OK, OK, so I made it an amendment instead
Oct. 22nd, 2003 08:18 pm22 October 2003
Mods 1-4:
Free! Wrote history paper. Didn't have time to include Works Cited, though.
Mods 5-6:
History. "Wednesday is Funday," as Mr. Sokolewicz always says. I'm not sure how that's relevant, though. I ask if the paper needs a Works Cited. Mr. Sokolewicz notes that without one, I'm plagiarizing, and he can invoke the school's plagiarism policy on me. He says to hand it in later today.
Mods 7-9:
Free. I eat an early lunch and buy a big pretzel. Then, I go down to Dr. D's room and begin to study for...
Mods 10-11:
PPAO! I didn't take the essay part before, I have to take it now. 40 minutes to write two essays on very general topics. Not exactly easy. Given the generality of the questions, your first response is to attempt to dump your entire brain, but you don't have time to do that, so you have to figure out what to include and what not to. Apparently the way you're actually supposed to do these things is to plan your entire essay beforehand. Erp. We'll see what I get on it.
Some more stuff about mods 7-9 that I didn't get to say because of the way I wrote it:
Naturally enough, after his history class, Avi shows up. Now, you see, apparently on Monday, after many people had finished their PPAOs and thus had free that they wouldn't otherwise have, a few people, including Andrei, Joong Bae, and, of course, Colin had an idea. They would stand by the lockers, and whenever somebody walked by, they would join hands and dance around that person in circles. Unfortunately I didn't get to see this. And so Avi begins to tell me... well, Colin is in Avi's history class, as are Joong Bae and Andrei. And so during class they get the idea to suddenly get up and dance around Mr. Sokolewicz. And they do it! Except he's near a desk at the time, so they actually get up onto the desk in order to go around him.
He then says something like (Avi, feel free to correct me on this) "Hey, you want go out to the field and make fun of Syd?" Anna: "Why, what's she doing?" Avi: "Collecting poop." "Goose poop?" I ask. "And some human." Apparently she's doing it for Bio Research. Well, she's obviously not collecting human poop, but I have to wonder how they (she's not the only one) tell goose poop from duck poop; I don't think I've ever seen ducks on the field, only geese, but still... *shrugs* Maybe an ornithologist can tell them apart. I don't know. I ask about this. Avi notes that they're trying to determine whether or not it poses a health hazard - to, of course, people like him who eat dirt. No, seriously, it's to as whether or not it poses a health hazard. Generally. I guess that this means it doesn't matter whether it's goose poop or duck poop.
Mods 12-15:
More free. Wandered around. Found out there was Projects homework. Tried to find out what it was. Found out what it was. Did it, and added the Works Cited to my history paper.
Mods 16-21:
Projects, where I learned that in fact there was no Projects homework.
We played a bit of a game today - once we finished our quizzes, Dr. Crane taped a different thing to each of our backs - a scientific idea, or theory, or perhaps a pseudoscientific idea, or something that's really borderline, or whatever. And, of course, we had to go asking yes or no questions of other people to find out what it was. As it turns out, some of the people couldn't do it because they didn't know what it was themselves. Well, 2 of them. Anna didn't know what Bigfoot was, and Asaf didn't know what acupuncture was. Anyway, he put this scale up on the wall, and on the left end was "0.0" and "NONscience" (the NONscience was actually more around 0.1), the numbers increased up to 0.5 in the middle, labled "Borderland Science", and then around .9 it was labeled "Science", and then it continued up to 1.0. After guessing yours, you were supposed to stick it on there, where you thought it belonged. And some of these ended up really misplaced. For instance, "Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields" (not as in the stick-your-head-in-a-microwave sense, as in the power-lines-cause-cancer sense) ended up pretty high on there - higher than Pangaea. (?!) *shrugs* Whatever. Don't know where these people got these ideas, though... well, in 11th grade, they'll have to read Voodoo Science anyway.
Mods 22-24:
Clubs. Handed in my history paper. Played Chipo. Wrote "I am half of a potato!" on the board. That's it, really.
--
When trying the fact that " quite simple what is designed completely
too little we should do to estimate the device of the common mistake
complete idiot. " - The harmless Douglas Adams, mostly
(Everyone loves Babelfish!)
Mods 1-4:
Free! Wrote history paper. Didn't have time to include Works Cited, though.
Mods 5-6:
History. "Wednesday is Funday," as Mr. Sokolewicz always says. I'm not sure how that's relevant, though. I ask if the paper needs a Works Cited. Mr. Sokolewicz notes that without one, I'm plagiarizing, and he can invoke the school's plagiarism policy on me. He says to hand it in later today.
Mods 7-9:
Free. I eat an early lunch and buy a big pretzel. Then, I go down to Dr. D's room and begin to study for...
Mods 10-11:
PPAO! I didn't take the essay part before, I have to take it now. 40 minutes to write two essays on very general topics. Not exactly easy. Given the generality of the questions, your first response is to attempt to dump your entire brain, but you don't have time to do that, so you have to figure out what to include and what not to. Apparently the way you're actually supposed to do these things is to plan your entire essay beforehand. Erp. We'll see what I get on it.
Some more stuff about mods 7-9 that I didn't get to say because of the way I wrote it:
Naturally enough, after his history class, Avi shows up. Now, you see, apparently on Monday, after many people had finished their PPAOs and thus had free that they wouldn't otherwise have, a few people, including Andrei, Joong Bae, and, of course, Colin had an idea. They would stand by the lockers, and whenever somebody walked by, they would join hands and dance around that person in circles. Unfortunately I didn't get to see this. And so Avi begins to tell me... well, Colin is in Avi's history class, as are Joong Bae and Andrei. And so during class they get the idea to suddenly get up and dance around Mr. Sokolewicz. And they do it! Except he's near a desk at the time, so they actually get up onto the desk in order to go around him.
He then says something like (Avi, feel free to correct me on this) "Hey, you want go out to the field and make fun of Syd?" Anna: "Why, what's she doing?" Avi: "Collecting poop." "Goose poop?" I ask. "And some human." Apparently she's doing it for Bio Research. Well, she's obviously not collecting human poop, but I have to wonder how they (she's not the only one) tell goose poop from duck poop; I don't think I've ever seen ducks on the field, only geese, but still... *shrugs* Maybe an ornithologist can tell them apart. I don't know. I ask about this. Avi notes that they're trying to determine whether or not it poses a health hazard - to, of course, people like him who eat dirt. No, seriously, it's to as whether or not it poses a health hazard. Generally. I guess that this means it doesn't matter whether it's goose poop or duck poop.
Mods 12-15:
More free. Wandered around. Found out there was Projects homework. Tried to find out what it was. Found out what it was. Did it, and added the Works Cited to my history paper.
Mods 16-21:
Projects, where I learned that in fact there was no Projects homework.
We played a bit of a game today - once we finished our quizzes, Dr. Crane taped a different thing to each of our backs - a scientific idea, or theory, or perhaps a pseudoscientific idea, or something that's really borderline, or whatever. And, of course, we had to go asking yes or no questions of other people to find out what it was. As it turns out, some of the people couldn't do it because they didn't know what it was themselves. Well, 2 of them. Anna didn't know what Bigfoot was, and Asaf didn't know what acupuncture was. Anyway, he put this scale up on the wall, and on the left end was "0.0" and "NONscience" (the NONscience was actually more around 0.1), the numbers increased up to 0.5 in the middle, labled "Borderland Science", and then around .9 it was labeled "Science", and then it continued up to 1.0. After guessing yours, you were supposed to stick it on there, where you thought it belonged. And some of these ended up really misplaced. For instance, "Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields" (not as in the stick-your-head-in-a-microwave sense, as in the power-lines-cause-cancer sense) ended up pretty high on there - higher than Pangaea. (?!) *shrugs* Whatever. Don't know where these people got these ideas, though... well, in 11th grade, they'll have to read Voodoo Science anyway.
Mods 22-24:
Clubs. Handed in my history paper. Played Chipo. Wrote "I am half of a potato!" on the board. That's it, really.
--
When trying the fact that " quite simple what is designed completely
too little we should do to estimate the device of the common mistake
complete idiot. " - The harmless Douglas Adams, mostly
(Everyone loves Babelfish!)
