{"id":2845,"date":"2002-09-12T23:17:46","date_gmt":"2002-09-13T04:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2002-09-12T23:17:46","modified_gmt":"2002-09-13T04:17:46","slug":"school_daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/12\/school_daze.html","title":{"rendered":"School Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s The Friday Five<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(For these questions, I’m going to treat “school” as “elementary school.” The answers would be different in high school, not to mention college.)<\/p>\n

1. What was\/is your favorite subject in school? Why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Math. Because I was so good at it, and understood concepts the other kids didn’t, like negative numbers and set theory (“I was there at the Dawn of the New Math Age …”).<\/p>\n

2. Who was your favorite teacher? Why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Mrs. Sullivan, 3rd Grade. She was nice, she liked me, and she could play a mean autoharp.<\/p>\n

3. What is your favorite memory of school?<\/b><\/p>\n

Playing in the sandbox at recess with little toy cars. We found that below the soft sandy surface was a quasi-sandstone base, where the sand had hardened up with water and time. We could carve out great Flintstone-like caves and tunnels and so forth with the cars, then put the cars inside, then bury it all until the next recess. Great fun.<\/p>\n

4. What was your favorite recess game?<\/b> <\/p>\n

Either playing some sort of pirate ship\/space ship game on the jungle gym, or else hand ball (which I was pretty good at). I enjoyed dodge ball, too, since I was pretty quick, and usually thinking a few steps ahead.<\/p>\n

5. What did you hate most about school?<\/b><\/p>\n

Being the bespectacled nerd, with all the rights and scorn appertaining thereto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s The Friday Five….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23338,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/i-feel-the-need-to-read-the-speed.html","url_meta":{"origin":2845,"position":0},"title":"I Feel the Need to Read the Speed","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-11 3:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I think my favorite speedometer design of old was on my grandparents' Oldmobile (late 60s\/early 70s?), which was a horizontal bar that extended to the right to go under the different MPH markers -- and changed color from green to more ruddy tones as you passed different milestones. 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