You may have noticed that the past two days have been rather post-free. This is mostly my fault; I procrastinated a bit on Monday, and then by the time I remembered the blog it was too late to make any decent post. I started one, which was something along the lines of "What I Would Do if I Forgot to Post but Then Posted a Really Short, Really Terible Post." In the end, however, I figured that I couldn't post that on the blog if I ever wanted it to be even considered as good quality, and so I trashed it.
The next day, Laura was busy with... MidTerms? Was that it? I don't know. What I do know is that she had a much better excuse for not posting then I had had the day before. She called on me for aid, but once again I'd procrastinated and had to do homework myself. So that was a bit of a mess.
However, sometime in the next little while we're going to post twice on our respective days, to make up for the missed ones. Nevertheless, I'm sorry!
Now, lately I have been going to a lot of high school open houses. I'm in grade nine, and next year I'll be shipped out to one high school or another. At the moment there are two main contenders for my brilliance; Jasper Place high school or Ross Shepard high school. I've just finished going to both of their information nights for IB (and AP at JP). Although these aren't open houses, they've still given me an idea of what to expect. I'm having some trouble picking between the two schools, and so today I'm going to do a little brainstorm on the blog. I've set out a bunch of categories, and whoever wins in each one gets a point. And so without further ado;
The great high-school debate. This title is a lot less epic then I'd hoped it would be.
Round one; School size.
JP is the smaller of the two schools, where's Shep is larger. However, I don't really care about size. Next question.
Round two; Student representation.
At JP, about a half dozen people greeted you to their school with warm smiles and "welcome to JP!"s. At Shep, about two dozen did the same. First blood to Shep.
Round three; Presentation.
At both schools, they say us down and had a few speakers drone on about one thing or another. Both were extremely boring. However, perhaps due to the fact that their speech was the second one I sat through, Sheps presentation was even more boring then JP's. Point to JP.
Round four; Friends.
Among my friends, I'd say that most want to go to Shep. However, my best friend is firmly set with JP, as well as a handful of others. JP gets another point.
Round five; School focus.
JP is said to be very sports-based. I like sports and all, but I'm not sure I'd want to be immersed in sport. Perhaps other programs would suffer due to a focus on sports. On the other hand, Shep doesn't seem to have any focus at all. In the end, I don't really care about a school focus, so I'll just give Shep 0.5 points.
Round six; School rating.
Out of the schools of Edmonton, Shep is rated higher. Point to Shep.
Round seven; Food.
At both schools, they tried to bribe the students with food. Ross Shep had cupcakes, which weren't all
that great. JP had some, admittedly stale, cookies, along with some other treats which I forget the names of. Just for snack variety, I'm going to give JP this point. I did win chocolate in a random draw at Shep, however.
Round eight; External recommendation.
Both of my sisters recommend Shep. They snag another point.
Round nine; Vending machines.
Vending machines are important at a school. They give you food! After seeing both school's vending machines, I know that JP gets this point hands-down. While JP's machines were badly stocked, Shep was even worse. The killer in all of this, however, is that Sheps machine stole my money and didn't give me anything.
Round ten; Door prizes.
Shep had several, and I once Merci chocolate. JP had none. Shep gets the final point of the night.
And the winner is... Ross Shepard, by 4.5 points to 4!
Well, I know that Laura will be happy. This isn't over yet, however... I still have yet to see the sctual open houses! Look for part two... coming soon.
Until then, thanks for reading!
-Mark
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