In my Independent Science Project (which I do during allotted time in my school week), I am helping teach middle schoolers about DNA through mode...
No school today. Optional study day.
Most everyone had finished with their presentations and projects, so there was a mini chess match between Ilan and Sameer, then Ilan and Johnny. Both...
Today was the day of my presentation! I think it went pretty well. Mrs. Petteys seemed impressed with the headway I've made with the Elab's biotech e...
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I was basically not at school for the first 3 days of this week due to AP tests, and then I got sick, and was not at school for the next two days. I'...
AP English Language and Composition Exam. I feel pretty confident about it, despite the fact that my nose was running the whole time and my cold was ...
I was supposed to do my presentation today, but I got sick on Wednesday, and am still under the weather. I will (hopefully) be better by Monday, and ...
AP Biology Exam. I think I did quite well.
Relatively uneventful class, many people were in AP Lit. It was more of a study day than anything else. We're thinking about/working on presentations ...
This week was good and crazy as usual. Dr. Bill allowed us to focus on some other classes with Aps coming up, as well as working on our presentations...
Dr. Bill and half of the class were not here today (AP US History and May Day). Those of us who were here worked on our presentations and chatted wit...
We had international educational consultant visitors today. They had some really good questions for us and seemed really impressed. I was actually ra...
This week, we focused a lot on our final presentations. I reallh enjoyed it, but it felt kind of intuitive. We invited Kai (don't know his last name)...
Zoe accidentally deleted her project today, and I spent some time consoling her. Goerge was really good about it. Apparently, it's salvageable (and t...
8TH GRADE VISITS TODAY! It was so busy. So many tours went through our ISR period. We had to rapidfire our Why questions with minimum wordcount. It k...
We spoke more about the Why behind our presentations today. A bunch of tours came through the Elab, and Dr. Bill wasn't here today. The sub was nice ...
This week was pretty great, despite being utterly exhausting. Between catching up in classes and jetlag, I was consistently tired, but ISR was pretty...
I tested the MiniPCR machine today, and it seemed to work well. When I plugged it in, it started running a 3-hour Quality Control Cycle. I decided to...
Mr. Schorn came in to talk to us about the power of presentation. I enjoyed his visit, and I think his advice was important for the class to hear. We...
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