This week, our school took part in the walkout for the 17 victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. All of us stood outside and walked around the school in silence for 17 minutes. Taking part in this was the highlight of my week. I felt really proud and happy, especially for the teachers. I could tell that this moment meant a lot to them. It was a very emotional moment for me. When some of my friends were really emotional and cried a little bit, I realized that this wasn’t just some walkout, it was a very important moment in history. This week, we also worked on the background for our stencil portraits. Our group was the first one to get the wood boards since we had already all of our cutouts done a week before. For mine, I used yellow, pink, and red magazine cutouts. To emphasize the idea of feminism and body image, I added empowering words and I cut out the face of every body I used in order to send a message. I’m very excited to put a stencil on top already. I really wish that we were doing a stencil of our face instead of a stranger. The interview for my social advocate didn’t really work out. It was really hard for me to find a social advocate for body image, but once I did I was really happy. It all went downhill when she couldn’t come to school to do the interview because she went on vacation, so I’m going to do it through email. I really wished I could’ve done it in person.
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This week was very hard for me since I was absent one day, and left early on another day. I am very sad because I missed the woman’s walkout on Thursday, but I am very proud of High Tech for making it happen. On Saturday, March 10, I took my first SAT. I was very nervous because I didn’t feel prepared, but once I got there, I knew it was going to be OK. It felt like a very long and slow process that was never going to end. I remember finishing the english section and when I looked around, I saw people still working on it. I felt like I didn’t do a very good job since I finished very fast, and it is still something that I am very worried about. During the essay section, I felt extremely confused and stuck. When we practiced writing the essays in class, I thought they were pretty straightforward and easy. They all included different strategies, while the actual one didn’t. It was very hard for me to spot them and that made me feel very insecure and scared. When it was all over, I felt a sense of calm. All the stress I had from the SAT had gone away, but I know it’ll come back when I receive my score.
What’a cryostat?
This week, was honestly full of ups and downs. I was having one of those weeks where I can’t focus on anything and I didn’t feel motivated at all because I had my mind on other things going on in my life. Going to UCSD was a nice way for me to clear my mind. Before getting there, I was expecting the college to look different. I was actually surprised because I kind of digged it. Everyone didn’t really like the school, but I could see myself going there, plus it’s close to home. We went to Geisel, the library. The building looked really cool from the outside. I was really surprised about how it looked from the inside. Specially the 7th floor. It was super quiet and everyone was studying. I loved it. From there, we went to Dr. Kauffman’s lab. We did three workshops, but out of the three, cutting the brain of a mice with a cryostat was the one that was the most fun. I had never seen a mice’s brain before, so it was amazing looking at it, and cutting it. The workshop that I feel like I learned the most with, was looking at Kisspeptin on male and female brains on the microscope. We were supposed to look at two of them and see if we could guess which was the male or which one was the female brain. I’m really glad we got to do these workshops in a real lab because it broke so many taboos that I had, and I got to learn so much. |
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