[Joel J]

Originally posted by Ian W.
ugh, i don't like one more thing i heard. if they keep pushing nats back, it will be during APs, and that will extremely screw over many people. i say that if they're gona push nats back anymore, they need to jump back to after APs, for two reasons.

1) No crazed students taking 4 or 5 APs, who are also very important to the team, goign insane at nats because of the study/work load.

2) Makes everyone's lives who take APs much easier. instead of worrying about APs at nats, you just relax and purge your mind of all unimportant information .

the other idea is to push nats forward somemore, but i don't know how that would work. of course, the last idea is for the stupid college board to push APs back, but they've monopolized the industry, so they dont' give a @#$!$@#$!$@#$!$@#$!$ to other people's needs. so dean, woody, who ever from FIRST that is reading this, please reconsider the timing of nats this year, and if it's impossible to change this year, at least try to make it after APs next year. thanks.

CRAP! (sorry about that).. I just got my school calendar in the mail and according to it IB exams begin on May 2nd, 2003 and end on May 16, 2003. I guess I won't be going to nationals next year, unless of course I quit IB.. what a bad day this is.

[Edit]I scanned the schedule sent to me and it can be viewed here: Schedule. The image is about 200KB and its dimensions are 757x1024 (that should be a 30-45 second download on a 56.6Kbps modem).[/Edit]