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Break
After French class as my body defrosts i enjoy hanging out with friends or just myself. If i had to choose one period of the week that best describes my friends i would choose the 20 minutes i spend splitting up into segments to share with each of my group of friends. Thats one of the biggest problems with our grade: we're seperated (Sp.?)and for good reasons. Even within our groups of friends we still fight with eachother and get angry. It is impossible for anyone to ever get along with someone on all aspects of life. Many of you might be saying, "no nick, my best friend and i never fight" True as that might be you still dont agree on everything. I'm sure that one of these moments has happened with everyone of you readers: you " lets go to hoagie haven" (can be replaced with anyplace or activity)friend that you supposedly never fight with "no, i dont feel like it". Now this point may seem quite weak to many of you and thats because it is, but what it proves is that it is mentally impossible to agree with someone on everything. So with this in mind its easy to see why there are so many different groups in school. It is univetiable that people will split up into groups, it happens in communities, social groups, political groups, even nations. It is natural for people to change and when others have problems accepting that its no use to try and hold on. My friends are dispersed throughout 4 or 5 diffeent groups. For the past five minutes while writing this ive tried to label the five groups but ive given up. I cant really label my friends because in many places the lines are blurred. Some kids hang out with other groups even though they dont belong there. Having friends in different groups is in many ways like playing twister, even though this is a stupid parallel im going to go through with it anyways. ok lets say eahc one of my group of friends is a different limb. Spin thee carboard pointer: right hand: skate at the fountain. spin again: left foot: go play street ball. You've now got your first conflict, after 2 spins. 3rd spin: Right foot: 90's film festival, last spin: left hand: go to someones house in the middle of nowhere for an akward boy/girl party. Though these events dont overlap too often, it happens probably once a week. These desicions can often be costly, even though the girl you like might be at a party you were invited to your friend since 8th grade hwo just started hanging out with you again called to invite oyu over to his house with a few other people. I chose my friend from 8th grade, just so you know. But did i make the write decision? who knows, probably, i had a good time, i felt lke part of the group, i saw some old friends, i cant help but wonder what would have happened if i jad gone ot the party, would i have gotten with the girl i like, most probably not, but the fact that there might be a slight chance i cant help but wonder. Why cant my groups conjoin? i used to ask myself. But now i see the logic, they hate eachother, deep emotions and events that have taken place in their respective lives have caused their personalities to clash. Its sad but if everyone got along, well, i dont even know what would happen. I want to say it would be a mess but obvious logic defies that idea. This post is getting off topic, at least i got one topic that ive been wanting to talk about off my list. Ok So lunch, what is break in PHS, other than : overcrowded, short, and poorly chosen. The following idea ive had since 7th grade and every year it bugs the hell out of me that we never do it. Ok so if we took approximatly (sp?) 1 minutes off each period of the day and added it to our break we would have 50% more time for lunch. Think about it, only one minute off of each period. Tommorow in school think about this when the last minute of the period rolls around. I dont know about all you but my last minute is usually spent waiting at the doorway for the bell. It could easily be put to good use. THats just something ive been htinking baout for a few years that seems logic to me. It would improve school morale, shorter classes and more free time would result in happier students and perhaps even teachers. Students would have more time for clubs, help with teachers, and eating during lunch. Its BULLETPROOF. The second problem with lunch is The fact that its completley unbalanced in the schedule of the day. lets review shall we? wake up, get to school, 2 periods of hell, hr doesnt count as break because theres still rules and you cant eat or go outside, then another 4 periods of hell until you have how many? 20 minutes of break. then finish the day off with another 2 periods of hell. MATH TIME! 7:50 to 2:50= 7 hours - 20 min for break. 6:40 minutes of classes, and well take of another 20 just for like time between classes. Thats still 6:20 hours. our of 24 in a day. add that to the suggest amount of sleep for a normal teenager of 9-10 hours a night that makes about 15 hours without free time. Add in a sport thats another 2/3 hours puts us up to 17:30 hours then comes homework. Another 2h ours. your now at 19:30 hours. Dont yet? not at all. Lets say transportation, walking/ driving ot school. 20 minutes: 19:50. Getting dressed and taking a shower: 1 hour. 20:50. Chores: anohter hour id say. 21:50. and dinner: 40 minutes. 22:30 hours. that means on a busy day you have 1:30 minutes of free time. Which is split up throught the day. Woopee. Ok so its true anybody can do something liek this in their favor. But even if we dont include the idea that we only have 1:30 minutes a day. That still means 6:20 minutes of classes to :20 minutes of free time in that 6:20 block. thats a ratio of 13:1 sounds fair. now with the day outline its 22:30 to 1:30. Beleive it or not either i suck at math or its a 15:1 ratio of responsibilties/ school to free time. Teachers may be arguing "oh you have the weekends" if they do respond "shut the fuck up bitch!" because even with the weekend, an average is still 5:2 because i dont feel like doing anymore math i wont go into the hours of it but still. think about that. 5:2. Thats over twice the amount of free time you have that you spend doing required stuff. Now ot be in all fairness we do get a lot of freedom, no where near wed like it to be, but even if we had this time on our hands most of us wouldnt know what to do other than hang out with friends and watch tv. to which i would have no objection, but form a parents pov i could easily see why we have so many responsibilities. But our schools break is without exucse. i mean yea, i understand why they made break at lunch time, but think about it in terms of numbers again. 5 and 2. sounds familiar no? the difference is, in terms of days we have a small break between each day. while during school its one giant block of hell. Now here is when the teacher might argue again. "but thats what the time between for periods is for" and you shall reply " Wrong you fucking whore, your a idiotic hipocrit (sp?) your the bastard that just yelled at me for being late." My solution? another free period in place of Homeroom. I mean seriously we got along last year without one. why not put the time to good use htis year and even out the day? My last problem with break is the layout of the school. Seriously, who ever designed this school was a complete dolt. Heres a tip when your building a high school: make sure the architect graduated from one. Now as many people take for granted the beautiful outer spires and towers of our school, many people also dont realise the many problems with the interior design of out school. First of all, the gym is completely separated from the rest of the school. Why? i mean havent oyu guys ever seen those courtyards in the middle of the bulidings? couldnt we fit a gym in there? Then theres the cafeteria. with ONE ENTRANCE!!! seriosuly. even though theres construction going on you would think they would be smart enough to add another exit to the cafeteria other than the MOST CROWDED STAIRWAY IN THE WHOLE FUCKING SCHOOL. in all seriousness you guys are all a bunch of dumbasses. Think a bit before oyu jump into building a new school. Now ive been dancing aorund the central idea of this post. I HATE THOSE IDIOTS WHO BLOCK THE HALLWAYS. Theres 3 types, the sitters, standers and walkers or i hsould say crawlers. Firstly, the sitters, often the "outcasts of the grade that enjoy istting in already cramped hallways with their legs stretched out. For hells sake just pull in you legs or sit indian style you dolts. Your lbocking half the hallway with your hippie sock and birkenstocks. Secondly are the standers, now i cannot hate too much on this group becuase i can often be labelled as a stander. Often in some form of an elipse a group of friends stand around talking. They often take up half the hallway and get exetremly angry when someone passes through the group. And lastly without a doubt hte most frustrating the crawlers. often discussed by many they walk down the hallway at exetremly slow speeds. While your trying to pass them they form a blockade by linking arms or make akwardly small spaces between people in order to make it impossible for you to get ot you next class in time. By far the most annoying. The gorups that are typically crawlers are: not to be some sort of stereotyping dick but: ghetto kids, freshmen, especially boys, and hippie girls. EWWWWWW hippie girls. ok im getting tired andi havent started my english essay. Please respond in the comments section. thanks
Nick,
Keepin it real
ps ill try pictures some other time
Break
After French class as my body defrosts i enjoy hanging out with friends or just myself. If i had to choose one period of the week that best describes my friends i would choose the 20 minutes i spend splitting up into segments to share with each of my group of friends. Thats one of the biggest problems with our grade: we're seperated (Sp.?)and for good reasons. Even within our groups of friends we still fight with eachother and get angry. It is impossible for anyone to ever get along with someone on all aspects of life. Many of you might be saying, "no nick, my best friend and i never fight" True as that might be you still dont agree on everything. I'm sure that one of these moments has happened with everyone of you readers: you " lets go to hoagie haven" (can be replaced with anyplace or activity)friend that you supposedly never fight with "no, i dont feel like it". Now this point may seem quite weak to many of you and thats because it is, but what it proves is that it is mentally impossible to agree with someone on everything. So with this in mind its easy to see why there are so many different groups in school. It is univetiable that people will split up into groups, it happens in communities, social groups, political groups, even nations. It is natural for people to change and when others have problems accepting that its no use to try and hold on. My friends are dispersed throughout 4 or 5 diffeent groups. For the past five minutes while writing this ive tried to label the five groups but ive given up. I cant really label my friends because in many places the lines are blurred. Some kids hang out with other groups even though they dont belong there. Having friends in different groups is in many ways like playing twister, even though this is a stupid parallel im going to go through with it anyways. ok lets say eahc one of my group of friends is a different limb. Spin thee carboard pointer: right hand: skate at the fountain. spin again: left foot: go play street ball. You've now got your first conflict, after 2 spins. 3rd spin: Right foot: 90's film festival, last spin: left hand: go to someones house in the middle of nowhere for an akward boy/girl party. Though these events dont overlap too often, it happens probably once a week. These desicions can often be costly, even though the girl you like might be at a party you were invited to your friend since 8th grade hwo just started hanging out with you again called to invite oyu over to his house with a few other people. I chose my friend from 8th grade, just so you know. But did i make the write decision? who knows, probably, i had a good time, i felt lke part of the group, i saw some old friends, i cant help but wonder what would have happened if i jad gone ot the party, would i have gotten with the girl i like, most probably not, but the fact that there might be a slight chance i cant help but wonder. Why cant my groups conjoin? i used to ask myself. But now i see the logic, they hate eachother, deep emotions and events that have taken place in their respective lives have caused their personalities to clash. Its sad but if everyone got along, well, i dont even know what would happen. I want to say it would be a mess but obvious logic defies that idea. This post is getting off topic, at least i got one topic that ive been wanting to talk about off my list. Ok So lunch, what is break in PHS, other than : overcrowded, short, and poorly chosen. The following idea ive had since 7th grade and every year it bugs the hell out of me that we never do it. Ok so if we took approximatly (sp?) 1 minutes off each period of the day and added it to our break we would have 50% more time for lunch. Think about it, only one minute off of each period. Tommorow in school think about this when the last minute of the period rolls around. I dont know about all you but my last minute is usually spent waiting at the doorway for the bell. It could easily be put to good use. THats just something ive been htinking baout for a few years that seems logic to me. It would improve school morale, shorter classes and more free time would result in happier students and perhaps even teachers. Students would have more time for clubs, help with teachers, and eating during lunch. Its BULLETPROOF. The second problem with lunch is The fact that its completley unbalanced in the schedule of the day. lets review shall we? wake up, get to school, 2 periods of hell, hr doesnt count as break because theres still rules and you cant eat or go outside, then another 4 periods of hell until you have how many? 20 minutes of break. then finish the day off with another 2 periods of hell. MATH TIME! 7:50 to 2:50= 7 hours - 20 min for break. 6:40 minutes of classes, and well take of another 20 just for like time between classes. Thats still 6:20 hours. our of 24 in a day. add that to the suggest amount of sleep for a normal teenager of 9-10 hours a night that makes about 15 hours without free time. Add in a sport thats another 2/3 hours puts us up to 17:30 hours then comes homework. Another 2h ours. your now at 19:30 hours. Dont yet? not at all. Lets say transportation, walking/ driving ot school. 20 minutes: 19:50. Getting dressed and taking a shower: 1 hour. 20:50. Chores: anohter hour id say. 21:50. and dinner: 40 minutes. 22:30 hours. that means on a busy day you have 1:30 minutes of free time. Which is split up throught the day. Woopee. Ok so its true anybody can do something liek this in their favor. But even if we dont include the idea that we only have 1:30 minutes a day. That still means 6:20 minutes of classes to :20 minutes of free time in that 6:20 block. thats a ratio of 13:1 sounds fair. now with the day outline its 22:30 to 1:30. Beleive it or not either i suck at math or its a 15:1 ratio of responsibilties/ school to free time. Teachers may be arguing "oh you have the weekends" if they do respond "shut the fuck up bitch!" because even with the weekend, an average is still 5:2 because i dont feel like doing anymore math i wont go into the hours of it but still. think about that. 5:2. Thats over twice the amount of free time you have that you spend doing required stuff. Now ot be in all fairness we do get a lot of freedom, no where near wed like it to be, but even if we had this time on our hands most of us wouldnt know what to do other than hang out with friends and watch tv. to which i would have no objection, but form a parents pov i could easily see why we have so many responsibilities. But our schools break is without exucse. i mean yea, i understand why they made break at lunch time, but think about it in terms of numbers again. 5 and 2. sounds familiar no? the difference is, in terms of days we have a small break between each day. while during school its one giant block of hell. Now here is when the teacher might argue again. "but thats what the time between for periods is for" and you shall reply " Wrong you fucking whore, your a idiotic hipocrit (sp?) your the bastard that just yelled at me for being late." My solution? another free period in place of Homeroom. I mean seriously we got along last year without one. why not put the time to good use htis year and even out the day? My last problem with break is the layout of the school. Seriously, who ever designed this school was a complete dolt. Heres a tip when your building a high school: make sure the architect graduated from one. Now as many people take for granted the beautiful outer spires and towers of our school, many people also dont realise the many problems with the interior design of out school. First of all, the gym is completely separated from the rest of the school. Why? i mean havent oyu guys ever seen those courtyards in the middle of the bulidings? couldnt we fit a gym in there? Then theres the cafeteria. with ONE ENTRANCE!!! seriosuly. even though theres construction going on you would think they would be smart enough to add another exit to the cafeteria other than the MOST CROWDED STAIRWAY IN THE WHOLE FUCKING SCHOOL. in all seriousness you guys are all a bunch of dumbasses. Think a bit before oyu jump into building a new school. Now ive been dancing aorund the central idea of this post. I HATE THOSE IDIOTS WHO BLOCK THE HALLWAYS. Theres 3 types, the sitters, standers and walkers or i hsould say crawlers. Firstly, the sitters, often the "outcasts of the grade that enjoy istting in already cramped hallways with their legs stretched out. For hells sake just pull in you legs or sit indian style you dolts. Your lbocking half the hallway with your hippie sock and birkenstocks. Secondly are the standers, now i cannot hate too much on this group becuase i can often be labelled as a stander. Often in some form of an elipse a group of friends stand around talking. They often take up half the hallway and get exetremly angry when someone passes through the group. And lastly without a doubt hte most frustrating the crawlers. often discussed by many they walk down the hallway at exetremly slow speeds. While your trying to pass them they form a blockade by linking arms or make akwardly small spaces between people in order to make it impossible for you to get ot you next class in time. By far the most annoying. The gorups that are typically crawlers are: not to be some sort of stereotyping dick but: ghetto kids, freshmen, especially boys, and hippie girls. EWWWWWW hippie girls. ok im getting tired andi havent started my english essay. Please respond in the comments section. thanks
Nick,
Keepin it real
ps ill try pictures some other time
5 comments:
I SAY! Jolly good post sir, i enjoyed it quite a bit!
it's surprising how there are so many groups in our grade, but i don't think they hate eachother, i think it's just different groups of people who don't mix well together. the majority of people i know mix well with more then one group, so i suppose it's just the type of person you are. who knows.
awesome job keep it up
This post is soooo true.
Also, there actually IS another way into the cafeteria(or at least there was last year) If you take the stairs in the room next to the art room you can get down to the cafeteria floor, and get out on the other side of the crowded stairs.
Yeeeeeeah man! i agree with you. And yes, especially with the hall blockers, of which we experienced earlier today, walking out of french.
Lovely, Lovely.
lurve, keirAhb(silent b)
Pictures would have been great in this post if you had visual examples of the three types of hallway blockers.
And we've all thought about taking 1 minute off of each period, the one minute we all spend wasting time, but the truth is that if all the periods were 1 min shorter then we would still waste another 1 min.