I live in the Philippines. In here, your first four years of high school are just the normal high school life to live. Your next two years, however, are kinda different. You have to take these strands (six to choose from) that complement your desired career choice and/or course to be taken up in college. If you wanna be a doctor, you're gonna have to take a science-related strand; if you wanna be a lawyer, you're gonna have to take a humanities-related strand. All these strands have some subjects in common but what sets them apart is their special subjects, so you won't be seeing an Economics subject taken by anyone who takes a science-related strand but you're definitely gonna take the same math subject. It's complicated, I know.
It's a rather subjective judgment but lots of bad stuff happened to me. Basically bad luck. 2020 is replicating it except that everyone is experiencing the same bad stuff.
Ah, I see. It makes sense, then, that you don't have the same sort of school system that we do. The strands (it reminds me of the "cones" in the Foreign Service here) sound like a fairly good idea except for people that have absolutely no idea what they want to do. You see, I have varying interests, and I might switch from one major to another in college (or university, depending on what term you use).
Ah, I see. I guess the year I broke like all the bones in my arm would be a bad year for me. It's true, 2020 is just horrible for everyone.
Well, there's actually a strand too for people who still have no idea as to what career they'd want to pursue. The two extra years in high school, let alone the strands, was only implemented 7 years ago (I think) and wasn't really met with that good of a reception if you'll ask me. It may even change in the near future.
I see. Although my interest is in film, I'm considering taking an advertisement-related course first as it's very hard to find film school in here and I may find more jobs in advertising and stuff when I finish college than when I finish film school, despite knowing a screenwriter here personally.
What year was that? It really is. I'm hoping that once the pandemic is over (and assuming that no second or third wave of COVID will emerge), things will be much better, even if our lifestyle afterwards will inevitably be very different now.
But things have been consistently worsening, along with some factors I can't mention here. It's been doom and gloom for me for a long time already.
Oh... I see. :/ That's rough, buddy.
It really is. The moment I actually get happy, it gets ruined as well afterwards. But enough about this; it's not really a good topic to discuss here anyway.
Yeah. I really wonder where this will go since we don't know much about Cole for the longest time.
Maybe the writers will try to go into what happened to his mom and/or give him a love interest? I don't know. xD
That will be awesome. I actually don't know for sure if the season will focus on Cole, but if he's on the front of the boxes for the next season of sets, certainly he must be significant.
Ah yes, that was so satisfying as well seeing all of those puppies escape. I also remember seeing the live-action versions of 101 and 102 dalmatians.
I saw those, too! I remember watching 102 Dalmatians over and over again because we had it on DVD, and I had a hard time understanding how that plot was connected to the first movie.
Same with me! They were really entertaining. Apparently, Cruella De Vil got out of jail and thought she could live a normal life, and then she turned back to villainy.
Ah, I see. I guess you kind of know what it's like already. Ah, right. Computer Science has lots of jobs as well, especially for machine learning and big data. Engineering in general has a lot of jobs.
Yeah, kind of. The math I was doing for the past few months has been math without numbers. I just did a simple google search and it tells me they determine the financial status of a company or something like that? Is that accurate? If it is, it definitely requires a lot of math, math that I probably don't know of.
I haven't taken any mechanical engineering classes, but it seems like a good fit for you. Thanks! I know it can be hard to do some things when you are colorblind, but I hope despite all of that you will get the same opportunities as everyone else.
I responded to this earlier, but the internet cut out, so it didn't happen.
Yep, my brother got a well-paying job pretty quickly, but that might just be because he's like really smart and stuff and got good grades from an academically rigorous college. I'm glad engineering has a lot of jobs too.
How exactly does math without numbers work? Also, actuaries . . . they do complicated stuffs. It all has to do with probabilities, but they work in many different sectors. A lot work with insurance companies to determine the rates, either directly for them, or in a consulting firm. My dad works at a consulting firm, but he works on pension plans; he figures out the probabilities of how long someone's going to live and lump sum amounts vs. paying out over time sort of stuff. I could give you more details if you want, but I'd have to remember first.
I think that mechanical engineering would be a pretty good fit, but I'm not sure. I hope it would be. Also, it's not particularly hard being colorblind because I've lived with it my whole life (except for the jobs I can't have ) but sunsets are just sad.
That's alright.
That makes sense. I'm sure he studied very well at school. Same with me. Hopefully we find good job opportunities.
Proofs, lots of proofs. Everything is a variable and feels like you're translating Egyptian hieroglyphs. Ah, probabilities. That's one of my math weaknesses. That's alright. I'm sure I probably won't understand the math behind it.
I guess you'll find out when you get there. True. Oh, that's unfortunate. Those sunsets don't look too colorful?
You're welcome. You've also reminded me to pray for you more often, so thank you. I can't be forgetting my friends!
I can see that. It captures the sadness of the past but demonstrates the hope of the future! And we need a happy-sad face, sometimes, because we don't always have just one emotion.
My derp-tongue-smiley doesn't even come close to being useful.
Well, I can be a pretty easy person to forget, so I can't say I blame you.
Precisely! It's nice to see the emotes dealing with more emotions. :3
Drat.
Hey, no you're not! It was a different kind of forgetting.
Would we say like "OGEL Message Boards Eternal (Just spell it backwards)"? Or maybe something like "Only the Greatest Eternal Lebricks Message Boards."
I'd just keep saying the LMBE because that's the one I've known for the longest time.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we all will, but then those newcomers will be like "What? I thought this was OGEL."
Ya, we have about five acers to ride them on where they are now. 
Nice. All part of your backyard? 
oh no. It's the ranch we have the horses and cows on It's across the streat. 
You see, I have varying interests, and I might switch from one major to another in college (or university, depending on what term you use).
I remember watching 102 Dalmatians over and over again because we had it on DVD, and I had a hard time understanding how that plot was connected to the first movie. 
(Oh yeah, I forgot that, dear sensei! ![[derp]](http://storage.proboards.com/6672327/images/YqNTPqyQUocVMYXZgUAI.png)
Thank you for teaching me DA WAYS.)
(YEESSS! DIS. IS. DA WAYS!!! 
so were you around for the Big Chungus meme? 