This One Goes Out To You Mrs. Huggins

Yesterday was October 29th--and while it may seem just like any other day to most of you, to those of us who had the difficult pleasure of being in Susie Huggins' AP class at the Academy will always remember this day.

On October 29th, 2002 while practicing for the AP Exam, which involved going through questions and writing our answers on a white board and comparing them with other people in the class, I seemed to run into the continuous problem of doubting my own ability to answer correctly and end up changing my answer based on someone else. Well after repetedly doing this and several times realizing my original answer was correct (You must keep in mind that at this stage in my life I was dealing with a "simplicity" complex ::wink::) Mrs. Huggins decided it was time to declare a holiday.

She said to us, as Andy valiantly jumped up to write "Oct 29" on the board, "Let this be the day that you learn not to let yourself be swayed and influenced by those around you."

To those of you who had the pleasure of enjoying that moment and who are actually reading this, which would probably only be you Natasha, but that day had nothing to do with the AP exam and almost everything to do with life.