GUESS WHO JUST WON $100.
I never win contests. This is awesome.
It's senior time.
Another one of those "remembrance" posts to come later.
Oh, and my band director's going to be a daddy come December. 8D
After a few weeks of boterhing the guidance office and various teachers, we finally got our ACT scores mailed to us.
Teh Katana gets the envelope and slowly tears it apart before getting annoyed and ripped said envelope to shreds. Then she fumbles around with the useless paper and pamphlet before revealing a test score of a -
29.
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Then she starts to scream and run around the kitchen while her dad decides to interrogate the scores further.
[Then he said, "well, that's pretty good", of which I wanted to drop-kick him via head.]
So there. I got a 29, and the four college I jotted down interest in would all accept me, and the world is good. Considering that I thought I would have to re-take the test, I'm very very pleasantly surprised. I'm not a genius by any accounts, and unfortunately, the ACT doesn't take "style" into consideration. Sigh.
Fun fact: I got a 6 out of 12 on my essay. I'm thinking it was because I was uber sarcastic. And that I criticized the age group of people who were grading it.
So I apparently scored at/better than 94% of the state, and 95% of the country. That means Illinois has slightly smarter kids than the rest of the country...?
As I thought, English and Reading were my best scores [31] and Math was my worst [25], while Science was surprisingly high [28]. All in all, I'm just...really happy.
Can't wait to go to school Monday and have my genius friend kill my mood. >_>;
I swear I'll post up the ACen reports. School's draining me right now, though. x3x
So for AP Art next year, we need to have a concentration topic. I chose the internet, as it is something I'm heavily involved with and a contributing factor to my future career. As I describe it to my dad, it's "taking an abstract concept and making it into a tangible, physical object".
To which he responded, "I'm an engineer, I have no idea what you just said."
I'm kind of an odd person when it comes to these sorts of things. The internet has come to try and emulate real life, situations, and locations. Journals aren't just called blogs anymore - they're your world, your space, your book. Those who bootleg are referred to as pirates. Things aren't so much portfolios as galleries. Chatrooms, instant messaging - hell, the internet was once (and still is) called "the information super highway".
Here's where I come in.
Instead of thinking of those things as merely dots on the screen, I imagine what they'd look like as real things. For instance, the comment box wasn't so much a text input for me as it was a bathroom wall where people came and went, leaving their tidbits if they wished. theOtaku isn't a series of boxes on my screen, it's an entire sprawling city.
And that's what I'm going to do! Take these ideas and put 'em on paper. I think I can milk it for 15 pieces, but regardless, I'd appreciate any suggestions. 8D
Part 1 - Friday
So this year, I actually attended AnimeCentral for all three days. Well, I was physically present at some point during the three days. ...That was an amazing cop-out.
Friday morning, I woke up to the sounds of "Treats...
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