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Name Something You Learned….

Pezzie — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:17:50 GMT

In school, but never used in your adult life.

For me

Trigonometry

In fact, don't remember a thing about it .

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Zhills — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:20:26 GMT

Shorthand.

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CelticCrafter — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:20:39 GMT

Algebra. Barely eeked by and that was with the help of a tutor.

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RedTop — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:22:48 GMT

Algebra and Chemistry.

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meallen616 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:14:56 GMT

@Pezzie,

Totally agree with you, it was trigonometry and earth science!

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eadu4 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:30:32 GMT

@Pezzie Latin. Never used it. At Christmas time she made us memorize Christmas carols in Latin. I can still sing "Jingle Bells" in Latin but no one has asked me to sing 🎤 that version 😂

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I am still oxox — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:31:56 GMT

Earth Science

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deepwaterdotter — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:32:13 GMT

Creating a collage in Art class.

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KatieB — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:38:12 GMT

@eadu4 wrote:
@Pezzie Latin. Never used it. At Christmas time she made us memorize Christmas carols in Latin. I can still sing "Jingle Bells" in Latin but no one has asked me to sing 🎤 that version 😂

Oh, I loved Latin. Took 2 years in high shool and 2 years in college. That's where most of our words come from. You can figure out the meaning of words if you know Latin. Really helped on the SAT tests.

I loved any math and science classes. Did not care for English or History classes.

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PA Mom-mom — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:36:36 GMT

Algebra. I think I needed it once, when 4 of us carrying 3 different currencies, tried to decide if we would save money by converting to Austrian shillings and converting back later in a different country. We were all pretty sure Algebra would come in handy, but we couldn't figure it out.

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EastCoastGal — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:37:05 GMT

Algebra... l had a hard time learning it and l barely passed it !!

On the other hand, I loved and have used all the business courses l took and also loved English. I was a secretary for 36 years. Definitely didn't need Algebra during that time!!!

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:55:01 GMT

Algebra and diagramming a sentence.

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millieshops — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:56:07 GMT

I believe I use odds and ends of many different disciplines as I work my way through the maze of our complicated life, but I'm certainly not sure of that. I do know I sometimes wish I could still look at a world map and recognize the countries on each continent. I believe the last time I could name and accurately place all the countries in Africa I was in sixth grade. For Europe and Asia, I could do that as a college freshman. Now the only continent where I'd volunteer to fill in a blank map would be North America.

Guess I won't make it to Jeopardy in this lifetime!

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gidgetgh — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:58:55 GMT

Algebra (all those word problems and imaginary numbers. Why, why, why....)

Geometry. I had no idea what they were talking about from start of the school year till the end. Protractors, compasses. Again, why, why, why.

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LdyBugz — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:10:21 GMT

In my adult life, I have never needed to know or figure out: "If train A left the station at 9 a.m. going 90 mph, and train B left the station at.......", so, Algebra!

And what about that periodic table? I can only remember a few of them, and the only time I've used them is to answer a Jeopardy question. No beakers or bunson burners in my house either, so, Chemistry!

And so far, still have never needed to cut up a frog and know where its parts are.

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Meowingkitty — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:13:47 GMT

Algebra. I tried 3 times to pass the class (one in HS and twice in college) and dropped out 3 times. I just didn't get the whole X Y thing and didn't know why anyone would care. Thank goodness I didn't need it to graduate and I didn't need it in college. All we had to take was a year of some kind of math and I took basic arithmetic.

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Tori3569 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:16:47 GMT

I was and still am a math geek (as my boss reminded me today, lol). So, my answers would be physics, though I wish I understood it more today and also Poetry (lovely, but zero use in my job or life in general).

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SilleeMee — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:17:57 GMT

How to use an abacus.

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tansy — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:24:51 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
How to use an abacus.

Or a slide rule.

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LdyBugz — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:33:41 GMT

P.S., Also have never needed to flop around on a pummel horse or climb a rope all the way up to the gym room ceiling, thank goodness!