Cordelia ,'Showtime'
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."
I didn't even know what it was,I don't really know now, though I get the idea from context.
We had It's Academic. Oh, and maybe Knowledge Masters? That sounds familiar, anyway.
But I didn't do any of that stuff, because it would have involved spending more time with my peers.
We had It's Academic! I wasn't on our school's team, but we kicked some serious ass. I did go to the finals match my senior year (because it was on local NBC, and we needed a big cheering section in the audience).
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!
We didn't have it! Just Knowledge Bowl.
We had a large trophy that didn't quite fit right in the I.B. breakroom.
Flea, do you read her the Winnie the Pooh books?
We had Academic Decathlon. I think it started my junior year. Anyway, I remember themes being Global Economy and Technology. Books as Jane Eyre and Remains of the Day and Siddhartha. Not sure what years those all correspond to. We never made it to states -- we were always scrounging for team members, and usually ended up with about four people who actually studied, and five who filled seats.
Ooh, I forgot about Knowledge Master. Fun!
We never made it to states -- we were always scrounging for team members, and usually ended up with about four people who actually studied, and five who filled seats.
Heh, that's what was so brilliant about Ac Dec. Since the team had to have people with a range of GPAs, slackers like me were like a secret weapon.
Yeah, that's where I did really well. My grades weren't great, but I had fun with Ac Dec and did really well on those tests. (Well, except for speech and interview, where I was generally the lowest-scoring of the native English speakers.) But we had a pretty small school, and there just weren't nine kids that we could find to put in the effort.
in the I.B. breakroom
I'd never even heard of I.B. until I started teaching at a school that participated and had to help prep students.
Anyway, I remember themes being Global Economy and Technology. Books as Jane Eyre and Remains of the Day and Siddhartha. Not sure what years those all correspond to.
1998 and 1999, as those were my years!
Since the team had to have people with a range of GPAs, slackers like me were like a secret weapon.
Heh, yeah, we had one really great C student who also did a lot of Math/Science team stuff.
1998 and 1999, as those were my years!
That would be my junior and senior years, then. So my memory hasn't totally gone.
Heh, yeah, we had one really great C student who also did a lot of Math/Science team stuff.
At my school, that was me.
Since the team had to have people with a range of GPAs, slackers like me were like a secret weapon.
This conversation made me look up 2006's winners. My school no longer competes (we won States for 17 years in a row, then the coaches retired and nobody kept it up. Sigh.) but the Mississippi winners last year had a Scholastic (kid with an average GPA of 3.0-3.75) who got the fourth highest score in the nation, apparently. Brought the team to 7th overall in the nation, and 1st in their division ("Medium" sized schools). I was impressed.