Today marks the beginning of my 2014-15 academic year, this time in the sophomore class. I am actually looking forward to starting this year, and I don't know exactly why. I suppose there are a lot of exciting changes, I'll see my classmates again, and it should be a vacation compared to my college work over the summer.
There are lots of new faculty, including a new IT Director who has experience in web design and mobile app development. A new mathematics teacher also has a background in computer programming in addition to (obviously) mathematics.
The upper school is also moving to a college-style schedule, so the daily schedule's time allocation is dramatically different between {Monday Wednesday Friday} and {Tuesday Thursday}. Tuesday and Thursday have just two or three extremely long class periods each. The most interesting feature of this new schedule is the presence of teacher "office hours" for half a period length at the end of the day.
And, of course, laptops! This deal has yet to be worked out; I am considering buying my own. We shall see.
Anyway, today was a nice orientation to the new policies and a great start to the '14-15 school year.
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