Last But Not Least

Writing this last blogpost is somewhat bittersweet... or just sweet. I'm not gonna lie, I won't miss writing these every night. As interesting as physics turned out to be, I'm really looking forward to waking up at noon and not retaining any information whatsoever.

Physics is an explanation. It's why the sky is blue, and why rainbows exist. It's how we stay on planet Earth and don't float off into space. It's how we can send rockets into the atmosphere, and why waving goodbye isn't really a wave. That's what I've decided, anyway. And according to Moodle, it's also the branch of science dealing with the study of matter and energy, used to explore motion, forces, momentum, energy, waves, and optics.

The class turned out to be pretty fun. I'm definitely happy I chose to take this over the summer, since I think that my understanding of physics benefited from being the only subject I had to focus on. As exhausting as 4-6 hour class can be, for the most part the hours went by quickly, since we always had a lot to do to keep our minds occupied.

I learned a lot of things which will probably be of no use to me other than being interesting facts to spout off when needed. At the very least, it's stuff I find interesting, so not a total waste of a summer. These last few days of class have been the most interesting to me, like finding out how we see color, or how glasses keep me from being blind. I've also learned that I don't hate math as much as I thought I did. When used like this, where we can just put numbers into an equation without doing too much thinking, I even find math tolerable.

One thing that I think would make the class even better would be having more breaks. I'm not just saying this to get out of class time, I just honestly feel like it's easier to pay attention with a couple more breaks. They don't need to be particularly long, but maybe an extra five minute break to go get food or just not have to take in more information would be greatly appreciated. But overall, I genuinely enjoyed taking physics this summer, so thanks for a great summer Mr. Blake!