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).
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Jessica - Nov 15, 2006 7:01:30 am PST #1579 of 28160
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
P.M. Marc - Nov 15, 2006 7:11:17 am PST #1580 of 28160
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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?
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 7:24:57 am PST #1581 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
brenda m - Nov 15, 2006 7:29:32 am PST #1582 of 28160
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 7:34:01 am PST #1583 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Volans - Nov 15, 2006 7:35:59 am PST #1584 of 28160
move out and draw fire
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.
Polter-Cow - Nov 15, 2006 7:50:07 am PST #1585 of 28160
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 7:57:12 am PST #1586 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Gris - Nov 15, 2006 9:05:44 am PST #1587 of 28160
Hey. New board.
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.
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2006 10:22:35 am PST #1588 of 28160
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(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!)
I don't think my school thought knowledge was competitive. I'd never heard of these competitions till recently. I graduated high school in '79, so maybe I predate these things?