The Ravenclaw Aerie

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Obsessively learning about new things

Differences between the HP book houses and the ravelry houses
Small things that annoy us about the Harry Potter books
Expressing or not expressing your geeky side
World Book Day in the UK, Read Across America Day in the US
Teachers/librarians and being bogged down by grading
Helicopter parents
Lambs
Culling possessions when moving
People who want spring and people who don't
Late snow storms and eating cold treats when it's snowy
Sock Madness
Lengths of wedding ceremonies
Earth goddesses
Fasting for medical tests vs fasting for health and diet
Sweater choices for OWLs
Themed OWLs
Renting a car causing a fear of not being old enough
Colorwork sweaters
Cables vs lace
Waterproof outerwear and humid climates that make you sweat
Moving and getting new doctors
Sewing zippers into knit sweaters
Obsessively learning about new things
Knitting a fence or trellis
Living by the sea
Lighthouses

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Stats Update: February Classes!

With one month to go, things are heating up! Ravenclaw turned in an amazing 12821 points in February! Ravenclaw really loved Art History this month turning in 88 projects! Divination was the second popular class with 74 submissions. Transfiguration was next with 71 entries. 68 Ravenclaws turned in detention finishing a lot of projects. 57 Ravenclaws tended to magical creatures, 56 Ravenclaws studied home improvement in the muggle world, Herbology and Flying were tied with 54 assignments, and last but not least, Ancient Runes had 45 projects.

As usual, the First Years kept up their dominance in the dorm race. They turned in a whopping 60 classes! Dorms 1-7 and the lower B dorms also churned out a lot of classes. The M6 dorm is still keeping up with the lower dorms with an impressive show!

Of course that doesn't tell the whole story because over time we lose some students. We end up combining dorms so the number of students are similar. If you look at the actual number of classes turned in per dorm, the higher dorms turn in many classes. Look at the B1-B3s soar!

Again that doesn't tell the whole story because the number of people in each dorm varies. So I took the number of classes that each dorm submitted and divided it by the people in the dorm and suddenly it all is about the same again. The first years still come out on top with an average of 4.6.