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felis_ultharus) wrote2006-03-03 07:24 pm
felis_ultharus) wrote2006-03-03 07:24 pm
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Something for the harried grad students and foi_nefaste
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. This should be tatooed on the navel of everyone Postmodern and Marxist professor, where they are most likely to see it. If I ever start up the anti-postmodern English Literature Liberation Front, this is being incorporated into the manifesto.
Wasn't sure if I should do this meme. My answers are pretty depressing. Consider yourself forewarned, and I won't hold it against anyone who doesn't want to read it.
1) Where did you graduate from and what year?
Esquimalt Secondary School, later renamed Esquimalt Community School. This was 1994.
2) Did u have school pride?
My feelings varied from shame, to being grateful I wasn't going to the really nasty high school down the street from my house (where Rina Virk was killed). Esquimalt wasn't a complete pit. Spent most high school rallies mocking the events with my friends.
3) Was your prom a night to remember?
I wanted to bring a date, but no guy was brave enough to go with me. I went alone. It wasn't so bad, though mostly all I remember were people dancing the funky chicken.
4) Do you own all 4 Yearbooks?
I did, but only kept my last two.
5) What was the worst trouble you ever got into?
Define trouble? I was threatened a couple of times after my former friends outed me, and a school counsellor dragged me into his office because he was concerned I was "influencing" my friend Bastian, my being gay.
6) What kind of people did you hang out with?
A complete loner in grade8, hung out with geeks from grade 9 until halfway through grade 11, when I lost most of my friends for being gay. After that, I met the group who were my best friends in high school --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
node357, Bastian, Odin, Jared.
7) What was your number 1 choice of College in HS?
I didn't expect to live that long, and I really didn't care. My mother signed me up to a university I couldn't handle going to at that point in my life, and I left without completing the year.
8) What radio station did u rock out too?
"Rock out too [sic]"? How old was the creator of this survey? I didn't start listening to music until grade 10, and then all my music was on cassette.
9) Were you involved in any organizations or clubs?
Briefly a chess club, and a D&D club at the school itself. I helped start the first Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Group that lasted any amount of time in Victoria, but that wasn't actually affiliated with the school, and we had to meet at an AIDS organization downtown because it was the only one that provided free space.
10) What were your favorite classes in high school?
English, Western Civilization, Philosophy, Art.
11) Who was your big crush in Highschool?
Dozens. First time I fell in love was with a guy named Thor, and it was unrequited, so that's probably the biggest crush.
12) Would you say you've changed a lot since high school?
I sometimes can't believe that was my life.
13) What do you miss the most about it?
My friends in grade 12, plus classes with two of the most amazing teachers on earth -- Bernie Bowker and Marvin Dodds. And one-person creative-writing classes with Marilyn McCrimmon.
14) Your worst memory of HS?
Um...? Losing all my friends? Getting threatened? Harassed by guidance counsellors? Being constantly afraid for my life? About five years of being close to suicide? Teachers trying to keep us in a panic about the job-market situation so we'd buckle down, lose our individuality, and sacrifice our happiness to get a job?
15) Did you have a car?
The friend I stole this from had "Nope. Still can't drive." That goes for me, as well.
16) What were your school colors?
Red and white. And our school motto was "Esse quam videri" -- "be true to yourself." Quite ironic, that, but I suppose, "Become an empty drone without a scrap of humanity or uniqueness left in you" is hard to translate into a three-word Latin phrase...?"
17) Who were your fav. teachers?
Marvin Dodds -- the man who made me love history. He was such a brilliant teacher that people who'd dropped out of school came back for his classes. He also introduced me to the people who helped me get the Youth Group together. Bernie Bowker also deserves a mention for very fun classes, and because he was never afraid to talk about the kinds of "adult subjects" that made other teachers cringe. It was Mr. owker who first made me interested in art.
18) Did you own a cell phone in highschool?
How young was the person who wrote this survey? Cell phones did exist back then. I've seen one that was that was a big clunky thing that looked like a small suitcase. Journalists would bring them out to war zones. But the closest things most kids had were walkie-talkies.
19) Did you leave campus for lunch?
Of course. Just the wasteland of Esquimalt left few places to go to.
20) If so, where was your fav. place to go eat?
We mostly ate in "the pit," a small gap of space between the schol's two wings; or on the field, or in empty classrooms.
21) Were you always late to class?
Rarely.
22) Did you ever have to stay for Saturday School?
Does that actually happen outside of a John Hughes films?
23) Did you ever ditch?
Never until the end of grade 10. Then, often. Bastian andnode357 were bad influences on me, for which I thank them very much. I think I learned more from them than a decade of high school could have taught me ^_^
24) What kind of job did you have?
Delivered newspapers first couple of years. After that, nothing really.
25) When it comes time for the reunion will you be there?
Yeah, but I hope to have something published by then.
26) Do you wish you were still in high school?
I wouldn't inflict the experience on my worst enemy.
Wasn't sure if I should do this meme. My answers are pretty depressing. Consider yourself forewarned, and I won't hold it against anyone who doesn't want to read it.
1) Where did you graduate from and what year?
Esquimalt Secondary School, later renamed Esquimalt Community School. This was 1994.
2) Did u have school pride?
My feelings varied from shame, to being grateful I wasn't going to the really nasty high school down the street from my house (where Rina Virk was killed). Esquimalt wasn't a complete pit. Spent most high school rallies mocking the events with my friends.
3) Was your prom a night to remember?
I wanted to bring a date, but no guy was brave enough to go with me. I went alone. It wasn't so bad, though mostly all I remember were people dancing the funky chicken.
4) Do you own all 4 Yearbooks?
I did, but only kept my last two.
5) What was the worst trouble you ever got into?
Define trouble? I was threatened a couple of times after my former friends outed me, and a school counsellor dragged me into his office because he was concerned I was "influencing" my friend Bastian, my being gay.
6) What kind of people did you hang out with?
A complete loner in grade8, hung out with geeks from grade 9 until halfway through grade 11, when I lost most of my friends for being gay. After that, I met the group who were my best friends in high school --
node357, Bastian, Odin, Jared.7) What was your number 1 choice of College in HS?
I didn't expect to live that long, and I really didn't care. My mother signed me up to a university I couldn't handle going to at that point in my life, and I left without completing the year.
8) What radio station did u rock out too?
"Rock out too [sic]"? How old was the creator of this survey? I didn't start listening to music until grade 10, and then all my music was on cassette.
9) Were you involved in any organizations or clubs?
Briefly a chess club, and a D&D club at the school itself. I helped start the first Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Group that lasted any amount of time in Victoria, but that wasn't actually affiliated with the school, and we had to meet at an AIDS organization downtown because it was the only one that provided free space.
10) What were your favorite classes in high school?
English, Western Civilization, Philosophy, Art.
11) Who was your big crush in Highschool?
Dozens. First time I fell in love was with a guy named Thor, and it was unrequited, so that's probably the biggest crush.
12) Would you say you've changed a lot since high school?
I sometimes can't believe that was my life.
13) What do you miss the most about it?
My friends in grade 12, plus classes with two of the most amazing teachers on earth -- Bernie Bowker and Marvin Dodds. And one-person creative-writing classes with Marilyn McCrimmon.
14) Your worst memory of HS?
Um...? Losing all my friends? Getting threatened? Harassed by guidance counsellors? Being constantly afraid for my life? About five years of being close to suicide? Teachers trying to keep us in a panic about the job-market situation so we'd buckle down, lose our individuality, and sacrifice our happiness to get a job?
15) Did you have a car?
The friend I stole this from had "Nope. Still can't drive." That goes for me, as well.
16) What were your school colors?
Red and white. And our school motto was "Esse quam videri" -- "be true to yourself." Quite ironic, that, but I suppose, "Become an empty drone without a scrap of humanity or uniqueness left in you" is hard to translate into a three-word Latin phrase...?"
17) Who were your fav. teachers?
Marvin Dodds -- the man who made me love history. He was such a brilliant teacher that people who'd dropped out of school came back for his classes. He also introduced me to the people who helped me get the Youth Group together. Bernie Bowker also deserves a mention for very fun classes, and because he was never afraid to talk about the kinds of "adult subjects" that made other teachers cringe. It was Mr. owker who first made me interested in art.
18) Did you own a cell phone in highschool?
How young was the person who wrote this survey? Cell phones did exist back then. I've seen one that was that was a big clunky thing that looked like a small suitcase. Journalists would bring them out to war zones. But the closest things most kids had were walkie-talkies.
19) Did you leave campus for lunch?
Of course. Just the wasteland of Esquimalt left few places to go to.
20) If so, where was your fav. place to go eat?
We mostly ate in "the pit," a small gap of space between the schol's two wings; or on the field, or in empty classrooms.
21) Were you always late to class?
Rarely.
22) Did you ever have to stay for Saturday School?
Does that actually happen outside of a John Hughes films?
23) Did you ever ditch?
Never until the end of grade 10. Then, often. Bastian and
node357 were bad influences on me, for which I thank them very much. I think I learned more from them than a decade of high school could have taught me ^_^24) What kind of job did you have?
Delivered newspapers first couple of years. After that, nothing really.
25) When it comes time for the reunion will you be there?
Yeah, but I hope to have something published by then.
26) Do you wish you were still in high school?
I wouldn't inflict the experience on my worst enemy.
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Actually I pity them, their lives must be really bad if that is as good as it got.
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To be honest, I don't think I've heard anyone say that high school was the best time of their life outside of TV and movies, where it gets said constantly.
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the man who made me love history
My love of history didn't come until a lot later. At the time it was just something to be quicked crammed into my brain before a test, spewed out and just as quickly forgot (which I was extreemly good at). My history teacher was so boring that at the parent-teacher meeting my Dad came back from talking to him and told me that was the most boring man he had ever met. *chuckle*
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This part troubles me:
"[I]f at any time, you looked up from your text and smiled at your own cleverness, please delete this section and enroll in a remedial humility course."
But, but, but... I r teh witty! I can't help it!
Also, they make me use MLA, so my papers are peppered with parenthetical citations.
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Remember -- it's the witty and intelligent ones who get tapped for grad school. So we've all done that. And every magazine is receiving dozens of papers to publish. You can imagine how many witty statements they get, and how after awhile it starts to wear on the nerves.
The really bad ones, though, arre the ones that are thick slabs of gristly jargon, with a witticism thrown in apparently at random. Those are painful
But this one isn't always bad. Done with subtlety, and well-placed, cleverness can be quite good.
As for MLA, that's the only one I completely disagree with. MLA is a lot more sensible, intuitive, and easy to use.
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You should have put it in your secret code!
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If we could laugh, we'd do nothing but laugh at the silly criticism we have to read :/