The new building is rising like a behemoth right before our eyes. Some look at it with unbridled excitement while others view it with jaded trepidation. In which camp do you belong? How do you think the new building will affect our current iPoly culture? List 3 positive effects and 3 negative effects of our finally having a building.
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January 23, 2012 at 11:39 am
I’ll miss the portables but having a building to call our own is cool, too. I think we’d feel more confident because we’d have a bigger environment. Usually people recognize iPoly as a small school, which is kind of true, but if we have an actual building, it probably would be as bothersome being called “a small school.”
Pos:
- Cal Poly won’t find us tedious anymore.
- Shelter from the rain
- New equipment and everything
Neg:
- Longer walk to the food courts
- Harder to escape out of in case of a fire or earthquake
- No more radioshow?
January 23, 2012 at 2:47 pm
The effects the new building will bring (in my opinion) a new twist to our IPoly culture. We, as students, see IPoly as a sideways school then a building that requires going up the staircase to get to the next class. Not to mention that people will finally notice our building (literally) as in how tall it will be, as well as how high-class it will be become.
Pos:
- IPoly will be respected as an actual school
- We’ll be in league with Cal Poly
- More comfortable (insolation as well as weather conditions)
Neg:
- No carpet (except multi-purpose room)
- Farther away from restaurants and other attractions at Cal Poly
- Bad for people that scared of heights (that is, if we have windows)
January 23, 2012 at 4:35 pm
I think the new school is really exciting. It will be my first school that is actually in the ground and not a portable. Yes, my elementary school was also an assortment of portables. I always kind of wanted to go to a regular school with buildings, so this is my dream coming true. The new school will make me more excited to come to school, hopefully.
Pros:
1. New bathrooms, heck yes!
2. Water fountains!
3. A multipurpose room so that drama can stop performing in a classroom!
Cons:
1. 2 story building, which will make it easier for the sophomores to jump off and die when they get assigned the flag component. This is a dark thought.
2. We won’t be able to tell when somebody is approaching the classrooms, due to lack of loud ramps.
3. On rainy days, I will probably break my clavicle, due to slippery concrete floors and the lack of friction on my VANS.
January 23, 2012 at 6:18 pm
I for one find the new school as a rather exciting new thing. Still, it is a little saddening to know that soon the portables that we have come to know and love as iPoly, will no longer be around. However, in spite of this I think that as long as our teachers are still around, ‘iPoly’ will still be iPoly.
Pros:
1.Our classrooms may now feel more roomy.
2.We will have new facilities.
3.We won’t need to borrow rooms as much from Cal Poly.
Cons:
1.Going up to Cal Poly facilities will take longer.
2.The classrooms may not feel quite as homey.
3.We will have to go up and down stairs for some classes
January 23, 2012 at 6:35 pm
In my personal opinion i find the new school to be bitter sweet. I say this because yes we get an actual building but at the same time we are losing the portables that we grown to love since freshmen year.
Pros:
1.Our classrooms will be bigger.
2.We will have a multi purpose room/ new Bathrooms
3.We will be a actual school.
Neg:
1: Longer walk to Vista
2: Concrete flooring
3: Losing all the memories we had in the portables on Lot K.
January 23, 2012 at 7:10 pm
I dont like that we are getting a new building. I grew attached to our bungalos. Everytime I brought my friends to our school during an event, they would give me a funny face and say “This is your school?” and with pride I say “Yup, dont be jelous.”
~ NEW COMPUTERS!!
~ Smooth pavement!
~ Multipurpose room
~ Bigger school = more people
~ No more Thinnes Mart
~ Its big..
January 23, 2012 at 7:48 pm
I’m not really sure which camp I am in. I am both optimistic and pesimistic about the new building. One thing is for sure, and that is that we will be the first year to graduate from the BEHEMOTH, and that will definitely go down in the records.
Good:
1. There will be more space for students, teachers, and faculty alike. No more cramped classrooms or offices.
2. SHADE! It does not rain that much, but there is more than enough sunlight.
3. I can show off the school to my family without mentioning Cal Poly and they will still be impressed.
Bad:
1. We will have to leave behind the trees and the murals, which have been at the school for many years.
2. We might get lost again, just like Freshman year. Or maybe that was just me.
3. Theres a chance that we will become a “normal” school, and that would make I-Poly entirely different. More than likely for the worse.
January 23, 2012 at 7:49 pm
I’m not really sure which camp I am in. I am both optimistic and pesimistic about the new building. One thing is for sure, and that is that we will be the first year to graduate from the BEHEMOTH, and that will definitely go down in the records.
Good:
1. There will be more space for students, teachers, and faculty alike. No more cramped classrooms or offices.
2. SHADE! It does not rain that much, but there is more than enough sunlight.
3. I can show off the school to my family without mentioning Cal Poly and they will still be impressed.
Bad:
1. We will have to leave behind the trees and the murals, which have been at the school for many years.
2. We might get lost again, just like Freshman year. Or maybe that was just me.
3. Theres a chance that we will become a “normal” school, and that would make I-Poly entirely different. More than likely for the worse.
January 23, 2012 at 8:25 pm
I’ve personally always looked forward to having an actually school. It almost validates our school, as being a real high school. And I’m really excited to be apart of the first class to graduate from the new building. But even though a new building seems really awesome, moving out of the portables may also come with some cons.
Bad: -the new building may be somewhat inconvenient because of the upper level and given its location is a little farther from the Cal Poly campus itself. An example, towards having a two-story building would be having to walk up and down it and then also having to walk all the way to the campus.. it’s just a lot of walking that’s all..:P it would probably be inconvenient for teachers who wear high heels often too.
– Concrete/tile floors vs. carpet. Teachers usually prefer carpet flooring because it’s usually easier to clean.
– In a way, I think a part of the Ipoly culture itself would be overshadowed by the new building. For example, I know that a lot of students pride themselves on going to school in a “parking lot”. And obviously a lot of things will change. For example, we wouldn’t have the mural that’s by Melogno’s class. Also, the art that is on the teacher’s doors would most likely be removed.
Good: – possibility of janitors. teachers won’t have to clean their own classrooms anymore. eh? eh? eh? (;
– most likely cleaner bathrooms. . hopefully …
– high-tech stuff !!!!
January 23, 2012 at 8:47 pm
I’m actually really excited about this new building. I mean, I’ve never enrolled in an actual “built-into-the-ground” school. The drawings that I’ve seen of this building make this a huge feat for iPoly. It looks so modern, high-tech, but still pretty small considering normal high schools’. We’ll be able to do our projects more efficiently, and we won’t have to mooch off of CalPoly’s facilites anymore. But the portables were what really set us apart from normal schools. It gave us a sense of pride knowing we were different. And I must admit, it’s really fun to tell all my friends all the stories those portables contain.
Pro!
- Better facilities to house a project based school
- Not getting caught in the rain when walking from class to class. (The pavement also has a nasty habit of collecting puddles and if you’re unfortunate, it seeps into your shoes and gets your socks all soggy and cold.)
- Better bathrooms.
Cons!
- Risk becoming too much like a normal school.
- Bigger school, more people.
- Actual school bells? No radioshow?
January 23, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Sadly, I am not as hyped up for the new building as most of the students at iPoly are. I personally will miss the portables and the open quad! I will miss running out, passing by friends and feeling the sunshine on my face (well when it is sunny). I just feel like the new school will be too typical for me. But there will be some good sides.
Pros:
-More rooms for things other than basic classrooms! (Ex: computer lab, science lab)
-It would make our school seem less smaller.
-New floors, new windows, new everything = everything clean for at least the first month of moving in!
Cons:
-It will slowly become a regular high school and lose the ‘iPoly’ touch. (maybe)
-Walking, walking and more walking towards the food we need!
-Our portables are never coming back.
January 23, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Positive:
1.) We’ll be taken more seriously since having portables is in some cases laughable to say the least. Having our own building will put us more on the map and people will start to recognize that we are serious in our endeavors to be a “different” school.
2.) Overall morale will increase due an increased sense of pride in the school because of the wonderful new facilities. With a new place, students as well as teachers will be that much more motivated to be in school and will take greater pride in ipoly.
3.) Newer up to date equipment such as computers and science labs will be a great benefit to the school because too often we hear that there’s no budget for certain lab equipment so we all have to either share or do a watered down version of a lab that most other schools can do full scale.
Negative:
1.) Students will become increasingly “ethnocentric” about their school because of the new building. They will begin to brag and become morally irresponsible in the way that they carry themselves representing the school poorly.
2.) Overconfidence in new materials will become a problem because people will begin to have a disregard for taking care of the things they would normally have to take care of in the portables due to their extreme longevity.
3.) The Thinnes mart will cease to exist leaving students with an unsatisfied hunger and thirst for turkey sausage biscuits, Corn Nuts, and Snapple Teas. There will be hunger riots.
January 24, 2012 at 5:31 pm
I am excited about the new building since it will mean newer facilities that we can use and hopefully a better environment for us to learn in. I think the new building will affect our iPoly society since we won’t have all of the classrooms surrounding the quad where everyone sees everyone else. We will be closer to a regular school which wouldn’t make us unique anymore.
Pros:
-We will have stronger buildings instead of those weak portables
-Better bathrooms that kids will actually want to use.
-Maybe new traditions will start with the new building
Cons:
-It might get too loud since we will be in an indoor school building
-The grades might be separated ex) different floor levels so we might not get to see everyone like how we do now in the squad
-Maybe for the really lazy people, they might not like going up and down the stairs.
January 24, 2012 at 7:09 pm
I am in the latter camp. I can’t stomach change. AT ALL. I can barely get over the loss of the gymnastic “perfect ten” and I wasn’t even in utero for its last grand hurrah in the form of Lavinia Milosovici’s EF floor routine. Also, I fear the amount of snobbishness stemming from the upper grades towards newcomers. Something along the lines of, “I was here before we had a building, I had to walk around in rain puddles the size of the Aral Sea, I’m a REAL iPolyian, you’re just jumping on the bandwagon…” etc., etc. I’m sure Ms. Milosovici doesn’t strut around Deva going, “I was doing a full-in when you didn’t have to be Albert Einstein to figure out how to score the full-in” and blah blah blah. In any event, I should probably stop being so cynical and get to the point.
My Attempt to Inject Some Positivity Into This Blog Assignment:
-The dinosaur computers can finally go to a retirement home where they belong (although, this has nothing to do with the actual building itself.)
-We will not be so reliant on the college for space (i.e., with the multipurpose room, there won’t really be a need for us to bother Cal Poly Pomona so we can do our tradeshows.)
-An actual space for drama to perform.
Okay, Back to Reality
-Change often begets confusion and a lack of cohesiveness (I fear the staff, unused to the surroundings, will have a difficult time adjusting and thus the lessons and projects will suffer.)
-The students themselves may be lost or unable to find classrooms (thus, the normal teaching schedule will be disrupted and most of the beginning of the year will be spent getting oriented.)
-The “Hipster Effect.” (This was mentioned above, the whole “I’m better than you because I was here before” deal.) Because really, we’re self-righteous enough (I’m looking at you, upperclassmen and teachers, with your whole “I hate freshmen because they had the misfortune to be born earlier than me therefore they are inferior.) It’s getting old and I will punch the next person guilty of it in my vicinity.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter whether we get a building or not. A smart person can learn in any environment, whatever the circumstances or the architecture. We are incredibly lucky. We have had wonderful opportunities at iPoly. I think we ought to stop thinking about ourselves for a moment. I think the portables should be donated. Maybe to some young architect in Detroit. Or some little girl in Afghanistan. Or some aspiring Lavina Milosovici in Romania. Yeah. That would be nice.
January 25, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Although having a new building is good, I came from a school of many buildings so I can honestly say its not all that great. I think the new building will make interacting with people slightly easier because of being in a hallway with them is closer than a parking lot.
3 pros
-no more being in the cold or hot sun
-water fountains are more convenient than the office
-new clean bathrooms
3 cons
- concrete floors
-potential hallway traffic
-no fresh air
January 25, 2012 at 5:32 pm
The new building is rising like a behemoth right before our eyes. Some look at it with unbridled excitement while others view it with jaded trepidation. In which camp do you belong? How do you think the new building will affect our current iPoly culture? List 3 positive effects and 3 negative effects of our finally having a building.
I’m pretty optimistic about having the new building. I think its going to be a fresh new experience in my high school life. I think it wont have much effect on the iPoly culture because it will still be a small school
3 pros
-new class equipment
-potentially safer in a disaster than the weak portables
-it will feel more like a real school
cons
-losing the Thinnes mart
-no more radio
-no carpet
January 25, 2012 at 9:05 pm
3 positive effects:
• Closer to Carl’s Jr. (not the one up at Cal Poly)
• New, clean bathrooms (hopefully they stay like that)
• There will not be a bell to tell us when to get to class
3 negative effects
• It’s a longer walk to get to vista or anything up at Cal-Poly, especially if you have college classes up there
• We won’t be able to really spend time with some of our friends because the classes might be far away from each other and it will be harder to spot them, unlike the quad because you know where they are, especially because the school is very small.
• I am very used to the schedule of I-Poly (walking wise) and there will be stairs, which takes more effort than just walking to where you need to get.
I personally would prefer keeping the school as it is with the portables because it is something different, which I thought was the whole point of this school. Now we are that much closer to being like all the other schools which I don’t like. I understand a few changes to try and be “normal” but I think having a whole new building with different classrooms and what not is a very drastic change and will take time to adapt to.
January 25, 2012 at 9:57 pm
I personally don’t like the new building. At least, I would rather have the new building be available after I graduate (UGH, couldn’t you guys wait just one more school year? T_T) I’ve been in a school with a building, and it’s not that cool. How is it a “new experience”? What’s so exciting about a building? I’m sure we’ve ALL been in a building at some point. Just imagine that and school put together.
Pros:
-Cool, we’re safe from the rain. (Because you know, I totally drowned in that ocean in front of the portables.)
-We’re indoors. Just like how I’m indoors 90% of the time I’m not at school. Hooray for no sunshine!
-If I want to die before senior presentations, I’m sure the higher level floors will prove to be an easy way to go.
Cons:
-We’ll be uncool now. No more hipster iPoly students because now we have a building like everyone else.
-The portables are being demolished. 75% of my high school life will be gone just because of a building everyone craves.
-Since we’re all huddled together in that single building, it’ll be harder to avoid people and easier to run into people you don’t like. Not to mention we will all be breathing the same air. Talk about unsanitary.
Okay, so it might have been a bit negative on that point. I was just trying to get my point across: I don’t like the new building. I think it shatters the whole idea of an “iPoly Culture,” if we were to have some sort of culture to begin with. I went to iPoly to escape the normal type of high school, yet I find that it increasingly becomes one with each year that passes.
January 26, 2012 at 6:19 pm
I am not too excited about the new building because I am so used to the iPoly portables and spending breaks outside in the beautiful sunshine. I’m honestly going to miss the whole iPoly parking lot set up.
I’m not too fond of the rain.
The Pros:
-We will be sheltered from the rain.
-We will have better restrooms. Our restrooms pretty much suck.
-We will have new equipment.
The Cons:
-There will be no more radio show.
-It will be farther from Cal Poly.
-Lazy people like me, have to walk up and down the stairs. That sounds really exhausting…
Will there be elevators?
January 26, 2012 at 6:21 pm
The New Building is coming fast and to say which “camp” I am in, I am unable to because I am not sure if how i feel on the new building. Hmmmm i guess you can stay that i feel neutral. I think that the new building will effect the IPoly culture will be that it will be different and new kind of like what IPoly stands for, showing you outside the box (Yes I know cliché :b).
Pros:
1. No more outside rain!
2. No more people riding there bikes though the school.
3. Everyone gets a new setting
Cons:
1. No more soccer in the quad
2. Everything will be farther away (longer walks)
3. There will be no grass around.
January 26, 2012 at 8:23 pm
The new building will be a big plus in my book, but at the same time I will really miss the portables. I honestly would not think that we would change in attitude just because of the new school. If anything, it might us make more confident to call ourselves an actual high school.
*Positives toward the building:
1. Being in ASB’s E-board, we won’t have to keep spending money for the smaller dances we have. The new MP room is there! We could put the money toward different things, like Winter Formal.
2. The fact that we will have warm water in the bathrooms and the various water fountains around the school is awesome!
3. Cal Poly students won’t pass through the campus anymore, because i found it pretty annoying when they ran or biked through school.
*Negatives to the building:
1.Radio show might go away, and hearing music in the quad is something that keeps me going.
2.Thinnes’ mart will close unfortunately.
3.I will not be able to say I go to school in a parking lot anymore! I loved when I told my friends that I go school in a parking lot , seeing the reaction they had on their faces!
January 26, 2012 at 8:48 pm
I am really excited for the school to move into the new building. Although I feel that I-Poly wont be as unique as it is now. I know this sounds corny but, having the portables as our school made the school special in its own way.
Pros:
1. No leaky roofs during rainstorms!
2. Hot water in the bathrooms and water fountains.
3. Cheaper parking?
Cons:
1. Thinnes’ mart will be closing…. Students will no longer be able to satisfy their morning munchies…
2. No more running to Denny’s during break…
3. Stairs in the new building will be difficult to walk up in the morning when everyone is tired.
January 26, 2012 at 9:53 pm
I am excited to see the new building being built right before our very eyes, so to say the least, I am in the excited camp. However, like many others before me, I will greatly miss the portables that I have been in for the past three years, and also the memories that came along with them. I remember my first day at IPoly. I felt a twinge of both excitement and nervousness. Excitement because it was the begining of my journey of high school, and nervousness because I wondered how we would be able to do projects in the small facilties. Looking back at it now, I am extremely pleased to attend a school that is unlike other high schools, but most importantly, to have met awesome teachers and friends.
Pros:
-We will finally have newer and hopefully cleaner bathrooms.
-We will have a multipurpose room where frama can do their activites, but also house end of the semester projects, such as tradeshows.
- We will get shelter from the rain, something the portables lacked.
Cons:
- We will have to walk to farther to the eateries up in Cal Poly, which will be more time consuming to get there.
- Unfortunately, the incoming students ingressing at Ipoly, will not be able to experience the decorated doors that are seen today. Those doors represent the teacher and the memories that are in the room, which we have come to know.
- We will not have the luxury of having carpeted rooms in our building.
January 27, 2012 at 3:23 am
While I understand the excitement that can come from iPoly soon jumping on the “normal high school” bandwagon, I have never been too big of a fan of big changes. The main reason for this is that, once we move into the big building, we can’t go back to the old iPoly. We will lose all of the things about the school in Lot K that we have grown fond of. What made iPoly the school in the parking lot was the portables. Many of us have even come to respect our school for the flaws we see in it. Everything we complained about are the same things that made iPoly unique compared to our high school contemporaries. However, it seems that the new building is really going to happen so let’s all just roll with it.
Positives:
1. The new bathrooms will be nice. Until some freshmen gets too full of himself and tosses a cherry bomb down the toilet. But until then, I imagine they will be a vast improvement from our current facilities.
2. The multi purpose room sounds pretty sweet. More opportunities for performing arts and such. I look forward to our drama and music electives putting it to good use.
3. No more teachers laughing at us from their sheltered portables during rain. I know you could all see us out there in the rain. An indoor sanctuary from that would be much appreciated.
Negatives:
1. The two-story building will space us out from our friends more. The time we spent talking during passing period will be cut down severely. Friendships will die as a result, but go ahead and enjoy your shiny new tower of drywall and rebar.
2. The quad looks considerably smaller. To contradict my previous reason, there are some people I would rather not socialize with and the smaller quad will increase my chances of running into them. My tolerance can only hold for so long. This is a formal warning.
3. Lack of a Thinnes mart. I don’t believe that requires explanation to express what a loss that is. The Thinnes mart is an iPoly legend that we will all have to pass down in the iPoly lore to younger generations. DON’T LET THE FLAME DIE OUT!
January 27, 2012 at 3:27 pm
The change from going into the new building from the quad in my opinion is something I am not that excited about for my senior year. The portables have been there since freshman year and the new building can’t replace the memories that I have had in the portables.
Pros:
• The bathrooms will have warm water so on those cold days we won’t be freezing even more when we wash our hands.
• The computer lab will be a nice add on to the school.
• We can call ourselves an “actual” school because we have a building.
Cons:
• We won’t be able to play Frisbee, football, or soccer in the quad anymore during break or afterschool.
• We won’t be able to talk to our friends as much during passing period because the building isn’t open like the quad was.
• Having to memorize the building to get to the classes. I was so used to where every room was I now have to memorize a whole new layout.
Overall I would like to stay in the portables for my senior year but its not that bad of a thing since we will be the first class to graduate out of them!!!
January 27, 2012 at 7:10 pm
I am honestly gonna miss the portables a lot. I think the new school will make it seem more like a traditional high school which isn’t what we are. In addition, since we wont all be in one quad anymore the school is going to seem a lot more segregated and part of our culture is that we are all a family. I think with the separate floors we will lose some of that.
Pros:
1. We will no longer have to worry about the weather; especially since the school floods when it rains.
2.It will be easier for me to park my car since it will be a lot closer.
3.Our school will seem more legitimate because people never believe all the portables are an actual high school.
Cons:
1. We will be trapped inside all day without much fresh air.
2. We are further away from everything at Cal Poly.
3. Our school is no longer gonna be as unique; which is one thing I really love about it,
January 27, 2012 at 8:30 pm
I cannot be more excited to move into the new building. And yet I will miss our original home. This experience feels bittersweet. I-poly students and faculty deserve a building for our hard work. But how can we let go of what got us started? So I think this year, all of us should appreciate the little things about our portables that we will not get at the building.
Positive:
1. Last year a club went up to Cal-Poly,surveyed Cal-Poly students about what they think of I-Poly and the common response was, “I thought they were a continuation school because of the portables.” -With the new building we will be seen as a sophiscated and presentable school.
2. I heard that our technology will be improved. like our white boards and that our projectors will be hanging from the cieling? I also heard there will be sink in the quad so we dont have to go all the way to the restroom to wash off paint brushes. I think the little touches like that will make it easier for us when we do “above and beyond” projects.
3. Being on dance team, I know what its like to not have a mirror in front of me to see my mistakes. It really makes things tougher to learn and practice. I also heard that the back wall of the MPR will have mirrors. This is also beneficial.
Negative:
1 Next year Seniors, Juniors, and Sophmores will be the only classes to apprecitae what we have. Any class after that will never understand, they can maybe know, but never understand what this means to us. No class after us will love this building like we do.
2. This kind of only refers to me, but one of the things I love to the portables is the sense of freedom. We dont have walls to close us in. And this building will feel claustrophobic to me.
3. I-poly students have made do with what we have. We express ourselves in our school. The windows are covered with art. And the doors! They represent their teacher. And the mural on the wall? I-poly made art with what we were given and I think we wont have that oppurtuniy at the new bulding.
It’s about time we get this building and everyone wanted it, but now thats it’s around the corner, none of us are truly ready to say goodbye to our parking lot portables. That’s why I say we have some type of activity on our campus to say goodbye. As cheesy as this sounds, we also have to do something, (picture, mural) at our new school so no one ever forgets where we came from and how I-poly started.