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Deeta- Week 16- Goodbye

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 Goodbye I have always been a super sentimental person so as I started to write the blog about Kendrick's new album, I quickly understood that it was not what I wanted to write about with this being our last blog. I took a moment to reflect and interacting with all of you each week has made this quarter considerably more tolerable. Even though I have always been a pretty open book and am able to express my feeling with my friends easily, I found a strange but strong sense of comfort with all of you within this blog group. I found solace in writing to you each week. I was always so eager to share about music I had listened to or an artist I was hyped about. I also found that a huge weight would come off my shoulders when I vented about something that had been on my mind. You guys made me feel really safe wether I was pouring my heart out or incessantly talking about Kanye over and over again. I would go back and read your comments, getting so excited about interests and opinions we ...
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Yi-Kuan Cheng - Quarter 4, Week 16: ¿Dόnde Está the Boys?

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  Yi-Kuan Cheng Benedetti AP English P5 18 May 2022 Quarter 4, Week 15: ¿Dόnde Está the Boys? Damn. It’s the final one isn’t it? Blogs have genuinely been a massive saving grace to my life, not only in the sense that it literally saves my grade in APEng, but it also really does give me an outlet to talk about the things I actually care about. For this final post, I will be talking about the three idiots who I care about the most. So let me ask you this: donde esta the boys? My username for literally anything, whether it be Discord, Instagram, Spotify, etc. all follow the same pattern: either LesliePaldoSheldon or LesliePSheldon. As you may have guessed, this name originates from none other than my boys, my homedawgs, Sean Wang, Kyle Chinn, and Roman Xavier Mangumdong Fanto, otherwise known as OGAVGGNORE (short for Original Ganster Asian Village Good Game No Rematch). Such a massive part of my identity and social life is thanks to them. When I first moved to Thornton Junior High...
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Raymond Yu, Q4 Week 4 - Transferring Memory

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    Q4 Week 4 - Transferring Memory By Raymond Yu (Image displaying the passing of a relay baton)     Language, in its most fundamental, is the transference of memory from one person to another. To communicate an idea is to pass that idea to another, and where do ideas exist but memory? Memories can include stories, information, and ideas, all of which can be true or false. Language has allowed humans to thrive like no other animals have, and the reason behind our growth has always been the accumulation of progress. In the words of Newton, "[i]f I have further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Progress is achieved by taking the knowledge of past thinkers and building upon it, which is only possible if the knowledge is preserved in the first place. This is where the role of language comes in. With language, we can pass the ideas of the past as memories to the future.       To have reached the achievements of modern psychology...
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Krish Parikh Week 16 - Storytelling and Memories

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Image Source In light of the True War Story assignment, I've been thinking about storytelling. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word "story" as "a fictional narrative shorter than a novel." However, the word "story" has different meaning in the context of human evolution: a necessity for survival. Written language was invented 5,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, yet humanity has survived for the last 300,000 years. How were our predecessors able to pass information to the next generation? Storytelling. As students around the world are all too familiar with, memorizing factual information is hard. Memorizing the plot of your favorite movie or novel, however, is much easier. Early humans were able to figure out this nifty trick hundreds of thousands years ago, and they used stories in the form of fables or folktales to pass crucial information down to their children—including information about where to hunt, what to hunt, and what to run f...
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Faith Qiao Blog #16 — Left Untitled.

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Faith Qiao Ms. Benedetti AP English 11 18 May 2022 Blog 16: Left Untitled Imagine leaning forward, do it now. Take in a breath, let the skin along your stomach line travel deeper into itself.  Let it slip past the intestines and feel the air displace itself in your stomach as it bleeds out of your body. Now lean forward, I will tell you how I feel—the sensation of skin folding, the sensation of skin overlapping, and spilling over the side of my pants. I feel the unending sensation that it is still spilling, still folding—folding against itself and pocketing the air between my shirt tucked into my pants and the skin stretching the seams of the shirt until it breaks. It's like a sack full of maggots and worms, the white ones that wiggle when poked but instead slide against each other leaving trails of their slime along each other before spilling out from the sides of your pants. It's disgusting. It moves on its own—it yanks at your spine so that some worms escape against the line...
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Sierra Dellenbaugh Blog 16: APs Aren't All That

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  Week 16 (APs Aren’t All That) - 5/11 [5:53] Note: I am going to apologize in advance; this might be a lengthy one, but I think this topic should be discussed. Please note that this is just my personal opinion, and my intent is not to offend anyone or make anyone feel bad. APs aren’t all that. Yes, they’ll weight your GPA, yes, you’ll get college credit if you pass the exam, and they do have a lot of benefits. I personally can’t talk that bad about them since I’ll be taking my fourth AP class next year; however, I don’t think it’s a flex or a display of intelligence to take all the AP classes available. What especially gets on my nerves is when people take four or more AP classes at once and have the audacity to complain about their workload, screwed up sleep schedule, and the hours of studying they have to do; they brought it on themselves. I do hold a high level of respect for those who have a lot of APs and make an effort not to make it their entire personality. I believe tha...
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Sophie Nguyen Week #16: Crepes

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      If you google "Yo-Bowl Southland Mall" and look at the photos of the location, the first image you will see is a picture of me wearing a bright blue tee-shirt, standing in front of the counter. If you continue to scroll down the photos, you will find that there are a lot of pictures of me. Sometimes next to my brother, or by myself. Years of my life have been captured and are presented on this Google location photo page. Before, there were pictures that show my brother and I's faces, but my mom made my dad take them down.     The reason there are so many pictures of me in front of this crepe place during various stages of my life is because I go there for all of my birthdays. I used to go to Sweet Tomato as well, before it shut down. It may be nostalgia bias, or something else, but Yo-Bowl makes my favorite crepes. Each year, my dad asks me what I want to do for my birthday, and each year I ask to go to the crepe place in Southland Mall.    ...
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