Does this mean the blog is dead? Yes and no. Yes, as in Ilia will still be posting new material on this site. As some of you know, he’s remaining at Chantilly and will be able to enjoy relative lack of stress and abundance of free time that is typically associated with non-TJ schools. No, as in don’t expect him to churn out content in the volumes that you’re used to. Better than nothing, right?

So from here on out, consider this Ilia’s blog, not mine. Thanks again, guys, you’ve been a great audience and I’m going to miss writing for you. But life goes on. Blah blah blah insert more sentimental crap here.

Bai :3

-Zeal

This is a comic I drew in response to my class’s depressing grades on the unit ten test. 

Which is because today I found out I got myself accepted to TJ. Hoo rah.

What does this mean? Well, first of all, it means I’m a gigantic hypocrite.

But more importantly, it means that I won’t be updating the site any more. Sorry, guys, but I barely had enough time as it was last year, and considering that it’s TJ I have no chance in hell of getting anything quality up regularly.

I’ll try to keep you guys updated, but don’t get your hopes up. Chances are I’ll be too busy trying to keep up with my algebra homework or whatever.

Don’t worry, I’ll still be putting up comics for the rest of the summer, but I’m checking my site statistics and those are generating about zero traffic, so maybe not. Oh well.

So I guess this marks the end of Over8d. Thanks for all the fun I’ve had over the past two years. You have no idea how much it means to me that you guys actually want to read some crappy comedy material by a prepubescent eighth-grader. So thanks again, and I’ll see you guys later.

-Zeal

P.S. If for some reason I go back to Chantilly, I will resume posting as usual. So here’s hoping, right?

P.P.S. In response to the barrage of emails and whatnot I’ve been receiving congratulating me, thank you, but if anything, you should be feeling sorry for me. Oh well.

You guys like corny puns, right?

…right?

Thanks to Gil for helping me come up with the joke.

Apologies for size/resolution.

The grades were computed based on FCPS’s grading scale, then rounded down.

Mrs. Bernstein, Mr. Colgan, Mrs. Grausz, and Mr. Mosher all received an average of 100%!

…wait, what?

Mrs. Furpahs had the lowest average, with only 50.8%. Congratulations to her, too!

Thanks to everyone who graded!

THE AWARD FOR BEST POD GOES TO…

*drumroll*

A tie, between X and Y pod. ಠ_ಠ

The award for best English teacher went to Mrs. Adams!

The award for best math teacher went to Mrs. Sky!

The award for best science teacher went to Mrs. Hanna!

The award for best civics/history teacher went to Mr. Roach!

Mr. Kappatos won the award for best PE teacher!

Mrs. Romano won the award for best foreign language teacher, as well as the award for highest winning margin, with over 50% of the vote!

Mr. Bickford won the award for best elective teacher!

Mrs. Fraundorfer won the award for best counselor!

Mr. Hudson won the award for best administrator, and Mrs. Mack  Terry won the award for worst administrator! Both are very well-deserved, by the way.

Science won the award for best core class, and PE won the award for worst core class!

French won the award for best foreign language!

Tech Ed won the award for best elective, and the award for worst elective went to (obviously) Prep For Success!

Pizza was voted the best lunch item, and the Fake Steak Subs were voted worst!

The End-of-the-year Celebration won the award for best school event, and the award for worst school event was a tie between Have an Apple a Day Day and the Readiness Skits!

And now for the four big awards.

The award for Best Teacher Ever went to MS. LONG! Congratulations to her!

The award for Worst Teacher Ever was a three-way tie between Mr. Campagna, Mr. Mosher and Mrs. Palmer! Congratulations to them, too!

The A For Effort award is our way of recognizing the teachers that suck, but at least they’re trying. This award ended up as a tie between Mr. Buchholz and Mrs. Dombro!

And lastly, the prestigious Most OVER8D award, to recognize the worst of the worst, the stuff that best captures the crappiness that this very blog is about…

TJ! Of course.

We’d also like to give Mr. Shah an honorable mention for being the only teacher we know of who regularly reads this blog. Thanks, Mr. Shah!

Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all the teachers who won!

Now, since a lot of you are either off in a distant region of the Earth or too busy with Asian camps, I’m not expecting as many readers. So I won’t be posting the regular school crap like you’re used to. Instead, I’m going to be posting something I’ve been procrastinating on for way too long…

Comics! Remember those three? I’ve got more coming!

So on to the boring specifics. Voting for the end-of-the-year teacher report cards and awards ends on Wednesday, and I’ll post the results on Saturday and Sunday. Then, I’ll be posting two comics every two weeks, starting on July 6. They’ll be sorta like the ones in the link. Some will be hand-drawn and scanned, some will be done digitally, but all will be my original work, and it’s something I’m pretty damn excited about, so enjoy!

And no, Ilia, Cheryl, and Edward won’t be with me. Those lazy twits.

484, 546, and 600.

My SOL scores for geometry, civics, and science, respectively. Somehow two years of education are supposed to be wrapped up in those three numbers.

There are a lot of thank-yous to give out for those two years of education, so here goes:

Thank you to my teachers. Of course. That seems kind of obvious, but seriously, thank you, for giving us a great two years of education, and for teaching us about so many cool things that we never knew even existed. Chances are we’ll probably forget all of it over the summer, but thank you anyway.

Thank you to my classmates, for making middle school so damn fun. Each day I came for the education (and also because federal law required me to) but stayed for you guys. Thank you to everyone who I became friends with, for being nice and friendly and hilarious and generally awesome. It’s the stupid things I did with you guys I’m going to remember, not theorems and postulates and all that.

But most importantly, thank you to you. My readers. For making me keep this blog up and running. Notice how I didn’t say inspiring me to keep this blog up and running, like you’re probably used to. I don’t think that’s quite accurate, because my main motivation was thinking of having people yell at me when I didn’t post often enough.

But still, thank you, for being awesome readers for my first two years of a serious online presence. Thank you for turning a stupid little project that wasn’t intended to last maybe a week into what it is today. The fact that people actually want to read my random, garbled musings and that people actually think I’m funny is still kind of hard to fully comprehend, even after two years. So, thank you. (If you haven’t noticed, I suck at letters of gratitude.)

I never really intended this site to have a cheesy inspirational Disney message like Believe In Yourself or Follow Your Dreams or whatever. But this post feels kind of pointless without one, so here you idiots go.

Enjoy high school. I mean really lose yourself in it. Learn to fully appreciate it, both its awesomeness and its inevitable crappiness. I don’t know many people who can say that about middle school, and I don’t know if I can say that about myself. But you’ve got four years and another chance. So make the best of it, and don’t let three numbers define your high school experience, mmkay?

And yet again, thank you all, and have a great summer, too.

-The OVER8D crew

PS I’m gonna be updating this site over the summer too- details tomorrow.