• Thumbs up to the college fair! Besides giving kids a great opportunity to get out of class, they have the chance to examine colleges and get an idea of what they can expect without a full-fledged visit.

• Thumbs up to the football team, for going 5-0 so far — their best start in ages.  Keep up the good work, guys.

• Big, phatty thumbs up to regularly flushed toilets. Automatic flushing toilets may be insulting, but hey — they’re clean!

Thumbs down to vandalism. Vent your frustration and make art in more creative ways, kids. No offense, of course (since we don’t want to be the next candidates for paint ballings and spraypainting) but we’re just not that impressed.

Thumbs down to Tuesday morning’s health survey. It was redundant and wasted most of first period — and some of the questions were downright stupid. If any of us had taken 40-plus hits of acid in the past 30 days, it’s unlikely we would have been able to fill in the bubbles on the sheet — even if we were able to find them.c

Thumbs down to economic turmoil and slowdown, both in the United States and abroad. Asian financial crisis, Russian economic collapse, American market tremors … Sounds like we’ve been paying a little too much attention to the President’s sex life and far too little to the rest of the world.