Second day

Okay, the second day of school, slightly less interesting (assuming that the first one was interesting at all). Same morning schedule as yesterday, but instead of first-period homeroom, we had physics. We were given some problems that were not physics problems at all (such as “draw four lines to connect these dots without picking up your pencil”, “if AA+BB=CBC where each letter represents a number from 1 to 9, find A, B, and C”, and if “DONALD+GERALD=ROBERT and D=5, solve blah”). Yeah, definitely not physics problems.

Then we got some homework and one of them was to draw a physicist. I always assumed that physicists could look like… anyone. But just to stay safe, during my free period after lunch, I drew some guy with glasses in one of those long white coats that scientists are usually shown with. And he’s holding a cube of some sort. I don’t really know why.

Something like this.
Well there’s not much else to say… it went by pretty quickly. After lunch (I went to homeroom after lunch today), I went to the library to do my homework. I did most of it, but never got around to doing my math practice problems. Those are optional anyway, though. But I’ll probably end up doing them later today anyway. Then we had some sort of “Junior Inquiry” thing that I still kinda don’t understand.

After that, since I had a free period at the end of the day, I got to leave at 1:30. And I did.One last thing, the physics teacher used the term “thinking outside the box” today, and I was just like “ughh” in my head, because I really hate that phrase. “Thinking outside the box” is an overused term… so overused that it’s actually “inside the box” now.

If you haven’t already heard me talking about this, I’ll say it. I think that “outside the box” is a horrible phrase. The way I see it, you’re outside one box, but that box is inside another box, and that box is in another. There’s an infinite number of boxes inside boxes, and you can’t really think outside all the boxes. So the only way to really “think outside the box” (meaning “think unconventionally”), you need to “think inside the box” (meaning “think conventionally”), since conventional thinking has become unconventional.

These are supposed to be boxes inside boxes… but they’re kinda like… transparent cubes overlapping.

Yeah, that totally makes sense, I know. “In an age where everyone’s trying to think outside the box, isn’t it time you started thinking inside the box again?” would make a great slogan for a box manufacturing company named “Inside the box.” I think it’d be awesome. Okay, that’s it.