was fun, and did much better. Trigonometry was pretty good in my junior year. Last marking period of senior year math was miserable. It was an intro to calculus. The teacher handed out a slender black book about the size of a 5x7 card and said, "Here - this is all self-explanatory." Au contraire!. Only thing I ever got an F in. Self explanatory, my ass. At least not to me.

I didn't warn my parents about the failing grade. My mother was aghast, and certain that the colleges that had accepted me were going to rescind their offers of admission.

I was also in the band all 4 years, playing flute and piccolo. We got graded in band, but there was no academic credit attached, so an A in band did nothing to balance off a C in any other class, and did not do anything to either help or hurt your GPA.

[debm55]

43. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing, 3catwoman3.You had some very poor Math teachers during your school career. I

received an E in ninth grade. The subject was Home Ec.

[No Vested Interest]

35. History - the great story of humanity. We learn from it or repeat past errors.

[debm55]

42. Thank you very much for sharing with us. No Vested interest.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. Science, Math, & History

Music might have been one of them but, I literally never had a music class in school.
Really the only classes I didn't care about where language arts & religion.

[debm55]

41. Thank you very much ProfessorGAC. for your choices.

[JMCKUSICK]

38. Social Studies

[debm55]

40. Thank you for sharing ,John.

[surrealAmerican]

45. Art and math ...

... by high school, my favorites were still art, geometry (by far my favorite math class), and mechanical drawing.

[debm55]

49. Geometry was my favorite Math class as was drafting. Thank you very much for sharing with us surrealAmerican.

[Jilly_in_VA]

51. Spanish, History, and CHOIR

I have yo qualify the Spanish, though. I had a serious falling out with my Spanish teacher in third year which resulted in my not taking fourth year. Pity, that. But she thought she was Francisco Franco.

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52. HAHAHHAH. Thank you very much, Jilly _in _VA

[Bmoboy]

53. It was specific teachers rather than subjects

I had a crush on my chemistry teacher AND I liked high school level chemistry. Not so much at college.

I had a great Englich teacher in 9th grade. We both were fascinated by words.

My first grade teacher was only slightly taller than me and gave great hugs.

My father told great stories about stupid people. It has helped me make it this far.

[debm55]

54. Thank you very much for sharing with us. Bmoboy. I agree with you--teachers and mentors are the best at helping us

learn.

[Maninacan]

55. Drafting and Physical science

Failed all Math and English. Graduated HS with no skill but ability to read. Learned math on my own to calculate bicycle gear ratios. Learned basic Algebra and Trig to use at work as a ToolMaker.

[debm55]

57. Wonderful and good for you. Maninacan. You are amazing with your skills and career. PS I loved drafting. Thank you for

Sharing with us.

[oberle]

60. Music and only music

Even in college.

[debm55]

61. Thank you very much. for sharing with us. oberle. Wonderful.

[Emile]

70. Drivers Ed

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74. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. Thank you Emile.

[OldBaldy1701E]

73. English, History, and Drama.

None of which helped me in life one bit, except for English (in a weird way).

As someone who scored perfect on his SAT in English, they kept trying to convince me to be an air traffic controller!

Like, they were really serious about this! (I was already the comm person in my CAP flight, so they thought I would just be fine with this idea.)

Needless to say, I did not pursue that career path. I went with the other big path for such abilities... Performer!

(HUGE mistake, but that is another story for another time.)

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75. Thank you very much for sharing with us. OldBaldy1701E

[Eugene]

76. science in general, later computing

I went to school in the 1970s and didn't get regular access to a computer until 11th grade. But when that happened, I found my future career.

[debm55]

78. Thank you very much Eugene. Thanks for sharing with us.

[CanonRay]

77. History

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79. Thank you very much, CanonRay for sharing with us.

[Mad_Dem_X]

81. Even though I was extremely shy, I loved Drama class

I liked being able to pretend I was someone else. I liked my English classes, too. Anything to to with the English language.

[debm55]

82. Thank you very much , Mad_Dem_X for sharing your interests with us.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

83. English and literature. Was a bookworm.

I was horrible at math. In grade school we had a reading program with booklets and quizzes that you were supposed to be reading for the whole school year. I went through all of the readings within a short amount of time. At first, the teacher didn’t believe it. I think I had to get my mother involved and she told them that I was an avid reader. I used to read while walking down the sidewalk.

[debm55]

84. Thank you very much. I know what book and self quiz you are talking about as I was a teacher for 40 years. Very good

kerry-is-my-prez. Keep on reading and reach places you haven't seen and folks you haven't met.

[Nittersing]

85. The only class I remember liking

was mechanical drawing. But the teacher would rib the guys and say stuff like, "If Nittersing can do this well then the rest of you should too!" I think I dropped out of the class.

School was incredibly frustrating for me. My folks were both college educated, Dad was a professor and I would start each year a good bit of enthusiasm... that would fade pretty quickly.

It wasn't until my 30s that I discovered I learn MUCH better with hands on activities. Ended up with a pretty decent career as an HVAC tech, but boy howdy it was frustrating getting there.

[debm55]

86. Thank you very much, Nittersing, At first I had a Bachelors of Science in Art Ed then a Masters in El Ed and Special Ed.

I am a hands on learner also. For 40 years I mixed my Art Ed with my classes. I feel kids learn morn by doing and not just reading.
Cheers to you , my friend