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Post by aln1982 on Sept 18, 2007 16:47:10 GMT -5
^ I agree. I schedule and plan in my mind and have my "routine" of things I like to do but never could understand having to make the big choices of just one ride per land. Get there earlier so you can do more! ;D (We usually get to Disney about 1 hr before it opens and get to go on tons of rides by 10 or 11 AM. But that is Disney World. Disneyland was pretty much the same, though, last time I went 3 years ago.) From what I remember, the food references were pretty good in this one too ;D
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Post by greer on Sept 18, 2007 17:52:16 GMT -5
i've never been to disneyland, but my family lives in florida so they have annual passes so i go once or twice a year. they head to disney when there's a hurricane where they live so my trips to disney are always pretty relaxed. that's why dawn's dad rigidness is so weird to me, because they live in anaheim so you'd think they'd relax a bit more. but i guess they wanted to contrast him with sharon, who would never ever plan a day like that.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 18, 2007 19:19:23 GMT -5
^ ;D Sharon would definintely be one of those people they are talking to when they say "you are in row Dopey 11" when you got on the tram ;D
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Post by mckay on Sept 19, 2007 2:16:45 GMT -5
I don't know if corrie participated but the addisons move in best kid ever, I think. I also love dawn on the coast for the disney reference, but can't imagine being so rigid about a disney trip I'm one of those people who doesn't make plans beyond "well, we definitely have to work this in somehow." I had a friend visit me for a week this summer and she had a huge list of things she wanted to see and do (NYC is ultra-dibble, and HUGE)...despite not having much of a plan, I'd say we got to three-quarters of it, and could have done more if we both didn't tend to sleep in so much. I am not a believer in scheduling vacations And Disney seems like one of those places where you would get totally distracted from your plans every ten minutes when you see something really cool.
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Post by starrynight on Sept 19, 2007 13:29:25 GMT -5
I'm not going to make fun of Claudia or anyone for being bad at math....let's just say it's not my best subject and I can understand what it's like to not be good at it. That's probably why I wasn't all that interested in this book. I don't remember if I tried to do the problems, but if I did, I doubt I put much effort into them!
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Post by greer on Sept 19, 2007 15:13:53 GMT -5
i like the last problem, where you do the mirror image stuff with the numbers.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 19, 2007 16:33:33 GMT -5
^ My dad was fascinated with the math puzzles in this book but I never even bothered trying to solve them. I'm terrible at math and don't really like it. Maybe when I reread soon I will try again though ;D Some of them were pretty interesting from what I remember. Maybe I'll learn something ;D
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Post by mckay on Sept 20, 2007 2:14:16 GMT -5
i like the last problem, where you do the mirror image stuff with the numbers. That was pretty cool, but it bugged me that the final question had nothing to do with math. Frankly, had I been on the losing team, I'd have been pissed.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 20, 2007 7:50:13 GMT -5
^ Agree. Wasn't it some kind of picture riddle or something? I should reread and see if I can solve it ;D
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 4, 2007 20:34:43 GMT -5
Ugh, this book gave me a headache, I cannot stand math at all, it is my worst subject by far. Lol, as soon as I saw Mean Girls I thought of this book. Kevin G Rocks!
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Post by lark on Oct 17, 2007 14:22:51 GMT -5
^ This book gave me a headache too. I HATE math. I did enjoy the non-Math parts, however.
And yeah, I was totally thinking about the Mathletes from Mean Girls while reading this book. ("You can't do that! That's social suicide!")
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Post by macca on Oct 17, 2007 17:28:18 GMT -5
I remember seeing Mean Girls and being so excited that the Mathletes really do exist ;D
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Post by liss31d on Oct 18, 2007 1:58:54 GMT -5
I guess you could say that the last problem is mathematical as it's to do with symmetry... but I'd be pretty annoyed because I don't think I would have worked it out (in maths classes, I always used to feel like everything was a trick question!).
Haha I always think of Mean Girls as well when I read this book now. I guess the difference is in this book that there were only two genuinely geeky guys in the team, Jason and Alexander.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 18, 2007 7:44:57 GMT -5
^ Once again, I'm out of touch with things ;D since I've never seen Mean Girls. What is it about and how is it related to the book? Maybe I'll have to watch. I liked this one because it showed a club member doing something intellectual. I also really enjoyed the subplot as I always like it when Claudia sees that she can actually do academic things if she tries.
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Post by lark on Oct 18, 2007 8:14:34 GMT -5
^ You should see it, it's a really funny movie. (They play it on TBS a lot.)
Basically in the movie Lindsay Lohan's character is good at math, so they want her to be on the Mathletes, and she's thinking about joining until the popular girls she's hanging out with tell her it's social suicide and she can't join. And the head of the Mathletes is this kid named Kevin G. (I don't know how to spell his whole last name) who is also a DJ according to his business card.
That's a crappy explanation, but I don't want to spoil the movie!
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