#Acdec

[acadec]

Alright, it's been two months since the resource guides dropped! How far are we all?

[blebbloom]

guys when they marry rich to become a writer (unsuccessful) and spend their days pulled by the frivolities of their spouse without reflecting upon their life together only to realize after upon reflection after their spouse's death how that time was the best part of their life and they can never get back to it without distorting their memories in perpetual winter

[fluffydice]

Trying to decide whether I should split the one-shot into two chapters

[neil-gaiman]

hello mr. gaiman! did you know that mushroom hunters is on the curriculum for the 2024 u.s. academic decathlon? maybe you were asked or notified (I don't know how acdec content works) but I just wanted to tell you how happy I am to see your work in acdec!

I didn't know. That's wonderful.

[spideychelleforever]

(Inspired by @seek--rest here )

So many movies and shows brag about how their characters marry their best friend. Or how their spouses are their best friend. Or how they-they-ugh. It just got more annoying the more she thought about it.

Because MJ wanted to get through school and go to the next school with her best friends Peter Parker and Ned Leeds.

But she was stuck because she was hopelessly in love with the former. And the latter knew about it, too.

They were all geniuses but somehow Peter was oblivious to one of his best friends being in love with him, and somehow she was dumb enough to fall as hard as she did for her best friend who would surely never reciprocate. And Ned got to be the main audience for it.

Bless Ned. He was wholly sympathetic to it, he wanted it to happen. He listened to her if she wanted to rant about him and even indulged her so she could mention to him how cute Peter looked that day. But in a way, he made her feel worse through no fault of his own because it was his two best friends in this weird dance, and she felt like she would make him choose her side or something. He’d told her more than once that would never be the case, but she also worried that what if her feelings caused the trio to break up, leaving Ned without anybody or one of them.

UGHHHH. She tore into her stress ball. Get back to work, she told herself. Peter can wait, but your paper can’t.

Then one of the absolute worst days MJ had experienced in a long time came - when she saw Peter making heart eyes at Liz.

“Too late, you guys are losers,” MJ snarked to him and Ned. She tried to keep the venom out of her voice, the sound of the shattering that was going on inside her chest from getting out of her mouth. Because she still couldn’t truly be mad at him, it wasn’t something she had a right to be upset with him about, after all.

But it still hurt.

MJ wanted to bury it, but some part of her wondered if that was healthy. But what would be the healthiest approach right now? Just move on and accept Peter would never like her back? She didn’t like that idea, even though Peter had never given her any indication he liked her. So she wouldn’t be losing anything if she moved on.

Still, something in MJ refused to let him go. Maybe it was spending most days with him, whether it was reading her book while he and Ned played video games, or whether they ate sandwiches with the bread smushed down real flat, or whether they studied together. Spending time with him made her so happy, but she was also in pain because she did want him in another way. But why wasn’t she happy with him being her best friend?

If there’s one thing MJ’s mind was, it was a mess of contradictions, roundabouts and detours. This possibility and that possibility. Much of it, however, was clouded by Peter.

And that simply wouldn’t do. She couldn’t let herself be so invested in a boy who didn’t even like her back. Even if he did make her happy.

So she decided that, if she couldn’t bring herself to move on from Peter, she needed to at least remember she had a life outside of Peter. Even if she wanted to spend her life with him- good God, get a grip, girl! It scared her how easily she could say and think things like that when she was just some chick in high school pining for some boy. Ugh!

So she devoted herself to her schoolwork. She worked hard to pull her weight on the AcDec team, enough to keep up with Liz, enough that facts were getting burned into her brain. She started looking at colleges early, far earlier than her peers, and what kind of career she maybe wanted. She tried to enjoy her time with her parents at home more than she already did, and her time with her best friends more. She kept things as casual as possible, and to be fair, Peter was so oblivious he wouldn’t notice a thing.

She had a whole life to live, she told herself. And it wouldn’t be defined by her best friend she was in love with. At least, that was the plan.

[flowerflamestars]

Not someone else who understands the Academic Decathlon madness! The after school practices, the endless binders of materials, the bizarre fact that somehow it all was focused around a single topic? I feel like it explains a lot about us

our group burned the materials in a bonfire at the end of each season 😂

Oh my god!! We also burned our materials?? In a giant desert bonfire that once included fireworks, dangerously. (sixteen year old boys are. a kind of human. for sure)

The binders, the teens in office wear, the SPEECHES, the sheer insane amount of time spent learning esoteric information?? it explains so much, somehow.

Side bizarre anecdote: I met? the FOUNDER OF DEMIDEC? in 2013 when he was unsuccessfully trying to pivot from not just making educational materials for acdec, but trying to start some kind of adult quiz competition international circuit. I cannot overstate what a weird bouncy ball of man he was, the precise kind of manic that spawns, well. The professional grade binders.

[chryzuree]

chrysi in all her clubs & her pet bestfriend boyfriend sitting next to her cluelessly. this guy should NOT be in acdec but it wasn’t like he was going to let chrysi go to it ALONE

[an-absolute-travesty]

honey don’t sweat it <333

40% of my friends are acdec kiddos and i am basically working unpaid part time jobs :) so :)

i get it :,,,)

take time for you and i love you <3

also if i can cheer/confirm you with a writing request lmk

Woooo joint suffering! I love you too <3

I wish I had the energy to write, school is draining me so hard I can’t even do that 😭 looking forward to spring break and actually yk being able to do things I like

[kissmedcadly]

thinkin about acdec and how vic would have excelled at that shit in high school if she wasn't already juggling like. honors classes and singing/piano lessons and trying not to kill herself LAUDHZJAISHX

[audiomixtape]

are you… an acdec kid??

yeah! 1 of 2 acadec kids who use tumblr lol

[acadec]

Finished social science resource guide today. We are now allowed to say that technically Jesus is an acadec reference

[blebbloom]

There are a lot of names teams use to call Academic Decathlon! At a competition a while back, there were many heated debates on which team was the most correct. Today, I'm bringing the debate to you.

[macybay947]

:/ my school administration isn't doing acdec next year bc they don't want to fund it

[brbimstudyign]

3 more days until

my first semester as a junior is finally over, i wish i hadn't slacked off and not worked as hard but: there's nothing i can do now..

i was told that this semester should just tell me to work harder for the next, so i guess i'll try to?

i'm just gonna spill my feelings onto here, and admit:

i wish i studied more this semester

i wish i didnt fuck around wasting time

i lowkey wish i didnt go to my hs where i am

but i also have to admit:

holy shit- theres nothing i can do now

[fandoms-stoll-my-life]

2019-2020 Academic Decthalon Topic

The U.S. Academic Decathlon® is excited to announce that the overall curricular theme for 2019–2020 will be In Sickness and in Health: An Exploration of Illness and Wellness. Following is some general information on the topics in each of the subject areas.

SCIENCE: The science topic will be an introduction to the biology of cancer.

LITERATURE: The literature curriculum will include critical reading, one long work of literature, and selected shorter works. The long work of literature will be the 1818 version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

ART: The art curriculum will include a section on art fundamentals and will largely focus on an exploration of illness and wellness in art.

MUSIC: The music curriculum will introduce students to various musical works from across the centuries that will allow them to examine the role of mortality in Western art music.

SOCIAL SCIENCE: The social science curriculum will introduce students to the history of healthcare.

ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics and will also include a thematic section on health economics.

MATHEMATICS: The mathematics curriculum will cover algebra and trigonometry.*

* The 2019–20 mathematics curriculum and materials will be the same as were used for the 2016–17 U.S. Academic Decathlon.

The full subject area outlines will be posted on the U.S. Academic Decathlon website on May 1 and will also be published in the U.S. Academic Decathlon Study Guide, which will begin shipping on May 15.

[ungracefulstudies]

October 10, 2017 🍂 Studying for Academic Decathlon, featuring Aristotle the Cactus :) The Beats For Studying radio on Pandora is really nice to listen to while doing homework!