Island Five

... in the library during lunch... You'd think I'd be eating, but I'd like to spend that money on someting a little more useful than material for self-sustenance, yeah? Yeah, I'm kidding but I'm not hungry. Eugene's sitting next to me doing bio homework that was due three periods ago. I should probably do it, too. xD

Eugene: "Shut up, Steven."
(Steven): "Blow me, Eugene."

I don't know who Steven is. x]

Wow I have a lot to tell about the Black Friday this year, but I'll give you the short version; lunch is almost over. I went with some of my hardware-savvy friends to camp out at Fry's in Concord. We arrived at like 12A.M. but the line was 2x longer than was last year when they arrived at 2. Most of us were going for the Core 2 Quad Q6600 + ECS motherboard for $198 and we all go it. :D The rest of the morning was spent running around grabbing things.

What I got:

-Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor + ECS motherboard w/ PCI-E expansion slot: $198

-OCZ Dual-Channel PC6400 RAM, 2GB: $20 after MIR.


online:

-PNY GeForce 8600GTS 256MB GDDR3: $79.99

-Raidmax Ninja case: $0.00 after MIR


what I need:

-new SATAII hard drive

Posted by Tansen at 12:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have to design something.

-my weblog (!) -school website (!!!!!!) -mom’s website (!!)

Posted by Tansen at 11:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

… was pretty much boring. Again. Except for my last session, graphic design.

I heard from one of the speakers ( I won’t divulge names ), “When, of course, President Clinton[…blah blah…]” and so on. I’m pretty sure the person was attempting humor, but I wasn’t really paying attention. We asked, and the person said that they really did support her. Not to confess ignorance, but I think that’s pretty much the first person I’ve heard at our school who’s a strong supporter of Mrs. Clinton. I’m not really into politics a.t.m. but it’s amusing to see people getting all worked up over next year’s election. It’s going to be big, they say. I’m still putting my money on Obama just for the hell of it; I don’t really have a reason for doing so.

… and on a completely unrelated topic, did you know one of the fingers on the Mona Lisa is unfinished? Yep. Also, she really does have eyebrows. Shocking?

Posted by Tansen at 10:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Look back a couple centuries and you’ll see that education sucks. Horribly.

Look a couple decades back and you’ll see that education is steadily getting to an advanced level. The College Board is created and AP classes are introduced.

Look at education now, and you’ll be hit in the face with college classes being taken by high-schoolers. Sophomores have two AP classes at once. Some juniors have 4. Seniors having five(5) AP classes isn’t unheard of.

Look in the future of education. What do you see? I see AP classes becoming a standard in many high schools. College may become just the next step instead of the next big leap, unless someone modifies their education regimes.

I ask my friends who are in college right now, “What’s it like? Is it hard?” They laugh and the general comment runs along the lines of, “Nah, it’s easy.” Adults tell us college is a big challenge. So what am I supposed to expect?

Posted by Tansen at 11:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)