Our team (which has 4 main members and an alt, me) consists of 2 guys who come up with radical and often nonsensical ideas off-paper, but are generally focused when it comes to writing things down. Then we have a highly conservative guy (he's the only Canadian I know who supports Bush) who sees things in a very businesslike manner and is very good at writing our UP and our action plan.
Then there's a girl, she keeps us focused ("Hey! Look! A blank space! Fill it!"). And finally, there's me- I'm the contrast to Mr. Conservative, I'm incredibly literal and see things in a more social sense- though I don't do much writing, I mostly edit the UP, problems, and action plans, to make sure they follow the format and aren't circular or rambling.
So, if you add another person to the "bouncing off the walls" category, that's pretty much us.
The highly conservative businesslike writer sounds EXACTLY like someone on our team, except he writes whatever challenges and solutions the rest of us can't deal with and sometimes helps with the U.P., never the action plan.
If you're in a room with a Barbie monster sitting on a zebra print drum (ohhhh State Bowl last year) everyone is bouncing off the walls. We're also a team of four girls who were friends before we decided to form a team freshmen year, so it's not so much true. We are prone to giggle fits, I cannot tell a lie. We do a lovely cycle of "blahblahblahblahblahhhhh" "OH SHIT LOOK AT THE TIME" "writewritewritewritewrite." It's worked thus far.
However, if you had to define us, I'd be the bouncing one, Mariam the calm and collected one. (Mariam! Write our UP! Mariam! Write the best solution! Mariam! Mariam!) And Katie and Rebecca would be the middling folk.
What state are you from? I met a Mariam from Ohio the first time we went to IC, and the name was in my mind because of the scenario. Also, what sort of classroom was it that it have a Barbie and a zebra.
We're from Ohio, so that was probably our Mariam. It's not the most common name. She's Muslim and was most probably completely put together with every little thing matching. The rest of us were probably around somewhere being much more crusty and wrinkled and generally not as cool.
It was a high school English room at West Branch local schools. We had this, which is standing on a rather large drum covered with zebra print, and this staring at us for two hours. There also weren't any good tables, so we were trapped in uncomfortable little attached desks pushed in a circle. There were also a million funny things hanging up to read.
I'm the clock-watcher, and while I'm normally a kind person who almost never cusses, I've been known to yell things like "Sit down, shut the f*ck up, and write criteria! Please!" :) And the rest is totally true.
Yeah, I think it was Phil at dinner that night. He was pretty amused, especially since I said it almost pleasantly. I was shocked to hear it coming out of my mouth! :)
We have 2 amazingly energetic ones, one clock-watcher, and I swing wildly from one side to the other. We have to bribe Gina (one of our energetic ones) with sweets to get her to actually write instead of just talking.
yeah... well we technically can't have sweets, not to mention that you do not *need* any more sugar. So I get on top of a chair and shout. Everyone else, did I mention that we go off on a LOT of random tangents, even at state about who is in who's band class or whatever while we're writing? Or something in the fuzzy will remind Thomas of something scientific and we'll be in for a five to ten minute explaination of some random thing that happened somewhere that somehow relates and is kind of cool scientifically.
that's because we are offering our sweets to the other teams. and i would not like to solve with you on a sugar high. something tells me there'd be more "LET THEM EAT CHEESE!!!!!!!" and less "have SATS to translate their language"
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Then there's a girl, she keeps us focused ("Hey! Look! A blank space! Fill it!"). And finally, there's me- I'm the contrast to Mr. Conservative, I'm incredibly literal and see things in a more social sense- though I don't do much writing, I mostly edit the UP, problems, and action plans, to make sure they follow the format and aren't circular or rambling.
So, if you add another person to the "bouncing off the walls" category, that's pretty much us.
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However, if you had to define us, I'd be the bouncing one, Mariam the calm and collected one. (Mariam! Write our UP! Mariam! Write the best solution! Mariam! Mariam!) And Katie and Rebecca would be the middling folk.
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It was a high school English room at West Branch local schools. We had this, which is standing on a rather large drum covered with zebra print, and this staring at us for two hours. There also weren't any good tables, so we were trapped in uncomfortable little attached desks pushed in a circle. There were also a million funny things hanging up to read.
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I'm the clock-watcher, and while I'm normally a kind person who almost never cusses, I've been known to yell things like "Sit down, shut the f*ck up, and write criteria! Please!" :) And the rest is totally true.
THAT IS SO STRANGE.
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