What, would you say, is your most valuable possession? How did you acquire this possession? Why is it so meaningful?

I would say that my most valuable possession is my laptop. I’ve had my laptop since 7th grade and over the years have collected and stored many memories in the 128GB hard drive, whether it be photos, code, movies, or video games. Going through my laptop, I can make a timeline of the friends and interests I’ve gained and lost throughout the years. It is a scrapbook of my life that I unintentionally made. While I may replace my laptop in the future, I’ve decided to keep the files on that laptop only. I’m sure in the future when I’m going through old junk in dusty boxes, I’ll find and boot up my old laptop and use it as a time capsule for a snapshot of my teenage years.

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Ender's Game

If you had to narrow it down, who has been the single most influential person (dead or alive/ on or off campus) these past 4 years?

If I had to narrow it down, the single most influential person these past 4 years has to be my father. When it comes to most things my father is fairly strict, and as such, I have come to grow with a “strict but fair” attitude. His father was a police officer, so it comes to no surprise that I’ve gotten some of that mentality with me today. While I have been raised with this stiff attitude, my father has also raised me with the idea of open mindedness and flexibility when it comes to rules. Thus my father has been very influential with how I view the world. Being flexible with myself and others when things don’t go exactly as planned while keeping myself and others to a certain standard is very tricky, but the advice my father gives gets me closer to balancing each side correctly. Thus, for giving and growing my world philosophy, my father is the single most influential person these past 4 years, and also in my life as a whole.

Write a letter of advice to your son/daughter upon entering high school

Hello son/daughter, Hopefully I would have raised you in such a way so that you don’t need this letter to have a positive high school experience, but if for whatever reason this letter is needed here it is. High school can be an intimidating place, but it can also bring great memories and lifelong friends. I think there can be a shopping list of advice I can give, so to keep this short so you will actually read this, I’ll share what I think is my best piece of advice. I think the very first thing to realize before you enter high school is that nobody (and I really do mean nobody) in high school truly knows what they are doing. Everybody is high school is doing their best to try to fit in and not get called out by the group for being weird. Everybody is as lost as you are in many respects so you should never take what a person says for granted. Think critically about what a person says (including yourself) and why they said it. Try to be objective as previous biases can easily ...

Richard Yang's Senior Reflection 2017

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