Science Fair.

[TheN3rdyOutcast]

By midnight tonight, I have to choose a science fair topic and although I LOVE science and aspire to someday teach it to children like me, and most would think that when it comes around, I literally eat, breathe, sleep, speak and excrete science fair I fucking hate it.
I hate the fact that you have to choose A topic, not topics, topic, so instead of having FUN with science you are literally bound to it. I hate the fact that it is mandatory, so instead of only the people wanting to do it doing it, EVERYBODY has to do a science fair project. I hate the fact that I have to a PAPER, so instead of doing something I want to do I have to pick a topic that I can write a 7 page paper on. I hate that the teacher gets to tell us whether our topics are good or not because FUN projects get out ruled and only the boring practical and useful ones get to go on, And most of all I hate that I have to do it every year from 4th to 12 grade because I ran out of original and "good" topics the moment I was concieved.

So what are your thoughts on the science fair? I believe that it should be reserved for those who want to have fun, with ORIGINAL topics that might actually be useful in today's society rather than those who are simply doing it because it's worth nearly half of their grade for the semester.

[NikosamA98]

Welcome to the world ruled by the academy :/. I had that struggle all my life, so in 10th grade (there are 11 in my country) I decided to quit on science (in Vzla you gotta choose science or humanities, so if you choose the first one they teach chemistry, physics, etc and if you choose the second they teach you philosophy, sociology, etc). And it was way better, but I kept failing at the stupid Humanities Project (You choose a subject, then you develop it for 2 years, analyzing it from ancient Greeks to XX century)... I do love science and I love humanities, but I just hate when they say "Do the project or you don't graduate". That makes people get away from it, like me. For example, everybody has to "learn", no, not learn, memorize trigonometry in 9th grade, but no one knows why it is important, they just want you to memorize all those steps and numbers and things you barely understand because you just don't know what it is for, and its sad because its SO COOl! Astronomers use it to triangulate the distance of stars, Eratosthenes used it to determine the diameter of earth and without it I wouldn't be watching DirecTv or even using WiFi. Well, that's just my opinion. This is my favorite scientific, Michio Kaku, and this is what he says: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fjkVoW4Y3x0