After A Negligent Hiatus
Wow I haven’t written here for a long time.
Highlights of the recent months:
- SAT
- SAT
- SAT
- TIC gatherings
- EVE Online - rediscovered
- finals at school
- SAT
Yeah. I think half of any teenager’s problems would be solved if the College Board didn’t exist. Getting ready (and then taking the SAT) has been a pain in the behind. I want to be done with it but if my scores aren’t high enough for my parents I’ll have to go through it all again. >_> It makes me wonder, why can’t they judge college readiness from standardized testing that we do in school every year anyways? Why does some board of fat old people force high schoolers to take tests that are the same in essence (but cost money instead of school hours) to tell if those high schoolers are ready for the next step? I heard my test proctor say that the SAT is a measure of whether or not the test taker is ready for college. So isn’t that a black-and-white deal? Ready, or not ready. Yet the people who score low (not ready?) still go to college. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be in college, but it’s clear that colleges use the SAT as more of an IQ test than a ready-or-not-ready measure. Well, I’ve always thought it was like the former. Maybe they put strange wording on the proctor’s prompt or something, but I’m pretty sure that’s what I heard.
There’s not much to say about school except blabbering the same complaints over and over so I’ll spare you the tedium.
Well one thing I’ll be looking forward to is being a TA for Spark’s Java class, considering it gets enough applicants. :) Speaking of Java, my AP Computer Science teacher just had his second baby! His children’s names are weird though… a girl named Ciara (pronounced “keera”) and a boy named Kaelin (cay-lin? He had our class vote for the name, between that and “Zade.” We wanted Zade but he ended up choosing Kaelin on his own accord). He’s a cool teacher but he has these funny phrases that seem to time warp from the 80’s. “Trip on this!” “Grip this!” Eugene would know.
Ah yes, to the nerdy part. EVE Online got a nice DX10 upgrade on top of three more large content updates since I last played (early 2006). I’m glad that CCP doesn’t delete inactive accounts. Ever. People from my corporation are still religiously active, but FK seems to have dissolved. Surrah and ECHAeries moved to T5K which I also joined last week when I started again (and which got expelled the night before last from the DRA alliance for controversial issues). I recall some of T5K pod-killed some of the nastier DRA guys while T5K was pulling back from the C4C region. Luckily I joined recently enough to not have had anything stored in C4C; someone already volunteered to and has started running T5K cargo back to the Empire territories. Anyway, I thought I was glad to have a Ferox battlecruiser when I quit in ‘06, but CCP came out with another Caldari battlecruiser, the Drake, which I am now a proud owner of (also cost me an arm and a leg [30 million ISK] ). Compared to the Ferox (which costs ~10 mil ISK less), the Drake has a lot more potential for shield tanking and has a good damage boost to kinetic missiles, being a specialized missile platform and all. Now that I think about it, the Ferox doesn’t really have a dedicated role… It’s got mostly missile bay slots, a few turret slots, and bonuses for some other stuff (electronic warfare?) that I don’t use.
I’m hoping to write more here… and my new design for this blog died somewhere in development. I’m hoping to start doing that again, but no promises. >_>