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[StrongBad]

Normal riddle question to everyone outside Brooklyn Tech
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Brooklyn Tech
How much wood = x would y number of woodchucks chuck if y number could chuck x number of wood?

If a tree fell in the woods and there was no one around, would it make a sound?

Brooklyn Tech
If a tree fell at the gravitational constant of -9.8 m/s^2, in the area with no one present, would this tree in fact make a disturbance with sound waves?

If you had a million dollars, what would you do with it?

Brooklyn Tech
If you had received a tax-free million dollars, and you were not burdened with financial concerns or future planning, what kind of investment would you make with it?

If you could be anybody, who would you be?

Brooklyn Tech
If we could develop a consciousness transfering device between you and a certain celebrity, which body would you like to inhabit?

[Xilenx]

Why do we always try to overcomplicate things?

[LeonM]

Sadly, I think that you made the Brooklyn tech questions easier in what they're trying to ask, but harder to understand behind the bad grammar.

[Xilenx]

What would look better? A 4.0 of a kid that came out of a school of hard knocks, or a 4.0 of a kid with many other kids having 4.0s?

[payn]

hmm... I don't know... i was actually thinking the same thing. Considering the fact that BTHS compared to a regular school isn't really much of a difference, would it really matter where you come from with that GPA?

[bluegrn]

is it actually better to graduation from a specialized high school with a 2.0, or a 4.0 from a regular school famous for the retards they create?

[Xilenx]

Sure, but you can also think about it that this 4.0 kid has graduated from the same standards (regents standards, or state standards) as many of the other schools (x - 6) and has recieved that 4.0, plus s/he does go a difficult social conditioning school.

[StrongBad]

hey i've actually tried out some senior level classes at another school (it was freshman level stuff) they had algebra as a math III program and the foreign language was so easy, they had computer foreign language programs too, you would get the grades of tests from the computer with a little headset so you could talk to it. But we go to Brooklyn Tech and we have the textbooks falling apart and no computer assisted learning :cry:
oh but don't worry those kids who have twenty or thirty points lower in IQ have that spot in an ivy league school locked up.
now to the question, if you have a 4.0 they generally tend to overlook the school so they think your bright and struggling to overcome the handicaps life has placed in your way.

[Xilenx]

When colleges hear (especially someone from not nyc), Brooklyn Tech, the first thing that comes to their minds is "Oh the kid comes from as High School, okay."

However, I'm sure we get some points for being in the top 100 schools or something like that.

[StrongBad]

very little points if you have a lower average than someone outside the school and everybody forgets us when they name the specialized high schools, believe me I know.

[Fluffy_Bunny]

If it's one of the better colleges in New York State, then the BTHS name will serve a purpose. If it's in California or something, then no, not really.

[WEBS]

Well I hope you're right, because I applied to all NYS colleges.

[bluegrn]

Don't worry, there's always brooklyn college... j/k

[StrongBad]

yeah and there's BMCC
next to stuy so you throw things at them if you get bored

[BKBuffyGurl]

Now that sounds like a good idea.

[Brennan-Monster]

Once you kids actually graduate, you'll realize how foolish you were to mock CUNY schools as dead-end wastelands. CUNY is cheap, well-funded, and improving. Going to BMCC would not necessarily be such a bad move (although for the very upper-echelon students it probably wouldn't be a good one either). But CUNY as a whole, even the non-honors majority, is not at all a bad place to be.

[Xilenx]

CUNY bashing happens until they realize thats the only thing they get into. And not by grades, but by what it will costs.

[Neo]

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Once you kids actually graduate, you'll realize how foolish you were to mock CUNY schools as dead-end wastelands. CUNY is cheap, well-funded, and improving. Going to BMCC would not necessarily be such a bad move (although for the very upper-echelon students it probably wouldn't be a good one either). But CUNY as a whole, even the non-honors majority, is not at all a bad place to be.

STFU n00b. I go to Bull!@#$ of Manhattan Community College. You get what you pay for. They're teaching me how to print "HELLO WORLD" in programming class for some $1,500 a semester. Oh yeah, I'm headed for high-flying career in software engineering at this rate...

[Brennan-Monster]

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STFU n00b. I go to Bullshit of Manhattan Community College. You get what you pay for. They're teaching me how to print "HELLO WORLD" in programming class for some $1,500 a semester. Oh yeah, I'm headed for high-flying career in software engineering at this rate...

Excuse me, what Counter-Strike server did you just crawl out of? With people skills like yours it's no surprise you're headed nowhere.

I didn't say go to BMCC for programming (or "software engineering," as the unemployed like to call it). It's more of a wishy-washy humanities place, yeah. But that doesn't cast a pall on the whole CUNY system. Xilenx is right. More of you than you think or are being led to believe will wind up in CUNY, and it's not so terrible, for the most part.

[Xilenx]

i hate leet speak =T i play cs and i cant stand it when people talk like that. but w/e, i like neo nevertheless.

anyway, cuny education could not possibly be as bad you claim it is neo. although i dont plan going into computer science or things of that are associated with that. but many people have come out of cuny have been great successes. i cant name any off the top of my head at this moment, but i do remember going to a cuny conference where they spoke of this.