I can’t remember if we got them freshman or sophomore year, but for at least the past two years our school has given us assignment notebooks. They sucked last year because they were these huge things that weren’t much more sophisticated than a bunch of loose-leaf papers stapled together, but this year they rock. They're like spiral notebooks, except tinier and more durable. The cover is holographic, and it, get this, "is sensitive to extreme heat." It sounds almost like something that should be handled only with safety goggles and plastic gloves. Anyway, back to this holographic cover. Mine is super-spiffy because the colors change from purple to blue to white to pink, whereas my friend’s is lacking in pink. The holograms consist of a flying eagle, a shoreline, a spaceship, lightning, and two runners. I think that whoever came up with the cover design probably came up with it at the last minute and realized that it looks like a bunch of random clip art put together on a whim to meet a deadline. So the person tied the holograms all together by putting them all inside a globe (except for the rocket, which is outside the globe- clever, eh?) and then positioned the words "You can make a difference! / Be the best you can be!" on the front. Yeah, sure. The background on "You can make a difference!" is a hologram, too, so I still approve of the annoyingly overused motivational phrase. And to top it off, when I flip the planner back and forth, it looks like the two male runners are holding hands. Good stuff.
On the inside, they packed it with even more stuff that I’ll never look at, but still makes it look official looking. There is a truancy policy, a gambling policy, then a million other policies, advertisements, a page where you write down "I’m really good at: ___", successful study strategies and test-taking skills, measurement conversion tables, math and physics formulas, a periodic table, a crappy world map with time zones, and then actual pages to write down assignments (they reluctantly realized that they probably had to stick those somewhere in an assignment notebook). Plus a million other things that I don’t feel like listing. On the assignment pages, there are little pearls of wisdom such as "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." That sounds a lot like quitter talk to me....
Anyway, good assignment notebooks. Very spiffy.
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