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Sep. 19th, 2006 08:22 pmI'm going to focus on the silver linings of this whole mess at H_E.
One, H_E as a whole is more unified. I've seen a lot of cross-house support and respect as people try to deal with this girl.
Two, I really feel that I've gotten to know some people better, become better friends than before. Maybe it would have happened eventually, under better circumstances, but it did happen now, with her as the direct impetus.
Three, though her drama ended up overshadowing it, as a community we did get to discuss concepts of houses, so we might end up with a better sorting of future applicants.
/end H_E stuff.
As for the rest of the day, that was also pretty good.
I had a test in Animal Behavior. Overall I think I did well, but I know there were a few questions that I probably messed up on.
In Physics, we got our tests back. Mom, Dad, make sure you're sitting down. I got an A. *waits for parents to recover from shock* He told us at the begining of the course that he had a larger range of what he counted an A or a B. A's were from 85% to 100%, B's were 70% to 85%, C's were 60% to 70%. I got an 86%. The girl I've been coaching got a 70%. And that was the test I thought I'd done the worst on!
And for Eco/Evo lab, we went out to Wesselman Woods and identified trees. My group had a girl with a broken foot in a borg boot, so after the first time where we all tromped out into the underbrush with the thorns, she and I stayed behind and the other two girls went out. Through the wonders of modern telecommunications, they identified the trees and relayed their diameters through her, and I wrote everything down and kept track of data. Because of that, we got through three transacts in the time it took everyone else to do two. As my mother would say, creative laziness.
One, H_E as a whole is more unified. I've seen a lot of cross-house support and respect as people try to deal with this girl.
Two, I really feel that I've gotten to know some people better, become better friends than before. Maybe it would have happened eventually, under better circumstances, but it did happen now, with her as the direct impetus.
Three, though her drama ended up overshadowing it, as a community we did get to discuss concepts of houses, so we might end up with a better sorting of future applicants.
/end H_E stuff.
As for the rest of the day, that was also pretty good.
I had a test in Animal Behavior. Overall I think I did well, but I know there were a few questions that I probably messed up on.
In Physics, we got our tests back. Mom, Dad, make sure you're sitting down. I got an A. *waits for parents to recover from shock* He told us at the begining of the course that he had a larger range of what he counted an A or a B. A's were from 85% to 100%, B's were 70% to 85%, C's were 60% to 70%. I got an 86%. The girl I've been coaching got a 70%. And that was the test I thought I'd done the worst on!
And for Eco/Evo lab, we went out to Wesselman Woods and identified trees. My group had a girl with a broken foot in a borg boot, so after the first time where we all tromped out into the underbrush with the thorns, she and I stayed behind and the other two girls went out. Through the wonders of modern telecommunications, they identified the trees and relayed their diameters through her, and I wrote everything down and kept track of data. Because of that, we got through three transacts in the time it took everyone else to do two. As my mother would say, creative laziness.