When am I ever going to use this?!?

Question

When am I ever going to need to write a 5,000 word essay on the Iliad in the real world? When am I going to use calculus in the real world? When am I going to need to know atomic mass and chemical equations in the real world? WHY IS ALL THIS WORK REQUIREDDDDDDD. I'm very stressed with all this unneccessary work that the school makes us unfortunate students do. Okay, just please someone answer those questions for me.

Answer 1

I think the other answerers have dealt with the essay writing. Take math for example, you want to decorate your house (if u can afford one without too much education), let's figure out square feet of flooring, how many yds. of fabric do you need if the material is 36" wide. How many gallons of paint are needed if your room is 13x19... For cooking measurement, volume, weight....Chemistry for baking, for not mixing chlorine with ammonia based cleaners. If you are a guy, how many 2x4's will you need to build a deck, a fence?? These are just a micro example of real life applications but there are a thousand others you will come across. I guarantee that you'll have many AHA!! moments when you realize how useful a lot of the so called boring/needless stuff is. So, hang in there and see how and if you can tie your learning into real life as you go along. Good Luck with your studies

Answer 2

The essay will help tone up your writing skills. Reading the Iliad on the other hand, probably wont help you at all unless you go on a trivia game show or something. Calculus will be needed if you plan on being any kind of engineer. Even some medical courses will require some calculus. You will need to know atomic mass and chemical equations if you are going to use any sort of chemistry when you grow up. What will and what wont help you depends on what you plan on doing in the future. If you are in high school, you may have an idea of what you WANT to do in the future, but you do not know for sure what you WILL do. It's best to keep all your doors and opportunities open.

Personally, I am pissed that nobody challenges the state standards that make you read the Iliad or Shakespeare and others. They really have no point. Schools should make you read well written, yet very interesting, books. And yes, there are such books, such as Kite Runner, or Angels and Demons.

Answer 3

The schools don't make you do these things because you are going to use them in the real world. Schools make you do these things because it helps expand your mind. It also helps people to find their strengths and weaknesses to figure out with to do after high school. Americans wonders why all other well developed countries hate us. It's because of people like you who don't care about anything but themselves. Some people enjoy writing essays, so maybe they will become writers, some people find the atomic mass of a certain elements of the periodic table interesting, and others find that calculus is fun and feel the need to expand their minds. Just because you hate something doesn't mean other hate it as well. Without those things you detest so much, we wouldn't have the accomplishments we have today.

Answer 4

hmm well the essay to improve ur grammar.. thats always necessary, calculus well is a thing of every day, maybe u don't notice cuz u don't see the every day as numbers... and mass and chemical equations... well.. everything is atomic mass and chemical equations... so.. if u basically want to know something about where u live and what are u living or how are u going to live ur life u need to know this stuff.. so don't waste ur time :)

Answer 5

The essay helps develop writing skill, grammar skilss, etc, which are VERY needed in the real world. Chemistry helps develop logic and you need that in the real world.

Can't help you with calculus, I don't think any math over algebra 2 should be required.

Answer 6

If you stopped whining on Yahoo! Answers, you'd probably have your homework done by now.

Answer 7

I think school does it make us learn...............