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This week

I emailed some scientists to see if they would be willing to talk to us about the singularity and the future of neuroscience. I don't know how that will go, but we have one response so far! I'll update with the questions I ask him and his responses. We'll see. I have really awful senioritis. Like it's terrible. I need to seek help, hahaha. Anyways, we have a 3 day weekend so that's awesome!

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This week

Over the weekend, I had an audition at UCLA. The college process is truly closing in upon us and it's definitely a surreal experience. As the end of the year approaches, our lives are truly laid out in front of us, depending on where we choose to attend school. I'm a little bit nervous, but hopefully everything will work out fine.

As for English? Well, we're having an exam on Beowulf and also we are beginning to read our choice study group novels. I have yet to acquire the Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (my first book). We will see when I get it. I'm a pretty fast reader, so a few nights of dedicated reading and I should be able to plow through it.

Beowulf

I read Beowulf in class this week. It was very long. Also rather unrealistic, considering Beowulf could breathe underwater for many hours. It was pretty interesting. We also watched a snippet of the movie, in which Grendel is a mucus covered giant baby. It's awesome. I love listening to people read outloud. Especially the ones we listened to because they all had sweet Scottish accents. Next week, I believe we start focusing more on reading our books! I'm reading the Singularity and suuuuuuch other novels.

New semester!

We watched this really awesome video in Friday's class about the origins of the English language from a college lecturer. We are also apparently going to begin reading Beowulf. I've done some research and read some excerpts of it. It seems to be quite a difficult read, being that it was the first book...ever. However, it is definitely easier to understand than Shakespeare (I love Shakespeare). I didn't see the Beowulf movie, but perhaps I will do so whilst we read the story in class....we will see

Happy week-after-winter-break!