Hey everyone hope your week is going well! I’m glad we have a long weekend, thanks Labor Day. Also my birthday is coming up so not doing too shabby at the moment. Anyway I just wanted to hop on to share some stories. High school is an interesting time full of the intriguing people, and now I can document all those people..

So this first one happened while I was in my Psych class. It really blows my mind that this is an AP course because some of the people in there, wow. No offense to anyone because I don’t claim to be a genius either. Also quick side note, when teacher’s say there are no dumb questions..kids still seem to find a way to leave me speechless. So we’re discussing our first test, and our teacher asks if we have any questions. Somebody asks if there’s an FRQ which is valid since our teacher hadn’t said anything yet. A few more people ask some decent questions, but then one girl raises her hand. She asks, “What’s the difference between correlation and double blind procedure?” Girl did you study..like AT ALL? For those of you that don’t know, I’m assuming not everyone is a Psychology expert, correlation is a measurement of how two variables change together and how well one predicts the other. On the other hand, a double blind procedure is when during an experiment, neither the researcher nor the participants know which group is receiving which treatment. So someone please explain to me, how this girl thought for one second that these two terms were anything alike? Like where is the correlation between these terms?!

Ok now to be a little less harsh oops, one of my teacher’s told us a story during zero hour. He has a nephew, and he told us about how one time when he had babysat for him, his nephew was just sitting outside. My teacher was confused because he just sat there with a little notebook and pen, and he furiously scribbled gibberish. So my teacher comes up behind him and asks him what he’s doing. He simply replies, “Science.” And of course that makes my teacher exuberant (he teaches chemistry). Then my teacher tells him, “When someone asks you what you’re doing, tell them you’re working on your doctoral degree.” This child was eloquent and intelligent from a young age, so he has no problem pronouncing or remembering that. So later his parents come home, and he’s still sitting outside. They walk up to him and ask him what he’s doing, so he says ” I’m working on my doctoral degree.” Now imagine that coming from a two year old, in a cute high pitched squeaky voice. It just makes you melt, it’s so adorable. So by this point my teacher has finished the story, and he ends with: “If my nephew still went to this school, I just scored him so many dates.” My science teacher is iconic haha he’s honestly fantastic.

Last story of the day I promise! So I was at a birthday party for my almost birthday twin (her’s is the day right after mine). And these two girls tell us a story about their cooking class. Everyone was assigned to separate kitchens, and they were making quesadillas. First of all, one of the guys in her group uses way too much butter. We’re talking half a stick when they’re only halfway through the recipe, no one asked to be drowned in butter dude. Basically their group is a mess, the other day they made cookies- like Panera sized- while everyone else made mini ones. Plus the one girl only had 3 chocolate chips on her cookie. But back to the quesadillas, this guy decides that the knife is “dirty” because he used it for the butter. He takes the quesadilla out of the pan and thinks, oh I’ll just cut it with a pair of scissors. He proceeds to grab scissors, lift the hot right off the stovetop quesadilla with his fingers and tries to snip snip at it…we see where this is going right? Well obviously it’s really hot, so he throws the scissors out of pain and they land- right in pan, which is still on the stovetop. Then for the next, however long, he tries to get the scissors out of the pan with tongs. This boy wow. Some people fascinate me. Anyway that’s all for this blog post, sorry it’s so long, but I hope you enjoyed listening to these stories as much as I did!