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.
Wesley: I stabbed you. I should apologize for that. But I'm honestly not sure how. I think it'll just be awkward. Gunn: Good call. Wesley: Okay.
'Time Bomb'
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."
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
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
brillig
(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?
Amy - Nov 15, 2006 10:32:01 am PST #1589 of 28160
Because books.
I don't think we had any of these things when I was in high school, or my school didn't participate. I was in AP English senior year, so I feel like my teacher would have encouraged us to do it otherwise.
Possibly I was too busy smoking out in the parking lot.
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2006 10:34:26 am PST #1590 of 28160
brillig
I was in AP English senior year, so I feel like my teacher would have encouraged us to do it otherwise
Oh, yeah, if Mr. Berryhill had had a way to show off his star students, he'd have done it.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 2:23:38 pm PST #1591 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I graduated high school in '79, so maybe I predate these things?
I just checked the website -- Academic Decathlon started in 1981.
Sheryl - Nov 15, 2006 2:39:20 pm PST #1592 of 28160
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
The only knowledge-based competition I can recall from my high school was the Math team. Not quite the same as the stuff you folks mentioned...
beth b - Nov 15, 2006 8:10:25 pm PST #1593 of 28160
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ok. if you ever get the chance to see Nancy Pearl, the author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, speak, GO. very entertaining. even if you are a really picky reader she 's got stuff for you. and Besides - she is the only Librarian I know , other than BatGirl, that has her own action figure.
and the action figure
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 16, 2006 3:48:14 pm PST #1594 of 28160
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Random nugget I stumbled upon that's old but perhaps not old news.
Anthony Minghella's rather excellent film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Play.
Tom Scola - Nov 20, 2006 7:46:24 am PST #1595 of 28160
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, “Against the Day,” reads like the sort of imitation of a Thomas Pynchon novel that a dogged but ungainly fan of this author’s might have written on quaaludes. It is a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story, pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being illuminating, complicated without being rewardingly complex.
Review is by Michiko Kakutani, so adjust your rhetorical filters accordingly.