Your Favourite Subjects At School?

Good stuff mate, as i said it was the only subject that really interested me in school and it still does, I could read or watch stuff on it for hours

 

I always intended reaching the school gates but somehow I managed to get on a bus going in the opposite direction.

 

History, Geography, Maths and PE would have been my favourites the rest I just done/had to do. French, German and * Latin especially was a waste of time

 

Yeah what i love about it is (I got an A or what wouild now be an A* at GCSE & A Level,so was a bit of a swat!) as i put on a facebook post the other day + even the naughty kids like it as if you argumentative your half way there.

Facebook Post (Copied obviously from my wall)
"One of the best things about History as a subject/discipline is its wide appeal/accessibility. I was in a taxi to Uni the other day with a proper scouse as * driver about 50-ish who loved playing Minecraft and building Roman towns on it, and the conversation went something like this....
"What you doing at Uni lad" "History" "Sound I love all that lad, what stuff do you do on it" "Doing the rise of Islam in Medieval Europe today mate" 'Awww laughin lad the Caliphate and Crusades and all that? Sounds sweet"

 

Music and physics

 

Why Physics pal?

I must admit as I got older I went from hating Science at school to watching Space Documentaries on Youtube......

 

I always enjoyed math, and then I too fell in love with astronomy watching space documentaries on the telly after school. I suppose what made physics more appealing is that it was as close to math as possible, while having a tangible application. Now I'm working on being a professional astronomer, so I've taken it all the way

 

As I said above doing my degree then teacher training (secondary) as a History teacher but my mate wants to be a Physics teacher and as that is a STEM subject = 10k in free wedge as a bribe for people to teach it = he's buying a house the moment he graduates with that as the deposit.

 

Jealous of that. As an American I've got a lot of debt to pay off first. I'm on track for my PhD now and get a livable stipend, but it's likely going to be 6 years before I get my PhD, and then come postdoctoral research positions unless I get really lucky and have a job offer first. But that's too far away to predict.

 

Loved Spanish, wish I'd kept going with it would love to be fluent

 

Loved Geography until 6th year and the advanced higher project. Was dull as *.

Also Biology. Until the AH project

 

Same, Languages are really handy. I just use Duolingo these days instead

 

Duolingo is good for Vocab but you really need to combine it with something like the Michel Thomas method for it to be any use. Unless you know the sentence structure vocab alone isn't all that useful.

 

My mate is doing the same thing. What kind of teaching? School, uni etc.

 

Wish I'd picked up a second language. So invaluable.

 

School, its more in the real world and I can make that direct difference + pass on passion about History to kids at a young age........ but if someone threw me a postgrad/research position at a decent Uni here or abroad at me I'd consider it, more dosh although 50% of academics teaching at Unis are on Zero Hours according to the University & College Union (UCU).

 

Yeah i had quite a bit of Michel Thomas stuff and Grammar is hardly tested at GCSE which is why so many fail the A Level.

 

Fair play, pal!