Sometimes you say some really intelligent stuff. Other times you are borderline incoherent. It's pretty clear English is not your first language. I'm not trying to insult you, but I'm pretty sure that's why I'm having a hard time understanding you, and you may be misunderstanding me.
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Originally Posted by masque de Z
No i am not rambling. If you have sex with a girl that is 17 and 9 months you are in trouble right? You do not round it to 18. First of all ethically you shouldnt, even if its attractive in your mind and she behaves as if she adores you because they are probably not mature enough yet when the age difference is significant, even if they look like they are. Second it is illegal technically.
Having sex with a 17 year old is not a crime in many places. The age of consent here is 16 AFAIK. I don't know why you're talking about rounding to the closest integer. Truncating is rounding down/flooring. If you are 17 and 9 months your age is truncated to 17.
I think you're rambling because you're off on a tangent not related to the original discussion. I was never talking about rounding to the nearest integer like that.
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So when they say they were 15 at 2001 it means precisely what i said or it can be all over the place and then the question is stupid. It better means that they became exactly 15 and not 16 at some point in that year. So what on earth is the deal? Everything else is ill defined. So you answer like i did and then you add also the other things regarding what possibly some people mean by age 15.
But it says Bob was 15 in 2001. It doesnt say Bob was considering himself still 15. One is only 15 during one day so to speak. The rest is 15+ extra time or 14+.
If you have a problem with the question you answer it the right way that it becomes meaningful, which is what i did, and then you add your other ideas as side note about the fact that some people call themselves 15 during part of the year. Then the teacher will be amazed at your intellect and care unless they are insecure aholes.
But your way of imagining it is wrong, avoiding to call it confidently 2001-15, because it doesnt recognize that if what you think is true then sometime in 2001 they were also 16. So why are they telling me they were 15 if they were also 16? Therefore i can only conclude that they were precisely and only 15 during 2001 or the question is not a proper one hiding other info.
They would have told you that Bob considered himself 15 sometime during 2001 if they wanted you to be that creative and imagine such things without exposing themselves as wrong that he was also 16 that year.
It's a societal convention to truncate ages. Saying someone is 15 means their age is in the interval [15, 16). I am having trouble following you, so I'm probably just going to leave it at that. I'd settle with agreeing that it's a bad question.
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Do not consider yourself thankful your dropped out of high school and college. They probably failed you and now you want to fail them too. No matter how smart of creative one is they can still benefit from a proper formal education completed. I suggest using all kinds of local colleges and community college schools that you can take all kinds of cool classes that can top even university classes at any age.
If one designs a proper sequence of classes you can become an expert in tons of things from a position of adult thinking that the kids fail to grasp when they take these classes. You will have a harder time learning these things than the kids do (unless still below 30) but you will make more from them if you put the effort and you will put them to better use than most of the young ones. Everyone that does that has my highest respect for the faith they show in the power of the individual human spirit at any age.
I failed in high school due to apathy more than anything else. All of my classes were trivially easy. I dropped out of community college with just a few credits remaining for my 2-year degree. It's not that I couldn't pass, it's that I finally learned that school wasn't for me. Continuing doing something I hated would have been a waste of time. I also dropped out of high school with only a few credits left. IIRC I only had a government class left and electives for my senior year because I exhausted all the math and science courses in 10th grade. Our school only offered up to calculus which I took in 9th grade, and I took physics in 10th grade and that was it. It probably contributed a lot to my drop-out that I didn't have any math or science classes to interest me in 11th grade.
I recall struggling with a teacher because they graded us on taking notes. I do not take notes. I hate authoritarian teachers that think they know the best way for a student to learn. It took some effort to explain that note-taking is just not how I learn and that I wasn't going to do it.
I am not against education in general, I just don't think I benefit much from formal education. I never had a class challenge me and I hardly ever learned anything from lectures that I couldn't learn from a book. The most I ever learned in school was from a professor who gave me a book that I could study on my own.
I hate formal education because it's not about learning. OP is so concerned about his grade, his scholarship, and his eventually degree that he is forgetting that school should be about learning. IME it's rare to meet a student who seems to care about learning. I have considered taking classes again for fun, but I have no interest in a degree. I hate the concept of degrees.
I also hate the class sizes. I imagine I could probably benefit from having 1 on 1 sessions with an instructor. Other students are mainly a hindrance.
Now I'm rambling.