Yeah, my school is very ~extra~, so they add a little something on each year for us to do on top of our regular work. This year was sophomore speech, next year is mandatory internship, and senior year is a fifteen page research paper and presentation (really not looking forward to that one). Plus I still need 45 more hours of community service, yay.

We talked about it a little on the Artificial Intelligence thread, but my topic was 'Should AI be Democratized?', which basically means 'should AI creation be available to everyone and not just private companies?' (I argued that they should). I really enjoyed learning about the topic, although the research process was a bit tedious. My dad works with a lot of these companies, so he really helped out with the details of it.

I'm really terrified of public speaking, but it went surprisingly well during class, and I almost won the Speech of the Day but lost by a few points to one of my friends (his speech was really good though). Anyway, I'm very thankful that it's over, but I'm glad that I did it. Now I don't have to worry about school ever again! *blantantly ignores the world history AP in early May* 

Where I live the weather is thoroughly ignoring the spring equinox so it's still dumping snow :/

Hi Hex!!  

HI FLAMIEEEE :) I'm reallyyyyy busy right now and kind of stressed but generally fine. It's still really cold where I live and we're having a lot of rain—it doesn't feel like spring lol... How are you? How's life going? And ooh the state history competition you're doing/did—how's that going/did that go? It sounded really cool!