The snapshot team really needs a kick in the ass.
<b>Where's the pictures??</b>

Send in an application then.

so, you're saying that everyone has quit?
Then why not hold another mass-application-period?
(But it seems like plenty of people were turned down - you should still have those people on file, hmmm)

30 applied. 11 were accepted. 2 or 3 have quit so far.

How can you go to college and have less time? That is insanely false!! Lets compare HighSchool and College.
College = 15-20 hrs of class a week. Highschool = 40hrs of class a week. No parents to watch over you. No chores. No jobs. Every saturday and sunday off. How can college possibly impend on your life? College is a life of, laziness, booze, and babes! Free time is your friend!!

BTW, if you need to question my knowledge of this, yes, I have been to college and am there now.

The workload is not the same. And I don't think think you realize how long it takes to write these news articles. And the sheer stress of the college enviroment probably doesn't help.

Yep, the workload is less, and there is virtually no stress. Unless you fear leaving home and meeting new people. Also, how long does it take to write one of those articles? A day? Two? Today is Tuesday, I had ONE class at 8:00 this morning. I'm done till 5:30pm when I have a meeting...would it take more time than I have?

I know I'll have more free time when I get to college, for precisely those reasons, not to mention that I'm an IB student on just about the most difficult track known to man.

I'm sad to see the Great Uberleet (ok, so that "U" should have an umlout over it. Herr Schneider would be displeased in me.) Nick "BlueCalx" Disabato relenquish his throne to anyone else, even if the two people taking over are veteran ticalc.org staff members. Perhaps the Great Uberleet Nick "BlueCalx" Disabato will make guest news item posts during the summer and breaks? One can only hope. Good luck at NWU BlueCalx.

On an almost completely unrelated note: BlueCalx, what's going to happen to nickd.org once you're in college? I hope it won't be nearly permanently run by "guest [insert title here]s". That would be really sad to see, even if the alternative was reducing updates to once every 24-72 hours.

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First comment I've ever posted to this crazy site I started. Anyhow, mad props to my fellow IB alums and alums-to-be. I wouldn't be where I am now (prison! j/k), indeed, this site wouldn't exist, had it not been for IB.

Just to keep things on-topic, nickd will be missed as a News Editor, but I'm glad he'll still be working with the site. Good job, Nick, and good luck in college!

-Isaac

This being the first (and probably very close to the last) comment that Isaac has posted/will ever post at ticalc.org, I feel I must take the time to bring one thing to light:

You need a new staff photo. Badly. Chris, too. And Magnus. Especially Magnus. His photo is about seven years old, if I remember correctly.

Don't forget to make it in 150x200 .jpg format. Email 'em to Andy, and he'll post it.

(very big grin)

--BlueCalx

More than 7. And I'll post it myself, thank you very much :-)

Hehe, I need a new staff photo, too. :) Well, I had some taken with my neighbor the other day (yeah, the red-haired one to the left of me in the current photo), and they were pretty good, so I'll have to see if he's croppable. If so, I'll update it quick.

Too bad, though--to crop him out I'll probably lose the "Will work for bandwidth" text on my shirt (which I happen to be wearing at the moment, hehe).

I am utterly shocked, amazed, and pleased (dare I say elated? nearly euphoric even?) that you chose my message to be the first post ever from someone so influential to this site as you! And from a fellow IBer even! I would like to say that I think that NickD would have made a great IB student. I wonder if his course selection would have resembled the mentally masochistic mix I call mine:
Calculus HL (supposedly second-hardest HL)
English HL (required in US:/)
History HL
Physics SL (probably will switch to HL)
German SL (Ab Initio)
Theory of Knowledge (required for all IBers)
Art Research SL

I would like to point out that my high school has the largest IB program in the world (600 students), and that noone in the history of said school has ever passed the Physics HL exam. I plan to be the second (first was already declared by a senior friend of mine, who also happens to be the Mu Alpha Theta president) to pass it, provided I switch it to HL (only if I'm feeling exceptionally mentally masochistic). Ab Initio is Latin for "for beginners". Its a program done by IB so that students that have no foreign language training can still do IB diploma track without being at a disadvantage. It is taught for two years. At my school, German and Italian are offered as Ab Initio languages.

Combine the IB exams with the AP exams that I can take for most/all of those courses, and I will not know the meaning of some quirky little word called "fun" at the end of the middle two weeks of either May 2001 or 2002.

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 mentally masochistic cents

My high school didn't offer IB, so I have no idea what HL and SL mean. Could you please explain the difference?

HL = higher level
SL = standard level (formerly subsidiary level)

Higher level students get more subject material and take more tests at the end of the year.

Each IB student is required to take TOK, 3 HL classes, and 3 SL classes.

My classes:
Math HL (if they offered Calculus HL in my school, I'd be there instead)
Physics HL
Chemistry HL
Geography SL
English SL
Swedish SL (what can I say, I live in Sweden, at least temporarily)

Yea I'm starting IB this year? 'sit hard hehe yea (duh!).
BTW anybody posting here heard of Enloe high school? just wondering :)

Good luck @ college, nick.

I've never heard of IB. What exactly is it?

IB = International Baccelaureate (excuse my spelling!)

Its just a lot of extra work you do thru high school and get an international high school diploma
as opposed to a standard USA diploma. Colleges will give you credit hours for completing the
program/curriculum.

IB stands for International Baccalaureate. Its basically an international and better-organized form of AP classes.

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 concise cents

Doesn't that say more about the pupils at your school than about the exam?

I'm in IB too... its the second year of it at my school, and I feel like a guinea pig. None of my teachers are quite sure of what they are doing :)

here's my schedule...

Computer Science SL (heh..im teaching this class)
Physics HL
English HL
French SL
History HL
Calculus SL
Chemistry SL
Theory of Knowledge

and yes, i know i have one to many SL's...im just insane :)

can anybody help me come up with a topic for my 4000 word extended essay? i'd like something math or sciencey...


--tristan caulfield

!gro.dkcin will still be run by me, and hopefully just as frequently. Definitely an update every day. You'd be surprised how insanely little time it takes for me to update that site, especially when compared with the long and drawn-out thirty-minute-long process I go through when posting every news item.

Swifty and daniel will post right now, and Levine and thr33 will take over during thanksgiving. If any of you care, that is.

SASQUATCH!

--BlueCalx

If it takes as little time as you make it sound like to post an update, I may set up a site like that sometime after I get dsl (hopefully by the end of the year)(and after I get linux, apache, etc. up on one of my family's computers).

<random ponderance>Which sounds better: eofpi.org or tedb.org (or would the latter be confused with some serial killer or somebody from this quirkily weird state called Florida?)?</random ponderance>

I figured it took a bit longer to write a news item for ticalc.org but didn't think it took quite a half hour, although that's not surprising, given how much effort and humor you put into them. Those qualities will be missed. Any chance of you doing guest news items on ticalc.org in the future (like during summer or something)?

YETI@home

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P.S.: I'm a resident of the aforementioned state

go IB students! hehe ;)

go GERMAN students! ;)

hehe, I had to. *grin* nice comment about the umlouts :)

IB ain't that hard, and the IB-students I've known have been pretty imbecile. Of course, the guy I have in mind only had 42 as final grade.

IB is a killer in terms of the work you have to do. Every week one essay in every subject + reading books + regular prep (4 hours every night) + Investigations + Practical Write-ups + Sports + CAS = No free time at all!!!!!
Sorry, I forgot the work for the ToK course
My subjects are:

Mathmatics HL
Physics HL
English HL
Business Management HL
German SL
Chemistry SL
I am doing four Higers coz of personal interest!

Where is the free time and the LIFE???

Is your user name from the Dune series or am I messed up?

amicek

Northwestern has what can be easily described as one of the hardest undergraduate curricula in the country.

That combined with the fact that I'll be taking junior-level classes as a freshman.

--BlueCalx

Hehe...Do what I am doing. Get a National Merit Scholarship (I DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR ANYTHING!!!! AND $2500 FOR A COMPUTER TO BOOT!!!!!) Not that I am bragging, or anything =P

What classes are you taking, Nick? I'm going the bum route my first semester -
Cal II
Intro to Computers (why the #%^@ is this required?)
Intro to Japanese (BlueCalx-san, ogenki desu ka?)
General Chemistry I (My sorry ass high school had no AP classes =(
And a couple of f%x0ring labs

Total = 15 hours =)

Plus 14 hours a week as a computer monitor (6 of them at the Help Desk. Abandon all hope, ye who take that job... sometimes I think that all 15000 people at this school can't figure out how to check their stupid email...

Take a look at the webpage to see the inferno I live in (no AC, and it's been 100+ for the past 3 weeks)

I blew the PSAT - namely, the writing skills section. I was too optimistic and put "no mistakes" for half of them. Pulled off a 40. Please laugh at me, you're right to do so. Got an 80 and a 75 on math and verbal, respectively. You'd figure that would count for *something*, but it didn't.

I'm getting some money for going to an Illinois university, but it doesn't make a dent in the $36K/yr tuition. So it goes.

I'm taking honors organic chemistry, honors sophomore physics, honors calculus, a quarter of public speaking class (required, blah), and whatever else interests me at the time. I haven't registered yet.

--BlueCalx

Perhaps you could claim disability for having lived in the 'burbs of Chicago for so long.

Me no speak english good? That's unpossible!

Sorry to nitpick, but I know nick will yell otherwise. The quote is "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

Yes, I guess I did want to nitpick.

Love, Stu

It sounds like Ralph actually says, "Me fail English? That's onpossible!", but I could be wrong. I do not presently own a scriptbook.

~ferich

I laugh at nobody after the debacle that was my SAT II Physics test...

I bow to anyone that makes an 80 in math on the PSAT
My scores:
80 Verbal
75 Writing Skills
65 Math (sadness)

$36k a year? That's about what Harvard costs (ouch!)

I don't remember what I got on my PSATs, but I was a finalist and would've gotten the money if I'd sent something or other in on time.

News Editor Changes? You've been wearing the same clothes all this time, Nick?

The underwear is what really got stunk up.

--BlueCalx

If I remember correctly, CalTech is something like 48k/year, according to some sort of Kaplan college info thingie from a year or two ago.

For comparison purposes, out-of-state tuition, room, and board come to a total of 18k/year. That will have probably gone up at least a bit in the next two years before i'm off to college, most likely there, CalTech, MIT, Berkeley, or Northwestern (in no particular order of importance).

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 collegebound-in-approximately-100-weeks cents

Just spotted a HUGE thinko in the above post, which is corrected here: "For comparison purposes, out-of-state tuition, room, and board at GA Tech come to a total of 18k/year."

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 corrected cents

I hope the formatting was preserved
School | Tution | R+B
MIT | 26050 | 7175
Caltech | 19959 | 6180
GTech | 10286 | 5700
Berkeley | 14220 | 8670

One would tend to think by your senior year that you would've taken all the senior level courses.....which means PAR-TY!!!$(#%!&*#!#%&)%!*%#@&#!@%(

It does seem like you should be able to test out of "Intro to Computers," and I feel sorry for you with the support staff thing. It does seem that some people are _very_ stupid.

~ Robert

Hehe, it actually isn't that bad, and being a lab monitor is a breeze.

It's the first year this course is required (i'm sure you'll be able to take a test to get out of it next year).

An 80 in math? Wow, I only made a 65. You shouldn't be laughed at, you should revered, oh god of math.

You haven't registered yet? When does class start for you, Nick? I started 3 weeks ago (and the ethernet STILL doesn't work in my room).

If calculator tech support questions are any indication, I may be suited to working at a help desk (hey, somebody has to do it, and they might as well have someone with experience with computers doing it, instead of some induhvidual, plus spending money is supposedly always in short supply, so (almost) any source of income is a Good Thing:)).

I've literally been asked "How do I run a basic[sic] program?" And this was from a TI-89 owner (I've also gotten the question from several TI-83(+) owners. Go figure:/)! Man, some people sure are technologically disinclined (and please do not misinterpret that, if that is even possible, because it was meant as a statement of political correctness, as <overgeneralization>many people are quite intelligent, but not all that great at working with technology</overgeneralization>.)!

Intro to computers should be something that just about anyone who frequents this site should be able to quiz/test out of.

I've already stated this, but, BlueCalx, I'm really going to miss all the hilarious in a quirky kind of way news posts. I'm glad to see that nickd.org will not fall to pieces while you're at college, and that you've already lined up people for both your moving time and your absence from NWU's resnet during Thanksgiving.

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 scatterbrained cents

Sounds like you are bragging about your college or how intelligent you are because you are going there. That is how I hear it. And it is vexatious. Text is not very telling on how a person says something as people know from trying to have an arguement on AOL IM, but I am interpreting this as bragging and it's bothering me because you should brag on your own site, not on this site. Former news-editor, freelance contributor, I don't care but I'm wondering why you use this website to inform people of your college choices and the qualities that this shows you have. If you want a pat on the back, post on your site, it gets plenty of hits and I'm sure anybody who really cares about your college also visits your website.

amicek

Hello! Did you pay any attention to the thread he was responding to??? Somebody was implying that he would have a lot of free time in college so he countered by saying Northwestern has an extremely hard curriculum. How in the heck is that bragging? Besides, practically every thread to this news item is about colleges!

Sorry. I'm suprised you took the time to respond to my pointless rant. I guess I was in a bad mood. Sorry.

amicek

I'm in college too, and I have much more free time now than I ever had in high school.

incase none of yo have realized, in college, you have to study... you are supoosed to study 2hours for ever hour of class time... and you most probably need a job, i mean, what are you going to do; call your mommy and ask for money? my $0.02

- skyraid

It seems most of you have some great misconception of what college is. Since most of you are Ti Nerds as I once was I'm sure you are all in Pre-Cal or Calc. From experience I know that if you can pass AP Calc, you can get a good grade on ANY college course. College is not some place that is intentionally made impossible to do well in. As for the difficulty of the Curriculum, all four year degrees are basically the same. I attend Miami University, in Ohio in the Computer Science field, which is one of the best computer science fields in the nation, we placed fourth in the National ACM programming convention. As for the stresses of college, there are NONE, IMHO. The only stresses are the ones you make for yourself. College has a very carefree, fun atmosphere.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the University of Miami located a bit closer to Miami, Florida? I pass by it every day on my way to school. Ironic that I live closer to a major university than I do to my high school, isn't it?

Since you said Miami University, and not University of Miami, it is possible that we are each referencing 2 different universities. Any insight into this matter would be appreciated.

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 perplexed cents

168-(8*7)-(20+20*2)=52
That's 52 hours left for free time and working after sleeping, classes, and studying
If someone works part time, that's up to 29 hours/week, which leaves 23 hours for free time, eating, going to and from class, hygiene, etc.

eofpi and the unimatrix's 45.59985035114 cents

P.S.: I just got probably the most intelligent tech support question ever for me: "I would like to know how TI-85 memory is paged." For once a smart question:)

I think it depends on what college you go to. I'm at one of those colleges where free time is less a rarity than in high school (in other words, I get only 20 hours of class a week and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays off), so I would agree it's less hell.

Of course I'm sure Nick had other reasons (too much flame mail perhaps? nah, never......)

Actually, it was probably the things mentioned in his 1.5-screen Rant:... that might have contributed a bit to his resignation as news editor, but, as some of us may recall, he said that he was probably going to resign as news editor when he went off to college.

I'm not quite sure where to mention this, but the staff page is a few days behind, and does not reflect these expected but nonetheless substantial changes.

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