i currently test between 120-130 for my IQ. growing up, academics came very easily to me, reading at a very early age and such, until i started taking social pressures seriously. i became comfortable with being unchallenged and unmotivated in school because i didnt have any specific ambition; any potential for early academic advancement had gone unnoticed by my parents. i concentrated more on being socially acceptable and dealing adequately with peers than with academic achievement. acclimatization to school as a social environment over an academic one was difficult, and still is as i start college. i am outrageously out of place at this state college: the average SAT (old version) score is about 900, and while my 1370 trumps nearly everyone here, i know i could have bested 1450. i'm only here for the year until i can figure out what i'd like to learn, and because i received a common scholarship that my parents took too seriously.
i feel strongly that a more purely academic environment would have been more suited to my ease of learning and shaped me into a more academically attuned person, and that i might not be in this rut today. it is partially for this reason that i'd like to soon become a math teacher in the near future. programs like this one receive my full praise; may the frequency of stories like mine decline in the future.
McDonalds was created on the principle of being a more family oriented restaurant, akin to your typical dinner sit-down type restaurant except with food served fast and at a counter. Just because the atmosphere isn't the same as what you've come to expect, and just because their food has been libeled as toxic (what's 10 Chicken McNuggets a week going to do to you?) doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself in there. The conditions of the greasy air would have to be situational: it's up to the cleaning staff and ventilation allowed by the edifice to decide that. The particular stateside establishments I attend (with excitement, might I add) tend to be well kept. As another said, they cover 10% of the earth, so worldwide consistency in that regard can't be expected.
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i currently test between 120-130 for my IQ. growing up, academics came very easily to me, reading at a very early age and such, until i started taking social pressures seriously. i became comfortable with being unchallenged and unmotivated in school because i didnt have any specific ambition; any potential for early academic advancement had gone unnoticed by my parents. i concentrated more on being socially acceptable and dealing adequately with peers than with academic achievement. acclimatization to school as a social environment over an academic one was difficult, and still is as i start college. i am outrageously out of place at this state college: the average SAT (old version) score is about 900, and while my 1370 trumps nearly everyone here, i know i could have bested 1450. i'm only here for the year until i can figure out what i'd like to learn, and because i received a common scholarship that my parents took too seriously. i feel strongly that a more purely academic environment would have been more suited to my ease of learning and shaped me into a more academically attuned person, and that i might not be in this rut today. it is partially for this reason that i'd like to soon become a math teacher in the near future. programs like this one receive my full praise; may the frequency of stories like mine decline in the future.
so korean kids having massive heart failures after 50-hour streaks isn't something to worry about?
McDonalds was created on the principle of being a more family oriented restaurant, akin to your typical dinner sit-down type restaurant except with food served fast and at a counter. Just because the atmosphere isn't the same as what you've come to expect, and just because their food has been libeled as toxic (what's 10 Chicken McNuggets a week going to do to you?) doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself in there. The conditions of the greasy air would have to be situational: it's up to the cleaning staff and ventilation allowed by the edifice to decide that. The particular stateside establishments I attend (with excitement, might I add) tend to be well kept. As another said, they cover 10% of the earth, so worldwide consistency in that regard can't be expected.