2. Science club, Computer club

3.Faster Internet

4.I live in the desert, during summer (Nov – Feb) temperatures average between 35 C and 42 C. But have experienced 50 C a few times

2. This is also a college one but it was the Residence Hall Association. Oh boy, my school has so little spirit that WE were the ones cheering at basketball games. How embarrassing.

3. teh interweb, I would say.

4. It must’ve been in ‘04 or so. I had been in high school in Bangladesh and the worst flooding seen in years happened to hit the country. There were boats floating about, transporting people in business suits on the street in front of my apartment in the Diplomatic Zone.

2)I am in the science club. Not because i’m particularly interested in science, but because my boyfriend is.

4)About 5 or 6 years ago, there were about 5 ice storms in 2 months. That wouldn’t ba a big deal in, say, Wisconsin, but i live in North Carolina – everything shuts down if we get more than an inch of snow.

2. high school drama guild.

3. wireless connectivity/ small memory card that could put big memory

4. when mount pinatubo exploded. it was kinda weird. it was day but it so dark because of the dark clouds and the ash from the volcano. my elder cousins tried to shovel off the ash from the roof because it almost gave in. plus after shocks every now and then because of volcanic activity. several days later, us bases gone home.

2. Can you say nerdy?
Academic Decathalon
National English Honors Society National Math Honors Society
Drama Club
International Thespian Society

3. iPod

4. Ivan. It hit us way up here in North Georgia. Imagine that. Tornadoes and debris everywhere.

2. I was President (for 2 yrs!) of our Parchisi Club (which changed to the Games Club when we introduced Trivial Pursuit and Risk in my senior year). I also was on the Editorial Board of the school newspaper, as well as on the staff of the Literary magazine. Oh yeah, and I was in the Science club too. We used to take (after-school, voluntary!) science tests and compete with other schools for the highest marks. If that doesn’t scream geek, nothing does!

3. Streaming news via the Internet. I hate TV, and now I can watch newsworthy things as they happen, without having to have an idiot box in the house.

4. When I was 3 yrs old, my family was on vacation in the Catskills. We drove through a terrible storm; I remember huddling on the floor in the back of my grandfather’s old Chevy at my grandmother’s feet, scared to death. My grandfather did not feel up to driving in the storm, so my mother took the wheel. I remember there was a terrible screeching sound and a flash of light, and my parents and grandparents were very upset. (Nana was screaming something like “We’re all gonna die!” IIRC) I later found out the front quarter panel had been struck by lightning. It rode down the driver’s side of the car (the area would never hold paint afterwards, it would just flake off any time a touch-up was attempted). We later found out that what my mom had driven through was the tail end of a tornado.

Oh, and I was in WYSE too. World Youth for Science and Engineering. Yay standardized tests and Gregor Mendel!

3. Microsoft Word and the cell phone.

4. Our county was declared a disaster zone after the flooding this summer.

3. Microsoft Word and the cell phone.

4. Our county was declared a disaster zone after the flooding this summer.

2. No contest. Sucker up to the king of the nerds boys.

Section Leader Marching Band
Section Leader Winterline
Founder/President Chess Club
MVP Academic Decathelon Team
Captain Knowledge Bowl Team
and I was in Dance

Yeah, give it up.
3. RSS feeds

4. It’s california. We don’t have weather.

2. Probably Quiz Bowl.

3. Facebook, definitely… I’ve kept up with so many more people than I would have and even got a job because of continuing one of those connections.

4. Well, I live in Baton Rouge and was working at one of the local tv stations during Katrina and Rita. We were some of the first people to really see the damage the storm caused. Our parent company sent helicopters over the city and we fed the video out to CNN, etc., as we played it raw with no idea of what we going to see on that tape. What we saw was 80% of New Orleans underwater and people trapped.

Last September, I was essential state government personnel when Hurricane Gustav roared through Baton Rouge. No power for 8 days, but luckily, since I had to work, I rode out the storm in a very secure building and had power/ac/tv/internet/hot food during the aftermath. Gustav was a bad boy here — multiple friends lost roofs, entire rooms when trees came crashing down, cars, etc.