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Trevor Thompson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 13 June 2015 Posts: 346
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 6:24am | IP Logged | 1
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I wish I'd taken a bit more interest in history at school. I really love the subject now and at school I enjoyed it but I never put my all into it. There is, however, nothing stopping me now but I could have probably looked at becoming an historian or something along those lines.
Also English. It's such a fantastic and at time complicated language but mastering it would be amazing. I'd be able to get my thoughts and points across so much better.
Edited by Trevor Thompson on 26 May 2017 at 6:26am
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Michael Casselman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1210
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 6:41am | IP Logged | 2
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Wood and metal shop. I find myself tinkering more in and around the house, and in the process picking up the occasional saw and wrench set, performing minor fixes to the lawnmower, and things like that.
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132135
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 7:11am | IP Logged | 3
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Sadly, I went to school at a time when memorization was still the prime focus. "Learning" mean being able to rattle off names, places, dates, numbers, without any real depth of comprehension. The courses that interested me, like history and science, I had to pick up later, on my own.
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Charles Nelson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 June 2012 Location: United States Posts: 245
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 7:34am | IP Logged | 4
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I wish I had paid more attention in history, as well. JB, I'm not referring to your classes ( as I was not there), but as I get older I wish I had more names, dates, etc. at immediate recall. I view them now as a framework that I can fill in with deeper, more interesting info. Kind of like memorizing multiplication tables allows you to do higher level math faster. I know kids now who are not learning ANYTHING in history because without that framework, there's no context for the social theory stuff they are learning to be understood.
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15729
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 8:13am | IP Logged | 5
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I was offered free clarinet lessons at school -- and turned them down. Regret that one sometimes.
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Leigh DJ Hunt Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 February 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1570
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 8:51am | IP Logged | 6
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Pretty much everything apart from English which was the only subject I cared about at the time. I wasted my school years.
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Steven Myers Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 10 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5619
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | 7
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Spanish. I'd love to be fluent. Though I'm not sure how much taking the class helped. I couldn't pick it up. I actually failed all the semester exams (passing was not required for credit, and it didn't pull my average below a B or C.)
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Doug Centers Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 February 2014 Location: United States Posts: 5438
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | 8
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Science. I remember actively searching for the word for the study of insects back in fifth or sixth grade. I was so interested in that tiny world. I just never took it to that next level.
Ahh regrets.
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Joe Hollon Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 08 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 13669
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | 9
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I would go back and convince myself to take Calculus my senior year of high school. I took the easy route and skipped math. Made it tougher for me in college after having a year off.
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Brian Hunt Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5178
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | 10
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I am with you Steven. I wish that I had taken Spanish and become fluent like my best friend. Instead I spent three years on German, not realizing that the shift in demographics would make Spanish so much more useful in the U.S.
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United States Posts: 30833
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | 11
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I wish my dad would've let me take percussion in band instead of making me do saxophone. I couldn't play a single note on sax today, but I still play drums. I could've been an even more badass drummer now.
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Robert Shepherd Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 March 2014 Location: United States Posts: 1268
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Posted: 26 May 2017 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | 12
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I wish I had taken computer science more seriously. It was my first choice of major in college but I soon dropped it for art and then to graphic design.
Now earth sciences and earliest history of man are very interesting. I really want to know more of what happened 12,000 years ago.
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