Kendra ([info]pikachumustdie) wrote,
@ 2007-09-07 01:49:00
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Here's a bit of history from the dorm in which I now live.


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[info]davidd
2007-09-08 03:40 am UTC (link)

The lofty impression I had of your school: shattered, completely and utterly. 905 has been thrown to the wolves. Toga parties, beer bongs... and stuff I'd probably rather not think about. And at such a tender age....

Surgical tubing water-balloon launchers in and of themselves, however... cool.

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[info]pikachumustdie
2007-09-08 06:01 am UTC (link)
(Okay, I just did it again. Never mind those last two. What happened to the preview feature, anyway?)

"To make the merry-go-round go faster, so that everyone needs to hang on tight, just to keep from being thrown to the wolves..."

I've been experiencing a bit of the depression that I've found is routine with living in new places (Natsuki, if you're reading, you will remember this from the first, oh, two weeks of CTY '06). The homework isn't too bad, with one exception. Humanities has been assigning me narratives every night for the last week or so, which usually keep me up to about an hour after lights-out until I decide to finish them in the morning. I haven't been getting out much, really. I was told that the teachers level off this barrage of essays after the first couple of weeks. (There's actually a narrative due tomorrow, which I haven't started yet, but since I know what I'm going to write about and I still have 30 minutes of study hall left I'm off to a good start. Kind of.)

For obvious reasons I can't really compare my school to a "normal" high school, or its students to "normal" high school students. However, this place does have its share of the, ah, absentminded. For example: On the first day of physics class, Mr P asks Student W to name the smallest part of an atom. Student W concentrates on the question for several agonizing seconds, then answers "The, uhm...the torso?" Also, a lot of the girls in my dorm are kind of cliquish, and there's an obnoxious boy in algebra class whom I sorely want to throttle. (You will understand now why I'm so secretive-like about the name of my school. They monitor the Internet here.)

I wrote about fun things, like art class and comix-swapping and the GSA here, but they were deleted when I accidentally posted and the modems should have been turned off about 2 minutes ago, if my calculations are correct.

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[info]davidd
2007-09-08 06:49 am UTC (link)
I somehow double-posted while trying to preview, and then the comment ended up deleted, when I left my previous remark. I think LJ's comment feature was acting slightly wonky earlier this evening.

So... uh... Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, monitors your internet activity, huh? Perhaps you should stockpile your posts and upload 'em all when a college break rolls around. Altho' they're much more fun when they're current!

"The nucleons (neutrons and protons) are approximately 1800 times the size of the electrons." I knew which were bigger and which were smaller, but I'd forgotten (if I ever knew) the scale. But... "torso"? Didn't you have to, like, take some kind of test to get into this place?

I am sorry to hear about the depression, but glad to note it's only a "bit." Art class and comix-swapping sound entertaining, perhaps you'll have the opportunity to revisit those topics.

Nice quote you have there. Please tell me it's not from "n.g." Speaking of whom, a while back you recommended one of his tomes, near-guaranteed to convert one into a zombified black-clad fawning minion. If you have a chance, could you refresh my memory as to the title? (The local library carries a volume called -- no, I am not making this up -- Hanging with Neil. I don't know that I'd have the stomach for it.)

Three words on your "narratives" process: yay for you!

And yay for weekends. I trust yours will be yay- worthy.

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[info]pikachumustdie
2007-09-08 02:04 pm UTC (link)
Actually, the answer to the physics question was "quarks". (Which I totally had, by the way, brag brag.) Student W later claimed to have misunderstood the question, but I don't think that anyone will ever forgive him for that particular answer.

No, the quote is not from NG. It's from They Might Be Giants' eponymous song on their 1990 album Flood. So, I take it you're giving in, eh? The first tome of NG's that I ever read was Coraline. The one that turned me into a fawning fangirl, however, was The Sandman vol 1. I have heard much of Anansi Boys, though, and it shall be next on my reading list.

And yay for weekends. I trust yours will be yay- worthy.
Dude, I have school today.

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[info]davidd
2007-09-08 06:51 pm UTC (link)
School on Saturday? When does that leave time for raucous carousing?

Some sources indicate thatcertain leptons are smaller than quarks; in fact, so many sub-atomic particles have been discovered since the 1950s that physicist Wolfgang Pauli once remarked, "had I forseen this, I would have gone into botany." (Wikipedia is so awesome!)

The upshot of this is, you've inspired me to refresh my knowledge of science stuff. You should have an advantage in your science classes, what with two scientists as parents.

(And an electron is, according to some sources, a lepton. Just sayin'...)

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