My laptop display is slightly blueish-tinged. I do not know why. It is sort of bugging me, even though blue is one of my favorite colors (see blog template!).
Anyway, onto the main topic of this here post: We did something in school today that actually made it seem less boring! Well, in science, anyway. A few days ago we trekked out to the pond on the outskirts of school property and gathered some pond water into Petri dishes, to start off our unit on classifying microorganisms! Huzzah!
And, today and yesterday's class periods were spent fighting with microscopes for the viewing of the said microorganisms. Classtime used for looking at cool things=fun. Classtime used for lecture notes=blahhhh.
It sort of reminded me of Chasing Vermeer and the U of Chicago Laboratory schools (man, I really want to go to a school like that. Public school is so dulllllllll.) in the way that we were actually thinking for ourselves (sort of--9th grade boys are sooo immature) and we were INVESTIGATING the world around us! Which sounds really cheesy, but I can't think of any other phrase to describe it right now.
And, because we went on that "field trip" the other day. Just like in Chasing Vermeer, when Ms. Hussey took the entire class to the Art Institute of Chicago. Lucky fictional kids!
School would be so much more meaningful if we got to actually do stuff to learn, instead of just sitting there and taking notes (speaking of which--we went over pronouns in English today. Apparently we're going through a grammar unit instead of our usual "talk about ethics and other theory-like stuff" regimen. In the words of my teacher: "crushingly dull".)
Also: English teacher who thinks grammar is "opposite of exciting"=cool teacher.
Oh and apparently all the creativity is sort of linked with psychosis, according to the Harvard Brain. So be KKERRAZZAAYYY!
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