A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We visited Theatricum Botanicum, an outdoor theater in the hills above Topanga Canyon about 40 minutes from our home, west of Los Angeles. We saw a nice production of the Shakespeare play. This theater was built on land owned by Will Geer, best known as Grandpa on The Waltons.

Day 7 of the AP Chemistry Reading and we are finished! Figuring the number of tests with seven questions on each exam, as a group we scored 1,117,592 questions over the past seven days!!! The exams are packed and probably on their way back to ETS in New Jersey already. Our fearless leader, Roger Kugel,…

At the end of Day 6 of the AP Chemistry Reading, a bunch of us boarded the Hop-On Hop-Off bus for a special after-hours tour of Salt Lake City. Usually the bus tours end around 3:00 p.m., but the company put together a special bus for us. We got to see many of the sites…

After scoring AP chemistry papers all day, five of us hopped in a rental car and drove up into the mountain ski areas to the trailhead for Donut Falls. The spruce, birch, and aspen trees were beautiful, but the hike had some very steep climbs that I found pretty challenging. Of course, there were others…

I’m here in Salt Lake City to attend the AP Chemistry Reading. I will be in SLC for 12 days. These first days are getting prepped for the Readers who will come and help us score the thousands of exams that students have taken across the country. From my hotel room, I can see snow…