Introduce Yourself!

[Chibi]

Welcome to the forums, Particlese!  You sound very interesting - I shall be watching your career on this forum very closely. 

[silverflagon]

Hi and welcome particlese, sounds like you have a fun time squabbling with that over grown magnet lol I'm pleased to see that you have stopped watching and that you have come down here and joined us

[Xiagan]

I missed you on IRC due to different time zones, so welcome here!

[Particlese]

Hi again, and thanks for the welcomes!

Chibi:  I'll probably post about my mod plans this coming weekend.  I have a main story which I'd like to keep as a surprise, but I should be able to get most of my ideas across without spoilers.  (It's not particularly awesome, but there's some humour in it that I'd like to surprise people with.)  So far, the only in-game stuff I've created is just to get familiarized with modding the game.  My favorite thing so far is this dude I made that creepily chases you around whenever you spin.   

Silverflagon:  Yeah, I'm kind of lazy when it comes to joining new forums.  I frequent two others, and this is the one I've posted most on in the past week or two!  Also:  yup, the magnet is quite fun, and it gives us an excuse to play with liquid nitrogen every week since we have to refill it!

Xiagan:  I found you.  Mwuhahahaaaa!

[silverflagon]

Ooo liquid nitrogen that is really cool fun rotfl!

[Xiagan]

Sounds like a cool job!
Damn, it's my brother who studies physics and not me!

[Chibi]

Liquid nitrogen is a neat thing - it's amazing what you can do with it when no one's looking ... *ahem* 

Hi again, and thanks for the welcomes!

Chibi:  I'll probably post about my mod plans this coming weekend.  I have a main story which I'd like to keep as a surprise, but I should be able to get most of my ideas across without spoilers.  (It's not particularly awesome, but there's some humour in it that I'd like to surprise people with.)  So far, the only in-game stuff I've created is just to get familiarized with modding the game.  My favorite thing so far is this dude I made that creepily chases you around whenever you spin.   

Can't wait to see it, Part. 

[silverflagon]

And helium but you need to be very careful lol It's very strange but I really enjoyed the experimental part of physics at school then our science teacher showed us the periodic table and suddenly it didn't seem to be such a fun subject lol Only we weren't told that it was called physics at that time and I left school soon after, I only found out about it when my son was taking it years later.

[Chibi]

Science was my favorite subject until high-school. I went from having a teacher who was an eighth-grade mad scientist at heart to a teacher who sounded like the textbook was hardwired to his brain.  _{I've always been fascinated by the sciences, and aim to become a doctor.}  (I know this is a little off topic, but you could view it as an addendum to my first post on this thread.)

[silverflagon]

Something similar happened to me also chibi but it was with my maths teachers instead

[Danger Mouse]

Math was always my good subject. I enjoyed sciences too, but I never took chemistry in Highschool. It wasn't a requirement, a general science was required so I took Biology. I jumped into Chemistry for Engineers 201 right of the bat in College instead of 101 because it was recommended to me by a councelor since I was so good with math. 4 semesters of Calculus all straight A's. However when I took that chemistry I couldn't seem to get a grip on it fast enough since it was already expected that I had to have the periodic table memorized,.. hence I got  a C the first semester, and the 2nd semester I had to drop it. Chose to go with Geology for my science credits instead, and had an absolute blast since most of the work was required to be out in the field (hands on).

[silverflagon]

I think that we had better let this thread get back on course, but it's oh so easy for me to start a grumble about lousy teachers here

[Chibi]

This thread is in the Off-Topic category, and any digression can be excused as introducing ourselves ... again.  But you might be right silver. Time to wait for new people to post here.

[Danger Mouse]

Silver: this is the place for people getting to know more about each other.. there's no reason to change the topic. You should know better than that, old timer.

[Particlese]

Long live the Off-Topic section!

I know a bunch of people who had similar experiences with teachers dampening their interest in the sciences.  During a couple seminars/colloquia we've had here, it's been pointed out that there's a disturbingly high number of science teachers out there with no science training beyond an intro semester or two at college.  But slightly back on-topic, I'm considering becoming a teacher myself, as I really liked teaching labs and tutoring people here and there.  If I do do that, I hope I can be even half as awesome as the teachers I've had.  I was really lucky to have great ones the whole way through.

Edit:  Nuts, top of the page again...