I'm not supposed to be tasking - I'm studying studiously for exams - but the box was there, waiting to be used. It cried out, "Use me! Oh, use me! Fill me up! YES!"

Perhaps I was the only one that could hear the talking box since nobody else in the library minded these slightly inappropriate suggestions. But I couldn't resist. The box told me to do it! So I cut out a hole at the top and did what it commanded.

Thus, the Suggestion Box was born. With it came a nifty jingle:


I suggest you play this Jingle every time you see the words "suggestion box".

My mission began in the library, where I harassed everybody in sight for a suggestion to put into the suggestion box. (Go on, play the jingle, you know you want to.) People generally complied, which I'm very happy about. Perhaps it was the library setting that made everybody so calm and helpful.

My next location was the atrium! It's the area outside the library, and students can always be found loitering here, waiting to page teachers so they can annoy them. Here I didn't get as much participation, but I did find a few teachers who happily gave me suggestions, as well as one who berated me for not handing in my homework, then left without suggesting anything substantial. Boo.

Then I went to the rubbish bins! I'm not entirely sure why, since not a lot of people hang out by the rubbish dump area, but I did get a few suggestions. I met a Grounds Staff named Joey, he was very nice and didn't question my request at all. I think he might have written "Find a new place to get suggestions".

Three quarters through lunch, and I realized I had no photographic evidence of the suggestion box (jingle) or suggestioning process! So I quickly snapped a few shots with my camera phone. Here are three people I captured:







At the end of lunch, I declared the operation successful. Apart from minor suggestion stuffing by one fiend, everything was perfect! I couldn't wait to go home and read the suggestions.

I also took suggestions on the tram, to the bemusement of my classmates. I got some very gruff replies sometimes, and in retrospect I'm glad I didn't get stabbed or something. Also, the tram was very notable since it was a PARTY TRAM! I have no clue why though. Perhaps the tram driver got bored.



When I finally got home, I emptied the suggestion box (JINGLE!) and started typing up the suggestions. Some were genuine suggestions, others thought-provoking, and some just exceedingly random. And there were a lot of LOL?s, thanks to suggestion stuffing near the end of lunch.

Here is the full list of suggestions, complete with spelling errors. My apologies for expletives. Suggestions do not reflect my personal viewpoint. Please don't sue me?

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BLANK x3
who am i?
David should wear more hats :)
assembley once a week!
mr prior head of year 4 eva
fuck library return notices! no fee should have to be paid!
no more war
coca cola water fountain
create more basketball courts
We should kill all the terrorists?
i suggest i am the best!!!!!
can i please copy your itunes library harry? also can you do some work? in physics?
stop asking for suggestions
Harry Lee should ‘shoop the woop’ and ‘shot his lazor BEEMZ’ (picture)
sumo wrestlers that juggle monkeys
LOL? x9
our country’s good performed again and filmed
why does VCE have to be so hard?
Dion makes his real name Dozza D
Tuck shop prices lower
more breakdance days
use elastic bands in a bed to stretch your legs and hands to make you taller
Cats with lazer guns
more solar cars and no wars
I suggest that the school should sell computer mice and systems (free)
instead of putting on full sport gear when you enter the gym, just put on sport shoes
Jakowski + Taylor FIRED
I think H.L. should sware
Time: do we allow it to control us?
All other year levels should not talk to year 12s
these suggestions should be burned
harlock breaks his neck
cheapter fuel. less gov’t taxes
that we should evict Kevin Rudd
burn the Herald Sun
I suggest that Jon Chan should not be so silly (LOL?)
lower tuck shop prices
junior school kids should have a social at least once a week
get rid of jackowski
Find a new place to ask people for suggestions!
when God gives you lemons, you FIND A NEW GOD.
more soccer in australia
POO
There should be villages built to home the homeless
Clean the toilets in the school
teacher paging in the first half of Lunch
OH HARRY! MOAR!
Yr 11 vocal ensemble thursday lunch
the brick seats in the lithgow center should have cusions on them to be more comfortable
that psychologs should do real Projects
people should learn more about their history
Australia should become a republic?
Less Homework from Mr. Hill
interest rates
people should wear bigger hats!!!
meditate and buy an x-box 360
clean the toilets PLEASE
ENSLAVE TIBET TODAY
worship Fraser
no war!
Scotch should get rid of shit blokes!!!
Better Quality Tuckshop food for lower prices
More Arab Scholars (MUFTI)
most of the people writing a suggestion are writing something purely for the sake of it
mr. taylor and dr jackowski shouldn’t be teaching
mirrors in the school
get rid of suggestion box
LIFE FKN SUCKS
we need more snacks
Rid of all healthy snacks
Healthier food at the tuck-shop
Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down Rick Astley
I suggest that we should only have 1 piece of HW on sport training days
HARLOCK gets lynched like in the south
get FUCKED
less suggestions
Make VCE go away
destroy your macbook
get rudd OUT
suck a dick
destroy macs
librarians at this school are shit!
get laid
judge people more on who they are and less on what they do/have done.
less religion
i should polish my shoes
all you need is love
fire (picture)
(tag)

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What an enriching experience.

However, I felt my job was not quite done. You know what makes every praxis better? GRAPHS. Furthermore, these are beautiful graphs done on a MacBook - take that, Mac haters!



This graph categorizes the suggestions and shows how many suggestions were made from each category. For example, there are 6 suggestions about suggestions (like "less suggestions"). 'Personal' includes things like "Harlock should break his neck". 'Issues' includes current non-school issues like "evict Kevin Rudd".

Observations:

- It was suggested no less than 3 times that Dr. Jackowski should be fired.
- Most complaints about school have to do with the teachers, toilets, or tuckshop.
- I expected more suggestions about sex, but the majority of that group came from things like "suck a dick".
- There are more LOL? than suggestions for peace. I think this is an accurate reflection of the real world.
- The author of "time: do we let it control us?" is obviously not an SF0er. We know the answer to that one...
- Laz0rs and Hats are common themes when suggesting things.

This graph was imminent:



Built in an excessively cool looking 3D environment out of 2 different types of wood, this graph shows the percentage of suggestions made with good handwriting versus those made with bad handwriting. Obviously this split is subjective, but this graph is accurate enough for our purposes. (What are our purposes again?)

Conclusion: Good handwriting is no longer seen as necessary! After all, who needs to write a letter by hand when you could type up an email? I hereby declare that my next praxis will be handwritten.

The final graph:



This is NOT a pie graph - it is a solid enclosed by the surface formed by the points at a fixed distance from a given straight line and by two planes perpendicular to that same straight line graph. Or SEBTSFBTPAAFDFAGSLABTPPTTSSL graph for short.

It depicts the percentages of suggestions made with good English, mediocre English, and bad English (characterized by several spelling or grammar mistakes and the use of more than one exclamation mark at the end of a sentence).

Conclusion: If people use 1337 speak when writing by hand, we are in trouble.

Thus concludes my praxis, and the adventure of the suggestion box (PLAY THE JINGLE!). However, I have a feeling that this isn't over yet. I have plans for these suggestions. Big plans.

I'm sure Kevin Rudd would want to know what some students are saying about him...