This year is the junior year, reputedly the toughest year in high school, and I’m taking my first AP course ever! So far, AP physics has been fun and intriguing, my grades might soon change that if I don’t do something about those labs and tests…I am lagging behind in the “grandma” game; do the rules have anything to do with physics?

I am excited about working with my classmates and doing many labs on the classroom computers. The labs are definitely a lot less messy than the chemistry or biology ones. I hope that by the end of the year, I will discover the rules of the “grandma” game, do well on the AP exam, and maintain the tiny residue of sanity I have left in me. (Lab partners, beware.) At first, I didn’t realize how difficult this course was going to be, and now I think I still can’t imagine the magnitude(vocabulary, haha) of the upcoming stress.

Of course, I am most anxious and concerned about getting lost in this course, especially when missing days of school. With college presentations, SATs, and college counseling around the corner, thinking about grades gets more depressing every year. Now I am glad that my parents can’t check the gradebook on the eschool website. Hmm… I should make this page prettier somehow. That picture at the top is of me and my sister in Tokyo Disneysea trying to push the flying machine’s handle so that the wings can flap, but unlike our dad, we didn’t have the necessary strength to move them. I hope that I can eventually fly in this physics course too, even if the wings will be very heavy to move.