idk.

I'm 17 now.

Birthday is a Monday.

Oh boy.

I have a calculus test today.

Oh boy.

On the bright side, today (tomorrow? I mean it's 12:03 AM Mountain Time here) is also gonna be the first building day for the freshman team in robotics. While I'm now on the senior team (of which includes juniors and seniors, and one sophomore), I can still watch and give tips to all the new team recruits working on the robot this year for the AMES (not FIRST yet) competition.

We’re closer to having successful vaccines for lung and brain cancer.

New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting better)

Scientists figured out how to link robotic limbs with the part of the brain that deals with intent to move so people don’t have to think about how they will move the limb, it can just happen.

Child mortality is down everywhere and it keeps going down.

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I'm just gonna' say it.
I was as disappointed as you all are when I found out that Cheerimac's being put on ice canon-wise.
But it's just a crush. They're not married, they haven't had kids. At the end of it, they just said they liked one another. It could break off at any point, might make a fairly pivotal Aesop 'No reason why we can't still be friends' sort of thing.

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The Hawaiian Coral Reefs Are Returning To Their Former Glory

And it is this tested technology and refined techniques that is now being used to save the Great Barrier Reef, developing corals that will grow quicker and survive warmer temperatures through impulse.

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"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them, that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward."
~ Lao Tzu

When I have a problem or a worry, when stressed, agitated or sullen, I get it off my chest with my family and friends at home.
And online, I do my best to tell people things are okay, to look on the bright side and to treat each other right.

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So is it supposed to be the other way round then?
Because, from what I see online, I'm seriously out of place here.

Another Roundup of Positive Updates on the COVID Outbreaks From Around the World