I've never understood the importance of grades, and nobody has ever been able to explain to me why they are important.

Exhibit A: You need good grades to get into college.

I graduated a semester late from college because my university had not recieved my HS transcripts yet. Hmm whole lot of good my gpa did there.

Exhibit B: You need good grades to get a good job.

I don't have my GPA on my resume basically for the same reason I don't list Detassling under workforce skills (I spent a summer detassling corn when I was 13) it doesn't fit, and employeers don't care.

This maybe different for somebody w/out any job/life experience but if you've got things going on for you outside of school well nobody is going to care about your GPA.

jrhawk42

Your right though anyone can graduate from college with decent grades without too much trouble; and that alone is enough to get a "good job". But that doesn't mean that getting a 4.0 average won't open doors that would have been otherwise closed.

I got my lab based job that pays me over 3000 a month (for 16 hours a week), from my university while I am going to school. I also have gotten tens of thousands in scholarships, and won't have a problem getting into grad school, or med school, as I have the grades and the references from my lab job/volunteer work.

O btw, most people do just breeze through college, occasionally repeating some cla$$es here and there, and most of those people will be middle cla$$. I want to be rich, if for no other reason than just being rich. I want a respectful job, and I want a job that is thought provoking, otherwise I will grow bored of said job. Generally speaking our society gives the most thought provoking jobs to those of us who did the best in college. It's true.

[QUOTE="gomer69"][QUOTE="mig_killer2"]time travel is impossiblemig_killer2

time travel is impossiblemig_killer2

I still doubt that it's possible, it just seems so difficult to pull off.-Masterchef-

Judging by your bad grammar, you are probably in grade 6. Who cares if you can get A's in "science", I'd laugh if you couldn't; now try getting an "A" in advanced organic chemistry, while you are being competitively graded on a bell curve.

gg A's in science, gg.

[QUOTE="gomer69"]

I'd get upset because I A) want to have a high paying job while going to school (working for the university in the lab) B) I want free money from scholarships C) I want to get into med school, or some type of high end research, that pays well and is infinitely interesting. I have nothing better to do, and I lack the insecurities to go clubbing now (I went clubbing for a 5 month period every weekend).

Most importantly it gives me a purpose in life, as I am an agnostic/nilest, which means I pretty much think that there is no greater purpose for life unless you make one.

I have a lot of pride, and am very competitive, and am somewhat of a narcissist.

My parents didn't hug me enough, so I make up for it by doing amazingly well so that they pay attention to me.

jt222_us

um... i hope you're not seeking a major in the "therapy" department.

on another note, what makes parents who didn't hug you enough all of the sudden pay attention to you? just curious?

[QUOTE="gomer69"][QUOTE="ab1205"]

[QUOTE="xaos"]Then why have they not shown up in the several thousand years of recorded human history? And what ever happened to causality and the laws of thermodynamics?ab1205

I think you can go in the future but not the past, Carl Sagan said that time travel is possible but we obviously don't have near the technology for it.

billion?

We will most likely have that technology within thousands of years. Well, we will develop it in the following thousand years, and master it in tens of thousands of years.

But yes, according to physics, and it's been done by many known physicists,etc and it IS possible for time travel. It's also possible to move from one place to another, as long as it's not faster than the speed of light, but nothing stops it from being 0.9999% of the speed of light. Here's the little scoop from Carl Sagan's interview on CNN that has some discussion on it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dj_MZ6i5Dr0

Around 7:30 he talks about it, but I suggest watching the whole interview (in 5 parts)...it's worth it for everything in it :)

I'd get upset because I A) want to have a high paying job while going to school (working for the university in the lab) B) I want free money from scholarships C) I want to get into med school, or some type of high end research, that pays well and is infinitely interesting. I have nothing better to do, and I lack the insecurities to go clubbing now (I went clubbing for a 5 month period every weekend).

Most importantly it gives me a purpose in life, as I am an agnostic/nilest, which means I pretty much think that there is no greater purpose for life unless you make one.

I have a lot of pride, and am very competitive, and am somewhat of a narcissist.

My parents didn't hug me enough, so I make up for it by doing amazingly well so that they pay attention to me.

[QUOTE="xaos"]Then why have they not shown up in the several thousand years of recorded human history? And what ever happened to causality and the laws of thermodynamics?ab1205

I think you can go in the future but not the past, Carl Sagan said that time travel is possible but we obviously don't have near the technology for it.

Then why have they not shown up in the several thousand years of recorded human history? And what ever happened to causality and the laws of thermodynamics?xaos