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Blog 3.1 - Adi's Inferno - 8th circle

 A blessed morning to everyone and Ramadhan Mubarak! This marks the start to the Third Semester and you can now watch us all slowly descend into the madness of Cambridge AS exams and the second phase of the Stem Congress for us poor poor Stem takers. Anyways, it's Ramadhan though so we must remain positive and halal as much as possible!!!!!!!!

What happened since the last blog I wrote? Finals, Musical, and now Mock exams... Okay!

For the AEP finals, I can say I was utterly flabbergasted. Was 100% fully expecting a crossword like our usual exams but Miss had us scour our brains and wracking up memories to remember how we answered the seatwork paper she originally gave us? The exam was just a repeat of that. I memorized MOST of the answers but I couldn't get 100 on these finals this time :((( well I'll be damned.

Next, the musical!!! Oh boy. Three months of hell for that whole ordeal to be over in 10 minutes flat. Three months of hell for a few seconds of applause. I have a lot of mixed feelings about the musical that I don't plan on spilling at least as of now, but I can be glad that I have at least put it all behind me! Still need to be paid back a few thousand but other than that, we're done anyway. And we won three awards! I can be proud of that.

Just this Wednesday and Friday, we also had our first mock exams for our Cambridge exams. It was hell (again) and the whole stress and all from going through that shaved maybe 10-ish years off of my life span. But regardless, it was a mock exam anyway and it wasn't graded. Interestingly enough, the lack of pressure made the exams... sort of fun? Like I know that these aren't graded and that we're only doing it to experience what would be the real exams, and they were somewhat fun to do? I can skimp out on being too serious and I answered the papers more to test my own abilities. If I don't get a good score, that's fine too. It's just a mock exam anyway.

One last thing, on the Wednesday prior to the musical, that is when we had our first AEP lesson as of the Third semester and that was when Miss introduced our newest topic: Angsty Teen Problems!!! Or something along those lines idk

It was something very dear and close to our hearts because we are teenagers, we are angsty, and we have problems. Neat! The words included topics regarding self-esteem, bullying, and nurturing kids. I quite like how the writing and discussions of these units feel more forward-thinking, so they don't reduce all teens into sad, lazy, depressed zombies. They're not excusing kids for their behavior, but they're not catering their writing to adults by bad-mouthing kids, you know? It's a refreshing take on discussions regarding topics like this.

Anyways, cheers to even more fun, relatable, and engaging vocab units such as this one!

Thank you for reading :3

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  1. AnonymousMarch 18, 2024 at 12:08 AM

    Thanks for a lengthy and informative blog post!

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