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Clint Barton ([personal profile] so_hawkward) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2013-01-18 06:48 am

Improving Your Skills [Friday, 3rd Period]

Clint had left a handwavey note to get everyone to come to the computer lab today, and was only halfway spinning around in the chair at the front of the room.

Come on, spinny chairs were fun!

"A lot of people say the first step to getting better at something is to practice, but practicing won't do you any good if you're not starting out right," he said, once everyone was settled. "Now, I was lucky enough to find someone who was willing to teach me archery, and there are probably people on this island who could teach some of you some amazing skills. But, we also have this great thing called the internet, and in between the cat macros and social whatever, there are websites and sometimes even videos about how to do just about anything. What I want you to do today is take a look online and see if you can find someone or something that can teach you how to get better at what it is you want to get better at." That sentence had made more sense in his head, really.
whenshewasnice: (Seriously you just said that?)

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Natalie V. Adams
whenshewasnice: (Nerd.)

Re: To the Internets! [01/18]

[personal profile] whenshewasnice 2013-01-18 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Natalie was looking up things about how to care for foxes.

What? With the morning she'd had, it was a very current interst of hers. Even if none of the information actually pertained to foxes who were usually political advisors to Haiti.
hasadestiny: ([neg] awkward sauce)

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Lex Luthor

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Maddie Berry

Re: To the Internets! [01/18]

[identity profile] mummyspromdate.livejournal.com 2013-01-18 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Maddie still hadn't figured out what she was good at, or what she really wanted to be good at. She did Google "getting out of trouble" to see if some enterprising young nerd had managed to get the meta for the Ghostbusters on the first page of results (they hadn't- fail, internet), but then managed to not get caught in an endless loop of YouTube videos on the subject by trying to find out if there was any news on the people from her old school since she hadn't talked to anyone in a week.

Technically, still sort of doing the assignment.

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Kate Bishop

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[identity profile] hawkeye-too.livejournal.com 2013-01-18 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Kate was indeed wearing purple. But since a large percentage of her wardrobe was purple, that wasn't terribly surprising.
arsenicmauls: (fact: tech)

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Gertrude Yorkes

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William Murdoch

Re: To the Internets! [01/18]

[identity profile] faithandscience.livejournal.com 2013-01-18 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, William was just going to immediately go over and hit up JSTOR for forensic science journals.

Re: To the Internets! [01/18]

[identity profile] hawkeye-too.livejournal.com 2013-01-18 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Kate started randomly entering search terms into Google and finally settled on glancing through websites on climbing. You could always get better at not falling, right?
arsenicmauls: (fact: tech)

Re: To the Internets! [01/18]

[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2013-01-18 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Gert wasn't sure how she managed it, exactly, but she wound up on a page that was teaching her how to conjugate Latin verbs.

She'd go with it.

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Minako Aino

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Stephanie Brown

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Chaz Villette

Re: To the Internets! [01/18]

[identity profile] notyetplatypus.livejournal.com 2013-01-18 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Chaz was trying to very quietly not look like he was working on getting the address from over Gert's shoulder. His level of success was not very high.
arsenicmauls: (pos: yeah this is good)

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[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2013-01-18 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Gert caught Chaz's reflection in the computer screen and smirked, turning to face him. "Learn Latin quickly dot com," she shared. "It's kind of slow going, but it's not bad."

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[identity profile] notyetplatypus.livejournal.com 2013-01-18 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Chaz mentally cursed the winter that caused his instant blush to be very visible on his currently pale skin. "Thanks. I was looking for something like that." He typed the address in. "And Latin is really useful since it's in every language, right?"
arsenicmauls: (neu: sitting)

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[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2013-01-18 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"All the Romance languages, at least," Gert agreed. "Good luck finding it in Arabic or something, but Spanish, Portuguese, French, any of those, Latin's your girl."

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[identity profile] notyetplatypus.livejournal.com 2013-01-18 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Chaz was just going to sit here and do his impersonation of a tomato. "Yeah, that. Do you speak any other language?"

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