I would have liked to have done more math, but I date back to when teachers could get away with telling all the female students that we were genetically incapable of learning it (instead of, you know, actually explaining things). This wasn't exactly an incentive to take more than the minimum requirements. If I had bothered to remember the names of all my junior high and high school math teachers, I might be tempted to photocopy my math-check credits in a few Hero System books and send the copies off to them.

I couldn't get into "Physics For Poets" in college, that course always filled up fast. And yes, that was the real course name, in the catalog and everything. It was a 100-level physics course meant for non-science majors. I did get into the equivalent chemistry course and a 100-level astronomy course, both of those were fun.

I've also enjoyed history since grade school.

Congratulations on getting your Maths course! It always feels good to get the subject you most wanted...especially after having to go through bureaucracy beforehand.

I hope it works out well for you!

Art. Art. I really like art courses. Screw accounting (my major; bleh, but it'll pay the bills later), I want freakin' art!

I'm not in the same boat as you as far as classes are going, but I can't take any practical application art courses until next year. It annoys me. *sighs*

Have some cake. It has sprinkles. :)

It's always good to get news like that. :D

I remember back when I was doing my A-levels, I had to go through a bit of an annoying wait to find out what courses I could do.

In my first year at college, I'd wanted to study German as an AS level. Sadly, due to my high school teacher being an utter incompetent, I didn't have the required grade and was instead told to try a fast-track Spanish GCSE and do a fast-track Spanish AS/A level the next year instead so I'd still have two languages on my record (I was taking French too, and was rather better at that). I was kinda gutted, but agreed.

For various reasons, that year of college was rather a disaster. I pretty much failed all my AS courses (French, Sociology and Business Studies) but got a pass on the Spanish GCSE. I ended up requesting to re-sit my first year of college and swap Business Studies (which I loathed and had taken only because I thought I should) for Drama and Theatre Studies. They weren't too keen on me doing either - in England resitting an entire year isn't something that's done very often - and tried pointing out that I had no previous Drama qualifications.

I had a bit of a tussle with them over it, but eventually they relented and allowed me to re-register as a first-year, on the proviso that I'd only get into the subjects I wanted if there was room after all the "legitimate" first-years had got what they wanted.

The phone call saying I'd got into all four of the AS levels I wanted was awesome. I think I deafened my mum and her friends when I got off the phone.

I've had a love for drama activities since I was in my teens and my friends gently bullied my extremely shy and withdrawn self into taking part in the annual school musical. (I say bullied, they just dragged me along to auditions, got me to practice the songs with them - no hard thing given I love singing - and then poked me through the door when it came time to actually audition.) It did a lot for me, and it was fun, so I rather fell in love with the idea.

Mathematics has always been my favourite subject, along with physics and chemistry. This might explain why I'm enrolled in physics at the University this year...

So, grade 10 math, eh? I think you're going to take on trigonometry this year. A word of advice: SOHCAHTOA. Let it be burned into your soul. If you've got that down, then most trig problems aren't going to pose any problems... unless you've set your calculator to radian mode, which one of my friends did for an exam. Answers come out very differently if you enter things in radians.

Oh, that reminds me... if you're considering taking physics in the future take calculus first. Seriously, I took IB physics without the power of calculus, and realized one year later that I could have simply differentiated and integrated my way though 70% of the problems (darn you, simple harmonic motion!).

In England I've just finished my first year of AS Levels. I'm going to be seventeen by the end of the year aka four days and did my GCSEs last year.
The subjects I took were English Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies, Film Studies and History. Next year I'll drop Drama and Theatre and if I don't get good enough grades to continue the other three as A Level, do an AS in something like Media.
The first year of A Levels is known as AS and three or four subjects is typical. The second year is known as A and three subjects is typical. You have to do a subject at AS to continue it at A.

It's so frustrating when bureaucratic nonsense gets in the way of school like that. I definitely had a bit of that in college.

Let's see, courses I liked to take. Once I had the backbone of requirements-for-my-major set up each year, I would usually grab an extra life science course and a literature course for fun. Then, for a few extra course credits, I would grab an elective that felt interesting to me, like Anthropology or Psychology.

At NAU, I also volunteered to help reorganize the jarred animals in the Invertebrate Zoology specimen collection, which netted me three credits over three semesters! (It also taught me that it was possible to talk to girls like normal people.)

Well, I've just finished school – in fact, I had my last final today. Now, the system here in Israel works this way: You have to take some mandatory subjects (other words: English, Math, PE, History, Bible AKA Reading Comprehension, Literature AKA Mostly Horrible Poetry, Civics, and Grammar), as well as at least two optionals.
English and Math you get to choose the level – three points is the easiest, five the hardest. I took five English (though it's still, like all other levels, three finals and a project, which I wrote on JS Bach) and four Math.
My optionals were Cinema – three points theoretical, which is pretty fun (if the movie is good) and laughably easy (100s with no preparation at all, ho!), and two points practical, which is really hard (especially if, like me, you've an incompetent editor and a lazy cameraman. Oh, and irresponsible actors) but fun and satisfying; and Philosophy, which is really fun, but hard – I think the philosophy tests were the hardest I had ever. Sad thing is, I wrote eight pages for each of the last two tests (the semi-final and the final) and probably I was the most laconic person in the classroom.
Also, instead of doing a test in Grammar, I decided to do a project in Linguistics (it ended being Discourse Analysis, which is slotted between Linguistics and Sociology, but eh). It was supposed to be large, but not university-large, highschool-large. It ballooned to the 25-page area (with the appendices, it is a whopping 61 pages) and is large enough (and has enough material, original research etc), AFAIK (and so my mom tells me), to be a BA project. It's in its closing stages; I've just some small fixes to make. Hopefully I'll make it to the deadline (it's a long story, but the project's belatedness can be chalked down to three major factors: the Ministry of Education's bureaucracy – other words, the Grammar department head taking weeks to read a page-and-a-half-long research proposal, communication problems between my advisor and me and her accursed perfectionism).

PS: I live in Israel. Here is a link to a Wikipedia article that gives some background info.