For most people, high school sucked. This is pretty much a given at this point, right? The endless questioning and self-doubt, the lack of control over your own schedule, dealing with the impossible mysteries of the opposite sex while navigating the often treacherous shoals of what amounted to a four year, walled-in social experiment. Yeah, high school sucked.
When the students of St. Catherine’s High School’s new middle school program arrive next year, they’ll be sporting shiny new iPads instead of textbooks, giving students plenty of games to play while they should be learning, until they get stolen.
A Nintendo Game Boy and a mobile phone made up a bomb-like device that caused the evacuation of a Florida Panhandle high school yesterday.
Kotaku’s in-depth pursuit of how and why NCAA Football 10 recognises weird created-team nicknames – like Fightin’ Planets, Ingots and Orange Psychos – created enough fan reaction that EA Sports is accepting new nickname submissions through an official forum thread.
At my high school – among the smallest in North Carolina – we aren’t known as the “Rams” or the “Cardinals.” We’re “The Buckin’ Elks.” And Brad Nessler says that name – all of it – in NCAA Football 10.
When I graduated from High School I didn’t do anything worthy of compliment or insult. Not true of our favourite video game characters.