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Journal for May 2002.
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| 5.31.02 7:36 PM (Tuesday) Wow, it's been a long month. |
This is the first long month I've had in a while. I can't connect May 1 with now because so many things have happened.
So much stuff for school. Our first (!) Statistics projects of the semester were due recently, and I presented mine today. My project was on surveying the kids from camp. We're doing a final skit in Japanese, and ours is kinda weird and complicated because I really didn't know how to go about translating it. I wish the topic were with things that were easier to translate because I had a hard time translating most of it... in a nutshell, Eugene, Reed and I are doing a skit on a Japanese Fear Factor.
In AP US, we'll be all done after our alternative history projects due on Purple and White Day (the 7th, next Friday.) And we've started doing work again in Calculus, which is kind of hard. AP LA we're doing some college essays and one more book, and, after a final, I think we'll be all done.
The final test of the year is tomorrow! SAT's. Kinda worried. I was talking to Carl today and he said he got a 1600 (!) but I'm really hoping my score is above 1500. I'm not that confident though. I'm pretty sure it'll be above 1300, but not sure how much higher than that. I remember with getting only 4 wrong total in the PSAT Math section I got a 700 simulated score, which kinda sucks.
What else... registration for the UW has gone smoothly despite it being kinda confusing. So I'm taking three classes: Intro to Psychology (PSYCH 101 A), Intro to Microeconomics (ECON 200 D), and Asian-American Identity (AAS 210 A). Does it matter that two of my classes are 200-level classes? o_O I hope they're not too hard. I also got this in an e-mail sent recently regarding my Economics class:
"This Summer Quarter 2002, you are enrolled in the above listed class in
which a student with a disability is also enrolled. The effects of this
disability prevent him or her from either taking thorough class notes
or being able to take notes at all. The student has requested that
Disabled Student Services (DSS) find a volunteer notetaker for this class.
As you have one of the highest cumulative GPAs in the class, we would like
to invite you to assist your classmate by sharing copies of your class
notes over the course of the quarter."
Hmm, should I do it, or should I not... it sounds like a good opportunity, but I have no idea how to take good notes, being new to college and all o_O I wonder how my GPA is one of the highest cumulative. I really don't have one O_o Aww well.
Psychology's the class I really wanted to take. The others being classes I'm semi-interested in. I really hope I'm not the only Asian person taking Asian-American Identity. And I hope it'll be interesting. |
| 5.28.02 7:36 PM (Tuesday) Afterschool adventure |
So much work in school today! So anyways, afterschool I was standing around wondering how I would get to the UW, in order to get my ID card for summer quarter. My sister was supposed to pick me up but I wasn't sure she remembered, so I asked Alex G. for a ride. He said yes! So we drive to UW and I get out, and hopelessly try to open the trunk but am unable to so Alex has to come out and open it for me and I hear this scream from Michele (who was getting a ride home) like "GO AWAY ALREADY!"
Long story short - I walked around the UW for a while looking for Schmitz Hall, not realizing it was the building where I waited for the bus every single day I had Chemistry in the summer o_O I got my ID card and it's all spiffy. After that I caught the bus Downtown, where I saw Amy and Jennifer, then the bus tunnel to Chinatown, then back to the Downtown library where I saw Brian and Eric, to Baskin Robbins, and I finally came home. Now for all this make up work junk crap... |
| 5.25.02 5:20 PM (Saturday) Scores for SAT II |
Ecological Biology - 630 (63rd percentile)
Math IIC - 680 (54th percentile)
Writing - 680 (75th percentile)
I did a lot better than I thought I would do for Bio, having not studied at all... but maybe that's because most other people did worse than me o_O I'm disappointed with my Math score, because that's usually the highest, but my Writing score is decent. I think I'll retake some of them next year, providing my SAT scores don't completely suck.
BTW I am completely sick today. I started feeling sick on Thursday, and was somewhat sick yesterday, and now I know for sure I am sick. It's not a fun feeling, especially when I have tons of work to do to catch up... |
| 5.24.02 5:50 PM (Friday) DOG SHOW! |
Argh I was in the middle of a fatty entry and my comp crashed. Oh well.
So I went to camp for a week. It doesn't feel like it was only a week... I can't connect Monday morning with today. It seems like so much has happened, but now that back into the motion of real life I realize not much time has passed.
Monday morning was busy busy busy. I had to get work from all of my teachers before meeting up with Gabino and Alex outside Stever's during lunch. After that we headed for camp... actually we went to lunch first. Alex and I had a craving for Asian food, particularly Phad Thai, but Gabino didn't want to go to Bangkok House in Chinatown when he had the chance, so we ended up going to this nasty Teriyaki place in U-Village. But then on the way to Gabino's house we passed by TWO THAI PLACES ON THE SAME BLOCK! Needless to say, it was like a slap in the face... make that two. I had a craving for Phad Thai food all week.
So we arrived at Ingraham around 3 to wait for the van to pick us up and drive us to camp. Only problem was, it didn't really come... we waited, and waited, and waited, for around 4 hours. It wasn't too bad, it was a little boring, but Alex and Gabino weren't bad company. After a few phone calls a van came and we headed for camp.
I don't really remember the events at camp chronologically because so much happened. Alex and I ended up buddying up on Cabin 18 with some boys from Viewridge Elementaray. They were good kids. I actually signed up for Wedgewood, and got Viewridge, but it's all good. I taught the In Cold Blood class again, this time with a girl named Anna from Ballard, and things ran pretty smoothly. My table for meals was a lot more enthusiastic than last year, which was great.
Our Cabin 18 cheer was a spinoff of the SNL skit "Dog Show," although I'm sure none of the kids got the reference. We basically clapped in the Dog Show beat and yelled some rhymes, then at the end did one more clap and yelled "DOG SHOW!" It was great because it really seemed like the recurring theme to this year's camp... the adult leaders even incorporated it into our counselor's skit, for which they gave us an impromptu prompt (redundant...) for, and into some of the songs at campfire. Even this morning during lunch the kids at my table (none of whom are in my cabin) were eager to do our cabin cheer.
During our counselor break sessions all the counselors got together for some badly needed teenager talk. Although this year, I hardly got to know any of the other counselors except for the people I already knew... I talked to Anna a bunch because we taught the same class, but that was it.
The goodbyes were rather quick and abrupt, and I didn't exchange contact info with anyone, unlike last year. I had tons of fun this year, I just wish more people went from last year (the only people who did were me, Gabino, and Alesha).
Here's looking to next year...
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| 5.20.02 2:58 AM (Monday) The year is coming 'round... |
I'm packing right now for camp. It's strange because going to camp last year seems so recent... and yet so many things have happened. I just like to put everything in perspective is all.
I wonder who's going... I know for sure Monica, Chris, Steven, Tina aren't going this year (they're the only ones I've been talking to...) Neither is Aaron. Some Franklin kids are apparently going... I wonder if I know any of them.
I did completely nothing today! I have utterly lost all my motivation, which is BAD, especially for a junior. I was going to do all this homework stuff but I was like "hmm, no." I've never lost my drive like this.
On the other hand, I watched some Mary Kate and Ashley movies on ABC Family Channel. And I enjoyed them... yes. I think that will my new dream of the year, to be in a movie with Mary Kate and Ashley. They grew up since Full House, too. They are hot now.
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| 5.18.02 11:36 PM (Saturday) Illusionz: the return |
Actually I planned to go to Illusionz today because Alex G. couldn't make it to FFC a few weeks ago. But he had to work...
It was real nice outside today. Still, something doesn't feel right...
Gabino picked me up, drove me there, and we met up with Eugene, later with Pablo. We played all the usual games. And Gabino had a money card, so he played laser tag, and we used the time to chill in the laser tag viewing room which was really cool, but kinda scary.
PS Eugene owes me $15. I owe Pablo $2.
PPS I hope there isn't an NHS thing tomorrow... I didn't go to the thing last week so there's a make-up car wash, which doesn't exactly qualify as service but..
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| 5.17.02 9:38 PM (Friday) Star Wars |
| Hurray for Episode II. Actually it was kind of funny, our tickets said "Episode I" but we figured they cut it off, although we didn't know for sure until we got in.
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| 5.16.02 10:13 PM (Tuesday) Does it even matter anymore |
It was interesting today. In Statistics we had a breakfast party, and we spent the entire period measuring each other to do some linear regression tests on body proportions. And the Annual initiation was today. It was interesting to say the least.
Camp is next week, I got all my signatures today. The year is coming around again. But things are a lot different this time.
Well I guess it's time to talk about things other than trivial events... I'm in a constant cycle of stressing myself out. If I don't keep myself busy, I'll start to think, and that gets me all depressed. The only problem is, for some reason, I've just gotten so lazy. I can't handle all this stress. And then there's the UW this summer... people are like "you're crazy, why are you taking such hard classes next year." And it's the only way I know how to get by. I'm such a mess.
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| 5.14.02 2:30 PM (Tuesday) The end |
FINALLY! AP Biology test at Franklin. Took it with Belinda. The only two people from GHS. Everyone else from Franklin. Multiple choice hard. Free response completely BSed.
Camp Cedar Springs called. Will go next week. Busy now.
Predict Bio score of 2 or 3. |
| 5.13.02 5:00 PM (Monday) ONE MORE! |
Alright. Today was a wash. I stayed afterschool for about an hour or so reviewing (learning actually... but) Biology with Stever for the big AP test tomorrow. And I took another hour riding the bus home, and it was raining -.-
Also, I'm surprised at the sheer amount of WORK we have even after all these AP tests. Statistics we have so much to do, we even got an assessment today. History we just have one big paper and we're watching videos for a good part of the rest of the year, which isn't really all that different from lecturing, because there really wasn't much work involved. At least we don't have study questions, or any more tests... Calculus we've got a few more homework assignments, quizzes, I think one more test/project. LA we have lots of reading and some writing.
Aside from being gone tomorrow, I can hopefully go to camp next week... if I get all my teacher's permission soon O_O The camp was supposed to send us forms and whatnot, but they forgot or some crazy thing like that. I told Alesha to bring her permission forms tomorrow and I'd photocopy/white out/make new ones for the three of us going, but not being at school tomorrow...
What to do... |
| 5.11.02 10:54 PM (Saturday) Karaoke fun |
Today was a busy day. A break from all the AP testing.
In the morning I got a badly needed haircut.
I went home and soon rode the bus to Chinatown. By 3 I was waiting for Belinda in the front of Gossip, where she would help me study for Bio...
I waited, and waited... at 3:30 she finally came. We bought our bubble teas and went upstairs, where it was rather smoky, but still we studied. I need so much more help... we studied for an hour and a half, and by 5 Belinda had to leave.
I went to Uwajimaya to pass time before I met up with Eric, Jeffo, Tomoki, and Kelsey for dinner at 6. It was so boring. I spent my time in the bookstore, where I looked through books, and CD's, and whatnot. I bought 19's best album (the blue one...)
Well at 6 I went to the Pit, but no one was there. I waited. And waited... until around 6:40 Eric showed up. We were wondering where Jeffo was, and soon Jeffo came with Tomoki and Kelsey. So, no dinner, we'd just wait for everyone and go karaokeing...
Pretty soon Shu Ming and Tina showed up, and they said they'd wait for Chris at Gossip... then we find out that SBK 1 closed down on the 6th, so I ran to tell Tina at Gossip that we'd all go to SBK 2.
Right.. so Eric gave the 4 of us a lift to SBK 2. We got there, started karaokeing. Fun stuff. Eric and Chris mainly sung Korean stuff, which was interesting. Chris was hella good at rapping and singing... Shu Ming and Tina too, but all their songs had this strange background vocal that threw everything off...
So pretty soon an hour and a half passed, and we decided to call it quits. Chris and them left before us, and we all got into Eric's car, where he drove each of us home. Of course, we stopped by McDonald's first, because none of us had eaten anything before karaoke... and yeah. Busy day, busy night... |
| 5.10.02 3:09 PM (Friday) U.S. History |
The last test of the week! I actually studied a little last night, on colonial times and the period directly after the Revolution. But I fell asleep in the process.
So I went to McDonald's for breakfast, and when I went to school I immediately headed for the gym. Which was good, because I studied a little with David F. on the period of the DBQ 1810-1860. I felt like I knew it all; I had everything down. So we took the multiple choice, which was moderately difficult--there were quite a few questions on the Colonial period, which was good, because I directly studied that last night. But I was worried about the essays. When essay time came, the topic was reforms from 1810-1860, something I was utterly unprepared to write about o_O Luckily the reforms weren't obscure at all. Women's right to vote, temperance, transcendentalism. I wrote three pages, I think I did fine. The other two essays I felt a lot better writing, whereas last year I completely BSed them with half-fact and whatever I could remember.
After the test I headed up to Creighton's to get my schedule signed. I stopped by Stever's, and was going to buy some food when the bell rang for 5th period. Heading to Gaither's, David stopped me and asked me if I wanted to check if I got into A.P. Chem, which of course I did, since only 31 people signed up yesterday. I got a signature from Duong.
No one went to Calc, so we basically did nothing. Ada and I went down to Spang's to get signatures for Advanced Marine Science but I was unsure if I wanted to take the class. I might go back tomorrow to get a signature. Went to Duong's again with Ada, to Strentz's, where I stayed for 6th.
Afterschool I stopped by Kinsey's to check whether I made it into Annual. I got in, yay. I had her sign my form as well. And Jeffo drove me home. It was an interesting drive..
For the US AP, I at least scored a 4. Depending on my multiple choice it could either be a 4 or a 5. I really doubt I got a 3, though.
In four days I'll have my last test: Biology! Better study up! |
| 5.9.02 8:55 PM (Thursday) English Language and Composition |
I'm actually used to taking these darned tests now. Which is great.
Another morning at McDonald's. It's good to start off the day differently for the tests. Not to mention, it would be a drag if I hadn't eaten anything, because I would've been more concerned with my hunger than the test.
When I arrived I turned in my AP Chem form to Ms. Brierley, but she wasn't there, so I gave it to Max. Then I headed down to the gym for the AP test. I arrived early, and waited around 30 minutes for everyone else to get there. The gym was packed--this AP test is probably the one that's taken by most Garfield students.
The test itself wasn't that hard in my opinion. Multiple choice did have confusing questions and a certain confusing passage (the second one especially), but overall they weren't as bad as the mock ones we took. The essays weren't too difficult either, although I rushed my third one because I didn't think I would finish on time, so I had 20 minutes left, and I was bored.
The rest of the day was spent talking about the test in Strentz's and then I went to the library to "study," actually we were just socializing the entire period. Fun.
For the English test, I'm pretty sure I attained a score of 4. However, it might be a 3 or a 5, it probably all depends on my essay table grader...
Tomorrow: US History! This test is not only one of my hardest ones, it also determines my GPA... so if there's one I really need to do well on, it's this one. |
| 5.8.02 6:42 PM (Wednesday) Statistics, better |
Statistics was today! To prepare I went to McDonald's in the morning, and remembered to get an Egg McMuffin for Eric because he always asked me to freshman year. Well when I got to school I turned in my app. for Annual and I waited for Eric to walk by me in the 2nd floor hallway with the Band and Japanese rooms, but he didn't before the bell rung... so I waited until break, where I didn't see him, but I gave the sandwich to Jeffo, who said he wouldn't see him until lunch.
Right. By then I was a wreck, because we were busy in Japanese and I didn't have time to study. I stopped by Ms. Farmer's room for last-minute questions and review stuff during break, which I think helped, and she gave us "Smarties" to help the test effort. US History we took our last Practice Multiple Choice, which was of moderate difficulty, and yeah, I couldn't study.
Stressed out, I rushed to Key Club. On my way I chanced upon Jeffo, who still had the Egg McMuffin sandwich because he couldn't find Eric. At this point I was thinking, "dammit Eric you better eat that." So Key Club we turned in our raffle tickets and cut out flowers, which was useful. At this point I didn't really want to study.
Lunch ended, I rushed to get a form to AP Chem before I went to Calculus to check in. Then I ran downstairs for... the Statistics test!
The multiple choice section was a synch. Which was good, because the Free Response, although easy, was somewhat harder to write. I swear throughout the test I felt sick, so it wasn't more of a "darn! Time's almost up!" kind of feeling but a "WHEN WILL THIS END?" feeling.
So I think I did pretty well. I predict a score of 4/5.
Tomorrow: AP LA! |
| 5.7.02 3:19 PM (Tuesday) Calculus, a rough start |
Calculus AB AP test was in the morning. I got a ride to school with my sister because she had to take it too, and we got breakfast at McDonald's.
So inside the gym it took maybe an hour filling out all these forms. By the time the test began I was like "whoa it can't be." The mult. choice was okay, I don't think I did stellar on it. It was the free response that shook me up. The first part of the free response was a little tough, but the second hard was super hard. I keep telling myself I can't worry about it, especially with so many tests left...
After the test I walked to Gaither's and everyone in Calculus complained and bitched about how hard the test was, including me, and including Belinda who took the BC test. I also got my registration stuff. It's all good, I talked to Ms. Kinsey afterschool and she said I could get into Annual if I turn in an app by tomorrow.
So on the test I predict a score of 3, hopefully 4. Tomorrow... Statistics. |
| 5.6.02 11:37 PM (Monday) So this is it! |
I know I'm overhyping my tests on here, but I can't help it.. the entire year all boils down to this!
School wasn't very productive. In first period we got this long-ass assignment on listening comprehension, which I can't worry about now. 2nd period we got our mocks back, I did pretty well on the free response, I think it would've given me a simulated score of 4/5, but Ms. Farmer didn't know how to calculate it because she used different methods. In AP US I got a 4 on the Mock, which is great, but this time around I have this feeling Creighton gave me a little too much credit on my essays so it might just stay a 4 on the real thing. I'll push for a 5 though. The rest of the day was like "hmm why am I here, I could be studying..."
Afterschool I was talking to Simon and we were discussing the test. He'll settle for a two, which gets placement in UW, but I gave him an inspirational speech "Shoot for the moon, cause even if you miss, you'll land among the stars!" LOL okay so that quote's not mine but anyway.
So I'm not too worried (well I am, but I keep telling myself I shouldn't be) about the Calc AB test tomorrow... if I get a 3+ I'll be good, b/c I'm retaking it next year anyway with Calc BC. So... this is it! |
| 5.5.02 10:34 PM (Sunday) evolution |
I think I reviewed and learned more in-depth about evolution today. Or maybe it was yesterday. I'm cramming too hard everything will escape my brain. I also extensively reviewed heredity (after yesterday), reviewed Monera, Protista, and Fungi, and am currently learning about plants. Seriously though, I know jack shit about human physiology, which is big on the AP test... (we never learned about it in freshman bio...)
Yeah I'm whining now.
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| 5.4.02 8:32 PM (Saturday) Another day of tests |
| I took the SAT II's in the morning at Franklin. I got there somewhat early, and when we tried to go inside to wait they kicked us out where it was really cold. I was standby, so I was unsure if I could even get in, but luckily there were only a handful of SAT II takers, around 15 or so. The first test, Writing, was rather simple, except I BSed my essay and it was partially incoherent. The second test I took was Math IIC, which wasn't too hard, but I was far from done when the hour ended, and a lot of the questions were tricky (there were like two Statistics questions on there, I was like "YES!" lol). The third test I took was Biology E, to see how much I could remember from freshman Bio, and I wanted to predict how well I could understand the material on the AP test. Uhh... I think I knew about 25% of the material, made educated guesses on 25%, and I flat out forgot or had no clue about 50% of it. Here's hoping my score will be better than a 400! Seriously if I get over a 600 I'll be so happy, but somehow I doubt it. So now I'm studying Bio like crazy.
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| 5.4.02 12:09 AM (Saturday) Mocks = DONE! |
It was crazy... last night I finished my chi-square take home test in Stats and that took forever even though I started out last night half done. This limited my studying for AP US mock to only an hour, so I was like "whatever" and just reviewed the period 1810-1860.
This morning I got to school, turned in my test to Stats but Ms. Farmer wasn't there so I was like "hmm...", and got to the library where there were NO CHAIRS! So I went down to the lunchroom to grab one and we started the mult. choice section. There were some questions that were too hard, but I really wasn't worrying at this point. Mult. choice is so much easier to bare through than essays, which I feel guilty about BSing especially when Creighton reads them. So the DBQ was really hard, with an answer that, even when explained, I would've never come up with o_O And the essays were kinda BSed as well. But I felt good at least not completely BSing all of them.
The rest of the day was rather slow. I went to the doctor's afterschool, and I was supposed to go see Spider Man with Gabino but I fell asleep and didn't call him/he didn't call me... which sucks because I really wanted to go see it. Oh well, time to study for SAT II's tomorrow.
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| 5.2.02 9:56 PM (Thursday) One year ago today... |
It's so hard to believe one year ago I was studying for the Mock AP Euro exam! I was so stressed then. Now it's like I'm not even worried. And I haven't studied at all.
As for my other mock exams... I got a 23/40 composite score on my Stats MC, which is good (it translates to a 46/50 in the gradebooks), and my AP LA essays I got a 7 (out of 9), 7, and a 4/5, but only the two highest essay scores are kept, so it's all good.
Yes, my life has been all tests lately. SAT II's coming up Saturday. Real AP's next week, and I have one more the week after that. And I'm not stressing! I feel like a slacker now. I hope that's not a bad sign... I hope I'm not too overconfident.
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| 5.1.02 7:07 PM (Wednesday) 3 down, 1 to go in... Mock AP test hell |
Actually, the Mock AP's haven't been too hard yet. I stressed over the Calc Mult Choice Friday, but I actually did decently with the Free Response, getting me a simulated score of high 3 (it'll be better on the real thing, I'm sure the questions on the Mult. Choice were harder...) And Monday we took Stats MC and LA MC, I did decently on both. Yesterday I went to the field with Ada during lunch to review for the Calc Free Response, which I was kinda worried about, but like I said, it turned out fine. Today I had the last of the Stats and LA mocks; the Stats mock was a group test and the questions were really easy (I was quite surprised...) and the LA one... I never write well during pressure, and I lost my concentration by the third essay, let's just put it like that. I only have one more mock to go, and that's the AP US one, on Friday. That's the one I'm kinda worried about. Oh well. For some reason I am slacking off BIG TIME these crucial moments before the AP tests, I hope I do well on the real thing.
What else.. I've been worried about colleges recently. Taking the College Seminar during EMT has only heightened this worry. For me, the problem isn't so much which college I go to... if I apply to enough of them, I figure I'll get into an Ivy League or something like that... but it's funding it that's the problem. I've started to question whether taking Running Start instead of lots of AP classes would've been better. But it's always been my ambition to go out of state. Can't worry about this now. Must worry about other things.
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