For the past few days, I've been working hard as finals are near and I have to study a lot. As well as practice my piece for the concert which is also not that far away. And work on my newsletter, draft article, finish all those writings, assignments, and a ton more. So, after designating every hour of my day to some work and really creating a schedule that forces me to focus at all times, I noticed a pattern. Whatever I do, if I do it first thing after school or early in the morning or basically at any beginnings, I tend to fall in love with that, I keep working and lose track of time and I just keep going and it feels so amazing. On the other hand if I stop even for some time say after 10 mins, I look at my phone for just 5 mins, it changes everything, I'm not longer 100% doing what my intentions were, instead I find my mind wondering off into many directions. What I found interesting though is that although I did competitively get more done in the first scenario, if I enter the second scenario, the opposite happens, I don't get as much done but along the way of doing my tasks, my mind wonders off to such amazing places and I find all these amazing ideas and patterns and feelings and answers that are just impossible to find with a pen and a paper and I love the feeling it leaves me with, there's no base, nothing to guide me, no connection between each thought, our mind is just so amazing and beautiful. These new discoveries you make, they're not some big new ground breaking discoveries, they've always been there yet we just forget about them, never see them, they're just simply amazing. So moral of the story, when you try and try to be intentional about trying and acknowledge your imperfections, you're almost promised to always be left with great outcomes.

Life is a journey from one place to itself. Its end is identical to its start. We enter the world with nothing, and leave with nothing. By this logic, you could assume that life is pointless; after all, we end up no further than we start. But the nihilist argument is flawed. It is only true from the perspective of the outside observer. The truth is that life exists in the moment, for whatsoever brief window of time it can. Just because we end up in the same place as we started does not mean the journey itself didn't happen. And so what if there isn't a grand answer to the meaning of life-- there doesn't have to be. Some people would like to live forever. Others would like for everything to be fixed: no more war, poverty, or famine. To those people, I ask of you this: would you rather live forever in an existence devoid of meaning, or live in a world of problems that gives you meaning? A life that never ends is a life that never began: everything worthwhile has to end, and nothing that lasts forever is worthwhile. As for the people who would like for the world to be perfect: nothing can be perfect. There can be no meaning if everything is already done for you: the moment society becomes a utopia is the moment life becomes meaningless. The journey and the struggle to the heights is enough. In the end, all of us will come tumbling back down the mountain like Sisyphus, never having reached its peak. Yet that does not negate the fact that the journey existed... the fact that an impossible task was attempted by mortal men. We should be thankful that the mountain is never-ending, and that our lives are finite. It is precisely this that makes life precious. Before you depart and continue on with your lives-- remember this. Time passes, and we grow up. The childhood curiousity we once had is replaced by busy work and the obligations of an adult. This can be sad and even frightening, but in truth, there is no 'correct' or 'incorrect' way to live life. It is, however, a shame to forget your childhood and lose that curiousity for the world. As human beings, we may not be destined for the stars, but we sure as hell can attempt it.

I take the ACT in December and I’m nervous anyone know where to access the practice tests?🥲

is this a scam?...

I was watching the video Rishab made on picking a science research project idea, but throughout the video when he mentioned the template for the topic and subtopic, mind mapping, etc, the link that he put in the description and the pinned comment didn't work. The link leads to this website X which leads to this website Y. Website Y doesn't have the template, however. I'm confused as to where to go from here.