So at the end of sixth grade our teacher used the soak time for projects! which were not specifically related to the new districtwide trend around portfolios and projects and rubrics but I’m sure were not independent of that gestalt

And of course mine was ambitiously like a HyperCard stack? No, HyperStudio, where Apple realized the PowerPoint-equivalent could become interactive with a scripting language!

Which was overambitious in concept, also I insisted on putting a ton of weird conceptual flow and in-jokes in this project no one would ever see because of course I did, and I was getting REALLY STRESSED about whether I’d have enough time to finish and I didn’t

And it was literally two days after I had graduated elementary school and I’d been coming back in (the school was just next to my development) to finish polishing this meaningless enrichment assignment I said “wait, what?”

And that’s what anxiety is like