Cedavis6 wrote:

Kokonilly wrote:

caseyotis wrote:their Science Olympiad Student Center blocks out the name of my dog's breed.

...do you by any chance mean a shih tzu?

No, coccapoo.

butterfly? As in a cross between a butterfly spaniel and a poodle?

EDIT: LOL

caseyotis wrote:their Science Olympiad Student Center blocks out the name of my dog's breed.

...do you by any chance mean a shih tzu?

I must say, good job to that computer science professor announcer guy yesterday at the Parade of States for pronouncing Olathe correctly. Now, just make sure to do so quite a bit tonight. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't it just "Oh-layth"? Or have I been mentally mispronouncing it? Nop...

TheGenius wrote:I must say, good job to that computer science professor announcer guy yesterday at the Parade of States for pronouncing Olathe correctly. Now, just make sure to do so quite a bit tonight.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't it just "Oh-layth"? Or have I been mentally mispronouncing it?

dragonfly wrote:Go to http://tiny.cc/sont for results.

Congratulations to all teams! ESPECIALLY to Harriton for winning 2nd

I missed the awards ceremony, but... holy crap!

Wow, that's very impressive. Do castling and en passant work too or is it just all the normal moves? And then for pawn promotion, does it automatically become a queen or do the players actually get a choice? Either way, that's really cool. I didn't have time to do castling or en passant (again, sub...

Wow, that's very impressive. Do castling and en passant work too or is it just all the normal moves? And then for pawn promotion, does it automatically become a queen or do the players actually get a choice? Either way, that's really cool. I didn't have time to do castling or en passant (again, sub...

[programming the game of chess] "Why won't my piece move?!?!" *run through entire debugging protocol* "Oh, wait, I was putting myself in check. My code works. ...My code works!" I am better at programming than I am at chess (which, granted, isn't saying much). I also wound up sub...

Liv wrote:To all my homies who are taking or took APs:

and also us (we? buh, can't think because chemistry killed my brain) college students suffering through midterms/finals

Good luck to Friedell and Mounds View at nationals! I live in NorCal now, but I do have a soft spot for the state of ice tsunamis.

zyzzyva98 wrote:It's a very low time commitment; maybe less than an hour.

For the entire summer? Per week? Per month? Daily? Every two hours?

Good luck, Paly and Churchill!

I never took notes in high school (...bad influence) , but I'd recommend a laptop - you need it for college and they're easier to write papers on. Computers are useful in general. I wouldn't recommend getting a cheap, crappy netbook, though - for those you definitely get your money's worth. Get a la...

Burn to y'all "random" folks.

winneratlife wrote:To make it from California is VERY impressive, actually; some of the kids on that team are probably better than me.

And that, to winneratlife, is the highest form of praise possible.