Since I don’t really have that much homework nowadays (except a large project for English which I’ve been trying to avoid), I’ve been trying to spend more of my time working on Aegis, especially because we have a big season ahead of us. (Oh yeah, I should also study for the AP Spanish test. I’ll get on that eventually.)

I’m starting by reworking my QED database program for next year. Last year I tried to guess the features that we would need to manage all the questions that we wrote and compile all the packets we had to produce. While it was invaluable for our first year of operations, we came up with a long list of additions that could help us even more. Now that I don’t have much to do anymore, I’ve been spending time programming and refactoring the very disorganized code that was already there.

I’ve been pleased with the writers that have applied this year; while their experiences writing questions vary dramatically, they all are very dedicated to our cause, and I can already see some of them getting better at writing.

I’m itching to start working on next season; our first season was very successful, and we’re even more pleased about our opportunities for next year, as we will take on our biggest and most exciting contract yet. We’ve also got some other initatives in mind, which we will make public later.

All in all, I’m glad that we have so much support from the Illinois (and to some extent, even national) quizbowl circuit, coaches and students alike. In my opinion, it is yet another testament to the pyramidal cause.