January 15

You know you're in an AP Statistics class when your teacher starts off class saying that a virus has broken out within the class and the cure for it is Starbursts. Then the activity begins and we all have calculators with a special program on them to talk with other calculators. Some of the calculators have the "eboli" virus and then we proceeded to connect calculators to each other and see if you lived to continue connecting calculators with others in the class or if you were sent to the morgue. I died on my first round, and I wasn't even concerned about it. As a matter of fact, the majority of the class (or at least the people around me) wanted to die right away so that they could sit at their desk and eat Starbursts without doing anything. I could make a philosophical connection with this reaction to real life...but I can't think of any that don't sound ridiculously made up (or strange or stupid sounding). So I'll leave it with the fact that a class full of 17 and 18 year olds would obviously opt for the way to get through an assignment as quickly as possible. Yeah...that sounds about right.

It was a surprisingly interesting and unique way to experiment with survival rates in a classroom environment. And while it greatly resembled an experiment consisting of passing HIV to everyone in the classroom...it was interesting.

I found it humorous that this was what popped up on my screen to inform me that I had been infected and had died. I don't know why I found this funny...but I did...so of course I took a picture of it...