All that ranting reminded me...
Oct. 20th, 2003 04:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I miss stuy. It's stupid, but I do.
I met this girl in my Core 10 class who thought she recognized me from there, and she may have. She also transfered out failing, it's like, did *anyone* graduate from that school? But we got to talking about it, and it's weird. I know I must have been unhappy there, at least with some of my classes, but it feels like home in my memories.
Seriously, if I could go back in time and take over my younger self, I'd stay in stuy. Drop the latin until college, though....
Anyway, since god only knows how anyone's gonna read my last comment, I'll put this here, a choice editorial from the Spectator. He's right, though. It used to be that your admission was based soley on whether or not you got the score. Stuy would count down the list however many spots it needed to fill, then Bronx Science would start where Stuy left off, and Brooklyn Tech would start from where Bronx Science left off. You could go to any of the schools you got in to. But now, Stuy only takes the ones, counting down the list, who marked Stuy as a first choice... and the same for the rest of them. So if you put Stuy as your first choice, and then don't get in, you don't get into ANY of the specialized schools, basically. Which might be a good thing, you might love this other school you get into, but it might also really really suck.
(update) Unbelievable. Stuy's got a community here on LJ... not sure how active it is, will wait and see. Besides, since I didn't actually, y'know, graduate from there....
Small note, I'm still not sure about that whole diploma thing, I have got to call Curtis and check that out....
I met this girl in my Core 10 class who thought she recognized me from there, and she may have. She also transfered out failing, it's like, did *anyone* graduate from that school? But we got to talking about it, and it's weird. I know I must have been unhappy there, at least with some of my classes, but it feels like home in my memories.
Seriously, if I could go back in time and take over my younger self, I'd stay in stuy. Drop the latin until college, though....
Anyway, since god only knows how anyone's gonna read my last comment, I'll put this here, a choice editorial from the Spectator. He's right, though. It used to be that your admission was based soley on whether or not you got the score. Stuy would count down the list however many spots it needed to fill, then Bronx Science would start where Stuy left off, and Brooklyn Tech would start from where Bronx Science left off. You could go to any of the schools you got in to. But now, Stuy only takes the ones, counting down the list, who marked Stuy as a first choice... and the same for the rest of them. So if you put Stuy as your first choice, and then don't get in, you don't get into ANY of the specialized schools, basically. Which might be a good thing, you might love this other school you get into, but it might also really really suck.
(update) Unbelievable. Stuy's got a community here on LJ... not sure how active it is, will wait and see. Besides, since I didn't actually, y'know, graduate from there....
Small note, I'm still not sure about that whole diploma thing, I have got to call Curtis and check that out....
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Date: 2003-10-20 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-20 07:09 am (UTC)On the other hand, the two best teachers I ever had I had at Curtis, not at Stuy. That's Mr. Berkowitz for American History (claps) and Mr. Olsen for Physics (cheers). Staying at Stuy would mean not ever meeting up with them...
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Date: 2003-10-20 07:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-20 07:38 am (UTC)I already did.
Forget, that is.
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Date: 2003-10-20 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-20 07:09 am (UTC)On the other hand, the two best teachers I ever had I had at Curtis, not at Stuy. That's Mr. Berkowitz for American History (claps) and Mr. Olsen for Physics (cheers). Staying at Stuy would mean not ever meeting up with them...
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Date: 2003-10-20 07:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-20 07:38 am (UTC)I already did.
Forget, that is.