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The idea is that the class gets assigned a project,

and then you have to work on it together with no

teacher in the room for the whole quarter.

The catch is that when you’re done, everyone

in your group gets the same grade. I found out

that Ricky Fisher is in my class, which could be

a big problem.

Ricky’s big claim to fame is that he’ll pick the

gum off the bottom of a desk and chew it if you

pay him fifty cents. So I don’t really have high

hopes for our final grade.

Tuesday

Today we got our Independent Study assignment,

and guess what it is? We have to build a robot.

At first everybody kind of freaked out, because