The new building is rising like a behemoth right before our eyes. Some look at it with unbridled excitement while others view it with jaded trepidation. In which camp do you belong? How do you think the new building will affect our current iPoly culture? List 3 positive effects and 3 negative effects of our finally having a building.
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January 23, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Positive effects:
When it rains we won’t have to stand in the rain.
The classrooms will be new and clean.
Our class will be the first seniors in the new buidling!
Negative effects:
We will have to walk even farther to get food.
There won’t be a Thinnes store.
There won’t be a radio club.
January 23, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Positive Effects
1. New classrooms and an actual facility!
2. With hallways, we’ll have clocks right? I hope.
3. We still wont have a bell! I-Poly tradition lives on.
Negative Effects
1. All of the food places are going to be farther.
2. No more radio shows and mingling in the quad as an entire school.
3. We’re on the same floor as Freshmen.
January 24, 2012 at 1:05 am
I-Poly is the only parking lot I can say is remarkable.After almost three years on this parking lot, I admit I belong in Parking lot K rather than the new building. However, I honestly don’t see how it will particularly affect our morale since we are all special (in the good way) and already have Parking lot K in our hearts. Though the freedom we did have by being a bunch of portables in the middle of ghetto-ville, I am sure we will gain as many freedoms as we lost to balance it all out, Like Pang says, it’s “no problem!”
But, what are some freedoms we will gain and lose? Well, here are some positive and negative effects to this new change:
On a negative note:
1. We will no longer be able to mingle in fresh air.
2. We will no longer be able to groove to radio shows!
3. On a personal note, I will no longer experience Daly tell off college kids who ride their bikes through the middle of the quad.
But, on the positive side:
1. We won’t have to deal with the lakes of yucky water that come each time it rains.
2. We will have WARM WATER IN THE BATHROOMS TO USE FOR WASHING OUR HANDS!
3, We will be the first graduating class for the new building!
January 24, 2012 at 5:30 pm
To be honest I really don’t care about a new school or not. If anything I’ll miss some of the daily things that are a part of i poly life such as the music playing in the quad and how a game between two classes could be witnessed from anywhere. On the plus side all i could really look forward to would be the first class to graduate. But as I stated before it doesn’t matter to me at all.
January 24, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Positive Effects:
1. CLEAN BATHROOMS (:
2. More trees and grass (I hope)
3. We will be the first to graduate from the building making us legends
Negative Effects:
1. New I-poly students won’t know what its like to be in the portables
2. No longer saying I go to school in a parking lot
3. Seniors aren’t on the top floor
I am really excited for the new building despite these negative effects. I can’t wait to move in there and be the first to graduate from our new building!
January 24, 2012 at 7:09 pm
I am part of the jaded trepidation group, I hate the new building and I don’t like it. I hope there is an earthquake preventing us to move into the new school for another year so I at least don’t have to go to it.
3 positive, I have none, but I will pull something:
* We get Ipads
* There is more parking space?
* We get to trash and dismember the portables (its only good because it will be fun)
Negatives
* We have to walk more for up and up up.
* There is no hang out area like the quad.
* No Thinnes-mart.
* No radio show.
* Two stories.
* People might grow apart.
* It will start to feel and look more like a traditional school.
* Out door activities may be affected.
* There might be sectionalism.
* The new school might smell funny.
* Its bad for the environment, we now have a larger carbon footprint.
* I don’t like it.
January 24, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Im in the unbridled excitement camp. Even though our traditional IPoly campus is now going to be destroyed, I’m satisfied with the three years I got to enjoy the parking lot. Now im excited about finally having a building because it means IPoly is getting somewhere and is succeeding.
Positive Things:
1. We won’t have to stand in the rain anymore.
2. We’ll be the first to graduate from the new building
3. It’s the closest we’ll ever get to being called a “normal highschool”
Negative Things:
1. We won’t be able to hear Daly yell at college students anymore
2. There won’t be anymore radio show ):
3. All the other classes will now have to walk more to get to the P.E area.
January 25, 2012 at 7:54 pm
With the grand opening of ipoly’s new campus, there are many things that are exciting ,yet nerve wrecking about this upcomming day. Overall, I am excited to the new school, and anxious for us ipoly citizens to be able to see it completed. I am happy, yet scared about the new changes upon our campus.
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POSITVE THINGS:
- OUR SCHOOL WILL BE MUCH MORE SAFE & SANITARY ?.. HOPEFULLY
- THE SCHOOL WILL LOOK DEFIANTELY BRAND NEW
- THERE COULD BE BETTER TECHNOLOGY FOR US TO USE
- WE STILL WILL HAVE GREAT STAFF & STUDENTS!
- BETTER RESTROOMS !
- THE CLASS OF 13′ WILL RULE THE SCHOOL (:
NEGATIVE THINGS:
- WE WONT BE ABLE TO SAY I GO TO SCHOOL IN A PARKING LOT ANYMORE ):
- NO MORE RADIO SHOW OR THINNES MART :O
- IPOLY’S STUDENTS WILL FEEL DISTANT , ANY MAYBE GROW DISTANT BECAUSE OF THE 2 STORY LEVELS.
January 25, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Positive:
-Easier Senior Prank (First seniors to make Senior Prank in new building)
-New Classrooms & technology
-Actual bathrooms & actual high school halls
Negative:
-No more Quad to watch people play frisbee, soccer, etc.
-No more music during passing period
-VERY different environment that doesn’t make our school as special
January 25, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Oh and I am part of the jaded trepidation group because I loved our quad it had so many memories and being in an actual high school is to different from what were we have been. Then again though we will only be there a year so I am excited for that in a way.
January 25, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Positive Effects:
1. Our surroundings would look modernized.
2. People would recognize it as a high school instead of telling me, “That’s your SCHOOL? PORTABLES? How is that a school?”
3. It would visually uphold the prestigious name our school is known for. (This applies to me, at least. Everyone thought iPoly was the “ivy league” of high schools. Ha.)
Negative Effects:
1. It would be difficult to “people-watch” now that we’d be more spread apart. (Weird, I know. It’s a habit.)
2. I have a feeling some stupid underclassmen would purposely ruin some part of the new building because it’s “cool.”
3. It might get crowded in the halls outside of the classroom, therefore causing a crowd that I would have to dodge. I don’t like being near people.
January 26, 2012 at 4:01 pm
GOOD:
1. Less walking
2. New high tech computers
3. Clean bathrooms
BAD:
1. No more student store
2. No more quad runners
3. No more parking lot school
January 26, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Positive Effects:
-More gadgets to play with
-Don’t have to deal with the flooding
-Indoors!
Negative Effects:
-May not have the same iPoly family feeling
-No more student store
-Further distance from Up
January 26, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Positive effects:
• The class won’t shake if someone is jumping.
• Clean restrooms.
• The bus stop will be closer to walk to.
Negative effects:
• The Thinnes Mart won’t exist.
• No more music during breaks.
• I won’t be able to tell people that I go to school on a parking lot.
January 26, 2012 at 8:54 pm
I think I would be in the unbridled excitement camp because im happy that we are going to get a new building but also grateful that I got to spend three years in the portables.
Postive Effects:
- Cleaner restrooms
- Will have an auditorium instead of going to ursa major/minor
- Won’t have to stand in the rain
Negative Effects:
- Won’t be able to hang out in the quad during break
- The Thinnes mart won’t be available
- Having to share the first floor with the incoming freshmen
January 26, 2012 at 9:00 pm
I am on the border line of jaded trepidation and unbridled excitement. I see the advantages of having an actual building and being to have some feeling of a normal high-school. But personally I don’t want that feeling, I love every single thing about I-Poly the way it is. I enjoy being weird.
Positives:
+ The new classrooms and technology we’ll have access to.
+ The green technology I am hopeful for.
+ Being able to be the first to graduate and first to pull off an awesome prank!
Negatives:
+ No more quad games, or being able to call someone all the way across the quad and do something weird together.
+ There won’t be any hanging around listening to music and singing along while waiting to go to class.
+ It is quite possible that the absence of fresh open space after class will cause friend groups to move apart because they can’t reach each other before it’s time for class.
+ The new classes will take time to adjust to, and most of us won’t feel at home.
January 26, 2012 at 9:24 pm
I am excited about having a new building, but at the same time, I dread what it’s going to do to iPoly. It’s going to be fun to be the first class to graduate from the building, and that will somewhat be our legacy, but the portables are what make iPoly come to life. Going to school on a parking lot makes us humble, it adds character to our school, and the students are what make up our school. Getting rid of the portables is like getting rid of a piece of every iPoly student, aside from next year’s freshman. It makes me sad to think that future iPoly students won’t be able to get the real, raw iPoly experience. The new building won’t only be changing the lives of the students, but of the teachers too. I mean, think of the teachers that have been at iPoly since the beginning, like Mrs. Cancino. She’s been at iPoly when they were in trouble of being shut down, and when they were supposed to get a new building years ago. She’s seen the school multiply in numbers and grow into a family, faculty-wise and student-wise. Enough about my ranting though, here are my three positive and three negative effects about the building:
Positive:
1. A new building will offer shelter from the rain and extremely cold winter mornings.
2. A building will attract more students (I’m not so sure that’s a positive thing though.)
3. We’ll have new computers and new everything pretty much.
Negative:
1. There will be no more lake iPoly in the middle of the quad when it rains.
2. Since Mama Thinnes helps pay for the yearbook with money she makes at the Thinnes Mart, yearbook is going to be screwed when it comes to paying for the yearbook to be made (it costs $17,000+ yikes!).
3. It’s going to be a lot harder to find people during passing period with both stories.
January 27, 2012 at 1:05 am
I’m excited to have the building, but I’m also sad to leave that parking lot. It represent an aspect of I-Poly’s uniqueness and how we are a big family in a way. It’s a bittersweet idea, but it will be for the best.
Positive Effects:
1. We’ll be the first class to graduate from there!
2. Everything will be new and clean.
3. The teachers will finally get what they have been waiting for and for what they completely deserve, for being there all along.
4. I heard there MIGHT be a computer lab, so that would be a pretty cool addition.
Negative Effects:
1: Everyone is going to have to walk further to get food & go to P.E
2. We’re going to have to remember where all the classes are.
3. There’s not going to be a Thinnes mart (so we’re going to starve) and we won’t be able to lay music during the breaks.
4. We’re going to have to look back at the parking lot and see nothing.
January 27, 2012 at 1:22 am
Well I am a bit excited about the new building but then again not that much. Honestly, I think that the I-Poly spirit would be way different with the new building. Its like taking out the peanut butter in a peanut butter jelly sandwich. It is still going to taste good but it is going to be missing some flavor.
Positive Effects:
1. We are going to be the first class to graduate out of the building.
2. It will look clean and cool just like in the movies.
3. We will have new awesome technology we will be able to use.
4. Also we don’t have to wait out in the rain for our parents to pick us up when it rains.
Negative Effects:
1. We will not music playing during passing period.
2. We will have to walk a further to go get our food and other important things.
3. No more Thinnes mart is a really bad thing.
4. We will not have the peanut butter in our sandwich.
January 27, 2012 at 11:02 am
I truly believe that iPoly IS iPoly because of our location, and where we are. Everyone loves to tell people that they go to school in a parking lot. (or, at least I do.) iPoly is made up of quad dancing, the radio show, Thinnes mart, and many other wild antics only iPolyians indulge in. In the new school, radio show will be gone, as quad dancing will fade; Thinnes mart will be long forgotten, and nobody will be able to enjoy warm Hot Pockets on a cold, rainy morning.
The iPoly culture will undoubtedly change, whether for the better, or for worse, we will all find out eventually…
Positive:
1. It’s a brand-new school!
2. We will be the first class to graduate in the building!
3. The school will have innovative, new aspects that will further the awesome-ness of our school.
Negative:
1. There will be no more radio show.
2. Although we will have a quad, it will not be the same as the quad we have now.
3. Thinnes-mart will be gone, and it will be a much further travel to Vista and Up, and up-up.
January 27, 2012 at 11:15 am
The new building is rising like a behemoth right before our eyes. Some look at it with unbridled excitement while others view it with jaded trepidation. In which camp do you belong? How do you think the new building will affect our current iPoly culture? List 3 positive effects and 3 negative effects of our finally having a building.
I personally am in the camp of jaded trepidation because I see the new school’s negative aspects as outweighing the positive. Everyone at IPoly is like family because of the fact that our buildings are all close to each other and we have a “ghetto” school which gives us a sense of pride in the fact that we do better than dare I say every other school we are compared to.
Positive:
1. We will have an actual school.
2. We will have water fountains.
3. We will have an auditorium.
Negative:
1. The citizens of IPoly will not be as close as if we had portables.
2.There will be no puddles to jump in on rainy days.
3. Teachers will not let students “renovate” the brand new nice rooms like they let us with the portables. The same is also true for the outside quad.
January 27, 2012 at 11:27 am
I believe that I am apart of both the unbridled excitement, and jaded trepidation group. I’m excited because there are a number of good things that are coming out of this new school, but I feel like it’s a little bit too much. And I feel guilty for having this costly school. The other day I was driving around Los Angeles and I saw many poor looking schools. No, they weren’t on a parking lot like our school but they looked like they seriously needed a face-lift. Most of them were elementary schools. I would much rather have something comfortable and subtle then an extravagant building that seems way to big for a school of only 500 people in it. I would much rather prefer if money was put into an elementary school to protect the students and create a safe working environment for them. I know it’s already to late because the school is already half way done being built, but I can’t help but feel remorseful.
I also believe that our Ipoly culture with definitely be affected. Every one will be on different floors and different WINGS of the HUGE school. It’ll start becoming a normal high school. And that is NOT the Ipoly way! One of my favorite qualities of Ipoly is that we all know everyone. I fear that that will be affected and we wont have that special quality anymore.
Anyhow, here are my three positive and negative effects:
Positive-
1. CLEAN BATHROOMS WITH MIRRORS!!!! (Real mirrors, not that piece of metal that poorly reflects my beautiful face!)
2. The fact that it’s brand new and we get to be the first class to graduate from it.
3. I wont have to wait in the FREEZING COLD, every morning for and hour. -__- (Hopefully.)
4. Having normal school things, but I will miss being different.
Negative-
1. Our individuality will DIE. The paintings on all the doors will be gone ): along with the bathroom murals, and the mural on Ortega’s wall. (The ocean one.)
2. The fact that we are further from Up, and Up up doesn’t really effect me because I’ll be a senior and I can go off campus and I don’t have to be back at class, but for the lower classmen this could be a negative effect.
3. The simple fact that we will never be special Lot K again. Yea we’re a little ratty school of portables on a college parking lot, but you cant judge a book by its cover. As soon as someone steps into the Ipoly world, they’re an Ipolyian forever, and they know that there’s so much more to this school then crappy portables.
January 27, 2012 at 11:42 am
positive:
1.The school will be noticeable
2. First class to graduate from the new building
3. when its raining your shoes won’t get messed up from the the big puddles
4.i get to push specific people when it gets crowded
negative:
1. the basketball courts would be further
2. there would be stairs and i would have to walk up and down a lot (it would also be even more complicated for handicap people)
3.It would be hard to find where my home boys are at
January 27, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Positive:
1. First class to graduate from the new building.
2. Larger classrooms.
3. Will actually look like a regular school.
Negative:
1. Will actually look like a regular school.
2. Not as much freedom.
3. The I-Poly parking lot spirit will be gone.
January 27, 2012 at 3:52 pm
I personally don’t like the idea of a new building as much as the idea of Lot K. I think as Ipoly, we’re known as “the school on the parking lot” and as bad as that sounds, it’s usually followed with “it’s so uniqe.” I believe that Lot K is what makes Ipoly, Ipoly.
Positive:
-We’ll be looked upon as an actual high school.
-The school will be closer to the bus stop!
-Class of 2013 will be the first clas to graduate from it.
Negative:
-It’s not going to feel like an “Ipoly” environment.
-It will take longer to walk to “up” or “up-up” for lunch.
-We won’t have things like the Thinnes Mart or radio show anymore which was minor factors that made Ipoly such a great and fun place.
January 27, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Though the building of our new school is a joyous and fortunate event, it is also a dismal one. So, like many of the students, I’m simply stuck in the middle of unbridled excitement and jaded trepidation.
Positive:
1. It’s brand spankin’ new! Who doesn’t love new stuff?
2. There is going to be an elevator! Not that stairs aren’t satisfactory, but elevators are pretty fun.
3. No more ruined shoes from the rain!
Negative:
1. We will no longer be able to reminisce and squirm at the underclassmen participating in past projects like Lord of the Flies or Daly and Thinnes sending out the sophomores to do their door scenes.
2. We won’t be able to people watch from Ogden’s ramp as seniors, which is the BEST spot for people watching on campus.
3. I think the worst part about getting the new building is that once it’s done, our little area of portables will be gone and it’ll be turned into actual parking again, almost like washing away all of the memories everyone has made over the last few years and into a sea of cars.
January 27, 2012 at 7:53 pm
The three positive effects would be:
1. Cleaner classrooms
2. Cal poly will have their parking lot back.
3. More students will want to go to this school because it looks more like a normal high school.
The three negative effects would be:
1. There would be no more quad or interaction amongst all the kids in the schools.
2. We will not be able to play music anymore.
3. No more sunshine.
January 27, 2012 at 9:44 pm
I’m somewhere in the middle because my head goes back and forth in the pro’s and con’s of a new building for I-poly. For example:
Pro’s:
1. Better classrooms.
2. An auditorium for the our pep rallies and drama rehearsals.
3. We won’t look so ghetto.
Con’s:
1. No more big quad to run around in.
2. All those stairs…
3. We probably wont talk to the freshman and sophomores as much anymore.
4. and I really want to emphasize this last one…Our portables, parking lot and cold water in the bathroom is what I have always known. It’s become home and anything different is more than a little sad. Those cracks in the gravel were our cracks, those blue and gray portables were our portables, that giant tree in front of Cancino’s classroom gave us shade in the heat of our parking lot, everything we had in our ghetto looking school gave us character and I will dearly miss it.