Thursday, April 19, 2007

pimp her ride


(window is taped on...if you can't see it).







everything is tape.

i think that's enough to say her car is shit on wheels.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

whoop whoop

listen to some music.




Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Time for a New High School

Skyline High School, expected to open in fall 2008, is a new public school being built in Ann Arbor in order to decrease the large number of students within Ann Arbor's Pioneer and Huron High School. Some people feel that building this new high school will decrease the amount of talent inside Pioneer and Huron, but for others as well as myself feel that having a new high school is definitly for the better.

Too many students within one building is a lot of work for a high school to handle. For example, almost each year Pioneer High School is changing and adding on to its campus in order to make more room for students. A few years ago, Pioneer High School had an issue of not having enough teachers for all of their students, which lead to having too many students in one classroom. As a result to this issue, the school had added on more 'portables' (they look like trailers) on top of what used to be a staff parking lot. Problems like this will only increase in time, because each incoming freshman class grows in numbers. The best way to attack a situation like this IS to add a new high school in the Ann Arbor public school family.

This parking lot is now where E portable sits, and Pioneer added this onto their campus a few years ago in order to have more classrooms.

A tennis court was turned into a place to have more trailer like classrooms A.K.A portables



More trailers for students to learn in.

Some students get stuck with the smaller lockers (even worse, the bottom locker) because there aren't enough normal sized ones to go around at Pioneer. Not only that, but the senior class DOES NOT get a locker.

This is another extension of Pioneer, known as E hall.

the outside of E hall.

This is known as the 'new C hall/wing'. They're little hallways that branch off a main hall, and there are 3 levels to the C wing. Also, this is where most of the lockers cut in half are.



Say hello to Sky High during construction.


There's going to be a couple of floors to this school, which is nice because Ann Arbor needs more space for students.

Another side shot of Skyline High School.

If you look beyond the trees, you can see the back (or maybe the front) of Sky High.


I'm excited to see how Skyline High School turns out and I hope everyone will appreciate this new change as much as I do.

Monday, March 26, 2007

i think i'm going to write about pfizer shutting down in ann arbor. it's putting a couple thousand people out of jobs, and forcing people to relocate to another pfizer or search for another job. even if someone was to relocate to another pfizer, their job might not last too long in their new location because pfizer is always shutting down departments and sending people home jobless. My dad is a part of the pfizer community so this change in ann arbor isn't just affecting the town, it's also affecting me on a more personal level.
the only problem is that i'm having trouble finding accurate and acceptable sources for this paper, and if i can't find anything good enough i might have to change my paper topic.
i think i'm going to write about pfizer shutting down in ann arbor. it's putting a couple thousand people out of jobs, and forcing people to relocate to another pfizer or search for another job. even if someone was to relocate to another pfizer, their job might not last too long in their new location because pfizer is always shutting down departments and sending people home jobless. My dad is a part of the pfizer community so this change in ann arbor isn't just affecting the town, it's also affecting me on a more personal level.
the only problem is that i'm having trouble finding accurate and acceptable sources for this paper, and if i can't find anything good enough i might have to change my paper topic.

Monday, March 19, 2007

rough draft

The idea of building another high school in Ann Arbor sounds horrific for some Ann Arborites while others are taking in the new high school with open arms. As for me, I'm sitting on the sideline rooting for the new high school to open its doors with success. 'Why?' do you ask? The answer is simple; there were and still are too many kids jam packed inside of Ann Arbor's public high schools.
I was a student of Pioneer Highschool and somehow walking through the halls felt like walking through the crowded streets of New York City. The moment the bell rings and kids shuffle out of their classrooms to head for their next class, the halls would become a sea of students with a current slower than my grandmother on her walker. Everyday I was unwillingly sandwiched in between bodies while walking down the halls, and it really wasn't fun. My graduating class (painfully long graduation) consisted of about 800 students, and each new class that comes into Pioneer is only getting larger. There was about 3,000 students walking cluttering the halls, and I can only imagining the number increasing for each new school year.
Seeing the construction of Skyline High School, the new high school, being built is truly a blessing for future students. This new school will help decrease the ludacrious number of students in Pioneer and Huron. Skyline Highschool is planning to be up and running by the fall of 2007, which is not too far away. Obviously, Skyline High won't change my crowded highschool experiance, but it will save the younger generations from being mauled by bodies in the halls, waiting in long lines to use the bathroom, and wasting half their lunch hour to get their hands on some food. This is a change for the better, and I hope that students will appreciate Skyline High School.




i know i don't have pictures, sooooorry. This is a rough draft, so the only thing that can happen is making this better. I'm planning on posting photo's of Pioneer and Skyline High, so no worries.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

lame

I knew what i wanted to write about for our next assignment, but something random came up and i got screwed over. So now i need to whip something up in one day and write a rough draft. This paper is a hassle and I am not too excited to do this at all.
I'm not a fan.