Yay for being back at school! I've been pretty busy and my IRN isn't turned on yet. So I haven't got much internet time. I had tennis and badminton, french 3 and Ad Chem today. French 3 is unofficial, I only go two times a week and I don't get a grade, but I really don't want to drop it and I hope I can get into french 4 next year. I'm also taking ( Read more... )

A friend of mine was able to recover the text of the news report about IMSA. Here it is:

By Cheryl Burton

June 7, 2005 He is a boy genius on a fast track through school, but this has been a rough year for Jake Harris. The 11-year-old from Harvey just finished his first year at the Illinois Math and Science Academy.

Jake Harris says his first year as a ( Read more... )

Today I recieved this E-mail in my campus mail box:

IMSA Parents and Students:

We know some of you saw last night's report on the 10:00 Channel 7 (ABC Chicago)
news. Here is the link: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/060705_ns_boy_genius.html.

Unfortunately, there was not time to inform you in advance, as we only learned last
night that the report would ( Read more... )

We lost today. My team played Bartlett, and they are amazing. They slaughtered us. 9-0. It was abysmal. However, our record is still fairly decent for our school, so we aren't too down. Our star forward stayed up all night last night (literally) to finish her history paper, so we had no real offense. I think she's the only person who has scored all ( Read more... )

My team won our soccer game today. Our record is now 3-2-2 (W-L-T). It's pretty good considering varsity's is something like 2-6-1. We had a fun game. I was practically playing offense the whole time, and I'm a markingback! Anyway, there are only 5 games left. The season ends next Wednesday. If any Titans are reading this, come see us play ( Read more... )

I am quite excited because I am going home for a long weekend today. I haven't been home for a full weekend, let alone a long one, for at least a month. I usually have soccer practice on Saturdays. But not this week. It will be extra nice because I just finished a history paper, so I don't have that pressure on me anymore. Only 17 days of class ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of doing an Inquiry project on the battle of Okinawa. I don't know what posessed me to do something like that. In general, history is my worst subject. However, senior year I will have much better credentials and therefore a much better chance at getting a good mentorship at a hospital, so maybe an inquiry isn't such a bad idea for ( Read more... )

The weather was wondeful today. It was sunny and warmer than usual. It was one of those days where I just want to curl up outside with a good book. My French class got cancelled so I had a lot of free time. I also found out that I got an A on my last history paper. I was glad for the sun at soccer practice; I didn't have to wear a sweatshirt. It ( Read more... )

I have a rather amusing story ( Read more... )

We won our JV soccer game today! *wOoT!* I'm now starting left defender. It was very cold here and also very windy. We had to keep the ball on the ground most of the game. I managed to get called on a side tackle on one of their forward's in the first two minutes. She was tiny and I don't think I really hit ther that hard. Anyway, I really need to ( Read more... )