12-04-2011, 12:22 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by ShotDownInFlames12
The humanities teacher is Mr.Perfect.
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I would soooo walk in to class, spit my gum into the air and slap it at a random student every class.
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12-04-2011, 07:34 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: The wagon's name is "Gaudreau"
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Class of '98 here.
Hahah oh man Condie. I remember playing Diplomacy in his Math 10H class.
Bombier and I were rivals. I really didn't like the guy. "Oh man... you wrote a really good essay. I really liked your points. Good job! 60%" WTH man...
Lazarowich was a bit of a spaz, be he always gave me great marks on my essay, so he was okay in my books. I think Albrecht died a couple years after I graduated. He was my grade 7 English teacher. At that age he was pretty intimidating, but he did grow on me heh.
I remember Ms. Darlington specifically because one time she accidentally got chocolate stains on my homework. Fitting 
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12-04-2011, 07:56 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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2002 - Albrecht was an awesome guy, too bad he passed on a few years back. I also really liked Masterson, didn't much care for Pengelly.
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12-04-2011, 09:46 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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I think Margach finally retired and committed full time to the U of C track team.
I wonder if they still use Comic Sans for the newsletters, god that infuriates me now haha,
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12-05-2011, 02:01 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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I always really liked Darlington. She just seemed like a nice lady who was in there doing her thing teaching physics and not making a big deal out of it. She could seem a bit dotled at times, but I think she was really pretty on it.
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12-05-2011, 06:26 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Are any of you QE alum GATE alum as well?
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12-05-2011, 06:35 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Yeah. GATE was awesome. I don't think I could have tolerated school if not for GATE.
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12-05-2011, 07:25 AM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Slava
Are any of you QE alum GATE alum as well?
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Yup...program either ruins your life or pushes you to succeed. I've seen so little middle ground in the results from that program...
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12-05-2011, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Yeah. GATE was awesome. I don't think I could have tolerated school if not for GATE.
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Really? I didn't think GATE was much different other than the smart kids would get their own little area of classrooms in the upstairs North wing.
For the record, us non-GATE kids always made fun of you GATE kids. But only until the end of Grade 9. 
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12-05-2011, 12:05 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Really? I didn't think GATE was much different other than the smart kids would get their own little area of classrooms in the upstairs North wing.
For the record, us non-GATE kids always made fun of you GATE kids. But only until the end of Grade 9. |
Thats OK, us GATE kids still make fun of you non-GATE kids! 
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12-05-2011, 01:01 PM
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Posted the 6 millionth post! |
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Originally Posted by Slava
Thats OK, us GATE kids still make fun of you non-GATE kids! |
All you smart GATE kids turned into the 1%'ers . . . Damn you all!
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12-05-2011, 01:54 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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I was in GATE and graduated high school from QE in '98. Played diplomacy with Condie in math as well!
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12-05-2011, 02:02 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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GATE is very weird. I know a bunch of people who are doing their Phd's and stuff, doing really well. Also, a lot of the really smart people dropped out of college and do nothing with their lives. Very strange.
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12-05-2011, 02:22 PM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Mtt48
GATE is very weird. I know a bunch of people who are doing their Phd's and stuff, doing really well. Also, a lot of the really smart people dropped out of college and do nothing with their lives. Very strange.
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I think the problem is the fact that they give you the freedom to do whatever you want at a very young age. If you are responsible with it, you can pursue what you want at your own pace. If you're not, you just learn to skate by and never really develop a sense of effort or what a hard day's work really means.
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12-05-2011, 02:45 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Mtt48
GATE is very weird. I know a bunch of people who are doing their Phd's and stuff, doing really well. Also, a lot of the really smart people dropped out of college and do nothing with their lives. Very strange.
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In my experience GATE just meant that their parents thought they were "gifted and talented". I reckon there is very little correlation between the GATE program and "success" later in life. 
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12-05-2011, 02:59 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by kirant
I think the problem is the fact that they give you the freedom to do whatever you want at a very young age. If you are responsible with it, you can pursue what you want at your own pace. If you're not, you just learn to skate by and never really develop a sense of effort or what a hard day's work really means.
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That's what it did to me. Did my Jr.High at QE in GATE... pretty much was 3 years of doing nothing. All i learned was that i could slack off and get away with it. Went to Churchill for high school and eventually got my butt into gear and turned out ok.
Somebody mentioned earlier how people either got it together or didn't.... definitley saw lot of that with people i went to school with.
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12-05-2011, 04:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by kevman
In my experience GATE just meant that their parents thought they were "gifted and talented". I reckon there is very little correlation between the GATE program and "success" later in life. |
I was in GATE when it was still at Oakley Centre (before it was cool!) and I was tested to get in. Not sure that my parents had any idea quite frankly. I'm not trying to say that makes me special or anything (I assure you it doesn't), but it wasn't a case of status for my parents or anything like that.
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12-05-2011, 04:43 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Moscow
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I am another GATE grad (I would have completed Grade 9 in ~ 1992?). I loved it but I must admit that it made my high school experience quite soul-crushing and monotonous by comparison.
I'm very saddened to learn of the death of Taco Albrecht. He was one of the few teachers who I look back on as having a profound impact on my life.
Incidentally, every one of my GATE classmates (well, the dozen I've kept in touch with anyway) are either doctors, lawyers or commercial jet pilots. That is a pretty impressive record, no?
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12-05-2011, 05:50 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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I think it was Hogan that got me hooked into my career, she was awesome for Comm Tech.
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12-05-2011, 05:51 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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1 GATE friend of mine was given a full ride to Harvard and turned it down. He is now a janitor. I know another who is probably the smartest person I have ever met and he just smokes weed all day and works in a pub kitchen. A couple others who are so incredibly smart it is absolutely staggering who just never want to do anything with their lives. It's very strange... And then there are others who are Prof's, lawyers, doctors, etc.
As the other poster mentioned, there seems absolutely no middle ground with GATE people.
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