Trust the Process- Chloe Lloveras- Blog 1 T2- AEP 10

Back at it again! But this time, we’re better than ever before. And with a new face too! Kirani, welcome to AEP.

To ease back into the school schedule, we started off the day with “Squardle.” Oddly enough, Monday mornings in AEP have slowly started to become my favorite. We get really long “Squardle” problems - some over 75 words long! I find this exercise an engaging way to start off the week - one that brings the class together. In this specific case, we only managed to find 50 of the 79 words given. It was pretty tricky. But of course we can’t stay in “Squardle” forever (no matter how much we want to, so we proceeded to going over our Final exams). I got 90% of both of the essays - not too bad! But I hope this term will be better, especially since it’s going to be about process diagrams. Spoiler alert! 

The next day we returned with a lot of work on our plate. However, as always, we started with a warm-up, one I knew all too well: “Typeshift!” I haven’t seen this game in so long. I think the last time I played it was back in grade 7 or 8, back when we were still online. It took barely 2 minutes to accomplish. And just like that, we were whisked away into essay writing. 

I found writing about process diagrams a lot easier than graphs. It felt like something just clicked in my brain, like a view that had been obstructed by a fog that's slowly dissipating now. The picture's suddenly become clearer. I guess this perspective of mine makes sense as the curriculum at FIS is science-heavy. Here's the photo of our first process diagram exercise about utilizing hydropower to generate electricity from a man-made structure: 

As you can see, at first glance, it may seem complicated and confusing. But if you truly take the time to break it down into different steps and their components, like we did together as a class, it makes it 100 times easier. It also helps that we learned a similar concept to this in Physics class so I'm familiar with how it should run. I was a lot faster at writing this sample essay so I made 2 different versions. 

In the following week, we started off with "Contexto" and the word was "mind." It's so strange how it was related to "place," "dream," and "sleep," but I guess that's what happens when you play with AI. After that, I made another version of the essay upon hearing the sample one Miss Disa read out. This provided me with clarity at some key words like "flow," "receded," and even "ebbed," as Miss Disa proposed at one point. So, in total, I made 3 different essays about the same topic and I truly do think that each one was an improvement from the last one. But I guess only time will tell when I receive them back this week. 

To end off the session, we played "Quordle" with the extra time we had left. Thanks to a method that Janek proposed that uses almost all of the letters in the alphabet, we got to finish 3 games in no time. 

Overall, it was a very relaxing and fresh way to kick off Term 2. I'm excited for what this semester will hold and can't wait to dive in head-first! 

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