The past few weeks have been – busy – to say the least. Now, however, with APs over, I feel like I have a lot of time to burn. And as I sit here during my free period, outside enjoying the now warm weather, I have an urge to be productive and write a blog post.
A Quote
I just realized that I have never seen the entirety of my school. I don’t know why, but I have never worked outside before, and I just noticed a quote on the back corner of the school building. It is a blue block and has geometrical squares across the words. Some are capitalized and larger than others, but it reads: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It’s a really good quote and continues to hold relevance. But the quote itself makes me realize that despite being here for three years, there are actually a lot of things I haven’t done nor seen in the building.
AP Testing
I took 4 ap tests this year: Calculus, Spanish, Government, and Computer Science. Spanish was the only one I was more nervous about — the others are not too bad in terms of course content and/or getting a 5 on the test. I think my issue was that I was doing all my practice for the AP Spanish test on a Barrons book I found online, which retrospectively has questions and passages way harder than the AP test. Quite literally, some of the explanations to their answers would say there are two correct answers, but one is better than the other. Then again, it did well to prepare me for the actual test, so in the end I’m not complaining.
But now that my schedule is opened up, I have a lot of free time to do what I want and enjoy the now very warm weather. There really isn’t that much time between the end of AP classes and the finals – just two or three weeks. I currently only have two real classes, but that will go to one once the UConn English class ends.
Projects
I’m currently working on a few projects right now. The first priority is a club website for e-NABLE, which I am almost done with, and just waiting for a few more images and the News 12 segment on us. I also have a good rough draft for the tutoring website, and I hope to get that up in these final few weeks of school. Other than that, just messing around with other things and trying to learn new languages – which I realized is far less necessary with ChatGPT and other AI’s.
In news with the tutoring things, I surprisingly already have a few inquiries and potential clients – which is rather reassuring, because I should hopefully get a good running start with the entire thing.
I just remembered that if I get around to it – and have the mental strength to do so – I would like to build a ChatGPT extension with a friend. However, I’m not too sure if we will be able to build up the academic motivation to do so.
