April 25th: SBAC ELA Section, Robotics Meeting, Homework

Today was not that good.

I woke up early enough to get a loaner chromebook from the office. Initially, in the SBAC test, I breezed through the CAT Multiple Choice section. Some of the texts were somewhat interesting and cool to read. However, when I got to the Essay section, the sources were pretty damn boring. Apparently I zoned out for a really long time. When lunch started everyone was already on their 2nd body paragraph but I hadn't even started on the SAQ short answer question! After lunch I finished the SAQ but the essay prompt was HORRENDOUS. THE PROMPT IS ACTUALLY SO BAD. It made my brain turn to mush. I kept re-reading the sources but none of them really address the prompt and the prompt is so bad, it makes you question how to even address it. For me, my prompt is weird because it's not necessarily proving something, but rather how something is done, then there are two parts to the prompt, which we haven't really addressed or seen before.

Anyways, I would've been pretty screwed if this was a timed test.

After school was the robotics meeting where I could forget about the damn SBAC test. The programming team initially had some trouble with writing the code to gather the standard deviation of the photonvision camera, but we just had to refresh the intellisense for some reason, and that worked and our code built. So, the remainder of the meeting was gathering the data to create the standard deviation equation for us to use based off of the area of the april tag that was on the camera. Ideally we would've done more but unfortunately C++ is really screwing us over this year. At least we got more programming done than last year! There will be a meeting tomorrow but I'm not confident how much we can actually get done.

Folks, it's not even funny how much homework I have due this Sunday. Like, it's actually so so much. I have to finish my APCSP create task, I have a project for US History, I have all of my homework for Chabot classes, and I have practice problems for Calculus. I'm going to need to seriously lock in unlike I've ever locked in in my life.

Thanks for reading,
Issac