This is an anecdote from when I was in elementary school and takes place around 1999-2000. Windows computers were just being installed in the classrooms. The mechanism that locked down the computers initially was system policies. You could screw around with a limited number of settings and applications on the system, but a lot of stuff was restricted. However, one day in the school library, a new computer didn’t have such restrictions in place. Our 7th grade teacher (resident IT technician) had just finished setting up DeepFreeze on it, and challenged my friends and I to try to break it. Continue Reading
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Last high school class at Churchill
I attended the last of approximately 3250 classes total from Gr. 8-12 at Churchill Secondary School yesterday. This summer is going to be so boring. No EE, no TOK drafts, no English books (yet)…
The day before mock exams
Well it’s the day before IB mock exams start, and well…I’m still screwed. At least I have no exams on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. There’s so much to study for in so little time. One and a half years x 6 courses. Monday: Physics / English Tuesday: None for me Wednesday: None for me / Geography Thursday: Chemistry / French Friday: Math Anyway back to studying…
Christmas Season Update
Well it has been a long time since I’ve posted something on my blog. I hope I did well on my TOK essay, since I spent my birthday on it >.> Anyway, term 1 has since ended and I have my report card. Some teachers have the weirdest way of making term marks, and certain others give term marks without returning any assignments back to us. Anyway the last two weeks of school of 2005 proved to be as hectic as usual (what’s new?). The two days after my birthday was spent working on another TOK thing (Socrates Café). We Continue Reading
Several hours left
There are only several hours left until this unexpected “vacation” would probably end :(. Back to school for the second time this year! They should have gotten the teachers to vote yesterday so that we would know whether or not there will be school tomorrow instead of finding out late tonight. Anyway I pretty much screwed up these two weeks without school. EE, TOK presentation, etc. CBC Article