The site is still a prototype, but it is nice to know that I have conquered all of my stupid mistakes and whatnot. I hope to have the prototype completed within the month (I've still got school and AP tests and all that stuff). Then I will proceed to make it more aesthetically pleasing. I will likely post a link to it as soon as the prototype is complete. It won't be anything terribly special, but it will be fairly efficient, practical, and functional. I will be pleased.
Tonight I eat hamburgers. I think I would not be the least bit upset if I had hamburgers or tacos every night of the week (though I would like to mix in pizza and steaks at some points).
I have class again tonight. I really need to get around to some more research for my project. Also, I need to get some more biology-related news article summaries together.
Anyway, all and all it was a good day with school not seeming to take as long as usual.
See Spot run.
I understand the sometimes good reasonings behind it, but that doesn't change how odd it is.
Then there's one more thing that can really piss me off at school: walking in hallways. People need to learn how to walk. I am really tired of the morons who can't figure out how to keep going. I think the administration wouldn't be terribly distraught if I just decided to box one in the back of the head one day. For that matter, it seems like every day now someone smaller than me doesn't move over in the hall and just walks into me. Pretty dumb.
*/bitching*
Hopefully, I'll manage to get by like I have been since middle school -- last minute and blah blah blah blah blah, I can't think anymore because someone won't stop talking to me.
Screw it, this entry has gone to crap. I'm going to go not do some work. Another movie sounds good about now.
Tomorrow will be a good day, too. Getting breakfast at seven in the morning, then hanging out at Justin's and playing some Halo2, SSB, Doom, et cetera for a while. Later, I'll show up at Howard Park for prom pics with some friends (assuming I remember). I'm guessing the people who'll be there will be the ones I'll be having dinner with.
Next up will be my senior prom. It still feels like it should be a month away. I really don't care anything about it. It's one of those things that I'm going to for no good reason. I figure it's one of those things every senior has to do. Besides, it'll be my one high school dance (I had one in middle school I went to and one in elementary school). I'll probably end up cutting out early. Dances don't interest me very much and I'm only scheduled for one dance.
I'm undecided where to go afterwards. I've heard of a hotel party, a pool party type-thing, some movie plans. I don't know if I'll pursue any of the aforementioned, I may just end up getting another meal and then going home.
Regardless, I don't plan on doing anything stupid. Prom isn't an excuse to act stupid (at least not a good one, in my opinion). If I wanted to act like a dumbass, I could pick any or every other night of the year. So, I'll be avoiding the stupid stuff. What can I say? I don't need to make excuses to myself to do what I want to do.
So, why am I typing all of this? I just wanted to say that I have a mousepad. The rest was all just an excuse to type because I'm in the mood to type a lot (though not so much that I hate reading my own entry). I'd keep going if not for the fact that I've exhausted the subject. Later I may be motivated to write another entry up. Maybe it'll be on people and AIM.
In class, we were working on Taylor series. I saw a great opportunity to write a program for my TI-89. I had it all mapped out in my head. I also was contemplating using TIGCC instead of just plain-old BASIC that's available for coding on the calculator. My bubble was promptly burst. A couple pages later in the series packet it was revealed that the TI-89 has a built in function for handling Taylor series. Well, here's to the last time I'll be excited about anything dealing with calculus class.
I'm not talking about anything specific, just in general -- something I need to work on.
Yesterday's lesson in Psych II was about primary and secondary groups -- of course referring to relationships. I guess that class got me thinking again. I saw some things in some of my friends' LJ's that got me relating to yesterday's lesson this morning.
Many of my friends seem to think that the so-called "AP-group" -- seniors who take AP classes -- is a primary group. The reason logically being that most of their friends take AP classes and that they can best relate to the people who take those classes. After all, a couple years ago there was no "honors group" -- we must all simply be one larger, tight-knit group of great friends, easily classified as a primary group.
I disagree. The "AP-group" is a secondary group at most. The simplest way of proving this is that the "AP-group" is circumstance-based. A primary group is based on the people, not the circumstances. Sure, circumstances are what help us find the people who later become good enough friends to be in that elite "primary group," but I'd be willing to bet every dollar and cent I have that over the summer the term "AP-group" will only be used to reminisce. The idealisticallly noted "AP-group" will show its factions better and it'll be proven not to exist.
I haven't met many people who I would have ever considered among my best of friends through AP classes. In fact, there are very few people I hang out with outside of school or even talk to who I've met in AP classes. Come to think of it, I don't think that I hang out with anyone who I've met in AP classes right now. I have met people in AP classes though, I simply haven't become great friends with any of them. I guess that as such I find the notion of a large group of people being a primary group based on common classes in the same school a tad ridiculous.
Silly AP kids... best friends are for friends.
Here are the six periods of school (out of a six period day) and why I don't have to come for any of them:
1) AP US Gov - I'm learning nothing, I darn near ace the tests, and I fail the quizzes and small assignments anyway
2) Leadership - my job is to walk around the school and look for skippers or problems...
3) Psych II - I honestly like this class, but I could get the same grade if I didn't show up -- the tests are based off the material in the book and not directly on the lectures/discussions
4) AP Calc BC - Pfft, I don't understand the new stuff anyway, I'll just see how I do on the AP test with my AB knowledge and a decent grasp of a couple BC topics
5) AP Eng Lit - I'd really only need to show up for the tests, just like the others; the actual in-class work isn't much and doesn't very often count for grades
6) I don't have one, I've got a DE class at the community college
Reason why I'm still there: mom
oh well
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
