If anyone’s been keeping up with my MSN and/or Facebook personas, you can probably see how I’ve been anxiously counting down the days (and the hours and minutes) until science fair time. To tell the truth, I am terrified. I don’t know how I’ll finish on time. Then again, a lot of other people are in the same boat as I.
This year, I’m doing studies in the harmonic spectrum of various tones of musical instruments at 440Hz, analyzing them via the Fourier transform algorithm to align correlations between harmonics and concentration while taking a spatial-reasoning test. In simple words, I’m studying what music helps you think best. And no, the options are NOT “classic, rock, hard metal, or pop”. I am rather sick of that cliche project. Everyone knows how that will turn out, and no one can explain why.
My project -will- explain why, however, and that’s why it is so crucial that I perform well at school scifair.. because after -that- we’ll advance to Regionals and then hopefully to State! I created a Facebook group the other day with a list of 50 (so far) “You know you’re in Scifair when…” rejoinders. I get a little teary-eyed just thinking about it, but hopefully this year I have the option of creating even better memories I can cry about at graduation.
Ahh, graduation. That’s coming up in five months, and I can assure I will be a sentimental mess when I walk out of the Frank Erwin Center on the evening June 8th. Because as much as we can mock the “immaturity” of high school, as much as I am psyched for college, as much as I am ready to get out of this educational facility… a lot of good memories were made here, and they are irreplaceable.