@topaz1116 are you guys going to dayton for wgi?
The longest band competition that I’ve had was from 6:30ish am to 1:30ish (yay regional travel…not).
@loquatical no, we don’t compete in WGI. We’re in NCBA, which is this annoying circuit that doesn’t let us compete many places D: And we can’t even compete in our championships this year because our school’s marching band (anyone in it who signed up, at least, which is half of our guard) is going on a trip to Europe a week later. But if we did WGI, we’d probably only go to three-ish competitions, since we only compete regionally.
We’re technically still in the Intermediate division (we get 0 funding and we’ve only got 15 members doing winterguard), although we might be moved up to Amateur this season since we always get first place. We’re too poor to be in Scholastic or Open (the people in our school are rich, but the school itself gets no funding because we have the best stats in the district; everything runs off of mandatory donations).
@SirSly Yeah, some of the academic team questions are really random. Like, who knows what laser is an acronym for off the top of their head?
@topaz1116 Yeah, my textbook does that too. What’s (maybe) worse is that half the time, my teacher doesn’t really…teach, so we have to learn stuff from the textbook. At
east synthetic division is easy.
Also, I don’t understand why my class has to use a college algebra textbook. Is a normal Algebra II textbook not enough?
@Faultystart we’re learning about vectors and trigonometric forms of imaginary numbers right now, and it’s so. freaking. annoying. Normally I love trig, but I hate vectors with all my heart (mainly because you can solve problems without using them, yet we’re forced to solve problems using vectors).
The concepts are also pretty complicated, which makes the books really annoying.
We’re also going to learn matrices later (a concept we skip over in Algebra II/Trig), and our textbook explains them horribly. I wish we had learned them last year–our textbook was really good at explaining stuff.
The academic team questions are definitely very out there lol.
@SallyStephens My favorite one is either the question about Olive Garden(what well known restaurant advertises unlimited salad and breadsticks) or a question about why a small tribe in Southeast Asia gets sick. If you must know, that tribe gets sick with kuru because they are cannibals.
@Faultystart isn’t kuru (one of) the human version(s) of mad cow disease? I feel like I’ve read up on this before, actually.
Hahaha… dang some questions really make me mad because it’s all about speed at some point and I’m not that fast
I don’t do quiz bowl, lol. I planned to, but I missed the first practice and I then sort of… didn’t.
Hahaha
Our school stopped science bowl! No one showed up and our teacher was so lousy about it. -_-
Yellow Flicker Beat, the song we’re doing for winterguard, is stuck in my head. The best part about winterguard: getting to carry a rifle around school.
Also Chandelier is stuck in my head. Lots of songs are stuck in my head.
@SallyStephens that’s horrible! Ugh that’s really sad. Science Bowl is really fun.
@topaz1116 Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s one of the variants of mad cow disease.
The thing with academic team is that I know so much useless stuff that appears in academic team competitions.
@SallyStephens Yeah, speed is very important. Unfortunately, I have slow reflexes. Even after you buzz in, it’s natural to blurt out the answer, and sometimes it’s wrong. Two of my teammates messed up the acronyms for FBI and CIA.
I love quiz bowl! There is this one school in our county though that is really serious about quiz bowl and it is really annoying. Once they challenged how I said the word “canary” as in “Canary Islands” and as you may know Canary Islands actually belong to Spain so English people really don’t have a correct way of pronouncing it. Anyways the moderator marked it right and then this team challenged and I got it wrong apparently because I didnt pronounce canary right. Anyways then the match got really ugly because everyone hated that team (Everyone hates that school in the first place because it is a 30k a year rich kid school). People started challenging everything lol. Thats what happens when you live in a county with a bunch of kids who think they are always right.
I’m so jealous, my school has a serious lack of clubs.
We have maybe 5 at most, and only a couple are active lol
@1whatsmyname1 only five? My school has, like, 80. All have to be active to some extent to survive… I’m not part of many clubs, but I’d be part of more if I had a Facebook (how most clubs alert their members of meetings).
I think my school has around 20 clubs. Most are informal, like Spanish, French, Chinese, Netflix, Round table (current events), etc., but some are competitive, like Scoence Olympiad, Mock Trial, Academic Team, and Model UN.
All are active though.
Most of our clubs are informal, too. But most also do stuff outside of school (not necessarily competitions).
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