Apparently, I’m failing Maths. Since my marks are always in the top three, usually the top one, I find this fact absolutely hilarious. I’m failing because six weeks ago I didn’t hand in this assignment which my teacher never asked anyone for anyway. I finished it and all; all she had to do was ask! (I’m passing all the subjects I actually care about with flying colours, though — yippee!)
So.
The end is nigh!
Somewhere near Geneva, approximately three hours from now, scientists are planning to test their machine that will collide particles together and replicate the Big Bang. No one really knows what the consequences of this experiment will be — if they did, after all, it wouldn’t be necessary to conduct the experiment in the first place — and certain fearful people believe the consequence will be a black hole engulfing the earth, killing everyone on it. At my school, the year 11s and 12s decided that today was the day they were finally going to read the newspaper. They read that it was potentially the end of the world, and have gone absolutely ballistic1.
Today, I’ve had to reassure so many people that they’re not about to die. People are really freaking out about it, and it’s quite disconcerting. A certain subset of the year 12s are not helping at all — they’re continually approaching international students and reminding them of their impending doom. Read on…
- Articles on this experiment can be found at the Age and at the BBC, if you’re interested. [↩]
Huh?
I was procrastinating on some IS work, and hunting around my library for something to gaze at. I found a flow chart titled “Book Week”. “Oh, OK,” I thought, “let’s read it.” Unsurprisingly, the first item is “Books”. That makes sense. The next item is “Teachers”. Teachers do like people to read books, so that also makes sense. The third item? “Food”. Hey, wait — teachers are food?!