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You know what makes recapping a year extremely easy? Having it all already written down for you in your blog.

January: I went to Evergreen Walk several times this month, and I still agree with myself: the only reason to go is the food. The stores all still suck. My plan to blow off prom and use the money elsewhere failed (Speaking of which, who wants to blow off senior outing and use the money elsewhere?). There was a lot of time spent this month working on preliminary camera stuff for robot, such as finding the field of view and things. A relatively tame month.

February: I started work on Deception (which still no one has won) in this month. We went to Tenny Mountain as we usually do over break, and it was extremely diverting. A nice break after making the camera system work. Robot build ended, which is a big feeling of relief (or at least it was last year). Oh, hehe, February was the month they added the “absolutely no getting on the bus after 2:08″ rule, so lots of kids got left at school.

March: Can you say Robot Regionals? Amazing. I thought UTC was pretty sweet, but Philly totally blew the roof of that. Hacking the hotel TVs so we could play video games, playing DDR all over the place, etc. I eagerly await March 2006 so I can go to not two, but three, maybe even four regionals! Do we see a trend here where Robot completely took over my life? I love it. But let me just say, I was completely crushed when we weren’t picked for the finals at Philly.

April: Tennis moves in to fill Robots roll of life-dominator. I went to Hawaii, where I chilled by the pool and met a Google employee. That was pretty exciting, since I also launched Deception while IN Hawaii, and began coding my Portfolio. South Windsor made the national news again, but I’m sure not for something they’d have wished. Oh, and it was my birthday.

May: Dave broke his collarbone right before prom. I fail to follow instructions on the Bio final, but pass it anyways. Oh, the Pops and Jazz Concert was in May. That was the single worst concert at the school I have ever gone to. The music was very good, many talented people attempted to perform. It’s just that the tech crew was not up to the task. Think of the talent show, now consider they had a rehearsal and still did worse than we did. Yea. Recently, they have done a lot better. Dragostea Din Tei was the anthem of this month, I think.

June: My hate/hate relationship with the “Speak Out” section began. I have yet to find a single insightful editorial that is not heavily biased. And this year, the school paper is starting their own one. I’m going to have fun with that. In this month, I nearly broke my blog until Chris came up with a way to fix it. He’s a smart kid.

July: I spent most of July rolling out ClassComp and at WPI. ClassComp was an overwhelming success, and WPI “geek camp” was pretty sweet too. I met a lot of people and a bit of math too, but it was a nice way to get a little peak of what real college was going to be like. Except without any work.

August: 4H Camp was the first week of August. I had so many more problem kids than in previous years. They simply had no respect for authority, mine or the staff’s. Oh well, at least most of them were nice. August was also the month that I did LINK Crew. I wonder why I was the only senior invited to join? It was interesting, and was another one of those “stuff looks a lot more organized from the outside than the inside” type things.

September: Free Shirt Week was invented! I watched Back to the Future at Monica’s, but was unable to secure the costume to be Marty McFly for Halloween. A bunch of people voted “Western” for Homecoming theme, instead of Halloween. They could have dressed up for Halloween as cowboys if they really wanted!

October: Homecoming happened, and it was much like previous homecomings. Chris and I got a used iPod that was broken and then we made it not broken. Then Chris took it and made it broken again, but I re-made it not broken. I had my MIT interview, which didn’t go as well as I hoped, although it went well (and I saw Foley!) My college angst culminated in me writing an essay about how I’m like a volcano out of frustration (which proceeded to become my primary college essay).

November: I upgraded to Wordpress as part of the server change, and man was that a pain. Wordpress is great, just pMachine was hard to move OFF of. Oh yea, November was Lunch Wars. That was pretty funny too. I’m noticing a trend here, where nothing exciting occurs Sept-Dec, and then all the good stuff happens in Jan-July. Let’s see when I compare next year. College might muck up the equation.

December: We pulled off the talent show. Oh my, was that amazing. Asides from being the most stressful night I’ve had in a while, it was the most fun (for some reason, stuff that’s stressful is fun afterwards). I also went to a U2 Concert (amazing) and saw Wicked (slightly less amazing, mostly due to the lack of stadium seating). I highly recommend both.

Break has been going pretty good, but I am ready for Robot to kickoff. I sent in my last college app today, so I’m done and my hands are clean of that. Only thing to do is wait (and hopefully go to Massachusetts around late February). Pretty soon I’ll be spending most of my time figuring out how to play some crazy game and program a robot to do crazy stuff.

Let’s hear it for 2005.