Here is a link to a video detailing my final semester here at HPA.

This week I made use of the opportunity to prepare for upcoming AP exams. Following the exam, I will begin working on my video that will be due on friday.

Today we were allowed to study for our upcoming AP exams. I studied for Physics C Mech&E/M

today we all spent time flying in the drone simulator and trying not to crash. Its interesting to think and account for drag and remembering the controls at times.It would be cool if we could try flying an actual one eventually.

Today some people from MIT came by to see and learn about our projects. THey also told us about amazing experiences they had and scientific revelations they were a part of.

This week we only had 2 classes because of a wonky schedule and the capstone exhibit. Half was spent preparing for our presentations and the other was reviewing some C and learning some basic haskell operations. Moving forward, I think I want to review some of my less-used languages and perhaps a new one (haskell) in preparation for college. For example, ihavent really touched JS, PHP, or Java in quite a while and feel quite rusty. Reviewing them should prove useful.

Today we watched YT videos for a healthy amount of time and marveled at the power of the subwoofer the after-school team set up. It was pointed into one of the access holes in the floor, which connects to a hollow space, so we were able to feel the vibrations in the floor.I then proceeded to research Haskell and learn some basic commands (i.e. math, strings, org.).

Today we made sure we finalized our one-pagers and went over how the capstone exhibit was scheduled. We also chose which room we wanted to be in (between the project room and the monlab). I continued to scrounge through some old Discord discussions and emails to find more pictures of the project (screenshots and such) to show people during the exhibit.

This week I was only in one class as I was travelling to attend a conference with my parents and visit a few colleges that happened to be on the way. In that one class I buffed up on my Java and read more about cryptography. When I return I want to review some of my programming languages, such as Java, C/++, JS, PHP...as I haven't really worked with them in quite a while (maybe not ALL of them, haha).

Today I was also absent--travelling.

I was absent due to a conference.

This week I worked on installing and creating a boot drive for arch linux. I also did some research online so I would know what to expect. I know which desktop I want to install and want to try either i3 or Awesome windows manager. I also found some texts on cryptography (enciphering?) and went through some of the exercises on basic enciphering in python and some java as well as algorithm design. I hope to continue this next week--specifically the algorithm design part.

Today I found a book on cryptography and ran through some of the tutorial enciphering exercises. I then jumped to the section about enciphering algorithms and their design. While researching the encryption of external drives, I found a few programs like TrueCrypt and some cool hardware by SecureDrive. Learned a bit more about SHA-256/512 and AES enciphering. The terms enciphering and whatnot are apparently standardized terminology as "crypt" refers to the dead in some cultures. As such, substituting "cipher" has been deemed more appropriate.

Today I downloaded an Ubuntu image and flashed it to a USB stick. While that was happening I moved some of the more important files from the backup I made last Friday to my laptop and worked on implementing PGP into a small java program.

I was at a golf tournament today.

This was the first week back. We covered how the rest of the semester would turn out and I worked on some python with Gabe. I also made a backup of my laptop's ssd. Next week I want to fix my linux partition (updating the BIOS messed around with it) before getting back into ML or cryptography.