Last Post

This should be my last post for a while; you can get your AP scores by phone after Shabbas.

"Or Anything Else" 2

According to this site,
-You cannot drive in Pennsylvania with a permit from another state (i.e. on Visiting Day).
-You can generally drive in New Jersey, New York(minus NYC and Long Island), and Connecticut with a permit from New Jersey or New York.
Click here for info on other states

1111 visits

also over 150 posts and over 3060 page views. also high up in google results (even though low in pageRank), someone came after searching "june 2006 chemistry regents scores" in google (it appears to have been the 4th out of 1.1 million results)

morasha flooded

camp and kollel postponed to sunday

Repost and Update of Soday Regents Records

I reposted (and updated) the Soday regents records. Someone should ask the new 10th and 11th graders if anyone tied or broke a record.

These are the records, to the best of my knowledge, for different regents taken by people in Soday. Since this list may be revised and presented on the blog in future years when no one will know who we are, I put soday graduation years (not including 12th grade) next to people's names. I also wrote which year they took the test.
Math A-99-Eleven(06)-Au 04, Not Crack(06)-Ja 05, o man(08)-Ja 06, M. Finer(08)-Ja 06
Math B-100-Eleven(06)-Ju 05
Math I**-N/A
Math II**-N/A
Math III**-N/A
English-N/A
Global History-99-Y. Elson(06)-Ju 05
American History-100-Eleven(06)-Ju 06
Earth Science-98-Glunker(06)-Ju 04
Biology-100-Glunker(06)-Ju 05
Chemistry-N/A
Physics*-N/A
Hebrew-97-Eleven(06)-Ju 05
If anyone gets equal or higher grades, please comment on this post. I will post my regents scores as the record for English, Chemistry, and American History regents, until people comment that they got equal or higher grades. Please keep the integrity of this post. Feel free to copy the post in future years and revise the scores.

*Physics will be offered in 2 years(2008)
**They are changing the format of the Math regents to I,II,III

Pointless

I walked to Lishkas Hasofer and back after Chem Regent (and didn't see last 3 questions).
P.S. Maybe someone could post everyone's e-mail address.



[Note from Glunk: This is the 150th post! The last 50 posts happened quite quickly! Wednesday is camp day so there prob. won't be any blogging after that. The Blog may have a few more posts over the next few years, i doubt it will reach 200. Were not really in Soday anymore anyways, so there's no real point in blogging on Soday, maybe I'll make a new blog. ]

Letter from Yesodei

What's wrong with driving to school? (Even if I can't drive in NYC till at least Oct. 2007)

Post

Gut Chodesh (Even though Tammuz isn't such a good Chodesh). Today, June SAT scores are available. Did anyone get an 80 times ten?

soday loses $60,000

the soday property went down in value $59,448 in the last 30 days. it's now worth between $877,024 and $1,130,386.* A similar-valued home on 1 miriam ln. sold for $995,000 in november of 2005. in mid-03 soday was worth approx. $600(k). in '97 it was worth less than a $quarter(million).


*these prices don't take into account the changes made on the building, which probably make it worth less.

This Day in History...

On June 23rd, 1989 in Columbia Presbyterian Babies' Hospital...

Radar Detector

no visits since June 13th i think. on june 13th visited for 23 seconds at 12:59am and then clicked on "Soday Track".

wooden awards

the following wooden awards were given out (large print was engraved):
A- Best Blogger and most kenasim
Avi- Most Pickles Eaten
Gadi- Best Studier (during shiur)
Astor - Most Cars (stolen)
Eli- Most Passionate Arguer
Ouchy- Most Yeshivish
Yakov- Greatest Affinity for the Floor
yeDidya- most Audacity (aka bold or s/t)
ZWZ- most combed Hair
Moshe- (missing the) Most Fun
YG- Most Sneezes
BG- Least Bitul

Mr. Slime

Mr. Slime was ahead of his time. They're only coming out with slime shooters now.

完成 as thay say in chinese.

1st chemistry regents (i had to take a taxi to get there) then to gadi's house, swimming, BBQ, awards, "kumsitz".
school as we know it is over. next year it's beis medrash chavrusa learning and some 'college' classes. K-11 school will never be again. it's 完成.

6.5 Hours!

There are under 6.5 hours for us left in Soday.

or anything else

an artist sent in a scuplture to the royal academy of arts and won and his art was put on display. but when he got there...link

History regents over

the monsey vans didn't pick up very well, and some kids came late. regents q's pretty easy except a few on court cases. essay q: describe leadup to any big event in US history and discuss results. (I did it the wrong way) dbq: discuss influence of media on US hist and society.
its hard to do bad on history regents. even if u only get a 6 out of 10 as total essay score (on essays where u can write about anything and dont need to know much) and u get 6 points off on the questions, u'll still get a 95.
if u get a 10 on the essays, u can get 18 q's wrong and still get a 95. if u get a a 4 (2 two's) u need to get all the q's right to get a 95. (link)

chem review (hard q's)

here are some chem q's i don't know in the prentice hall review book:

page-question# topic

35-12 naming compounds (see p.25-26)
36-22 '''
77-26 electroneg
110-2 reaction speed
123-22 '''
137-23,28 electro cells
138-40 '''
142-8 knowing acids
152- 24 to 29 acid-bases
186-17 radioactive

this doesnt contain q's from practice regents

i still have to do all of biochemistry.

soday stats II

Here's some more soday blog stats, in small. (with predicted visits for next month)

so-long so-da y

3 years of soday have gone by. 9th grade was pretty long and e/o was better at end than beginning. 10th grade had a little bit of learning. 11th grade went by quickly. despite soday's belief about potential i was there for 3 years.

Test Review

Ideas for test:
-For Chem-Look at charts-they can give a lot of answers
-For Chem-Generally electronegativity and ionization energy is greater and atomic radius is smaller as you move towards top right.
-Generally if the answer which is most similar to the other answers is right i.e:
If the answer choices are
A. the 1970s
B. the 20th century
C. the 1870s
D. the 1920s
Since 3 answers are decades, and 1 is a century, the answer is most likely a decade. Since 2 answers have the 70s and one has the 20s the answer probaly is one of the 70s choices. Since 3 answers are in the 20th century and one is in the 19th century, the answer is probably in the 20th century. Therefore the answer should be A.
-Use logic to figure out answers.
Ex. 1
Which statement describes pi?
A. It is positive
B. It is a rational number
C. It is less than or equal to zero
D. It is less than 2
You have two hints to figure this out.
1. all numbers fall under either A or C. Therefore one of them must be true
2. Since when ever a number is less than or equal to zero is is also less than 2, whenever C is true D is true. Therefore C cannot be true, or else there would be two answers. Therefore A is true
Ex. 2
Which one of these is multiplication?
A. 2 divided by 5
B. 3 divided by 10
C. 11 times 4
D. 1 divided by 7
Although usually you try to find the most similar answer to the other answers, here you shouldn't to that. If you don't know what times and divided by mean, you should realize that there is no difference between A,B, and D, so C is the answer.

Last day of Soday for Us

During the last day of Soday there were soda fountains, going to attic+basement, getting an autographed hat piece, siyums, and last laps around track.
Maybe you could use baking soda+water as the drink and a non-Kosher candy to limit Bizayon.

[censored-then, after school ended, revised by Glunk]

Gabbaim

T.W. and M.S. are finsihed with their gabbai jobs in Soday.
The new Gabbais are o man and J.J..

1,000 visits!

the soday blog just got it's 1,000th visit, just as the soday year is over.
the 1000th visitor was from canada and stayed for 0 seconds.

essay q's

in both cases discuss specific literary elements.
1. what's the power of reading? explain poem and story about kaplunkia or s/t.
2. some quote from Martin luther king junior saying the only way to measure s/o's greatness is how he deals with difficulties. interpret, agree or disagree if bg, and show position from 2 works of literature.

scoring table for english regents

24													67	70	74	77	80	84	86	89	92	94	96	97	99
25													69	72	76	79	82	85	88	90	93	95	97	98	99
26													70	74	77	80	84	86	89	92	94	96	97	99	100

^multiple-choice score. total essay score: 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

if u got all 26 q's right and got a 21 on the essays ur score would be 96. \

i tried fixing the table but it got worse. u can see it here.

Scales for regents

You can get scales for this years regents at www.emsc.nysed.gov/osa/regentsexams/6-6/home.html
Only regents which have been give are posted.
If you got 5 essay points off and 1 multiple choice wrong or a perfect essay score and 11 multipe choice you got a 90.

only in soday...

woops! we don't have the essay booklets. oh well.
(eventually they were brought)

Tests

There is no point of being off today since we can't study for English Regents (at least day 1, Glunker). History Regents is obvious. Chem Review with Goodstein!!!! on Monday at 2:30. AP scores can be found out on July 1 by phone.

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Hrhrmhssmpstsnwnggdt's,MnBstndfkMym.

The Blog's Future

If any 9th or 10th graders are interested in becoming an administrator, they can email me or comment on this post.
Most likely, the blog will have few or no posts after June 21st this year. There's no point really in deleting it, it's a history of the first class in soday. In 5 years from now, the kids in soday (if its still around) will be able to read about the first class in soday.

black hattiness II

ok, so they're hats aren't black, that would be $18 in kenasos. at least we're better. but wait, what's wrong with R' Hutner's hat*? What would happen if I wore that?

more pictures here.



*Click on picture to enlarge. R' Hutner is seated 2nd from right.

10 hrs.

SAT 4 4 hrs. then 6hr. chem review: brain = mush. the college board and its proctors r incompetent. the chem review was good at first but then he slowed down and people got bored and brains jellified. the chem person was at YU and now learns in Ohr Hachaim. he also teaches at MTA.

blogads

the ads didn't show on my firefox browser and the page got messed up on IE so I deleted them. the page is still messed up though. people who wanted to click on ads can click on google pack and download it.

Future of Blog

What will happen to this site next year?Will
Glunker let someone else be an administrator?Will the site be
burned down & never seen again?Will Glunker let
his site be dormant?Maybe posts will be written sometimes so t-
hat it will remain a normal blog.

Upcoming Events+

-It is almost the summer (people who haven't decided what they're doing this summer should probably decide soon.
-People got they're SAT scores.
-People took SATs today.
-The 9th and 10th grades have final(s) this week.
-Chem Review Today
-Bio Review next week
-See
regents schedule
-Shiur ends on 19 (+siyum)
-Finish Soday on 21