When I posted Friday night, it was the last time the Internet worked at my house, so I won't be posting much for a while.
The GVSU competition went fine. The interview with 2 people simultaneously was awkward, but I managed. The essay options were alright, and I somehow churned out 3.5 pages in the 90 minute period. Now, I just have to wait until March to find out how I did.
The rest of the weekend was a lot of fun. I got to hang out with my youth group Saturday night where we hosted another youth group from Indiana that's affiliated with one of our grads. On Sunday, I read most of the day, but went bowling in the evening. Good times.
Monday, January 31, 2005
Friday, January 28, 2005
GVSU Scholarship Competition and Other Miscellaneous Thoughts
Tomorrow, I'll be rising a little earlier than normal to take a trip to Grand Valley. I am being forced to pull an essay out of thin air and interview with some "high up" person in order to receive some monies. I've never had an important interview like this before, so I hope I don't screw up or anything. The essay I'm not too worried about because I can pull stuff out of nowhere and write it in a way to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about.
If I do well, I'll have a virtual free ride to GVSU, but if not, I at least have a very substantial amount guaranteed based on merit requirements.
So, this competition is important in a sense, but not to the point where if I totally screw up I'll have enormous college bills.
Afterwards, if I feel like hanging out, one of my ex-compatriots from youth group is bringing a youth group she helps lead to our church to hang out. That should be fun, plus free pizza.
Also, I have 2 free tickets to the GR Auto Show this weekend. I don't know if or when I'll go, but that's a possibility too.
Calc I/II Enrichment, as my independent study class has been renamed, is a joke. The teacher didn't want to try to help us with Calc III, so she decided to give us projects and writing assignments to "better our understanding of Calculus I and II. We've pretty much slacked off every day we've worked on this first project.
I'll update after the scholarship competition tomorrow.
Hasta la vista.
If I do well, I'll have a virtual free ride to GVSU, but if not, I at least have a very substantial amount guaranteed based on merit requirements.
So, this competition is important in a sense, but not to the point where if I totally screw up I'll have enormous college bills.
Afterwards, if I feel like hanging out, one of my ex-compatriots from youth group is bringing a youth group she helps lead to our church to hang out. That should be fun, plus free pizza.
Also, I have 2 free tickets to the GR Auto Show this weekend. I don't know if or when I'll go, but that's a possibility too.
Calc I/II Enrichment, as my independent study class has been renamed, is a joke. The teacher didn't want to try to help us with Calc III, so she decided to give us projects and writing assignments to "better our understanding of Calculus I and II. We've pretty much slacked off every day we've worked on this first project.
I'll update after the scholarship competition tomorrow.
Hasta la vista.
Of Entissions
Entissions are a very scary thing to some people. This is because many people are afraid of what they don't understand, and quite frankly, there are few who understand entissions. The entissionary events of last year's English class gave me the appreciation for a fair sprinkling of entissions. They entissionously helped my through a rediculous writing assignment as if they were a gift from the great Todd himself.
Joy Williams, however, is the anti-entission. She was unable to incorporate entissionary evidence into her paper, rendering it useless. Her minions blinded judges into calling her essay one of "America's Best," but the use of entissions on my behalf unveiled how horribly writter her essay was.
For these reasons, entissions are awesome, and you really shouldn't be afraid of them. They can really help you out when you have two pages of crap to write, but no real ideas as to how to fill them.
Joy Williams, however, is the anti-entission. She was unable to incorporate entissionary evidence into her paper, rendering it useless. Her minions blinded judges into calling her essay one of "America's Best," but the use of entissions on my behalf unveiled how horribly writter her essay was.
For these reasons, entissions are awesome, and you really shouldn't be afraid of them. They can really help you out when you have two pages of crap to write, but no real ideas as to how to fill them.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
It's Been a Loooooong Time
Two weeks can go by really slooooow as they do when we're waiting for something, like Christmas Break, or they can go by with lightning speed as these last two did.
Winter Retreat with my youth group was awesome. They're a great community to be a part of. We studied prayer and how it should be incorporated into all of our relationships (God, Each other, and the World), and how we should be having ongoing conversations with God. The Talent Show was a blast and my act fared fairly well.
Exams went fine, with a one day interruption for a 6-10 inch snowstorm. None of them changed my grades, so all is well.
Calvary Christian's homecoming was a good time of hanging out, and the games weren't total blowouts.
In our Sunday night meetings, aka GEW, we're starting an interesting philosophical discussion that will ripple into May. Good stuff.
I don't have an open 2nd hour like I had last semester, so I'll try to find times at home to update, I know that one person in particular gets ticked if I don't update every school day. You know who you are.
Hopefully I'll post again before another 2 weeks of my last high school semester have flown by.
Winter Retreat with my youth group was awesome. They're a great community to be a part of. We studied prayer and how it should be incorporated into all of our relationships (God, Each other, and the World), and how we should be having ongoing conversations with God. The Talent Show was a blast and my act fared fairly well.
Exams went fine, with a one day interruption for a 6-10 inch snowstorm. None of them changed my grades, so all is well.
Calvary Christian's homecoming was a good time of hanging out, and the games weren't total blowouts.
In our Sunday night meetings, aka GEW, we're starting an interesting philosophical discussion that will ripple into May. Good stuff.
I don't have an open 2nd hour like I had last semester, so I'll try to find times at home to update, I know that one person in particular gets ticked if I don't update every school day. You know who you are.
Hopefully I'll post again before another 2 weeks of my last high school semester have flown by.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
I'm Befuddled...
Almost all the schools are closed in Muskegon County today, except Shores and Muskegon. It is supposed to get rather warm today, and the roads are fine, no new snow...
Faced with this non-Snow Day weather, the nature of all closed schools (farm schools), and the fact that they didn't just have a 2 hour delay, I've decided that all the cows in the area must have gone into labor and they need people to help the cows give birth.
Either that, or the chickens have gone on strike....
Faced with this non-Snow Day weather, the nature of all closed schools (farm schools), and the fact that they didn't just have a 2 hour delay, I've decided that all the cows in the area must have gone into labor and they need people to help the cows give birth.
Either that, or the chickens have gone on strike....
Monday, January 10, 2005
Twas the Week Before Exams...
...And all through the school, not a soul was excited, ... Friggin Idiot!!! I can't rhyme!
The dreaded week of projects, tests, reviews, practice exams, and such is upon us.
Many students believe that the exam week is the most stressful week of the year, but I disagree. We have 1 day off and 4 half days. Even if there are exams, what can get better than that schedule?
This week is going to be much harder than next, at least for me.
I've got a Bio Test, Bio Lab, Psycho Test, 1/2 of my Spanish Exam, an English Project, and whatever other strange things my teachers can come up with to "ready us" for their exam.
But it's no big deal, I don't need these grades. They don't really matter. I can't be "unaccepted" to college. Because it's 2005, and I graduate!!!!
The dreaded week of projects, tests, reviews, practice exams, and such is upon us.
Many students believe that the exam week is the most stressful week of the year, but I disagree. We have 1 day off and 4 half days. Even if there are exams, what can get better than that schedule?
This week is going to be much harder than next, at least for me.
I've got a Bio Test, Bio Lab, Psycho Test, 1/2 of my Spanish Exam, an English Project, and whatever other strange things my teachers can come up with to "ready us" for their exam.
But it's no big deal, I don't need these grades. They don't really matter. I can't be "unaccepted" to college. Because it's 2005, and I graduate!!!!
Thursday, January 06, 2005
It's a Snow Da.... Nope, not in Muskegon...
Western Michigan in the winter.
Winter storm warnings, weather advisories, icy roads, and snow, snow, snow.
We have all of these things, but it is not enough for the Muskegon County superintendents. Despite the fact that roads are horrible, icy, and snow-covered and that almost every school in Kent and Ottawa counties are closed, not a single school in our county decided to close.
Why?
Because of the, dare I say, absurd system of school closings we have. My school will not close unless Muskegon Public does. My brother's school won't close unless Fruitport does. Fruitport won't close unless Shores or Grand Haven does. So, unless one superintendent is bold and thinks for himself, no school gets cancelled.
In light of this, I leave you with an amusing and unrelated news story.
Cops: Mom Used Hammer on Son Over Homework
And this, my friends, is why you should never wait to start your homework.
Winter storm warnings, weather advisories, icy roads, and snow, snow, snow.
We have all of these things, but it is not enough for the Muskegon County superintendents. Despite the fact that roads are horrible, icy, and snow-covered and that almost every school in Kent and Ottawa counties are closed, not a single school in our county decided to close.
Why?
Because of the, dare I say, absurd system of school closings we have. My school will not close unless Muskegon Public does. My brother's school won't close unless Fruitport does. Fruitport won't close unless Shores or Grand Haven does. So, unless one superintendent is bold and thinks for himself, no school gets cancelled.
In light of this, I leave you with an amusing and unrelated news story.
Cops: Mom Used Hammer on Son Over Homework
And this, my friends, is why you should never wait to start your homework.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Dude...
I'm getting a Dell. According to UPS, my new mp3 player will arrive tomorrow. That's a lot better than Dell's original projection of February 1.
Monday, January 03, 2005
Long Time, No Post
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all the stuff that happened during the last 2 weeks.
Winter Break abruptly ended this morning to the sound of my alarm clock, and the monotony of MSHS is taking over.
Over break I saw more movies than I can count, I went to Grand Rapids twice, Detroit once, and on my blog 0 times.
I only went to bed before midnight two or three times. I only did homework or anything related to school on one day, Saturday, amidst the Rose Bowl all day antics. I went swimming in a hotel pool, slept on an uncomfortable floor at my grandmother's house, and saw numerous half-insane family members. I listened to my little cousin's version of Hilary Duff's singing at least 37 times, and I just relaxed and hung out with my friends enough to make my unnaturally short Christmas Break worth while.
Now, as I sit in the Mona Shores Media Center (it can't just be called a library), I think of recent memories, and I sigh as my friends get ready to watch 3 straight trilogies of movies (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and LOTR). But amidst the hum of the ventilation fans, I hear someone softly singing, "I love technology, but not as much as you, you see, but I still love technology, always and forever"
Winter Break abruptly ended this morning to the sound of my alarm clock, and the monotony of MSHS is taking over.
Over break I saw more movies than I can count, I went to Grand Rapids twice, Detroit once, and on my blog 0 times.
I only went to bed before midnight two or three times. I only did homework or anything related to school on one day, Saturday, amidst the Rose Bowl all day antics. I went swimming in a hotel pool, slept on an uncomfortable floor at my grandmother's house, and saw numerous half-insane family members. I listened to my little cousin's version of Hilary Duff's singing at least 37 times, and I just relaxed and hung out with my friends enough to make my unnaturally short Christmas Break worth while.
Now, as I sit in the Mona Shores Media Center (it can't just be called a library), I think of recent memories, and I sigh as my friends get ready to watch 3 straight trilogies of movies (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and LOTR). But amidst the hum of the ventilation fans, I hear someone softly singing, "I love technology, but not as much as you, you see, but I still love technology, always and forever"
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