Like every other student lucky enough to be zoned into the Charlottesville City School system, I started school today (there was only a hint of sarcasm there…). Unlike every other student, I was actually pretty excited to get back to school. I guess maybe this summer’s just been so productive, I don’t feel like I need any more time with it; knowing that I’ll be doing an Internship at NBC29 this year is also a plus. And thanks to that internship, I get 5th and 6th period off, which means that I get about two hours in the middle of every day to do whatever I want - an extended lunch, hang out in the Black Box, visit a teacher…

There were a few things I didn’t expect about this year, though. For example, apparently I’m on chummy terms with the administrators, who laugh and joke with me (using my full name) - I don’t even know all of their names (I’ve never really spoken to many of them, you see)! I also never expected the Principal to start up a student advisory committee for him. Considering that our student council wastes their time with things like dances and completely abdicates their responsibility of serving as a line of communication between the students and administrators, this is exactly what CHS needs. He’s even going to have lunch with students every two weeks so he can get a feel for student opinions.

Wow. This is so different from the administrator-student relationship I’ve grown used to in high school. Maybe things are finally changing for the better?

Speaking of high school students, whatever happened to all the high schoolers that used to blog? I used to have a good half-dozen or so friends that had a blog, and now the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Kenton Ngo… Then again, I’m glad that blogs are starting to lose their association with the topics normally discussed on LiveJournal posts
from a horny 15-year-old, so it might be good that the average blogger is now 20+.