11th Grade Activities
I found today's xkcd (also titled "11th Grade Activities") a little ironic.
You see, I spent my 11th grade year doing comparatively little in the way of classes and homework. Thanks to lymphoma, I was on homebound most of the year, which meant I got homework as teachers had time to send it to me. Which was either in large batches that I could put off and then do all at the last minute (Pre-Calc), or not at all (Economics--I swear the teacher only sent 2 or 3 assignments the entire semester).
Which means my time was filled up with many other entertaining activities. Like screwing around with Visual Basic 4 and HTML. And creating Doom levels. And playing Chrono Trigger. And chemotherapy and doctor's appointments, of course.
I suppose this would be funnier if I actually drew out a parody comic but (a) I'm lazy, (b) I'm not really sure what metric would be funny as the Y-axis*, and (c) freehanding with the mouse in GIMP makes it look more like a stupid looking rip-off than a parody. So just imagine I created a chart out of that last paragraph.
Incidentally, all this nostalgia reminds me of a funny IT/business-related story from 8th grade, which I should post later.
* All I know is, Chrono Trigger has to be the largest bar. After all, the whole point of this post is gloating that Chrono Trigger comprised a majority of my 11th grade education.
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