Ms. Deragisch

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Worth revisiting @ClintSmithIII’s poem “When people say ‘we have made it through worse before’” today I think

Who lived when? Some surprises here

Reeeeeaaal disappointed in the nanowrimo ai statement. I have participated since 2017 with my students and it is always a fun, and difficult, creative challenge. Allowing AI to write part or all of their stories completely defeats the purpose of the challenge and the project.

Went in to work today for a couple hours and was greeted by this scholar. Love working at the @eSTEMacademy lol

The 2024 AP English Literature & Composition Exam scores: 5: 13%; 4: 27%; 3: 32%; 2: 17%; 1: 11%. All subjects’ AP score distributions for 2024 will be posted here when available: apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-score…

‘Eclipse’ is borrowed from Greek ‘ékleipsis’ which means “abandonment, failure, cessation, obscuring of a celestial body by another.” So please protect your eyes when working through your abandonment issues today.

Poetry Madness winner for 2024: Quilts by Nikki Giovanni poets.org/poem/quilts

Incredibly embarrassing. 😔

In light of Rare Disease Day, I am proud to announce that AB 2563 was introduced which would mandate newborns to be screened for Duchenne in California. I want to give a special thank you to Assemblyman @billessayli for introducing this. The Assemblyman and I go back as he was my high school’s Mock Trial coach as an accomplished attorney.  This is a video of my written statement on this issue.  I’m calling on advocacy groups like @MDAorg, @CureDuchenne, @ParentProjectMD, and others to join me and help with this initiative. I’m also calling on those in biotech like @Sarepta, @CatalystForRare, @Capricor, @SatellosBio, @PTCBio, @Solid_Bio, @DNANanobots, and others in the Duchenne space, tohelp support this effort. A simple letter of support would be a significant help.  Let’s build a better future for children. @RareDiseases

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀 Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station! Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀 🧵

@boscojack Haha thanks! ♥

Of course they are all doing well! They have an awesome teacher!

This is just sad. A cold-hard fact: The overwhelming majority of students who can do the work at top colleges won't get in to their top choices - because there are not enough slots. But they've been convinced getting one of those rare slots is the only way to be successful. 1/

It's the last week of NaNoWriMo 2023 and I'm feelin' great- my students are doing awesome too. A few are a bit behind but most are in striking distance! I was reflecting today on my past novels and the journey to 50k... some years were way more rough than others LOL

@kimlulawe @eSTEMacademy @CarolineCabaI @MrsCastanon @howell_kel I love how excited he is! 🥹

Can't wait to watch this when I get home!!

Chocolate Bar Theorem 🍫 Breaking a chocolate bar into N individual squares always takes N-1 steps regardless of the breaking protocol that is used.

NaNoWriMo starts a week from tomorrow and I’m not readdyyyyyyyy

Goldeneye is a great “better to ask for forgiveness than get permission” story. Released in August 1997, the game made $250m on a $2m budget. A major reason was its insanely fun multiplayer mode…which Nintendo didn’t ask for and developers snuck into the game at the last second. Many years later, Steve Ellis — a game developer for Rare — explained what went down: ➡️ “One of the things that always strikes me as crazy in retrospect is that until something like March or April of 1997, there wasn't a multiplayer mode at all. It hadn't even been started. It really was put in at the last minute – something you wouldn't dream of doing these days – and it was done without the knowledge or permission of the management at Rare and Nintendo. The first they knew about it was when we showed it to them working. However – since the game was already late by that time, if we hadn't done it that way, it probably never would have happened.” ⬅️ Rare had a team of only 10 core developers and it took 2.75 years to make the game, which actually came out 18 months after “Goldeneye” the film. Nintendo briefly cancelled the game but then pushed to release it (and expectations were low). Goldeneye was an instant hit with innovative stealth play, remote-control bombs and sniper rifles. Gaming mags (IGN, GamePro) have called it N64’s best multiplayer game, which is wild when you consider the platform also had Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. Goldeneye became N64’s 3rd best-selling title ever (also impressive because 7 of the top 9 are all original Nintendo IP). 1. Super Mario 64 (12m units) 2. Mario Kart 64 (10m) 🚨3. Goldeneye (9m) 4. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (8m) 5. Super Smash Bros (6m) 6. Pokémon Stadium (5m) 7. Donkey Kong 64 (5m) 8. Diddy Kong Racing (5m) 9. Starfox 64 (4m) Most importantly: without the unapproved last-second addition of multi-player, I couldn’t have spent 100s of hours being OddJob and smoking my unsuspecting friends with proximity mines.