The Things People Learn Out of School.

The following is an e-mail that I got from a good friend of mine, and I completely agree with her.

i think i learn more useful information OUT of school then i do IN school.To prove this, I'll list what i learned while on Winter Break.
Things Hannah Learned Over Break
-Despite the fact that they can sing way better than I can ever hope for, all the members of "The Wallflowers" are...how do i put this? A "different" sight.
-Beyonce's mock-beehive hairstyle was popular in the 80's
-After high school, I want to wait a couple of years before going to college, and be a flight attendant instead. Unless i need a degree or some kickboxing classes to do that ("Sir, please sit back down" "no way! im getting off this plane" "well, if thats the way you want to deal.." (BAM BAM BAM!). "my ribs....." "now sir, would you please get back in your seat...")
-Various knitting techniques
-The weirdest line in U2's song "Numb" is "Have another grape"
-How they found Noah's ark, and who found it.
-College is just like high school, with different living conditions
-If you stay in a chlorinated pool for about two and a half hours, toenail polish will peel right off your toes (useful if you want a polish change)
-If you find a cute pair of jeans at American Eagle, you can get them for ten dollars cheaper at Macy's
-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, though hard to read at first, are very interesting.
-If you see a T-Rex, dont move. But if you see a velociraptor, look to the left and the right then run like heck because they do weird three-pronged attacks. They also have different vocal sounds. And dont ever zap one of those small chicken-like dinosaurs with a cattle prod. When you are all alone, they will gang up of you. (i watched all three "Jurassic Park"s)
-A woman sold snow on Ebay
-My dream job would be playing with the CBS Orchestra on "The Late Show"
-The music video for "All i want is you" can make me almost-cry
-The resturaunt "Texas Roadhouse" has large cactuses..cacti? at head level, and if you turn around too fast, you will sustain serious injury
-Various ways to take over the world (Pinky and the Brain anyone?)
-Skydiving costs around $200 for a tandem dive, and $300-600 for solo divesnow,

dont you think thats way more important than Lewis-dot diagrams and verb conjugations? and thats not all i learned. i just didnt want to bore you with various facts about music artists, cds, and anything else music related.

My Response:
that was an awesome list, i really enjoyed it. i think i'll try to make one of my own.
Things Moriah Learned Over Break
- People are more willing to let you do what you want when they feel like they've been productive.
- You don't need to worry a lot in high school.
- Old people in the medicine field like the same kind of books as I do.
- Einstein's theory of relativity means that the only constant in this universe is light.
- Time is relative to light and if you went close to the speed of light, time would slow down.
- Einstein came up with all his theories because he wanted to know how God created the Earth.
- Affairs get in the way of scientific discovery.
- The atom was split by bombarding radium with neutrons and it got so big that it seperated into smaller atoms.
- A Monte Carlo program helps you predict the stock market.
- Water-based wood finish is better quality than oil-based finish.
- Countertop installation takes about a week.
- It's best to shovel a little snow very often than a lot all at once.
- Microsoft Excel can calculate the same thing 100,000 times in one day.
- Don't shake up chocolate milk.
- European shoes have different proportions from American shoes.
- Lucky Charms cereal is not available outside of the US.
- Snickers is the only American candy available in Singapore.
- German gummy bears are fruityer and less sugary than American ones.
- Allergies are a genetic disorder.
- In DC, they have movies playing in the post offices during the holidays.
- Nintendo is from Japan.
- Dish soap can get pretty much anything off your skin.
- Singapore is on the equator.
- BYU has supercomputers.
- Three of the actors from Much Ado About Nothing (1993) appear in Harry Potter movies.
- You can kind of photoshop using microsoft paint.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber owns a company called "Really Useful."