Sensibility is not insensible

Before I totally forget about it, I had to sign on and rant.

This is the paragraph in which I talk about my day at school and say that well, the morning was a bitch but otherwise it was just like I left it and it wasn't as bad as I would've feared and five weeks to exams and so on and so forth.

And now to the important things! I was going to be productive at lunch today, because no-one has an hour-long lunch and does nothing in it (well, I've done that too, but recently I've been hiding in the library and doing various productive stuff with that hour of my life). In fact, I was going to work on a context piece that is due somewhere around this week, and thus had conveniently e-mailed it to myself. When, however, I tried to access said e-mail from school, the website had been blocked as malicious.

Excuse me, WHAT?!

I can understand the premises on which my school - or any school - may decide to ban websites. I also understand that there's a bunch of students out there that are ruining it for the rest of us (and with the rest of us I mean the minority that actually goes by the rules, like myself. I'm more likely than not a part of that minority, most of the time). But some of these restrictions are just ridiculous - banning google images? How about kids who don't have time to do schoolwork at home/don't have proper access to a computer? How about lessons when we are given time to finish one or another poster and cannot, because the website is banned? Not that I actually support posters, because making them pretty and visual and whatnot is so primary school and doesn't teach us anything. At all. I'd just rather sit through lectures and take notes and LEARN things rather than painstakingly recreate it in a visual manner...

And now they've banned hotmail. I have always had the general feeling that if you allow idiots to begin censoring sensible things, they will sooner or later be censoring even the things you need as "malicious," or something.

No, I didn't really have anything more to add. My brain is short-circuiting at the moment. Carry on!