CB Survey!

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CB Survey!

CB Survey!

I haven’t seen one of these in a while, so I thought I’d make one. Have fun y’all!!

1. How are you doing today?

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

6. What is the book nearest to you?

7. What was the last movie you watched?

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

9. What is your least favorite color?

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it?

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

14. What’s your favorite flower?

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

submitted by Silver Crystal, age Infinity, Milky Way
(June 5, 2023 - 10:01 am)

I suppose I'll begin to bottom the thread!

1. How are you doing today?

I'm doing pretty good. I should be writing my Ski Lodge right now, but I promise I'll get it done. Eventually.

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

Humanities! First is history :)

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

The odds are that they do, but I'm not completely sure. Either way, as long as they leave us alone we should be fine. 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?

I've always been partial to the macaroni penguin, both because of the name and also because they look so funny (in a good way!)

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

A frisbee (I'm in gym class right now) 

6. What is the book nearest to you?

I'm outside right now, so I don't quite know. Hmm, whoever wrote these questions should've taken that into account. 

7. What was the last movie you watched?

Across the Spiderverse!! It was so good!! Everyone who hasn't seen it should!! 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

It's a penguin (hence the earlier question). It's kept my bird related school mascot streak going (first an eagle, then a hawk), but it's not as cool. Plus it means our school colors are black and white, which is a little boring.  

9. What is your least favorite color?

That awful shade of puke green. Ew.  

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

6:30 is when my alarm goes off, but I usually get up around 7 to take the bus.  

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

Favorite is May (my birthday month!), least favorite is February (abysmal, dreary, etc).

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it?

It was my friend who is 16 years old, which equates to Abraham Lincoln!

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

Polar bear for sure. Although the crocodile does have a scale shield thing going on.  

14. What’s your favorite flower?

Daisies!! 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

Since I've been learning about it a lot in Latin, probably the ancient Roman empire. It's super interesting  

submitted by Silver Crystal, age Infinity, Milky Way
(June 5, 2023 - 10:27 am)
submitted by SilverTOP
(June 5, 2023 - 12:17 pm)

1. How are you doing today? Good, but rather annoyed that my music notation software only lets me notate music to a point and that I am supposed to notate a song that is pretty unfamiliar to me.

 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school? Physics. It is second after math.

 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist? Somewhere in the universe, they do. However, whether or not we could contact them in a reasonable amount of time is questionable. I won't go into that right now.

 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)? Emperor penguin for sure.

 

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at? A box marked "CELEBRATE!" in Arial font.  

 

6. What is the book nearest to you? Biology for the Logic Stage Teacher Guide by Paige Hudson.

 

7. What was the last movie you watched? Kiki's Delivery service, created by Studio Ghibli.

 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?) Eagle. I think eagle is super BORING because that is the mascot of virtually each and every elementary school. I nominated dolphin, which got in second place, but apparently more people liked to be boring and go with eagle.

 

9. What is your least favorite color? Hmmm... that's a hard one. Probably light yellow, because it looks like plaque (and I mean tooth plaque).

 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning? 6:30 am. Yes, I am an early riser.

 

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months? Favorite? April. Least favorite? July.

 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it? Their age is greater than the order of the current president, and we can't predict the future.

 

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win? Depends on where. In the north pole, Polar Bear would win. In a swamp, probably the saltwater crocodile. IN the jungle, definitely the tiger.

 

14. What’s your favorite flower? The yellow-orange tri-thorn. (I added the common name.)

 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where? I would go back probably to whenever typewriters existed. Then I could buy a cheap one and bring it to the present so that I can write when it isn't my screen time.

submitted by Sinusoidal
(June 5, 2023 - 12:46 pm)

WHY DON'T YOU LIKE JULY?????. It's soooo warm.

submitted by Reuby Moonnight
(June 6, 2023 - 6:09 am)

1. How are you doing today?

idk, pretty good I guess. :) 

 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

hm, not sure. I immensely dislike school in general. 

 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

no.

 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?

macaroni penguins.

 

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

the kitchen sink. 

 

6. What is the book nearest to you?

if you're talking about any book, it's the notebook I use to write down math problems in. it's on the table, right next to my right wrist. 

 

7. What was the last movie you watched?

I honestly don't know. if TV shows count, it's Mandalorian. 

 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

I'm homeschooled :| I guess it could technically be my family crest? for privacy reasons, I won't specify exactly what it is, but it has lion/s on it, which is rather vague because a lot of crests have lions. 

 

9. What is your least favorite color?

hot pink. *shivers in disgust* 

 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

around 9, but usually whenever I feel like it. so occasionaly right before lunch. 

 

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

my favorite month is likely June, because A: Pride Month! B: my birthday is July 1st, so June kinda builds up to it and I get gradually more exited. also, the weather's usually beautiful :) 

 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it?

James Carter? idk 

 

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

I'm rooting for the croc :) 

 

14. What’s your favorite flower?

snapdragons! they're so interesting to mess around with, and their name is awesome :D 

 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

maybe back in the time of Vikings, and somewhere in Vineland or Flat-Stone Land (the places Vikings landed in America) 

submitted by Darkvine, age idk, Hyrule
(June 5, 2023 - 1:23 pm)

oops, forgot my least favorite month. it's probably February, because here it literally gets colder than Antarctica's summer >:/ like it's so cold I can't even go out and enjoy the two feet of snow!

submitted by Darkvine, age idk, Hyrule
(June 5, 2023 - 2:00 pm)

1. How are you doing today?

Alright. A bit annoyed that I am unable to read. 

 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

ASL learning. so fun! 

 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

of course. But question is, what is the defination of 'alien?'  

 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?

Emporer penguin. So stately and handsome. And the babies are so cute!

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

a stroller 

 

6. What is the book nearest to you?

Wings of fire-Legends Darkstalker 

 

7. What was the last movie you watched?

Antz 

 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

I'm homeschooled, so, a dragon? I guess? 

 

9. What is your least favorite color?

a depressing brown 

 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

7 am 

 

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

I love all the months. None are my fav or otherwise 

 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it?

My brother. he is 8 so *searches google* Martin Van Buren 

 

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

ooooh hard one. I suppose it would depend on the temperature, and envirment.  

 

14. What’s your favorite flower?

Roses and Daisys 

 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

I want to go to the time to meet Amelia Earheart. don't know where 

submitted by Hawkstar, age ancient, ReAdInG iN a TrEe
(June 5, 2023 - 2:59 pm)

1. How are you doing today?

To be honest...not great. There's less than three weeks left of school and I just want to be doneeee. I also have a terrible headache, and it is WAY too hot where I live, so that's not helping. Plus my ski lodge keeps looking at me, like it wants me to...write it?? what a ridiculous request.

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

Haha I hate school. Uhhh...I guess second is Social Studies. First is ELA. 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

Yeah, I think so. I doubt they look like media's portrayal of them. Probably nothing more than like...single celled organisms or whatever.

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?

Little blue penguin!

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

A plant named Planty. 

6. What is the book nearest to you?

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo :D

7. What was the last movie you watched?

Some documentary on some architect for school. I don't remember the name of the documentary, or of the architect.

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

Well, the mascot of my school's middle school is a goat, but the mascot of the elementary school is a tree named Greenie. The tree is infinitely better, in my opinion.

9. What is your least favorite color?

hot pink, I think. Or any neon color. Just anything too bright. That might be my headache speaking through... 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

6:30 on weekdays, 6:00 on weekends (don't ask why I do this to myself)

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

Favorite is November, least favorite is May.

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it?

Uh. James Polk??

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

Polar bear, I think?

14. What’s your favorite flower?

I love hyacinths because of their scent, but I saw a bunch of mountain laurels on a hike yesterday, and they were so beautiful.

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

Aah, there's so many places I'd want to go! I think I'd have to go with Silver on this one -- Ancient Rome seemed so cool :)

Thank you so much for making this, Silver! It was really fun :) 

submitted by pangolin, age she | they, Outskirts of the Galaxy
(June 5, 2023 - 3:41 pm)

1. How are you doing today?

Pretty well, thanks! It feels fairly summer-y, and I'm looking forward to a peaceful afternoon in which I can hopefully get some writing done :)

 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

History; English is my favorite.

 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

Frankly, no. I never have and probably never will.

 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?

Emperor penguins - their chicks are just the most darling things :D

 

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

A lamp.

 

6. What is the book nearest to you?

It would probably be Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, if I weren't in my parents' study; as it is, it's a textbook (how booooring, but we must be truthful here)

 

7. What was the last movie you watched?

Arranged, a movie about a Jewish girl and a Muslim girl whose families are trying to arrange a marriage for each of them. It was very good :)

 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

Well, I'm homeschooled so I don't have one, but if I did, I'd like it to be a hamster or a horse.

 

9. What is your least favorite color?

Khaki or olive green

 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

9:00. I know, it's dreadful ;)

 

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

My favorite month is probably July; my least favorite is definitely March. Nothing ever happens in March, and the weather tends to be dreadful.

 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their
age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas
Jefferson). Which president is it?

Abraham Lincoln

 

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

The tiger.

 

14. What’s your favorite flower?

I love all sorts... but irises and hyacinths are fairly high up there.

 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

This is actually a question I've considered before, and I find it so difficult to choose a period. But possibly ancient Rome? 

submitted by Amethyst, aNcIeNt RoMe
(June 5, 2023 - 3:43 pm)

1. How are you doing today? Pretty good, I woke up early and got to drink hot coco (don't tell my dad)

 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school? I don't go to school.

 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist? Of course! 

 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)? Rock Hopper

 

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at? A wooden figure of a shark.

 

6. What is the book nearest to you? My leather bound sketch book.

 

7. What was the last movie you watched? Chupa.

 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?) A CROW. GO GO KARASUNO! PUSH IT PUSH IT KARASUNO!

 

9. What is your least favorite color? *frowns* Pink

 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning? 6:59

 

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months? I love October, July, and August and I hate April, Jun and December.

 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it? William Henry Harrison.

 

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win? Probally the crocodile.

 

14. What’s your favorite flower? Corpse flower.

 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where? Ancient Greece.

submitted by Reuby Moonnight, age I.M.P., IMP city
(June 5, 2023 - 5:21 pm)

(I meant June.) I don't dis-like June because of Pride month. I love june for that. But my birthday is at the very beginning of july, so I get inpatient also I get bad allergies.

submitted by Reuby Moonnight
(June 6, 2023 - 6:17 am)

1. How are you doing today?
Good, ish; it's the first day that would be a school day if it weren't summer break.

 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?
Math (#1: writing)

 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?
I don't want them to exist, but they very probably do. 

 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?
Um. Whichever type of penguin forms a circle of penguins to keep warm, maybe.

 

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?
A painting of flowers that I created when I was five.

 

6. What is the book nearest to you?
All my notebooks are clustered around me right now because I'm at my desk, but the closest published book is probably a book of music.

 

7. What was the last movie you watched?
Bedknobs and Broomsticks.    

 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)
I think the school mascot is a heron or something like that, which is nice because our school is near a wetland. I wouldn't change it. 

 

9. What is your least favorite color?
Yellow. 

 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?
I wake up between 6:45 and 7:15, and get out of bed between 6:55 and 7:25. 

 

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?
Favorite: January, maybe?, and least favorite, August, because by August 1st we are already in school, but it is unbearably hot and other people are not in school.

 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their
age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas
Jefferson). Which president is it?
Whoever becomes the 52nd president of the US

 

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?
I am inclined to say a tiger, perhaps because I like cats. 

 

14. What’s your favorite flower?
Roses (the purple kind) and the thistles that grow on the side of the road. 

 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?
Um...a very long time ago, in western India, there was a civilization called the Indus Valley, and I wrote a report on it and found it fascinating, so maybe I'd like to go there (among other things, they seem to have not had wars for an extremely long time) 

submitted by Seadragon
(June 5, 2023 - 6:12 pm)

Cool idea, Silver Crystal!

1.) I'm doing pretty good, thanks for asking! Just trying to get the most out of my summer break :)

2.) Probably math or science. 

3.) I would love to believe that they exist, but my pessimistic mindset says we are alone in the universe. Maybe there is some evolved form of bacteria or plants in another planet though, who knows? We can hope!

4.) Magellanic penguins! They're so cute!

5.) Clorox wipes.

6.) The Inheritence Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. You guys should read it, it's a great book/series!

7.) Searching, (the 2018 film). It's rated PG-13 for reference.

8.) My school mascot is a knight and I'm personally indifferent to it. It's pretty basic, but who's complaining? simple >>>>

9.) neon/hot pink. it just narrowly beats out neon yellow.

10.) during school, around 6:30-6:35. during the summer, around 6:25, and if I don't have swim in the mornings, 7:15-7:30ish.

11.) June is my favorite month, and March is my least favorite.

12.) Bill Clinton, 42.

13.) the polar bear, but it depends where it's at.

14.) a daisy or a sunflower

15.) I would love to go back to the Victorian era and act cultured for once >:) 

 

 

submitted by the-antiquarian-
(June 5, 2023 - 8:18 pm)

1. How are you doing today? 

Okay—school's gearing up to end next week. Today, I rode a goldfish down a hill and abducted a dinosaur (not at the same time). 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

Ummmm probably science or DE (design engineering; basically just time to build things but we also have to do nasty PrOdOtYpInG InNoVaTiNg ReFlEcTiNg stuff ick)  

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

Probably—but not in the form of random green mars men. 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)?

ROCKHOPPER PENGUINS. LOOK THEM UP—I WOULD DIE FOR THOSE EYEBROWS. 

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

Well, if we're being technical, air and the molecules that make it up—but if we're not, then a cabinet.

6. What is the book nearest to you?

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Don't read it—it makes no sense, and not in a good way.

7. What was the last movie you watched?

The Matrix. I will rant about the ending if anyone's interested.

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

We're the MaVeRiCkS lol. Horrible mascot—but better than something generic like the gators or tigers.

9. What is your least favorite color?

Puke colors like puke green, puke yellow, or puke brown, then neon colors but especially pink, green, and yellow, then different muted ooblecky shades of colors, then—I'll stop now.

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

I get up at around 7:00 but it takes me a while after that to wake up, unfortunately.

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

The best month is obviously February—cold enough to be nice but no school winter breaks which are always really boring. 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas Jefferson). Which president is it?

Umm—probably my dad, so THERE HASN'T BEEN THAT MANY PRESIDENTS YET OOPS

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

Me. 

14. What’s your favorite flower?

Plumerias. 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

Assuming basic safety measures are built into this time travel device, and I won't set off the butterfly affect too badly, and all the other basic concerns are taken care of, probably ancient Egypt—or the start of time. 

submitted by Hex, age aeons, in darkness for a spell
(June 6, 2023 - 12:13 am)

1. How are you doing today?

Fine. Although it's 7:40 in the morning, which is far too early to be at school.

 

2. What is your second favorite subject in school?

Math.

 

3. Do you believe that aliens exist?

Absolutely. We just might not run into any for a good long time.

 

4. Best kind of penguin (in your opinion)? 

Little blues. :D

 

5. Close your eyes and randomly point to something. Open your eyes. What are you pointing at?

A classmate of mine, who happens to be one of the biggest bullies in my year and is also in my homeroom.

 

6. What is the book nearest to you?

Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library Updated Edition).

 

7. What was the last movie you watched?

Avengers Endgame.

 

8. What’s your school mascot and how do you feel about it? (If you don’t have one, what do you wish it could be?)

It's a "rev," which I think is short for "revolution" or "revolutionaries" but nobody is sure. It's a terrible mascot. 

 

9. What is your least favorite color?

Pink. Although some shades of it are okay.

 

10. What time do you usually get up in the morning?

5:55, although my preferred wakeup time is 10:00.

 

11. What’s your favorite and least favorite months?

Favorites are June and July (summer!), least favorite is November.

 

12. Think of the last person you talked to in person. Take their
age and find the president that was that number (ex. 3 would be Thomas
Jefferson). Which president is it?

James Buchanan Jr.

 

13. If a tiger, a polar bear, and a saltwater crocodile got into a fight, who would win?

It really depends on where the fight takes place.

 

14. What’s your favorite flower?

I'm partial to the corpse flower.

 

15. If you could go back in time to any time period, when and where?

I wouldn't. I'm trans, I'm gay, and I was assigned female at birth. In pretty much any past time period, that's just about the best combination if you want to have absolutely no civil rights. Also they had pretty terrible hygene and medical care. But I think it would be fun to go faaaaarrr into the future and see where we are at then.

 

Fluffles says <kywrd>. Keyword!

submitted by Scuttles
(June 6, 2023 - 7:04 am)