Friday

Just wanted to let you know what day it was. Thought I should inform you. So you know what I said about not doing the tutorial because I wanted to do schoolwork? It turns out, it probably would have been more productive to do the tutorial. I got a day's worth of work done in one class after that. I've realized I'm much more productive at school. My personal first day of class was yesterday, and I had gotten a week's worth of work done by first block today. I just have one complaint so far with my classes. My Spanish II teacher has all kinds of questions on her quizzes. True/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank, etc... that's fine. Every teacher does that. I just don't like how the fill in the blank questions are graded by the computer. If you mistype one period or word, you don't get any credit even though you could have gotten the purpose of the question right. This caused me to get a 12/20 or something on one quiz which brought my average down to 90%. That's bad. I'm uncomfortable with anything below 97%.

In my AP Computer Science class, we had an assignment where we had to select a picture chosen by the teacher and describe how to draw it in plain text without saying what it is or what's in it. Afterwards, we had to go to a classmate's instructions and draw what they said. This is what I drew:

This is what it was supposed to look like:

As you can see, mine looks more like two deformed teddy-bears chopped apart with a spike in the middle of a hug. Apparently, that's how you draw a butterfly. So anyway, I thought that was interesting enough to post here. I wrote a "hello world" application for the first time ever in that class too. I've never written my programs like that before. I've always tried to be more original. I wanted to type "System.out.println("something original")" or something, but I've failed in my epic quest to avoid the boring "hello world". So anyway, that's all I have to say. The tutorial will be released when it is. Thank you for reading.

Can you hear the echoes?

I can, or more specifically, I will be able to whenever I read this again, which will probably be when I painfully type in this URL to embarrass myself in front of someone who I'll probably barely know, because no doubt whatever I put here will be embarrassing in the future. For example, I'm still extremely embarrassed about the posts I made in 8th grade. It really is true what people say about middle-schoolers thinking they're extremely mature.

So, to an interesting topic. The reason I'm writing this is to say that I'll put up the next quadcopter tutorial tomorrow, because I won't be going to school tomorrow because I don't feel like it. That was a joke. It's actually because I'm celebrating a holiday, Eid, tomorrow.

So meanwhile, before I work on my online classes, I'll tell about the last few days of my life to my future self, who I need to come up with a name for, because "future self" is really getting repetitive. Speaking of repetitiveness, try Googling "recursion". TO THE BATCAVE... or topic... whichever you (but more likely I) prefer. So, today was technically my school's first day of class, although it was basically like every other day so far. We got in to groups like usual and went around stations like usual. The only difference was at the end, we went to all our classes for thirty minutes, which wasn't really enough time to get classwork in after introductions and everything. Monday was far more interesting. We went on a field trip to uptown Charlotte, which is relatively close to the school. We had to go find different landmarks, take pictures, solve riddles, and do other things, so that was fun. I'd never actually been through that much of Charlotte before.

As I think I said before, I'm trying to graduate a year, or maybe even a year and a half early, so I need to get as far ahead in my online classes as possible. I don't know how easy that will be because unlike in online Geometry, all the resources in my current classes aren't available until the time they're supposed to be used. In any case, I have to work on those. Finally, if I didn't mention this before, I got hooked onto this trance artist, Soulero, who is amazing. This is a great track by him, but can't even come close to describing his amazingness. Like all great electronica artists, he's Swedish. So in summary, the next quad tutorial will be tomorrow, I went to school today, and Soulero is awesome.

New School

Here's my sporadic update as usual, if "sporadic" can be usual. So, it was recently the 25th of August, which I only know because that's when school starts, and school started. I never remember dates otherwise, except for September 10th because that's when something awesome happens.

So I'm writing right now to tell you how school has been so far. As I think I've said before, I'm not going to that American public school that I went to before. I'm going to a different American public school, but this one is cool. Only 105 or so kids go here, and it's kind of an alternative school. Basically most of the classes are taken through the internet, so you can work ahead. As soon as you finish a class, you begin a new one or you get an internship or something in place of that block. It's meant for both kids who are falling behind in school and need to work more to catch up, but also for kids like me who aren't learning enough in school and want to take extra classes and graduate early. I'm now focused on graduating as a junior. If I'd known about this earlier, I bet I could be graduating this year, but that's on the verge of being unbelievable.

It may seem weird that the classes are online but I still have to go to school, but that's cool because I can't procrastinate like I did when I was homeschooled. Also, if I have questions that aren't clear in the course, instead of going on the discussion forum, I could just raise my hand and ask the teacher, or alternatively, and more likely, just search it on Google like I would anyway. It basically allows me the social environment of normal school, but the ability and encouragement to do much more work. I'm still not sure about the "social environment" part because I have yet to make friends, but I've only been there two days. I'm beginning to make relationships with the staff though, which is cool because the school is relaxed and it's almost like you have a "buddy" relationship with everyone else in the school including the teachers and principal.

You may be wondering about the quadcopter tutorials I mentioned before, but you probably aren't, because you're probably me and already know of everything I've already done and thought and what I will do and will be thinking until right now, if that makes sense, which it does because you're me and this makes sense to me. Anyway, the first tutorial, on parts to buy for the quadcopter, will probably be put up today. If not, probably not until next week, and if not then, a couple months, as usual. I have to go now because I need to do stuff and an awesome Basshunter song just started playing too.