One afternoon when I was in eighth grade, my friend Nic and I were the last ones to leave after Academic Team practice. Even the mentors all left before we did. So we stuck around for a while writing something really silly on the blackboard. We must have had a morning practice the next day that I missed or was late to, because Nic later told me that at the beginning of the next practice, Ms. Peck saw what was written on the board and told Nic to erase it.