I was in class the other day and turned to ask my friend Andrew the time.

He started digging around in his pocket, and I expected to see him whip out his cell phone. It was a pretty risky move – we were surrounded by administrators. I looked over my shoulder, as I’m paranoid about teachers snatching cell phones away. I turn back around to see my friend holding a shiny, gold pocket watch.

He promptly answered “a quarter ‘til,” and went about his business.

With a new year comes a new change to the LS schedule. Unfortunately I don’t see this change for the better.

For each of the four years learning seminar has been established it has been accompanied by a re-design. LS started out as being one period for each of the two seminars, making a total of nine periods. The following year the two seminars where expanded into two periods shortening the transition time from class to class. And after that year, LS went back to being one period.