Evolution of shadow art

Place: Art class

Prompt: go around school taking pictures of things that symbolize Lynbrook.

What we did instead: THIS.

First try

Second try

It’s getting fancier! And then we came up with…

MASTERPIECE.

It even has a mouth!

And then we got even more distracted, if that’s even possible:

This says: LHS

This says: VIKES

???

 

…but don’t let this fool you, we’re very, very cool.

Proof Emily is a beast.

Example #1:

-Today at the lockers-

Me: -motions towards backpack- “Hey Emily, can you unzip that for me?”

Emily: “SURE!” -hand shoots out for my jeans-

Me: -SCREAM!-

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Example #2:

-One fine lunch period-

Me: “Omnomnom I love this cheese stick complete with a LIDLESS CUP OF SAUCE.”

Emily: “I LOVE YOU RAWR” -tackles-

-The sauce spills all over my face, shirt, pants…etc.-

Me: …

Emily: -doesn’t notice- what’s wrong?

Example # 3:

-Somewhere on campus-

Me: -to someone else- “I love you!” :]

Emily: -appears out of NO WHERE- “WTF did you say? HUH PUNK?” -slams me straight into the nearest wall-

Me: “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry! I’ll never do it again! I loveyouiloveyouiloveyouuuuuu”

 

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sigh.

Did you know that “gullible” is not in the dictionary?

I was chatting on gmail when the topic of gullibility and tricky people came up. And I immediately thought: JACK WANG.

So one fine day, I’m talking to Jack when…

Jack: “Hey, I quit Japanese. Now I take Spanish.”

Me: :O WHAT WHY? Such a waste. [Rant here]

-A few days/weeks(?) later I go to a JNHS event with him-

note: JNHS= Japanese National Honor Society

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At a later JNHS meeting…

Me: “Hey Jack. I thought you took Spanish. How come you’re still in JNHS?”

Jack: [VERY convincingly!] “Oh. Shhh. I’m ninja.”

Me: “WOW. You’re so sneaky!”

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Japanese class about a week ago:

Me: “Hey Carrina, did you know Jack quit Japanese? He takes Spanish now!”

Carrina: “No he doesn’t.”

Kitchen-sensei: [passing by] “No he doesn’t.”

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HE TRICKED ME. D8<

2008 Epic [fail] Application

While cleaning up my computer, I found the article I submitted as part of my application to the Epic[school newspaper] last year.

I didn’t make it in, btw.  :[

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In this current day and age, there seems to be an undisputed law that college means everything to a student’s future. This may be true, but the narrow-mindedness of this has increased dramatically as the times have worsened. The Department of Education has recorded some 6,962 colleges and universities in the United States, but according to most parents, there are really only 4: Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale. Give and take some, this handful of “acceptable” colleges may vary among parents, but the bottom line stays the same: don’t make one of these you might as well be an unemployed lowlife for the rest of your life.

A couple weeks ago, I had tagged along on one of my mother’s weekly lunchtime tea parties held at a local friend’s house. There, I was introduced to said friend’s 18-year-old daughter. “She’s going to Berkeley,” the mother proudly exclaimed. My mother immediately got a predatory gleam in her eyes; the type that only surfaces when she is faced with either incredible bargains or the topic of colleges.

On the car ride home, my mother launched into one of her long, winded, often repetitive lectures-not-rants about the importance of studying and grades to your future college. “Did you hear about Kathryn?” She asked me, “She’s only going to go to Berkeley because she’s not in debate!”

She’s only going to Berkeley? Since when has the word “only” been used to describe Berkeley? And what does speech and debate have to do with this? My mother then proceeded to ask me just what Rice University was, and oh, it must be a horrible college because only mediocre schools are named after a cereal grain.

This kind of thinking is what leads to the overwhelming pressure every time college applications roll around. Sometime in the past decade, students have stopped trying to find colleges right for them, and started trying to make themselves right for colleges. Colleges may be your key to success, but our successes don’t always have to  lie within the Harvard campus.

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