@Kyeh I disliked sports until I realized that not all sports involved a ball. I feel that PE has made significant advance in that regard since I was at school.
@ergomeh I agree 100%. In high school I was finally able to take ice skating one semester, and swimming in college. And I learned to ride a bike late, 6th grade, but it became one of my favorite things to do.
@ergomeh@Kyeh
I’m always the person that got hit with the ball in the face. I’m not even playing the sport, just the wrong place at the wrong time. I think I’ve got just about every ball imaginable in the face as a kid. So I’m definitely not favorable of sports invovoling balls.
@ergomeh@Kyeh It might not be the ball’s fault that sports are bad… I thought I hate sports (and everything sports-adjacent) until I had to admit a few things were fun. Eventually I realized that it wasn’t the sport I disliked, it was the team.
In school, whether in class or at recess, we never worked with everyone at the same skill level. So I was always dragging the team down, and I hated it (even when the other kids weren’t overtly shaming me for it). Even if I wasn’t, somebody was, and I was too empathetic to ignore their pain.
I’ve never been very sportive, nor have I cared to be.
One year in PE we got to do ping-pong and badminton. I found that I rather liked both of those (although I mostly got to play against my friends, who also didn’t care about winning).
Some other summer I played volleyball at a family reunion (with very mixed ages, and rather universally low skill level), and nobody was playing to win. We mostly kept the rules — but not the score — and the main goal was just to see how long we could keep the ball in the air. Once again, I didn’t hate it.
Anyway, my point is that I have come to the realization that it was the teams/people I disliked, not the sports themselves. YMMV.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
@jouest@Kyeh Re: Dodge ball - you didn’t have Will Jones on the opposing team. Will had been held back a year or two - so was bigger than most others in the class. He was also the star pitcher on the baseball team. He could hurl a ball at near supersonic speeds with deadly accuracy - if it hit you, it would raise a big red welt.
Not my idea of a good time.
@jouest@macromeh 🫤 The PE teacher should have kept him from playing, or given him some sort of restrictions. That’s another gripe of mine - all my PE teachers were mean unpleasant people. Well, not the skating and swimming teachers.
@jouest@Kyeh omg!!! I even remember the name of the boy I got paired with!! Looking back, I feel sorry for him. He was the dirty kid who smelled funny and everyone made fun of him. I personally didnt make fun of anyone but I also didnt talk to him. Thought he had cooties.
Somehow I got paired with him and remember going to the bathroom after class to wash my arms/hands.
Poor kid though, his parents should have been ashamed of rhemselves. Made life really hard on him!!
Calculus.
I could graph out time travel in physics, but I couldn’t pass basic calculus. Four tries and eventually I was shuffled along since I could do higher differentiation and advanced theorums.
@pakopako my freshman year of college i had to take ONE core math class and was young and stupid so skipped Algebra II or whatever and took Business Applied Calculus.
this journalism/philosophy major regretted this quickly
@pakopako I’m extremely curious what was going on in your calculus class that didn’t click for you, if you were able to the other stuff. Like, was it too trig-heavy? Or is it just integrals that refuse to comply? (I also wonder if the right kind of tutoring or something else might have helped.)
Doesn’t really matter at this point; I’m just a curious math major.
@xobzoo oddly enough I was tutoring others in calculus; I used visual aids and it stuck.
I just did not test well on written questions. (I would misjudge the correct application, use the incorrect equations, could not get anything to the third significant figure, etc. “Close enough” wasn’t cutting it for hard science.)
Gym bc I refused to participate bc it was right after lunch. Who wants to go run a mile after they just ate. I wasn’t good at math in high school but in collage I had an awesome teacher and never did a day of homework and still passed with a B.
The class I hated the most in both HS and college was some type of government class. The only way I could sit in the class in college was if I was blown out of my mind bc it was so boring to me. I paid people to do my papers and that was the only reason I passed.
PE. It wasn’t that I was physically inactive, it’s that it was a stupid waste of time in my extremely overpacked schedule, it did nothing to improve my form in anything, and, when I tried to make it more interesting… well, let’s just say it’s lucky PE didn’t count in my GPA.
I think I got a D- my senior year. They did not appreciate my soccer interpretation of volleyball BUT I got the ball over the net and in the right spot.
Geometry, hated it, couldn’t get it and didn’t see any possible way I would use it in my adult life. I took far more advanced math classes after and did just fine, it was just geometry
Fast forward, I work in global logistics and use it every damn day!!!
@tinamarie1974 And I didn’t like math but I really DID like geometry! Once I went in to show my HS geometry teacher that I’d figured out how to solve one of the problems in 3 steps, and the book’s answer had 4. My one and only proud math moment.
GOD DAMN MATH.
I almost failed it and it made me almost fail 8th grade.
@Wollyhop 10TH GRADE TRIG WHAT WAS THAT
P.E.
@Kyeh not a dodgeball enthusiast?
@jouest That was actually better than the team sports.
@Kyeh AGREE. dodgeball was as good as square dancing was bad.
@jouest Euw, yes - I forgot about square dancing. Yuck!
@Kyeh Yeah, definitely was my least favorite too. That might also explain why I’m vertically impaired nowadays.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Kyeh I disliked sports until I realized that not all sports involved a ball. I feel that PE has made significant advance in that regard since I was at school.
@ergomeh I agree 100%. In high school I was finally able to take ice skating one semester, and swimming in college. And I learned to ride a bike late, 6th grade, but it became one of my favorite things to do.
@ergomeh @Kyeh
I’m always the person that got hit with the ball in the face. I’m not even playing the sport, just the wrong place at the wrong time. I think I’ve got just about every ball imaginable in the face as a kid. So I’m definitely not favorable of sports invovoling balls.
@ergomeh @Kyeh It might not be the ball’s fault that sports are bad… I thought I hate sports (and everything sports-adjacent) until I had to admit a few things were fun. Eventually I realized that it wasn’t the sport I disliked, it was the team.
In school, whether in class or at recess, we never worked with everyone at the same skill level. So I was always dragging the team down, and I hated it (even when the other kids weren’t overtly shaming me for it). Even if I wasn’t, somebody was, and I was too empathetic to ignore their pain.
I’ve never been very sportive, nor have I cared to be.
One year in PE we got to do ping-pong and badminton. I found that I rather liked both of those (although I mostly got to play against my friends, who also didn’t care about winning).
Some other summer I played volleyball at a family reunion (with very mixed ages, and rather universally low skill level), and nobody was playing to win. We mostly kept the rules — but not the score — and the main goal was just to see how long we could keep the ball in the air. Once again, I didn’t hate it.
Anyway, my point is that I have come to the realization that it was the teams/people I disliked, not the sports themselves. YMMV.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
@jouest @Kyeh Re: Dodge ball - you didn’t have Will Jones on the opposing team. Will had been held back a year or two - so was bigger than most others in the class. He was also the star pitcher on the baseball team. He could hurl a ball at near supersonic speeds with deadly accuracy - if it hit you, it would raise a big red welt.
Not my idea of a good time.
@jouest @macromeh 🫤 The PE teacher should have kept him from playing, or given him some sort of restrictions. That’s another gripe of mine - all my PE teachers were mean unpleasant people. Well, not the skating and swimming teachers.
@jouest @Kyeh we had line dancing but no square dancing.
@jouest @Kyeh Yeah, no - the PE teacher (a neanderthal jock himself, recently out of college) thought it was funny.
@jouest @macromeh That figures.
@jouest @Kyeh omg!!! I even remember the name of the boy I got paired with!! Looking back, I feel sorry for him. He was the dirty kid who smelled funny and everyone made fun of him. I personally didnt make fun of anyone but I also didnt talk to him. Thought he had cooties.
Somehow I got paired with him and remember going to the bathroom after class to wash my arms/hands.
Poor kid though, his parents should have been ashamed of rhemselves. Made life really hard on him!!
Home economics!!! I already knew how to sew and I hated to cook back then and still do. They wouldn’t let me take shop because that was just for boys.
Calculus.
I could graph out time travel in physics, but I couldn’t pass basic calculus. Four tries and eventually I was shuffled along since I could do higher differentiation and advanced theorums.
@pakopako my freshman year of college i had to take ONE core math class and was young and stupid so skipped Algebra II or whatever and took Business Applied Calculus.
this journalism/philosophy major regretted this quickly
@pakopako I’m extremely curious what was going on in your calculus class that didn’t click for you, if you were able to the other stuff. Like, was it too trig-heavy? Or is it just integrals that refuse to comply? (I also wonder if the right kind of tutoring or something else might have helped.)
Doesn’t really matter at this point; I’m just a curious math major.
@xobzoo oddly enough I was tutoring others in calculus; I used visual aids and it stuck.
I just did not test well on written questions. (I would misjudge the correct application, use the incorrect equations, could not get anything to the third significant figure, etc. “Close enough” wasn’t cutting it for hard science.)
Gym bc I refused to participate bc it was right after lunch. Who wants to go run a mile after they just ate. I wasn’t good at math in high school but in collage I had an awesome teacher and never did a day of homework and still passed with a B.
The class I hated the most in both HS and college was some type of government class. The only way I could sit in the class in college was if I was blown out of my mind bc it was so boring to me. I paid people to do my papers and that was the only reason I passed.
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
@Star2236 “kids these days with their ChatGPT, in our day we paid a guy!!”
PE. It wasn’t that I was physically inactive, it’s that it was a stupid waste of time in my extremely overpacked schedule, it did nothing to improve my form in anything, and, when I tried to make it more interesting… well, let’s just say it’s lucky PE didn’t count in my GPA.
I think I got a D- my senior year. They did not appreciate my soccer interpretation of volleyball BUT I got the ball over the net and in the right spot.
Geometry, hated it, couldn’t get it and didn’t see any possible way I would use it in my adult life. I took far more advanced math classes after and did just fine, it was just geometry
Fast forward, I work in global logistics and use it every damn day!!!
@tinamarie1974
And I didn’t like math but I really DID like geometry! Once I went in to show my HS geometry teacher that I’d figured out how to solve one of the problems in 3 steps, and the book’s answer had 4. My one and only proud math moment.
@Kyeh we could have been a good team! And good on you!!! Hope your teacher celebrated your smart thinking
@tinamarie1974 Yes, but you’d have had a lot more work to do because algebra, trig, etc. put me in a stupor.