Room Cleaning

Here I am cleaning my room again. I feel really old, but not necessarily in a bad way. My earlier childhood (up until the start of high school) stuff reminds me of a past I don't really remember besides the happy blur I described earlier. I admit I did have quite an imagination, but I lacked an important sensitivity that I feel I still often lack.

Freshmen year of high school was an interesting time. From analyzing drawings from that time, that is the time when I probably grew the most technically. I haven't improved a whole lot since then.

I've found that most of the drawings I think are worth saving are not the ones that are technically the best, but the ones that either captured the essence of a moment or that reminded me of people. All the drawings I have of people with swords and crap I don't really care about. It is the little doodles people do on my papers or the small, funny comics I draw in the margins that I want to keep.

Most schoolwork I am not saving. I am saving Calculus stuff for practical reasons (I think Beilin did a really good job teaching and my notes are helpful).

Going back through my old Elite stuff, and knowing that many of my friends are now in Elite, I can safely say that I am glad I did Elite, and aside from the actual SAT work, I miss it a lot. In Korea, children have to go to school like all day. If it was like how Elite was, I probably wouldn't mind. Usually I don't save any homework. I'm highly considering saving some of my Elite work, or turning my Elite binder into a sort of scrap book to archive memories of there.

The other "work" I have contemplated saving is my AP World History stuff (my AP US history stuff is mostly all typed and saved). That was a memorable class as well.

I have a ton of notebooks that I only wrote like 10 pages into, journals of sorts. Right now, I'd like to think I'm a pretty dedicated person, so seeing things like that makes me think that I have grown a bit since my earlier years.

More to come...