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  Waking up five minutes before class, staying in pajamas the whole day, taking naps between periods, practicing soccer in my garage, and facetiming my friends more often than I am able to now, is how I remember my sophomore year during quarantine. During a majority of quarantine, my life felt like it was on pause, just like some of you may feel like. I enjoyed all the extra time I got. From not having to drive to and from school and other activities, I ended up having a lot of free time that I was able to spend relaxing and finding other hobbies I enjoyed. Over quarantine, I got to paint a lot more and hung out with a friend every weekend to spend hours debriefing over long and peaceful walks.  When I look back on my quarantine experience, I envy all the ease I was able to experience. However, I seem to forget all the negatives that came with the experience. For example, towards the middle of the year, I started to miss the social experience of school more than ever. I was ex...

 The end... 5/9 at 10pm (pre test):      This is it. My 3 AP tests are all tomorrow. For physics, I know most of my equations, but I'm scared that I will forget some that are important. All that matters now, is that I do well on all 3 and be done with it. I want this torture to be over. The end is near.     I am confident about the physics AP tests, but not really about the MCQ for APENG. It really is a challenge for me: I almost always get a super low score on it. I don't want to do so bad on the test tomorrow. Well, it is pretty late at night now, I need my good sleep for tomorrows test. Good luck to all of you guys who are taking the test. 5/10 at 9:17pm (post test):      The end has arrived. The last three AP tests of my life is over. All the effort I put into the essays we wrote in class had a use: the AP test. It was because of all of the timed writes we did that I was able to finish all three essays early. I do not know how I am a...

Sean Wang Week 16 - Flower In The Dawn   "In carnage I bloom, like a flower in the dawn." - Khada Jhin   If a tree fell in the forest and no one heard it, did it fall? I recently stumbled upon the written works of my fourth-grade self, surprising myself with a long-lost arsenal of vocabulary I wouldn’t even think of coming up with today. “Myriad”? Please. Needless to say, I was quite amazed, while being a tad bit amused at the same time. Before I decided to take this class, I asked upperclassmen what the benefits to taking it were. The responses were more or less the same: it made your writing “better”. Well, that was good enough for me. Within the first official week of school, our class wrote three diagnostic essays in order to gauge our supposed aptitude in writing. Not only had I achieved a 6 on one of them (possibly the only 6 out of all the APENG classes to this date), but I had achieved it through usage of anecdotal evidence, something that everyone (including Ms. Ben...

   Q4 Week 3 - Music By Raymond Yu (Image of multicolored music notes floating away)     Memory and language are interconnected, memory is not fully dependent on language. To further the discussion on the relation between language and memory, languageless memory must be discussed. My most vivid memories without language have been with music. Although I have poor memory relating to sights, I have often gotten memory callbacks from music. One of my most memorable is how I have tied a piece of music to a piece of fiction. Although the piece of music is completely unrelated to the fiction, I used to think about how fitting it was for the webtoon whenever I practiced playing the piece and it has now been permanently etched into my memory. Whenever I hear the music, Victory by Two Steps From Hell, I think of the webtoon, Tower of God.     Another instance of this has occurred when I play a song on repeat while studying a topic. Oftentimes, when I listen to the so...

 MUSIC AND MEMORY I wanted to talk about the best night of my ENTIRE life for our last blog before I was distracted by other things, but now it is time to circle back. April 1st. I have been a huge Tyler, The Creator fan as long as I can remember. He was actually one of the first artists I got into when I initially started listening to music. Over the years he has easily become my favorite artist for a multitude of reasons beyond his music even, so being at his concert on April 1st was so surreal. I don’t even know how to put it into words guys like you do not understand. But as I was experiencing post-concert depression in the weeks following, I reflected on how much music meant to me. Music has become such an integral part of my life to such a crazy extent, which even you guys may recognize because practically all of my writing/blogs are about music. So as our blogging journey almost comes to a close, I wanted to talk about the tie between music and memory I mentioned early this ...

  Week 15 (Missing Memories) - 4/27 [6:20] I’ve been dancing hula for almost thirteen years. I was inspired by Lilo & Stitch, and my mom decided to put me in classes when I was four. I caught on really fast, and it was the only hobby that really stuck. I took a bit of a break last year (for obvious reasons) but besides that I’ve had classes every Friday for as long as I can remember. Despite how much I love hula and all the culture that goes along with it, I feel like the memories I should have around it aren’t there. I’ve been with the same hālau (group/class) for the past ten years, but I can’t say that I know my hula sisters very well at all. We’re close friends on Instagram, but I don’t think that counts for much; I can’t even call us friends. I don’t really have the memories I should have for having been with them for so long (besides that one time our kumu [teacher] messed up the song and we all stood on the stage staring at each other for a whole verse). I have no idea...

 AP EXAMS      I am seriously going to hate May 10. The one day where there is 3 AP Exams back to back is the day I have all three. I already knew that the two AP Physics C exams would be on the same day back to back, but I was not expecting APENG TO BE RIGHT BEFORE THAT.      I am almost 100% sure I will forget something super important either on the argument essay or on the physics exams. When I read the argument essay prompt, I know there will be that one thing I should have known but I forgot about. Then in the physics exams, I will probably forget something like the work energy theorem or something about simple harmonic motion. I might even forget F=ma (it would be hilarious if someone actually forgets that). I might even forget the easiest stuff about circuits for E&M. Theres so many things that can go wrong with having APENG and AP Physics C AP exams back to back, and seriously cannot wait for it to be over. Did I mention I have a full on in...