Homework

Ms. Crumplebottom assigned us more writing. This time it’s a stupid plant report. I don’t like the way science is done here — it’s all bugs and plants, bugs and plants, and (for a change of pace) plants and bugs. I would like to see more physical science. Admittedly that’s hard without the right tools, and precision instruments aren’t easy to come by in Sunset Valley. But when I read about Outer World scientists, I don’t see Joseph Priestly or Galileo or any of that lot whining about how they can’t mail-order a decent spectrometer or voltmeter or telescope.

I should add a School page to this site. I should gussy it up to include my completed homework assignments.

I realize that the web-site-gussying, as well as my indignant rant about physical science, are partly ways for me to feel busy and dedicated without actually writing my plant report yet. The truth is that I only write well when something strikes me as deserving to be written, and I cannot really tell what will strike me that way vs. what won’t.

Also: I am sore about the grade on my “Things I Have Learned So Far About the Outer Sims” assignment. Happily, at least Crumplebottom won’t be grading the plant report — we have a specialist for science, usually Dr. Wainwright from the Landgraab Science Center, but she’s only here a couple of days a week.

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