Island Five

So yeah. Web Dev Club is officially started. Currently it’s just me, Ulysses, Eric (http://www.ericzhang.com), Andrew Sutherland (http://www.quizlet.com), maybe David Spies and Danni Pinal, and we just recruited Chris Gioia (<- TIC ‘06 and ARC ‘07). Mr. Morris has let go a little of his Java. It’s been established that we’re not going to start rebuilding the AHS site until we’ve decided on features and attended a staff meeting to find out what the teachers want. Yep. This could really be awesome or really, really, really bad.

+: Last.fm, new camera -: school, Last.fm hogs network bandwith

So in history, we’re learning about the Native Americans and thinking about if it was necessary for them to be swept aside for the sake of progress. Kind of makes me wonder… what if the Europeans had taken a more peaceful stance toward the natives? What would today’s society be like?

The teacher has given us more homework that all the other history classes combined. I swear. I have her for English, too. So 2 times (all other English and history classes hw combined) = ultimate death. The honors English classes haven’t even done as much.

What’re we doing in English? Learning and writing about immigrants and their struggles with assimilation into American culture. Fun stuff, eh? Sound a little like history? Looks like someone got their subjects mixed up into a homogeneous mess.

Sorry about the horrible banner. I’ve had no time to redo it.

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… quite a familiar sight this school year: Albany, through my window, in the dead of the night.

Taken with: Panasonic Lumix FMC-FZ50, F/3.6 and 5 second exposure time.

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Yeah. So school started. Big whoop. >_>

Things to do: -redesign this blog -get web dev club going at school -not get fat(ter) = do track and field

Being an upperclassman now feels kind of nice, yeh?

Concert band is a great deal more productive this year; because of the new teacher we do exponentially more stuff in one day than one week with the old one (he retired).

AP biology is kind of a bore, unfortunately. Well, we did do a lab in which snails were played with and that was fun, but the class itself is pretty “meh”.

I have both English and U.S. History with this new teacher and my god is she inconsiderate of our time at home. #1: She assigns similar assignments for both classes, which if you read the class names, doesn’t make sense. #2: She assigns annoying amounts of homework, which hog lots of time. In both classes I’ve been assigned an independent reading assignment as well as several essays. The English 3 honors class hasn’t done ANYTHING. #3: She doesn’t teach much of either subject. In English we’re reading about immigrants and in history we read about Tupac. #4: She’s pretty cool otherwise.

ROP digital photography has been a blast. We’ve had two photo shoot days already, with pretty decent cameras, two of which are the Lumix FZ-30 and FZ-50. I’ll be acquiring an FZ-50 shortly ($200 off baby).

AP computer science is a little iffy. The teacher is kind of strange, in both good and bad ways… Eric said he doesn’t teach anything that’s on the AP test (oh crap). But… I hope it gets better. This was the class I was looking forward to most aside from photography.

Pre-calc just sucks, as a class. I hate it. On a different note, we got the results of our first quiz/test back today, and if I remember correctly: 5 A’s 8 B’s 5? C’s 7 D’s and 10 F’s. 10 F’S! Luckily I was one of those “A” people. >_> What’s even more amazing is that none of the stuff on that test was actually pre-calculus. All of it was review from algebra II. Interesting, eh?

I’ve also gotten an SAT book.

Learnin’ vocab tiems?

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