Justin's Blog

Finally, my high school journey comes to an end huh... feels weird There are definitely people I must thank. I did not want to write a final cheesy blog about thanking my parents, but I feel obligated to do it because they have gone out their way to demonstrate what unconditional love is. My mother has been a great emotional support for me, listening through my struggles late midnight, and I'm thankful that I can have someone so caring to depend on. She also has made my life infinitely times easier by cleaning my room once in a while because it's disgusting in there. And thank you to my dad for bringing a sense of direction and support in my life, encouraging me to pursue what I love to do.  Thanks to all the teachers that have been instrumental in my academic growth the last four years. Definitely some teachers that I will never forget are Mr. Moore, Mr. Marley, Mrs. Parks, Mr. Hevel, and Ms. Ritter. They all have really pushed to my absolute limits the past few years and flou...

What does it mean to become the best version of yourself?  During a virtual math summer camp last year, I was asked a question by a professor named Nina from University of Michigan. She asked me directly if I enjoyed math, and I responded that math by far is my favorite subject. Why?  Because math is black and white. You either get the answer to a problem correct or not. Math has a structure; math uses logic and formulas; math is not ambiguous; and math is not open-ended. And to this very day, I still love math for these reasons and I still believe it is my strongest subject. Now, I am not too intrigued in English courses because literature is the opposite of math— it is too open-ended and I despise the ambiguity of it. But that is what life is, isn't it? AP Literature taught me that literature, to an extent, is life. They're both ambiguous and open-ended. Life cannot be predicted and there is no set structure to it. Life is always changing. Just because yesterday was a good d...