Hey everyone, it's been pretty uneventful thus far, but I felt that I should update this journal so I don't end up neglecting it.
I've had a drop off in study. I don't know what happened. I guess I got burnt out? I have to pick it up again to prepare for the exams... but it's hard to find motivation, you know? Despite my lack of effort however, I am very happy to say that I am still crushing it
We had a talent show for some reason, and I memorized 300 digits of pi in celebration of 300 years of our school lol, which got me second place (somehow! I thought that if I REALLY sucked up to the school administration I might take the W). There is an excellent technique for memorization which is beautiful, really. It's sort of like a mind hack - it utilizes your more powerful visual memory to aid with memorizing large sequences of numbers. You've probably heard of it; "The Mind Palace", if you've ever watched Sherlock Holmes (or been really bored when revising for biology like me). It's what I used to memorize 300 digits of pi in 5 days
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899
8628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284
10270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344612845564823378678316527
1201909145648566923460348630454326648213393607261249141273
I'm pretty sure that's right, at least. That's what I recited in front of the whole school. Oh shit, I hope it's not wrong - that'd be embarrassing.
Anyway, here are some more marks I've been getting:
Biology - Experiment: 96%
- I did my biology experiment on yeast anaerobic respiration, which I think is a really fascinating topic. I used monosaccharide glucose and disaccharide sucrose in yeast fermentation, and measured the volume of CO2 emission against different concentration solutions. As predicted, glucose produced more CO2 volume than sucrose, because:
*glucose is membrane permeable because of it's monosaccharide classification, so the frequency of exosmosis is reduced significantly
*glucose doesn't have to undergo the process of hydrolysis, again because of its monosaccharide classification
For some reason, think it's really, really, beautiful to see results correlate to theoretical work. I don't really understand why.
Physics - Experiment: 100%
- Bruh moment
- I did my physics experiment on the "affect of speed on the deceleration of spheres within water".
- My teacher wrote "wow
" in the marking rubric, which I thought was pretty awesome.
- I tied at the top of the class with that kid who I keep fighting against for the number 1 spot
So yeah, not many results back, but they are really good.
Okay, the date is... 15/10/19
C U next time