Re: In my 3rd year of High School... Now what?
Understanding how slide rules work (adding logarithms) is actually pretty cool, but I fear lost on kids today who just ask their computer. I guess with better voice recognition, kids won't need to know how to type either (apple just bought another voice recognition company so more of that is coming)... I still have the slide rule I used on an old electronics job to figure out filter values and stuff.. before we even had pocket calculators (boy am I old).
I recall an old science fiction short story about some time in the distant future when somebody discovers an old algebra text, and people are finally able to rebel against the computers, and figure out stuff by themselves, again. 
The food industry loads processed foods up with fat and sugar to get us to eat more... It makes them more money that way... But we humans should have the judgement to understand how and why we get overweight. Just say no.
I see far far more fat kids than skinny, with their food stamp toting mamas at the wally world where I shop, and it doesn't cost anything to work up a sweat...
This whole victim culture of "it's not their fault... blame _____edited out
There are people really starving in Africa, who would love to experience poverty here.
edit- I know you are not speaking to me directly-
I have been trying to ignore the protests in NYC. it seems they weren't getting enough press attention so they staged a mass arrest by blocking a lane of the brooklyn bridge. Duh... NYC police are well trained and pretty professional, so if they get into physical altercations they probably started it.
"I don't think we're asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again," (columbia U grad student).
Damn.. I recall back in the '70s worrying about how I would pay the rent, with some very tight times after i started my first business... I didn't even think to protest other people who had more money than I did. I recall macaroni and cheese being pretty filling and cheap.
Yup, lets save that for another time...
I expect we will get enough blame and finger pointing over the next year to explain/excuse the poor state of the economy.
Good luck to us all...
and i apologize for feeding this veer...
Stay in school and learn while it's relatively easy and accessible, it won't be as easy or as much fun later on. Who knows after you graduate maybe you can go to a protest on wall street. I recall back in the '60s there were lots of hot girls at the anti-war rallies in Boston.
JR
