'Serenity'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Guess what one of the essay prompts at Regionals was?
That's a good story. I have a similar one.
Heh. I was on vacation in Jamaica my senior year (when there was still an Eastern Airlines) and ended up stuck for like 36 hours at the airport due to some major fuck-ups by several airlines.
Ended up getting home just in time to go straight to the State Ac Dec, where the essay question was...airline deregulation.
That's a good story. I have a similar one.
Me too! Except it was a sentence by Nietzsche that I spent about an hour unpacking while on the phone with a friend. Because, well, we had nothing better to do. A few weeks later, it was the extra credit question on an exam.
It was especially nice because that was the class I kept sleeping through. It should be illegal to have a philosophy class that starts at 9 AM.
Unless it's on Gödel's incompleteness theorem. That's exciting.
A few weeks later, it was the extra credit question on an exam.
One day, I walked into English class and decided I was going to memorize the names of all the main group bunnies in Watership Down. It was a good day to do that, because it was the bonus question on the quiz.
My funny story is a whole-class story. We had a teacher who was maniacal about us learning and understanding Emerson's transparent eyeball metaphor from "Nature" (it's a transcendentalism thing), and we all read and reread the metaphor and talked it over and blah blah blah. Come the spring, and we've long since moved on, and the AP US History exam rolls around, and the whole class takes it.
At break, we all come clustering into the break room going, "Did you correct it? Yeah, me too!" The transparent eyeball metaphor was quoted in toto on the exam, and it was quoted incorrectly, and 80% of the class had corrected the quote in addition to answering the question.
Nerds do best when they are in packs, don't you think?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
That's a great story.
Nerds do best when they are in packs, don't you think?
Well, until we are pitted against each other.
Signed,
Knowledge Bowl is a Blood Sport, Damn It.
This whole conversation is cracking me up. I had no idea they served plates of shrimp at AcDec!
(I'm also feeling like the only Buffista who wasn't in AD, but if my school or state had had it, I would've been! Really!)
My school didn't have AD, but we did compete in the Science Olympiad. We took state in NC and then went to the nationals in Flint, MI. I'd just moved down from Alpena, MI two years before and spent most of the trip telling the others on the team that no, most of Michigan didn't look like Flint. 'Cause they were looking at the city, then looking at me and going, "Dude. I'm just . . . so sorry."
I didn't even know what it was, 'til the first time P-C and/or Gris mentioned it.