<p>@matrixsurgeon Yeah - and you, being the physician of the group, can create an immortality elixir! Then we can all sit around debating current events until we disintegrate and/or the Earth gets engulfed by now-red-giant-Sun!</p>
<p>…I’m sorry, I think I’m high off of college anxiety right now. =P~ </p>
<p>@my88keys Model UN is my LIFE. Literally - I don’t really have a life outside of the team.</p>
<p>@Jackson61 I definitely object to people in real life… when people make stupid comments in class, I always whisper “Objection, Your Honor, relevance!” Under my breath…</p>
<p>My school has none of these things :(( </p>
<p>@jackson61
Or we could see a gamma ray burst millions of years into the future? I have always wanted to see one! Haha I think everyone’s got the college anxiety!</p>
<p>@TrinidadJames22 That’s why we have COLLEGE!!</p>
<p>@TrinidadJames22 it’s okay; my school has them, we just aren’t very good at them 
(our team came second at Yale one year though and I got a best attorney award at states though… but that’s almost it for four years…)</p>
<p>Model UN and Mock Trial seem so cool!! My school is pretty small so we don’t have a organized version of both but we have a pretty decent informal club that does similar things so its not too bad! </p>
<p>Me too. And I feel like not that many people would join, just because of apathy to world issues. </p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon YEAH! Who wouldn’t wanna see giant explosions??</p>
<p>Incidentally, I was reading about the fifth state of matter - Bose-Einstein Condensates - a short while ago, and something I read (I can’t quite remember; I have to go back and read it again) led me to believe that BECs might actually make time travel possible!!</p>
<p>@my88keys Yeah, a lot of people I know are like “Model UN?? haha u noob”</p>
<p>:-w [-X 8-| </p>
<p>@my88keys
That would suck! I feel that so many people are oblivious to the world events that are occurring, its frustrating! Especially the situation in Ukraine (or Russia, depending on who you talk to HAHA )! </p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon “There’s a country called Ukraine??”</p>
<p><em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>@hackson61
TOUCHE haha</p>
<p>Last year, before/after Social Studies standardized testing:</p>
<p>“George Washington is the first president, right? Not George Bush?”</p>
<p>“I didn’t know when the Constitution was written, so I guessed 1854.”</p>
<p>“I wasn’t sure where the Great Lakes were.”</p>
<p><em>FACEPALM</em> <em>FACEPALM</em> <em>FACEPALM</em></p>
<p>It’s CNN’s fault >:P Or the media in general. Things like this stuff just isn’t accesible to normal kids, they have nothing nudging them toward learning about it. I go out of my way to learn about things, but it should be easier.</p>
<p>Even teachers will admit that Wikipedia has more accurate information about current events than the media!! (And we all know how much teachers like to attach positive credentials to Wikipedia, Haha)</p>
<p>@my88keys I’m a major Civil War buff (<em>snort</em> sorry, couldn’t resist the pun) and it greatly troubles me when some of my acquaintances insist that Confederate soldiers mainly wore blue, and Union soldiers gray*. There’s a REASON that there’s a Confederate song called “Wearing of the GRAY”. :-w</p>
<p>*Yes - initially, both sides wore both colors - but after around 1862, it finalized into CSA-gray and USA-blue…</p>
<p>@jackson61
You know people that claimed that Confederates wore blue throughout the war!!! Wow, that is just sad… It is not even a fact that you had to remember! I remember portraits of the generals on both sides and its impossible to confuse those colors. </p>
<p>On the same note, I know some people that are so blinded by romanticized versions of the Revolutionary War that they don’t realize that Americans won that war with French support, with Lafayette to give the most credit. They thought that French soldiers never even stepped on American soil in the war!</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon (in response to the last paragraph) They would know that had they watched Liberty’s Kids when they were younger!</p>
<p>Anyone? Anyone?</p>