Today showed the peak of the senioritis epidemic in our class as we transformed the IV-A Andros' Classroom into a network of LAN where sides were picked and the teams played in Counter Strike. Such a game brings out the unity in us as though teams fought against each other, we were all united in forming this network. From the bringing of extension wires so each laptop can recharge, to Luis' Surge Protecting, Dirty Electricity filtering transformer box.
What had started out as doing Term Paper in School evolved to watching of movies during lunch and finally this. This beats the DOTA games we had with the LAN Cable. This is a whole new tech that I didn't know, playing CS with each other via ad hoc (tama ba?).
There was also that time when we played Monopoly on EJ's laptop. Back then we still had a projector in our room so we'd hook it up during lunch and play monopoly. Yeah we never finished the games but it was still fun! The race to own boardwalk and get the most hotels was fun, but shortlives. Even before our projector was brutally stripped away from the IV-A classroom this got old fast.
No day goes by without at least one useless subject and what better to spend our time than with this? I busy myself with sleeping or on the rare occasion, texting, but I have to admit that this is a great idea. For one, it's legal unlike our Class Casino.
Our Class Casino consisted of several pockets of dealers strategically spread out in our classroom for optimum TUS-ing. haha conyo much. Be it black jack, poker, pusoy dos or even speed (anyone.??) we played it. Around 10 + decks of cards were confiscated from our class alone, but it was worth it. Even the n00bs got to learn and the others got better. Besides, poker is all about bluffing and keeping the face. You can learn a lot from being good in poker, it helps in life.
Then there's the time last year everyone got into Rubick's Cube. 3x3x3x3 squares of insanity, we would have several cubes out at one time being solved. It got popular easily and soon everyone was able to solve it. What made it challenging though was how fast you can solve it. Actually i think EVERYONE was into those cubes at this time, the Philippine national cube club of whatever even came to our school one time and competitions were held. Some of those guys were really fast. Some were not.
Yeah our class would get into really weird things. I believe that boredom drove us to find ways of entertaining ourselves and this is where all of our creative juices went to. This is where our true unity lies, not in intrams but in the classroom. Not in English Recitals but in Rubick's Cubes. Definitely not in being clean but in organizing lan games. I'm gonna miss this, college just won't be the same.
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