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My favourite class was Art when I was in high school.

I like history at school but was bullied about every day at mainstream school by pupils and teachers alike. The extra humiliation was when I was mainstreamed in 1977 I was put a year behind. Not only that I was put in with the less able kids at the time and had to do that work. I really didn't enjoy school with all that going on. However in 1983 I did teach myself chemistry to a level post O Level (or after 1988 post higher tier GCSE) within about 6 months. I did that during the school holidays and in the 6th form I decided to do a chemistry A level course. I didn't complete that because I had left school in 1984. I left school with 6 CSEs of low grades (which are equivalent to foundation GCSE courses post 1988). I did like history and even got a top mark in a history test one time on medieval history. But the CSE result was only a grade 4 which wasn't worth the paper it was written on. I at college done a unit in Chemistry with very high exam results and I answered the questions that the tutor asked. I also done a bit of physics and mathematics but I had to drop out of the course as I had to pay for that myself and didn't have the money. Evev the head of science at the college said my exam results were very good. Mathematics I didn't know factorising very well and was like a rabbit in a head light. I had a bully of a maths teacher at secondary school who used to yell at me or humiliate me in front of the class. Actually that class from 1983-84 had the same predator (bullies are predators too) teaching CSE arithmetic. I had him as a maths teacher for 3 years. Before that one the Asian teacher couldn't teach. Also during 1983-84 I was experiencing temporal lobe seizures which was diagnosed as epilepsy back in 1987 in Oxford. 40 years later I done maths from YouTube videos which have better teachers/tutors than I had at school. I have since taught myself factorising which is needed for solving quadratic equations simplifying rational expressions in turn needed for evaluating limits which is needed for a calculus class. I also taught myself that the slope of a tangent line touching a curve is its derivative at aparticular point. If I did that later work much earlier I may had had a worse epilepsy or more seizures than I did which could get me accused of faking epilepsy for attention (gaslighting that is). I eventually started to teach myself calculus as well despite not doing calculus at school or college. Also maintaining an epileptic remission whilst doing so using a better anti epilepsy medicine than carbamazepine.

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In highschool my favs were physics and chemistry.

During my associate's degreee, favs were Government (state, local, national) and advanced chemistry.

During bachelor's degree, operational strategy and statistics.

During my master's degree, marketing and behaviorism.

oh hehehehe my favorite class ever was probably the theatre class i took in the first semester of this school year. i only took it for 3 months (moved to online school), but it was fun. despite my social anxieties, theatre is always something i enjoy. i really loved the acting games we'd play. the teacher was a bit strange but he was understanding.

we watched 3 musicals around the time i left public school. anything goes (with sutton foster ), west side story, and oklahoma. i enjoyed it all. heheheehehe

I didn't have a favourite class in school because it was the 80s and I think the teachers were drunk most of the time and the whole thing was more of a social.. idk it was a long time ago

However I went to college and uni as an adult to study politics, criminology and sociology and I absolutely loved sociology...soft science, plenty of debate and room to use my imagination

Unfortunately I couldn't complete my degree because I had to work to pay the bills but I was on course for a decent 2:1 for what it's worth....no regrets though I'm happy to say

I actually got an exit award and I can go back any time but I think that ships sailed now

I even got awards from my college for being an outstanding student believe it or believe it not

^ I believe it.


I took two sociology classes when I was in college and loved them both. They’ve stuck with me more than many other classes I took because they adjusted my worldview in some ways.