First day of school’s over, and with it my first day as a sophomore. It’s been an interesting day, with people who are actually younger than I am (!) in school, and a bunch of new classes to deal with.
Classes:
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First Period – Honors Chemistry
Dr. Rocklin is an awesome teacher. We got our green sheets and a free choice in seating arrangements (to be permanently decided tomorrow). Surprisingly, I saw a bunch of people in my class that I hadn’t expected. Maybe it’s just because none of these people had their schedule yet…
As a demonstration, Rocklin filled a balloon with hydrogen and set it on fire, creating a fireball lasting for less than a second – unfortunately, we don’t get to do that in class =(. -
Second Period – World History
Mr. Martell is a cool guy. We didn’t do much in class, but we saw an interesting powerpoint called “Zoom” and answered some basic questions on it. I think I’ll like History this year… -
Third Period – P.E. Racquet Sports
We got our planners, and found out that last year’s P.E. uniform wouldn’t cut it – we need to buy another pair of shorts, which kinda sucks. We’re getting lockers tomorrow, and dressing on Thursday. -
Forth Period – AP Calculus BC
Korsunsky is said to be a great teacher, so I’ll have to reserve input for a while. We got our textbooks and a short lecture on why we should go back to AP Calculus AB in the 38 min. time period we were there. -
Fifth Period – World Literature and Writing
The only class I got homework in, so it may have colored my opinions a bit. Smith seems to be a teacher that I can learn from, and I do need work in both reading and writing. We analyzed “The Road Not Taken” in class, probably the most productive thing I did today. -
Sixth Period – AP Computer Science
A lot of friends in this class, even if few of them are sophomores. Peck did a nice demonstration on antique memory, including the $5000.00 Seagate hard drive with a capacity of (!) 5 MB. This’ll probably be the class I have the most fun in for this school year. We also set up our Schoolloop accounts and our computer login information. -
Seventh Period – Spanish 3
The rest of my friends seem to have been in this class… and I think it’ll be much better than Spanish last year. I forgot the preterito tense today, but I’m sure I can recover it in a reasonably short amount of time.
Some other new things:
- Lunch now costs $3.50, from $3.25 last year
- A+Board is gone, replaced by Schoolloop. Seems to have been a decent replacement, but we’ll see.
- You can bypass the “End User Protection” system that stops PortableApps from running by copying the app to C:\