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Today was my very last official day of school. We only went for half a day, and that was all hanging out in the stadium just doing nothing. It's going to be nice sleeping in from now on, at least until college starts. And no, I never did get Senioritis, which actually scares me a little bit :)
Now this is just awesome. Someone created a flash movie for a Guide To Electronic Music. It has samples of all the many many different kinds of techno/trance/etc music, and includes commentary and an example song for each genre. I had no idea there were so many different genres of electronica, and even the ones I did know I always had trouble trying to figure out which song was in which genre. This makes it a whole lot easier to catagorize what I like. Anthem Trance, Progressive Trance, and Hi NRG (in Trance) are my favorites, along with Happy Hardcore (I love those Happy Hardcore CD's too btw)
The New York Times has a very interesting article on the problems of standardized testing. It describes how CTB messed up grading tests 2 years ago, which resulted in 9,000 students in New York having to take summer school because they supposedly "failed" even though they really didn't, along with principals getting fired for not having high enough test scores. Ouch. I always hated standarized testing, because it seemed like a waste of time. Not only does the teacher have to go over boring crap we already know (aka teaching the test) instead of learing new intersting stuff, the tests themselves were really easy for anyone who wasn't half brain dead. But then again it's sickening how people have managed to graduate even though they can barely read or do basic math.
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