Inside the LCL

The LCL is a room that even the well-educated Lancer may not even be able to place. It is the Library Computer Lab, home to AP Computer Science and Independent Study students during third hour. Hands down probably the quirkiest class you’ll ever see. A classroom filled with not even 20 kids, but you’ll hear the most interesting conversations that you’ve ever heard, or the weirdest.

The class is generally separated into two halves. One side has the five Independent Study students and the other has the AP students. Today, all the AP students got in a huge argument over whether a snowman had snow or was snow. It was a computer science joke over object inheritance, and, since I’m sure you don’t get it all, you know realize how interesting of a class this is.

The person I sit next to got made fun of for using Windows Vista. If you use Windows Vista, don’t fret–you’re not doing anything bad. But in the group of computing elitists that make up this class, it is a cause for shame, you may be dubbed a “noob” or newbie for using a dumbed down operating system. Told you this class was weird.

But the great thing about this class is that it’s really is a thinktank. Not like your typical brainstorming-in-English-cause-you’re-forced-to type thinktank, everyone in the class loves what they’re doing. They go home and do it for even longer without any assignment. We work through logic problems on the computer for fun and solve them. We create our own programs, websites and computing tools and think its fun. People always ask me, “why do you like that elective?” and I tell them because I think it’s fun. I get called a nerd, but I don’t really care. It is kind of nerdy and we’re weird people, but no one really cares in the LCL.