A night with the NHS Jan 4, 2002

Last night my friend Cory and I decided to go to NHS night. Hastings High School students and alumni will understand this immediately and can skip the next paragraph :)

For those who have not been to Hastings High School, NHS nights are free tutoring sessions run by NHS members in the school library, most Thursday nights. English teacher and former NHS faculty advisor Gerard Marciano is also there to supervise, which is actually the real reason we decided to go, because for Cory and me, NHS nights were also News Club nights. Marciano also was the faculty advisor of the Broadcast Journalism Club, with which we both used to be involved. Marciano would get the A/V room opened up, and we would have video edit sessions every Thursday night. Lotsa fun.

So to continue… last night was cool. Apparently the BJC is not in existence any longer, but NHS still is. Not that either development was a big surprise. I ended up helping out with a little algebra, and I discovered that I can still get access to the school network. Not only that, but I still have access through a teacher account. WestMUNCies haven't changed their password :) I also got to see the lovely new Hastings High School Internet Filter. Bleh. Bleh, I say! Bleh!

The whole experience basically had the effect of making me appreciate college even more than I already did (which is a lot). I had forgotten some of the major ways in which high school sucked. One of those being:

"Phil has rented a sprayer and a generator twice. The first time, he used them each for 6 hours and paid $90. The second time, he used the sprayer for 4 hours and the generator for 8 hours and paid $100. What is the hourly rate for each of them?"

I mean, COME ON. A sprayer and a generator? Sheesh, people. You can think of something better than that. Bleh, I say!