Senior college trip 2011
August 30, 2011
Filed under Multimedia, Student Life
This slideshow contains pictures from the senior-only field trips to various colleges. The seniors visited Emory, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Georgia Gwinnett College, and Clayton State University to check out their campuses, classrooms and to get comfortable with the college environment. The... Read more »
Crafting a new kind of game
August 23, 2011 • Dylan St. John, Carpe Diem Staff
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Creating a video game can be as complex as filming a Hollywood movie. Today’s mainstream video game takes around a year to develop and, on average, costs over $20 million. The process involves meticulous planning, intense, drawn-out development and tedious pre-release testing. Despite all of this,... Read more »
Speech really matters, you know?
August 23, 2011 • Leela Goshorn, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Opinions
I sound dumb. It wasn’t something I was aware of. When I had a conversation with someone, I was only listening to what they were saying, not my own voice. But once I joined Scribbler, started conducting interviews and had to listen to myself talk on recordings, I noticed. I talk slowly. I say “like”... Read more »
Clever with cotton
August 23, 2011 • Hannah Reiss, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features, Student Life
Freshman John Hughes sits down and sketches the joker from “The Dark Knight” – he saw the movie a few weeks ago and especially liked the character. But he’s not sketching on paper, he’s sketching on cloth. Once he’s done coloring, he’ll cut out his picture and have his mom sew it on a shirt.... Read more »
There’s still hope for the humans
August 22, 2011 • Sam McLemore, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features, News
Sorry cockroaches, humans might outlast you. In recent years, the issues of global warming, the energy crisis and resource depletion have become mainstream doomsday topics. Even though the end of the world might seem imminent, green technology is fighting back. Since World War II, American prosperity... Read more »
Their only constant
August 19, 2011 • Sharlie Goodson, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features
One of my earliest memories is me being held by mom, and I’m standing between my parents and I tell them to stop fighting. At that point I knew something bad was happening and that some things needed to be changed,” sophomore Mollie-Emma O’Neil said. When senior Boone O’Neil was five and his... Read more »
Softball team takes home first in Jordan Invitational
August 18, 2011 • Sam Levy, Sports Editor
Filed under Sports
At softball practice for the Decatur Bulldogs, there is no laughing. Coach Gary Anderson doesn’t allow it. “It’s not like we don’t have fun at practice, we do,” said junior shortstop Kendall Lewis. “Everybody on the team thinks we have a legitimate chance of going to, and winning, the state... Read more »
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