Today I took my AP World History exam. I am now officially done with AP examinations for this year. I actually thought I did quite well on the exam but you never really know with College Board. For those of you that don’t know, the AP World History exam encompasses 10000 years of history into a test format of 70 multiple choice questions and 3 essays. I finished my third essay with still about 15-20 minutes remaining. I spent this time writing in huge, bold letters: “Thanks to Jared Diamond, Howard Spodek and Mike Wing (my teacher)”. It’s an inside “joke” from our history class, but basically the first guy is a historian that made the National Geographic series “Guns, Germs and Steel” and the second guy wrote the textbook we used in class (a book with over 1000 pages of pure history). Hopefully, the graders at ETS will get it.

So I got a new digital camera and it’s a Canon Digital IXUS 75. It replaces my 4 year old Sanyo camera which has served me well but the battery case broke, it eats batteries like crazy and the date setting never works. This Canon is pretty amazing, a 3 inch LCD, really thin (less than 20mm or something), really light, long battery life, a date setting that actually works. It’s also 7.1 megapixels as compared to my old 4 megapixels. It’s basically an all-around good camera.