Yay smart people! 8D
Those IB schools took over my old high school. There used to be a lot of woods around my old high school where I would find dead birds and coyote tracks, but the IB kids needed something special, and there went the woods. Now they need new tennis courts so the rest of the woods and the old tennis courts are going away. Of course, the new courts can only be used by the IB kids, meaning that no one can play tennis now.
But, on the bright side, if/when it comes to a gun/knife fight, the regular high school kids can kick the IB kids' arses. We're just awesome like that.
Wha-? That is
so not fair. Our sissy IB-head people just stuck us into little barracks to study and actually even lent some of our classrooms to the
plebes regular high school people.
And we had renovations in there for the whole time I studied over there.
Dang, I knew our principal was being to soft with them. :<
It's OK to be depressed by that. It was the same way when I went to college. I had someone tell me that the word "inconspicuous" was a verb. I was like "Wha?"
And now I miss my old Western Civilization class. ;_;
But, Alter Ego, I have to ask: "Lifelong living"? ._____o
Lifelong living is our group discussion topic for next Monday,
and they expect me to hold a presentation about this pretentious crap too. Oh sweet mother of grammar, what have I gotten myself into with this course? ~~
Still, yay for it being natural to be depressed? XD
I find that it helps to be sleep deprived, hopped up on sugar, and with a group of friends that are naturally inclined to be insane. I've come up with some amazing things that way, such as mint flavored laxatives and the "cats exist in multiple dimensions" theory.
My most recent one was a story in which there are two dogs, a male and a female, that utilize giant time-traveling fish to save each others' lives in the future and past and eventually hook up. The girl dog has an affair shortly afterward with another dog that is both god and the devil, and the boy and girl dog have a massive fight. The male is eventually killed, the girl dog goes over a cliff while riding in a time traveling fish, and cuts herself out of it with a lightsaber just before she dies as well. Then she becomes a fish herself.
The universe is a taco in that story, and Taco Bell is literally a bell that acts as the central hub for the time-traveling fish. Good lord, that was a fun night.
Oh yeah, crack-inspired plotting is awesome. It's what spawned the population import scheme in our economics class (China has an excess of babies and a shortage of paper; we have an excess of paper and a shortage of babies. Simple supply and demand that would solve the social problems of shrinking and rapidly growing population in their respective countries to boot.), not to mention my completely warped story about what would happen if hereditarily passed magical girl powers (complete with the skimpy outfit) would end up in a generation where the only available heir is male. And let's not even get me started about the realm created by the all-powerful creator goddess Mary-Sue (and her schisming cadre of followers who are fighting over whether Mary-Sue gave birth to all living things as an act of love or as the result of rape); there's also humongous mecha, vampires, and a number of things I really won't get into...crack ideas are fun for recreational purposes, but kind of scary if you actually act on them. XD
You know, I suddenly feel very unconfident about my proficiency with Spanish. 0.o
AE, you should probably just face the fact that you're a linguistics genius compared to everyone else in your country. I mean, we can't all master English with a proficiency comparable to, if not greater than, most native English-speakers. At least, when writing it. XD
But... "lifelong living"? What the hell is that supposed to mean? (Hey, one question, right there!)
Meh, there sure wasn't any shortage of those back in the IB. But then, if one of these illiterates is an elementary school English teacher to begin with, I can imagine how this kind of heresy manages to spread. :<
And...I actually put in a question that essentially amounted to that one. Except, of course, that I worded it all posh so it would fit the pretentiousness of the topic. XD