I just graduated. That being the case, school went great.
I usually did awesome on anything English related, as it's one of my fortes. I was pretty much the king of my writing class, and was always the one writing the essays or creative stories that people remember.
Math was not so good. While in geometry and similar studies, I usually did well, and somewhat enjoyed it, I did pretty bad in some parts of algebra, and though I didn't do so bad in Consumer math, I absolutely hated it. I guess that stuff is probably pretty important, too.
For the life of me, I cannot remember how functions work now, despite having restudied them to the point of mastery multiple times.
History I had a lot of enthusiasm for, once I got working with the right materials. The sad thing is, some of it isn't sticking with me at all. Even though I just studied ancient history within the last years, I can't even remember what part the Greeks played in the capture of Jerusalem, as evidenced by a somewhat discussion with Metal-Rawr the other day. Contrary to a lot of common attitudes, I view History to be a critically important study in the long run, especially if you're ever going to be in any leadership position. That includes about everyone. :p
The lessons we can learn from history are key, because they allow us to make good decisions without having to go through the trial and error that those before us did. Sometimes those decisions can change the course of history.
As for Science, I loved Biology, and thrived so well in it to the point where I'm approaching it as my career. Chemistry and Physics were a different story. Whenever it was approached from a logic based, reasoning approach, I did well. The problem is, few materials do that. More often than not, they just lazily throw these formulas and variables at you, with very weak explanation to why they do what they do. I think it was Kalaron who, in IRC one day, said to me, "It's almost like the people that write this stuff don't care about the subject enough to actually make it interesting, so they just find the quickest laziest way to write it and get it over with." (Keep in mind, that is not an exact quote, I'm only recalling it from memory)
As for other subjects, I've taken a lot of electives over the years, such as computer programming, logic, and economics. I won't bother explaining them in full, but I'll say this: each of those I was glad to have taken, and I learned a lot from them.
Now that I've graduated, I plan on doing some distance learning, taking some CLEP tests, and advancing towards a degree in biology. With that, I plan on getting a job with the DEC, as an aquatic biologist. In the area I live, there is a lot of lakes and rivers, and as such, there are a lot of jobs.
Also, as a purely voluntary study I'm going to be taking Greek classes at a nearby school which offers open classes.
Aaand... Once I get a job and a car, I want to take some horseback riding lessons at a nearby stable. No, that has nothing to do with my pony obsession. That's been something I've been wanting to do since before I realized that friendship really is magic.
