Logic is not an option
May. 6th, 2006 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerSo, at four in the morning the social studies team starts thier trek to West Layfeyette, to the Lobe Playhouse. We then go get breakfast, since it's eight o'clock at McDonalds because Tripple X is filled. All the while we were wlaking to get the food, Fred - the school's systems administrator and one of our chaperones - keeps spurting out random facts about Purdue, since he went there.
Mr. Helming chipped the entry to one of the parcking garages. It turned out to sound much worse than it turned out, because it didn't hurt the minibus, and only a small chip and a white mark was left on the parking garage. I think it's the State Street parking garage. What makes this more ammusing is that they had measureed the bus beofre we left.
We just squeek into the team meeting at nine, and compete. We get 16 questions out of 25 right, and come in fifth. Actually, had we gotten one more question right, we would have gotten third. Getting fifith is okay, as we were putting it optomistically that we could do no worse than eigth, as there were only eight teams in our class (Jasper is class 1 in Academic Super Bowl). We also beat Zionsville, which was important to everyone else because they're (supposedly) one of our biggest rivals, and any day that Jasper beats Zionsville is a good day. West Layfeyette too, is supposed to be one of our biggest rivals.
If one is wondering why Jasper is getting all fluffed up about teams that hours away from them, and I was deeply confused and I live here. it's because that the three schools are all really close together in I-STEP testing. The I-STEP tests are the state standardized testing in Indiana with the idiotic Core 40 tests that were insituted last year.
Then we get our hardware and drive back to Jasper, pasing the humorsly named Mayflower Mill Elementary and The Harmless Coin Laundry.
Basicaly, we drive four hours to do maybe things for an hour and a half. And for some reason, this seems reasonable.
Mr. Helming chipped the entry to one of the parcking garages. It turned out to sound much worse than it turned out, because it didn't hurt the minibus, and only a small chip and a white mark was left on the parking garage. I think it's the State Street parking garage. What makes this more ammusing is that they had measureed the bus beofre we left.
We just squeek into the team meeting at nine, and compete. We get 16 questions out of 25 right, and come in fifth. Actually, had we gotten one more question right, we would have gotten third. Getting fifith is okay, as we were putting it optomistically that we could do no worse than eigth, as there were only eight teams in our class (Jasper is class 1 in Academic Super Bowl). We also beat Zionsville, which was important to everyone else because they're (supposedly) one of our biggest rivals, and any day that Jasper beats Zionsville is a good day. West Layfeyette too, is supposed to be one of our biggest rivals.
If one is wondering why Jasper is getting all fluffed up about teams that hours away from them, and I was deeply confused and I live here. it's because that the three schools are all really close together in I-STEP testing. The I-STEP tests are the state standardized testing in Indiana with the idiotic Core 40 tests that were insituted last year.
Then we get our hardware and drive back to Jasper, pasing the humorsly named Mayflower Mill Elementary and The Harmless Coin Laundry.
Basicaly, we drive four hours to do maybe things for an hour and a half. And for some reason, this seems reasonable.
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Date: 2006-05-06 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-06 02:11 pm (UTC)Then it took questin reader five minutes before he told us to chill because it was just the monthly testing.
Oooh. Thanks guy.
Lauren, from the team put it as thus: "Well, we didn't come in last." Getting fifth was fine, sice this was the first time in a few years we had gotten to just being a State finalist.