AP classes are some of the most grueling, challenging classes that you can take at Mount. It can feel like an endless cycle of lectures and tests that you have to push through. However, one day, an AP Psychology class decided to derail from the norm a little bit with a more hands-on approach. To simulate neuron networks, it was decided that the class would do an activity where students would stand next to each other and squeeze the shoulder of the person on their left once they felt a squeeze on their right shoulder. This activity is actually a common form of icebreaker, where normally two groups of people compete to get to the end of their shoulder lines faster, but Period G of AP Psychology decided to race against a different opponent: themselves.
With an initial prediction of ~5-15 seconds, the class smashed their own expectations with an initial time of 4.08 seconds, the class decided to keep improving on this score, with times going down to 2.91 seconds, and then down even further to 2.48 seconds! It was becoming clear that the 2-second barrier was possible to break, but would the class be capable of accomplishing this feat? Adding fuel to the fire was a tantalizingly close time of 2.01 seconds. After around 15 minutes of struggle, reaction time, and many shoulder squeezes, the class broke through with a time of 1.88 seconds. The celebration could be heard from most likely the entire planet, as a sense of elation washed over the entire classroom. Sometimes, shaking up the formula of a class can make a class more memorable and make students enjoy the class as a whole more, as neuron% certainly did.
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