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Post #1 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:13 pm 
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So I just wrote my final exam (the dreaded Chemistry one) today, and now my high-school days are over! Next year, I'm heading off the University of Waterloo to study Computer Science. And, most importantly, they have a Go club there! Though it is sad to have to say goodbye to my good friends, I'm looking forward to it.

Now that school's out, I can hopefully start getting some games on KGS in again. I'm out of shape, my few games on there have been, well, :-| .

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Post #2 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:25 pm 
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Nice. Adrian Petrescu, an admin here, also goes there and I think wossname, a global mod here, recently graduated from there as well. Have a fun time :).

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Post #3 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:27 pm 
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It's party time :3

gratz!

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Post #4 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:11 pm 
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Ah! Such memories. I finished high school 40 years ago this month (people did not graduate from UK schools). I was glad to get out of there. Never met any of the people from there since and am not complaining. And I had never heard of go at that time. I learned about it the following year at university.

All I remember is that I walked out of there and never went back. I went straight off to a cricket match and, because of time constraint and other things, remains to this day the only complete 3-day match I have ever seen from beginning to end.

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Post #5 Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:16 am 
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Congratulations! One phase done, now onto the next one...and more schooling. ;)

I remember those days. They weren't really all that long ago. :) Enjoy the break while you can.

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Post #6 Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:46 am 
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Congratulations! Hope Uni life treats you well.

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Post #7 Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:49 am 
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Hey, welcome to Waterloo, Dusk Eagle! :D It's a great school, and the Go club is pretty active as well.

I've only got less than a year left, and I'll be on co-op when you start in September, but I'll see you in the club come January 2011! :)

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Post #8 Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:41 pm 
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Congratulations. I finished school 16 years ago :P

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Post #9 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:33 am 
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Helel wrote:
Stefany93 wrote:
Congratulations. I finished school 16 years ago :P


Since you are 16 years old that means you never been to school? :shock:



Yap... I have the honor to be homeschooled :P

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Post #10 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:49 am 
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Helel wrote:
By coincidence the Swedish Riksdag yesterday (2010-06-22) passed a new school law that will bring Sweden much closer to Germany on this issue. Some people are quite upset. :-|

Yes, that's a bad day for Sweden. The PISA survey revealed that Germany's school system is archaic and responsible for the poor language capabilities of many pupils.

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Post #11 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:27 am 
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Sry for highjacking the thread but I finally finished my apprenticeshipexam and can call me Informatikkaufmann (guess the english translation would be something like information technology officer?) ~ I'm so relieved ^_^

Regarding the schoolsystem:
I think the general problem of the german schoolsystem is the late investment of money. The biggest part of the school budget is invested in the higher-level-diploma-classes. The teachers in elementary school are earning the fewest of all teachers in the complete german school system. I think it should be the other way around, it is most important that the best teachers are supporting the young children.

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Post #12 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:48 am 
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Congratulations Jonas!

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Post #13 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:36 am 
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Congrats, Informatikkaufmann Jonas!

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Post #14 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:51 am 
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Glückwunsch Herr Informatikkaufmann! :D

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Post #15 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:59 am 
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High School is Over!

Not quite: it resumes as soon as you graduate college and get a real job. :-D

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Post #16 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:02 am 
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fwiffo wrote:
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High School is Over!

Not quite: it resumes as soon as you graduate college and get a real job. :-D


not quite: it is worse than highschool. they will expel you when you did everything right. and force you to join Army.

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