Cubes and School

[Nilxchaos]

Let's see, Two teachers hate it, one from last semester hates it...
My science teacher gets mad at me because i would do it during reviewing the warm-up, etc., and he would take it daily. Last week he took it and said if I play with it in his class again, he would take it for a week... Oh well, i have a C in that class. (Physics is hard, as a freshmen, IMPOSSIBLE )

Now the funny story, today, my Foundations of Tech teacher was having a bad day, and was like; "Stop playing with that thing, it's immature confused and I am sick of it, and don't want you to ever bring it again!"
While we were watching Rube Goldberg videos. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (By the way, 98 in that class. EASY. And I always contribute. ) He is just a jerk, and doesn't understand cubing.

However, my government teacher (age 20's) is STILL impressed by the fact that I solve them increasingly faster. I have gotten the entire class obsessed, and I'm the only one who can solve them! (Also mid-90's grade in that class.)
Only my government teacher seems to realize that cubing and listening is actually possible.... But maybe if i get a quieter cube... Darn thing called Money...
But science/physics is understandable. Found. of Tech, not at all. Government, love that guy.
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Side note, some friends love it, and when I got a 4x4 they were like OMGWTFBBQSAUCE!!!!!! when I solved it for the first time.
Some, [including the ex-GF i lost after 8 months to (then) new cubing], hate it. Wait.... about three or four friends out of 30 hate it. And I mean actually hate, not pretend. Others pretend to hate it, but I give it to them and they are like "OOOOHHHH FUN."

 

[Bryan]

Dang. You're teachers sure are strict on you. Let's go through my classes: Band: well, you can see why the teacher wouldn't really like me cubing......I once got my 2x2 taken away because a friend of mine somehow managed to launch it about 10 feet.
CS: She doesn't take it away or anything, she just has me put it away when we're actually reviewing something (about 0.1% of the class)
Accounting: since it is an elective, she doesn't care
English: My english teacher could care less about what you're doing
Latin: OK, he cares, but for some reason i just never do cube in his class
Tennis: yeah, i can TOTALLY cube then
Chem: my teacher learned how to solve one back in the day... he didn't care
Stat: My stats teacher is almost like my English teacher except we never did ANYTHING in that class
Health: same as english teacher, basically.

I love the irony.

My school is not that good so it is WAY too easy to finish top of my class, so cubing>school for me.

Yup, nothing like setting yourself up to fail in the real world....

 

[jacob15728]

I was using mine in Science class on Tuesday and I didn't get it back until today.

 

[IamWEB]

While there are several reasons (under several circumstances) that cubing should not be done in class, why is it that almost all of the time, these reasons are not the ones given by teachers went they take your cube and get angry at you?
There are a lot of bologna reasons out there, senseless too.

 

[ThatGuy]

My school is not that good so it is WAY too easy to finish top of my class, so cubing>school for me.

Yup, nothing like setting yourself up to fail in the real world....[/QUOTE]

Hey, school is knowing HOW to study. You don't have to be smart (well, you need to have intelligence to a certain level) to finish on top. Knowing how to study is useless in the real world.

 

[04mucklowd]

one time a boy wanted me to lube his cube, so i took the silicone into school
VERY BAD MISTAKE everyone found out that i had lube in my bag
and in history a boy grabbed my bag and got the lube out and showd it to the class and the teacher
she took it away and said she was going to give it to my head of year
ive never heard anything since

 

[i_love_hina]

Cubing at school is a pretty good way to never get laid.

 

[BottleCap]

I was greeted with fanfare the first time I solved my 4x4x4 at school. I had a huge group of people crowded around me, about half of whom I didn't really know, and I got a huge cheer when I solved it.

As for cubing in class, I'm allowed to do it thanks to a loop hole in my school's rules, but I don't usually tend to because it distracts the people around me.

 

[the1lord5]

I always take a cube (or two) to school.
It really annoys my Class Teacher and she keeps telling me its an Addiction.
I don't Cube in class though, so i don't understand how it annoys her.

 

[a small kitten]

Cubing at school is a pretty good way to never get laid.

I hate it when people say stuff like this. You make it sound like people go to school to get laid xD

 

[James Kobel]

Cubing at school is a pretty good way to never get laid.

I hate it when people say stuff like this. You make it sound like people go to school to get laid xD

What about college?

 

[JTW2007]

Cubing at school is a pretty good way to never get laid.

Its not like I'd have a better chance if I stopped cubing.

 

[Musje]

Me one of my buddies were in class (7th grade, about 2/5ths into the year) and the teacher took away his cube...he didn't get it back until the end of the year.

Lol, our school is only allowed to take stuff for a week max.
Usually I get warned multiple times only though, or get my cube back after class (usually with the "solve it in under 5 minutes" stuff... while I could do sub 5 since I fully learned it)
Only got my cube taken for longer once... and that was still only a day

Pretty everyone that knows me now knows that I can solve the cube at school.
I've inspired several people to learn, and several others are interested. While a few of them may have had cubes, I started the entire cube movement amongst several people at school. Only one other person already knew how to solve it!

A part of this also lead to me borrowing a 4x4 to learn how to do it and practice...

My teachers are generally the same... they're interested in the fact that I can solve it, but no cubing during class if there's still work to be done!

wait... did I post here already o.O

(except the 4x4 part, borrowed one for like 10 mins from someone as I'm still waiting for my C4Y order to arrive ;P)

Tennis: yeah, i can TOTALLY cube then

Now THAT would be an awesome video

 

[AvGalen]

Cubing at school is a pretty good way to never get laid.

I hate it when people say stuff like this. You make it sound like people go to school to get laid xD

What about college?

There is no correlation between cubing at school and getting laid.
There is a high correlation between college and getting laid.
There is a high correlation between people that went to college and people that use the word correlation
Thus there is an (indirect) correlation between people that use the word correlation and getting laid.

I just used the word correlation 7 times.

 

[ThatGuy]

i'm not sure correlation works that way...

 

[JTW2007]

there is an (indirect) correlation between people that use the word correlation and getting laid.

What's the ratio?

 

[Ryanrex116]

For some reason, my science teacher thought I was dumb for a very long time. When she found out I could solve a cube, she suddenly thought I was a genius. Now she never calls on me for easy to medium questions. If nobody can answer one of her (impossible) questions, she calls on me. It is very annoying.

 

[abr71310]

LOL I remember that my Calc/Vectors/Adv. functions teacher said that it was amazing that I was even able to solve it (he saw me progress from like ~2min to sub-20, basically) as fast as I could (and marvelled MORE at the fact that I was getting faster), but he'll always be adamant about me putting it away when he starts a lesson.

I really don't mind, since I admire him a lot because of how brilliant he can be.

Some classes, though, I just cube in CONSTANTLY, even DURING a lesson (rofl, Data Management), because the teacher is sort of awesome and really doesn't mind much (I guess he figures I'm practicing? ).

Almost ALL of my teachers saw my competition vid at TOW, though. :S
I was just freaked out for a while before I accepted it.

 

[crosman boy]

in world history me and my friend where cubing adn she saw then took them away for the rest of the day.

 

[V-te]

I take about 2 cubes to school daily, most of my solves are on the bus and during lunch. In my class, I only do it when the teacher finishes the lesson. What bugs me though, is that everyone wants to borrow them, and I get in trouble for distracting the class... Grr...