What was your favourite subject at school?

[thegreenyogi]

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Art, Phys. Ed, Music, and Physics were my favorites. Kind of reflects my ultimate interests to some extent.

I like drawing like this (Oekaki quick sketch of my former dog):

I like physical activities like this (skateboarding as a teen):

I like to make little tunes on my MIDI keyboard like this on the music side (something I'm not very good at but always found so interesting): https://voca.ro/1jMtdVULR4Gg

And I work on simulating physics on computers (physics of light transport, fluids, etc) as a VFX programmer.

[thegreenyogi]

Those drawings are beautiful! You really captured the your dogs soul in my view.

I loved art, literature, music and languages. Thank you for sharing.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Cheers! Literature was one of those hit or miss ones for me where I sometimes loved it and sometimes hated it depending on the author I was reading and their writing style.

[thegreenyogi]

I see. Its not for everyone but i guess because I always loved writing and reading literature was big for me!!

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Do you like Nicholson Baker by any chance? He's one of my favorite authors combining deep observation of the most mundane with sentiment and ornate prose. An except:

>> But my mother’s informal punctuation in the op-ed letter came as a complete surprise; and the fact that my immediate instinctive response to it was to point out the misplaced commas so harshly that she wept (the only time, as far as I remember, that I ever hurt her feelings — for she understood and was even amused by my teenage request that whenever the two of us walked down the street together, she would please walk at least three yards ahead of me, so that people wouldn’t know we were related; and she even played along in her compliance, whistling, walking with a theatrical solitariness, checking her pocketbook, pausing abruptly to glance at a window display), as if these faulty commas called into question our standing as a family — the fact that I had been instinctively so cruel, made me double up with misery when, after I was married, I came across some sentences in Boswell that were punctuated just as hers had been. Boswell (and De Quincey, Edward Young, and others) had treated the sunken garden of a parenthetical phrase just as my mother had — as something to be prepared for and followed by the transitional rounding and softening of a comma.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

>> And such hybrids — of comma and parenthesis, or of semicolon and parenthesis, too — might at least in some cases allow for finer calibrations between phrases, subtler subordinations, irregular varieties of exuberance and magisteriality and fragile conjunction. In our desire for provincial correctness and holy-sounding simplicity and the rapid teachability of intern copy editors we had illegalized all variant forms — and, as with the loss of subvarieties of corn or apples, this homogenization of product was accomplished at a major unforeseen cost: our stiff-jointed prose was less able, so I now huffily thought, full of vengeance against the wrong I had done my mother, to adapt itself to those very novelties of social and technological life whose careful interpretation and weighting was the principal reason for the continued indispensability of the longer sentence.

I encountered him in a literature course and I've loved his writing ever since. It's nerdy, long-winded, extravagant, and deeply sentimental. He devotes entire pages to things like tying shoelaces and the nature of plastic vs. paper straws.

[thegreenyogi]

Yes I am very familiar with this Author. Its where I get my extremely descriptive flare from when I write. Its a bit like painting a picture with words and stringing the words together as if it were the chords of an instrument. That's what writing is for me and I have been very much influenced by Authors like Nicholson Baker.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I really admire that ability! I never had the gift or passion for it but such descriptive writing accomplishes what I always wanted to accomplish visually in drawing but so much better while telling a more complete story, not merely depicting a scene (like an animation as opposed to an image).

[thegreenyogi]

I think it's an ability you either have naturally or you don't. When I was at school I remember I'd write essays and my teachers would read them while other students finished and they repeat certain words or phrases I'd use in awe and I was always told that when I write a story whoever is reading really feels like they're there in that seen because it seems so real and I have been able to transport that person there. And of course I have read many different authors over time that have inspired me and helped me perfect that skill.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I wish I had it. A difficulty I always had was trying to come up with ways to describe a lot of sensations like tastes, smells, sounds, tactile sensations, textures, things of this nature: sound of gravel beneath our shoes, the texture of leaves, the smell and taste of a hearty stew. Or novel use of figurative language that isn't cliché, trying to do things like describe the violence of a hurricane or the peace that follows. I always get stuck. 😅

[Alex-Snow]

I love (d) Physics. It is fascinating to explore how and why things work! How bout u?

[thegreenyogi]

Art, literature, music and languages.

[Alex-Snow]

Perfect!

[thegreenyogi]

Thanks!!

[zeitgeist057]

In high school, my favorite classes were the Journalism class because they let me go wander around town getting ads for the school newspaper and the annual yearbook, and my History class because the teacher let me sleep. (I really hated high school for the most part and found it super boring)

In college, my favorite were the acting classes, especially Improv. It was just getting on stage and playing for a couple hours a day, super fun. we put on a show at the end of the semester.

[strateguy632]

recess! j. k. i hated literature because of the weird questions that didn't match the story. so i loved math because real rules, until i told the 4th grade teacher "math is real not interpretation" so the jerk taught us about repeating decimals 4.999... interpreted as 5. so i started hating math too. my favorite became science.

[andreasderjuengere]

I was basically interested in life and its aspects.
There were no specific subjects that I would have preferred.
The way they were presented, did not ignite my enthusiasm, except for (advanced) English... which was a foreign language to me back then.

[petitedollbabee]

Biology, I wanted to get a career in occupational therapy when I left school. Sadly things don’t go the way that we hope for.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

My Favorite Subject In School Was LUNCH!

[Nikki1989]

Music/band class, art, and history.

[Avicenna]

French (great language and the teacher was hot). Chemistry also, even though the teacher wasn't hot...

[7Phoenix7]

English language arts, dance, and drama/ acting

[Nik1hil]

Biology specifically Genetics, I wanted to be a researcher in that field or Genetic Engineer.

[EagerAmber]

I enjoyed the arts as well as science and literature

[Account]

Ancient Greek, Composition/literature, Physics and Astronomy.

[abc3643]

Sciences (especially physics) and mathematics, then "social studies".

[whereismyjohnny]

Middle school: English, Chemistry, Art

High school: Italian, Family Law

[euniestars]

Spanish, it’s my main language so I was chilling in class the whole time

[Kelly6]

@euniestars
that should be called cheating lol
not far for other students

[euniestars]

@Kelly6 i was helping the students lol

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Biology above all.

[NathanDavis]

Geography...

drawing maps by hand...

[Fireguy17]

shop, band, ag, lunch

[Karolina03]

History and Geography

[Kelly6]

@thegreenyogi Geometry

[tfan1]

Spelling and science

[Iron_Man]

PE and English

[Staximus]

History but I wasn't there much

[Still-alive]

History, i even majored in it

[jennifer_bloom]

English and History

[helva]

History

[laly520]

music

[Danny_dan92]

History

[Dnice1]

Art 🎨

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Social studies.

[Kykiono1]

Geography

[shortster]

Math

[CuriousMufuxka]

Physics.

[BLP11520]

History 👍