Last Stretch of Junior Year Day 4 - Set Autopilot for Lang and Calc

One of the projects I have over the break is this AP Lang research paper on art during the Great Depression.  So today, one of my partners came over to find some more poetry that we could possibly use in the essay, and possibly read out loud in the video.  I have the list of some poems we found in this other blog post.

So one of the songs that I am now practicing for piano is "Charleston" by Mátyás Seiber.  I played it - or rather I attempted to play it - and noticed it had this sort of jazz-style syncopation.  At the bottom, I noticed that it said "Copyright 1933 by Schott Music International, Mainz."  I thought that this music might work for the Lang project since it's in the 1930s.  Plus, the music had a rather rushed and anxious tone.  But then I remembered my piano teacher told me he was a Hungarian composer.  I think I would be better off using American music.

Later in the day, I was working on some AP Calculus stuff.  This time I was reviewing polar graphs, how to find the length of the curve, and the area of the curve, and the like.  All I know is that I seriously need to memorize the half-angle and double-angle formulas for sin^2 x and sin 2x, etc.  And, I'll need to review some techniques of integration, such as splitting it up, using trigonometric substitution, and other fun stuff.

Not only did I review math, but also I reviewed English.  I worked on some sample ACT English problems. The style is a bit different compared to what I'm used to with the writing section in the SAT.  And obviously, for anyone who bothers to read this blog, my writing style is far from perfect.  I know I'd get about a 3 for each blog post had it been an essay prompt to reflect on my day.  Why?  Stylistic errors, poor structure, inconsistent tenses, less than feasible transitions, distracting digressions, grammatical errors and all kinds of other components of writing. Regardless, I still managed to get 32 out of the 45 sample questions correct.  I was too lazy to time myself, since this is my first time, and because it's just a rough idea of the areas I need to practice.  And heck no, of course I don't have patience to review the exact reason why I got each problem wrong.

So to end the day, I was looking around on flightsim.com to search for some scenery and some aircraft.  I found this Cessna Citation 500 I used to love flying on back when I still had my Dell  Inspiron laptop, and before the hard drive failure (which one of these days I need to find some data recovery service to retrieve my files).  So seizing the opportunity, I quickly downloaded that and installed it.  I also downloaded this Qantas A330-300, this Queen Mary cruise ship (yeah, it's configured as an "aircraft"), and some scenery for Albany, New York.  Flight sim communities are really the reason why FSX is not going to get boring for me any time soon.

So uh...all that's left is to actually enjoy playing around with the stuff I downloaded.