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Hello … it is 9:40 on May 25, 2008 and I am blogging. I am supposed to be writing my speech for my upcoming graduation, but I have a bit of writer’s block so I am going to babble onto the internet. Perhaps it will get me in a writing mood and I can turn out some speeching later. In any case, what exactly is the point of a blog? .. let’s ask wikipedia! According to said wiki, a [[blog]] is “a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.” (see, you learned something). Lets check this one:

• maintained by an individual? *opens photobooth as a mirror* check!
• regular entries? ermm … about that.

So. Onto commentary, descreptions of events, graphics and video. I think I’ve already covered some of the commentary aspect, so I guess I should talk about events. What has happened since I last updated? Well, as I predicted (sort of), I survived the english portfolio project! I got it all turned in, have gotten it back, and recieved a 100% A+ on it. Further, AP Exams are over! There is a draft of an entry in which I was going to do a break down of each AP exam, but they are over and I don’t want to talk about them too much, so screw that entry. What I will do, since this blog’s limited history is in the habbit of prediction, is predict my scores:

• AP English Government: 5, simple, simple exam. There was an essay on the difference between monetary and fiscal policy on which I made things up and another regarding supreme court regulation of apportionment in which my answers were a bit off.. I think I can sustain both faults.
• AP English Literature: 5, 4 possible. I somehow managed to run out of time and leave a significant number of MC blank, but my essays were pretty good. Again, it  should shake out. Regardless, I got a 5 on Language last year so no FEE for me.
• AP Psychology: 5. Yea .. pretty much. (I have 104% in the class for the year, it is by far the easiest AP class I ever took)
• AP Physics C. I’m gonna say 5 on Mechanics, 4 on E&M. A 5 on E&M is possible, but unlikely. Truth be told, I don’t deserve a 5 for E&M, but since I will be taking 8.02(2) regardless, it would be very nice. Also, while I could perhaps have been a bit better prepared, fouling up this exam can not be seen as entirely my fault. First off, the class was not best taught ever. Our teacher, Mr. Boyles, is a nice guy and a pretty decent teacher, but we simply didn’t keep a good time table. This is partially because due to the double-class nature with Muti/Diff, his time was cut short most days (if you are curious what I am talking about, feel free to comment). Also, the day of the test, it was very rainy and stormy outside. We all showed up and sat in the testing room for about an hour for the test to start. Right before it did, however, an employee of the place we were testing came in saying that they needed the room for other purposes. As a result we were moved to a different room with a loading-dock sytle exterior door that preceded to make loud banging noises throughout the test. We stayed in this room for all of Mechanics and the MC of E&M, then we were moved again for the free response portion of E&M. Almost needless to say, I was a bit frazzeled by the whole ordeal, and it very well may have made the difference between a 4 and a 5. Due to this situation, I was offered a complete retest which would have been last Friday, the 23rd. Knowing that this was going to be after the English portfolio of doom(!!!), I decided it wasn’t worth the effor to prolong the exams.. thus, it now stands as it is. My socre report will, however, show a note saying that my performance was possibly affected by a disturbance in the testing room. I doubt this will give me enough sympathy points to get out of 8.01 with a 4 on E&M, but we shall see.

So yea, thats probably pretty much what the draft I never finished would have said. Hopefully it is at least slightly more condensed. In any case, for now, events… check!

I have one quick other random piece of commentary to add. Note to all advertising, marketing types and people in general: A forward slash and a backslash are different characters!! Again, note carefully:

I have repeatedly in the last few days heard radio commercials giving a web adress as ” h t t p colon slash slash [note proper usage] w w w . [almost invariably] myspace . com BACKSLASH <something> “. This is wrong! As a concrete example, I have heard the local surf shop Wave Riding Vehicles do this recently, but if you go to http://myspace.com\wrv , you get an error like you damn well should. Perhaps some marketing executive heard the term backslash and thought, “Hmm that sounds like a fancier word for slash; I should use that word instead, afterall market research shows that surfers love feeling fancy—thats why they don’t just surf the waves any more, they surf this newfangeled thing called the interblagotubes The sad thing is that I realize most listeners will also not know the difference between a slash and a backslsh, but they should! And ignorance is not an excuse to promote further ignorance! </rant>

So, that covered commentary and descriptions of events. I will leave you with “graphics or video”. This has been on the internet three days, so most of the people who will appreciate have probably already seen it. Oh well, its worth watching agin!

In any case, that is enough blogging for one time. See you next time….

^_^

Peace,

~Donald