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Well, I’m kind of trying to stay awake for another 2,5 hours to watch my country in the cheerleading world championships. So that got me thinking, what are people’s passions? (: I’m guessing a lot of people would say writing or something like that, but I’m still curious (:

For me, it’s definitely cheerleading. It just feels like more than a hobby to me. I coach 2 teams basically without getting paid (because at the gym/club I’m with, coaches are volunteers), just because I love it (: I’ve only been involved with cheer for about 6 years now, but I’ve just grown to love the sport so much in those years (: this is the first year where I haven’t competed myself, but only been a coach, and I still love every minute of it (:

Yeah, considering I've been here for almost a year I think I can safely say writing is one of my passions. Although I've kind of burnt myself out a little bit or run out of creative fuel sometimes.

Other than that, learning about science. New discoveries, pop physics videos that explain to laypeople like me what Einstein's theories really mean (time is relative!)

Learning about animal intelligence

(What does a dolphin think about? Are dogs smarter than bonobos? Did Alex the parrot really understand math so well that he understood the concept of "zero?" Does Koko the gorilla truly understand language in the way that humans do, or are her trainers reading meaning into her successive parade of signs that really isn't there? Do insects feel pain? Does a worker bee have individual free will?)

Oh...politics. The issues and who is running. But also, how they convince people to support them. In other words, the psychology involved in politics.


Basically all brain stuff. It's good you have a passion that involves exercise. Mine involves watching things and reading things and this is why I'm overweight!

My music. My bass playing is really melodic and thundering. My poems and songs have improved immensely. My songwriting has improved 1000 percent since joining RPRepository.

My passion? Well, basically everything creative! I love to write, I love to sing, I love to dance (choreographed. I can't do freestyle to save my life), I love to draw, I love to read, I love to imagine, and I love to play my instruments(violin, guitar, bass guitar, piano). My passion is basically everything that's creative like that, haha! I never said I'm good at all of them, but I'm still passionate regardless.

Sounds really nice! I feel you on the not being able to do anything freestyled! (: And i like singing as well, but i somehow feel like cheerleading has just become such a big part of my life (: Im actually studying to be a teacher, and music is one of the subjects i want to teach, even though i'm not that good at instruments, but i'm trying to learn since we need piano and guitar for our exams (:

Sounds nice! (: I feel like my writing in english has approved ever since i joined RPR (: At least my RP skills in english has (: I used to RP in my native language (danish) before joining here (: I like music as well, cheerleading is just such a big part of my life by now (: Im somehow always thinking about routines and what/how to teach my teams stuff (:

that sounds nice as well (: I've never really been into science myself though (: Except math if that counts (:

Writting, however, I last track a bit, I don't write as much as I used to.I notice that I mostly write only fantasy with magic in it, maybe I should be in for a change?I can't really tell why, though.I've been paranoid about people finding me boring.I started roleplaying witihn the Harry Potter universe, then I began fantasy, but with no "lore"(I didn't say things like "Oh well, this takes place in Skyrim" or whatever, just made up my own locations and my own magic system).And then I realised slife of life can be just as exicting if you mix in the right amount of drama and some supernatural stuff.


I am a cs student, so programming is definitely one of my passions.I am trying out a bit of everything and see which branch I like the most. Web programming had been close to be number 1, there are others as well, but given how companies work nowadays, I might end up doing web programming anyway in some for or another, because pretty much everything is on the web now.But there's another thing, called machine learning, which is basically when computers are programmed on how to learn stuff(instead of ... you know, you programming them), one way is by example.You could give it 1000 pictures of a dog , then another dozen pictures of a desk, and the program could learn to distinguish : is there a dog in a picture, a desk, or both?Machine learning is used to make dictation software for the visually impaired, used to generate relevant ads for people(a thing which I slightly dislike..).It uses a lot of math, and I haven't really begun studying it yet, other than learning Python( a programming language).

Learning languages. English is my second language, now I am learning German by using Duolingo and books and helpful pictures I can find on the web. I made a OneNote in my microsoft account and there I gather all the things I learn on Duolingo and the books. I plan on learning French, too, and maybe even Norwegian, Russian. I just love trying to figure out how to say certain phrases.

Sounds nice! (: I actually studied multimedia design, and started on medialogy before deciding on teaching (: I really like web design especially, I actually ended up feeling decent at css at least after working on websites in joomla at my multimedia design internship (: I dropped out of medialogy when we started learning Java, but on our first semester we learned processing which I actually found fun, but it just wasn’t really that direction I wanted to go in (: and then I switched completely and decided to become a teacher, so that’s what I’m studying for now (: that takes 4 years here in Denmark (: but my backup option if I find myself not wanting to actually be a teacher when I’m done is definitely something with digital learning platforms/tools (: I found it really interesting how much even 1st graders used the iPad in school when I was doing my first teacher internship (: especially in math, the iPad was just a really essential part of the lessons (: they used online platforms a lot (:

Css sounds awesome. Although my layouts were sometimes a bit of a mess, I liked how simple it actually was, and progressively flex-boxes and grids came to existence so now I have no excuse, haha. I don't actually know much about web design, apart from a few pointers given in a web programming course I have bought on Udemy(like.. which fonts to use, what each color is used for).Internships sound awesome, I hope to have my first one this summer.

Processing if my memory doesn't fail me, is a javascript library for drawing, right?I heard you can draw pretty amazing things with it. At chapters of drawing things with your program, I feel like fractals take a comfortable first place on my list, at least..

I am sorry you dropped out, Java can be a pain in the butt. My faculty does C#, but mostly only C# ( which annoys me to the depths of Oblivion and back sometimes), if you ever want to take Java or ever need it,, take it step by step, it is strongly-typed and has many stuff , yes, but it can be defeated and collected as our "Pokemon"

Question : What is Joomla?I keep hearing about it, but never really looked into what it is.

Also... Wow, I never thought math can be that digitalized,I've always been used to pen and paper and maybe googling the problems and formulas.

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Joomla is a cms system, like Wordpress (: processing was really fun, but it could be because we had a great professor for that course (: I remember we did like slingshot games, memory game, and just a whole lot of different stuff (: it’s a simplified version of Java I think (: Wikipedia link about processing

medialogy just wasn’t really for me in the end, the Java course just kind of was the last drop since we had a professor who didn’t really teach us anything but just told us to figure everything out by ourselves I was never really into programming that much though, more the web design (: so html, css and I remember learning a little php as well (at the multimedia design education), which was why dropping out of medialogy was the right decision for me (:

I’ve only done internships because they have been required for the educations I’ve been on (: the last semester of the multimedia design education consisted of 3 months internship and then the final exam (: you had to find an internship spot yourself though (: I did my 3rd semester abroad in Germany, so I ended up doing my internship there as well before returning to Denmark (:

On the teachers education you have 3 small internships, they all consist of 30 work days each, we just finished our first one a month ago and the next one is in a year (: it nowhere near enough though, which is really sad! I feel like there’s way too much theory and far too little actual experience like the internships in the teachers education (: at least in Denmark, I don’t know how it is in other countries (:

Writing : rpr showed me how much i love writing!
Watching opera's and trying to sing opera : It all started when i was very young and saw the opera Hansle und gretel since then i always wnated to play in 1 opera
Watching musicals : Musicals are amazing and i love them because of the singing , acting and dancing!

Singing dancing and acting!
Learning new languages : I am currently learning Japanese and Italian i am also trying to work on my english

I've been sad to meet teachers that just straight-up didn't care,too, I can totally relate and understand.I've always wondered if it's just a running gag everywhere, or is it just cs-related degrees that get these extremely bored teachers, which literally have no chemistry with their subjects, or basically just don't care about how their students turn out.Not like they don't know stuff, or even if they don't, they either can't explain things or just consider that it just doesn't worth their time.I had one in highschool, and now I have several ones now. My department is small, so it doesn't have many teachers. I have a course about operating systems, which if I don't collect my ish together, I might end up more ignorant than the time I started the course. The teacher literally doesn't hold them, and the laboratory is a pure joke because we don't have computers with Linux, and the teacher for the lab just gives us presentations to make, they give no indication about the subject itself whatsoever.And the teacher for the course is the department leader, which is sad.


I've picked up a few courses which would technically qualify me as a computer science teacher from grades 5-10(giving how cs goes here, I can't understand why not until 12, but whatever).I had to take psychology last semester, now I am in my first semester in pedagogy. I liked psychology, how personalities work and such, but pedagogy.. oooh.. my God, it has so many definitions about each type of education and the teacher literally dictated a 8 row-long definition to what ecological education was.I'll have pedagogy the next semester too and I think after that finally I get to like.. the actual programming stuff I would be meant to teach if I chose to be teacher.

Well, the professor we had for processing and for all the other courses were great, it was just that one guy who apparently didn't really give lectures but just expected you to figure stuff out yourself. For processing, we had a great book to follow, the professor would explain stuff really great and have a lot of great examples in powerpoints you could look through afterwards, so i think there was only 1 or 2 assignments i didnt complete in that course. But in general, it was never the way i wanted to go, so Im fine with having dropped out (:

Now im almost 1,5 years into the teachers education, I've chosen math from 1-6th grade and then music so far to teach, and wished for english as my third subject, but I don't think i will know if i've gotten it before we get next semester's schedule, which could be in august or something (: For the teachers education, you have to choose 3 subjects you want to teach, and then you have pedagogy themed courses (Pedagogy and teachers professionalism would probably be the direct translation), you have 3 specialisation modules, 3 internships which also requires you to hand in a report about something you've experienced or seen in your internship, and it all ends with a bachelor after 4 years which is actually a long time for a bachelor here (a bachelor from a university take 3 years) (: in Denmark it's called a "professionsbachelor" which is different from a bachelor from a university because it usually mixes theory with practical stuff like internships and such and it usually takes longer time because of this (:

rolywhateva, if you haven't already, take a database class. I graduated with my CS degree well over a decade ago now, but very little that I learned in college has remained as consistently relevant to EVERY job as relationship database querying and design. (Other kinds of databases have certainly proven useful for specific domains, but knowing something like Oracle, SQL Server, or Postgres will serve you well.)

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My own passion(s) have always revolved around animals. Horses when I was a teenager. I used to ride every single day and learned how to work with young horses to train them to ride and drive.

These days, I have a mortgage, so I've put horses mostly on hold in favor of less expensive animals - chickens that I keep for egg laying and help in my garden. And a dog that I've been training for agility competitions, which has been a lot of fun. I've now got the urge to try out some more dog sports!

Horses are great as well! Have been riding for probably about 10 years in total, and i often miss it, but with studies and cheerleading, I just don't have the time or the money anymore

A passion of mine for most of my life has been to hike into the wilderness areas. My love for the Alpine Lakes in Washington State will never cease, and 'my spot' on this earth is a small lake nestled in the side of Box Rodge in the shadow of High Box Mountain called ... wait for it.... High Box Lake. I spent nine days alone there back in 1986 and it was transforming. That hike had me in the high country for 15 days, and I met one human the whole time and that was early on when I was on the trail to the (overly) popular Rachael Lake. It was a Monday so she was the only one I saw. I've always loved hiking, and I don't do enough of it anymore. Still like to walk places.

And writing has always been something I liked doing since maybe 13. Stories, poems, and of course RP. I still use my online RP experiences to write stories and flesh out characters I make for them. One day I'll publish my stories.