OVER8D End-of-the-year Awards Results!

We asked and you voted- and the results are in for the best and the worst of the school year!

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!

Summer Plans

As promised, my plans for the summer.

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.

Obligatory End-of-the-year Post

It just feels wrong to end middle school with just a few surveys, so here you go.

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.

End-of-the-year Teacher Report Cards

D’oh. Guess what I forgot what to post yesterday- teacher report cards! Stupid me.

Sorry for the delay, but have fun judging your teachers anyway.

Real obligatory end-of-the-year post coming tomorrow.

OVER8D End-of-the-year Awards!

Hi guys!

So today is just a normal, run-of-the-mill day… except for the fact that SCHOOL IS OUT! WAHEEE

Here is some happy music to set the mood.

Anyway, since we had to sit through some pointless awards ceremonies and watch people get some pointless awards, I figured we might as well have a few awards of our own to celebrate the best (and the worst) of our year.

Enjoy!

[proper end-of-the-year post coming, but it's long and still a work in progress, so this should hold you over until tomorrow. ]

SCA Poster Reviews

If you haven’t noticed, the cafeteria has lately been littered with SCA posters filled with sevvies begging for you to vote for them so they can add a line to their TJ resumes. I guess the lesson we can all learn from this is that 13-year-olds are not the best graphic designers.

Now, ignoring the shreds of Lady GaGa’s rejected old outfits, here’s a School Tip of the Day for you: Vote for someone who knows the difference between “four” and “for”. Grade: F-.

I’m willing to bet that Josh Hutcherson doesn’t even know you exist, Joseph. And since Peeta himself doesn’t exist, this poster gets a grade of F-.

Again with the 4 issue? Also, what’s with the green lowercase R’s reaching over and intruding the other letters’ personal space and popping their bubbles? And seriously? “Believe”? “Inspire”? It’s an SCA poster, not High School Musical. F-.

Perfect? Whaddaya mean perfect? First of all, the word “I’m” is improperly aligned. Secondly, the letter A doesn’t have its hole colored in. Third, your picture is hastily cut out, and fourth, the plastic holders on the side are improperly aligned. You get an extra minus sign for your grade. You get an F–, Miss Therefore I’m Perfect.

Wait, what? You’ll help the school that’s a promise? How is our school a promise? A school is lots of things. It is a building. It is an institution. It is a waste of tax dollars. But how the heck can a freaking school be a promise? F-.

No, I can’t just SEE MYSELF voting for you, Cori. Because you mounted the mirror up in a place where even a mature giraffe couldn’t see its reflection in there. How innovative! How creative! How intelligent! Also, what happened to those “Your Vote Counts” stickers? Is it really that hard to peel them off without tearing them? F-.

 

[update 2/17/2013: further pixelated her name as to make it completely illegible to protect her privacy, as requested.]

How were you so lazy as to not fully gluing down your photo? Also, notice how at the bottom it says you have a copyright. Now, I highly doubt you’d go through the legal process to copyright a piece of poster paper with your face on it, and it is illegal to state you have a copyright if you don’t actually have one, so not only is this a bad poster, this is a poster that breaks the law. Vote for her, everybody! She’ll totally not burn down the entire building!

Also, if any of you take the T in “Vote” and put it next to her last name, first of all, you’re a sick, sick, individual, and second of all, post a link here for us to see.

Of course, she gets an F-.

Anyway, the winners were announced today. Congratulations to whoever won- I wasn’t paying attention. But congratulations anyway, because such an important triumph signifies that you have the work ethic, the responsibility, and the self-reliance to hold such an important title*.

*Everybody knows I mean “they had the most friends”.

Look How Underfunded Our Schools Are

Dear Obama:

Seriously, our schools need more money.

Sincerely,

Everyone