I am a sophomore at a lone school in Burlington, VT. The administration had the smart idea of giving free blocks to sophomores last year. At the end of the day, if they had a free block (last 3/2 of the day) then they would just leave. Obviously, this is what would happen.

But the teachers, being smart as they are, didn't realize that this was happening. They thought all the students would stay at school and wait till the last bell rang. How stupid can you get?

So, this year, they only give free blocks to people who are a junior and over while I get screwed into a lame study hall block 4. Holy crap, you don't know how boring it is. So far, I have installed GM on my network drive and have been working on my GM stuff which is nice. It actually gives me more time to work and I enjoy it so why not waste the pointless time with GM.

Therein lies the problem, these comps (which I am blogging from now) are "new." They have a 3 Ghz Pentium D processor with 1 gb of ram. Not too bad. But the graphics card on the other hand, is some random crappy Intel onboard video card. It is so crappy, it can't even handle GM's surfaces correctly. And yes, DX9c is installed and everything.

So it really is a Win-Lose situation; I get to work on my games, but I could be at home or hanging out with friends. I would prefer the latter most days. Also, since everything in GM that I use pretty much revolves around surfaces, it isn't helpful that I can't fully test my games.

Oh well, next year I will have some fun :)

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