Eric Guan
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What’s the most original thing you’ve heard today?
On my anniversary with my fiancée in August 2018, she planned a scavenger hunt for me at our home. Each clue formed part of a romantic poem, evoking memories that we made since moving in together. An excerpt: Four years together, And you know all I like to eat; Which drawer should I open, If I want a rea…
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What are some funny nickname of your school teachers?
I had a teacher named Mr. Ehmann, which rhymed with the name “Freeman”. Although I eventually sort of got used to him, many of my friends and other classmates really hated him. In any case, between one of my friends and me, we came up with 3 nicknames for him. 1. My friend observed that when saying “Mr.…
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Veteran Pokemon TCG players, when was the Pokemon TCG in it's absolute prime to you?
Thanks for the request, Brian. I only dabbled in the Pokémon Trading Card Game at a few specific points in its history, and not for too long at a time, so that affects my point of view considerably. But to me, the δ Delta Species era, of around 2006 to 2007, constituted the TCG’s prime. I liked the in…
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Have you ever visited your childhood home or school as an adult just to see how it has changed?
I’ve visited near some of my old neighbourhoods and schools as an adult. Most recently, I visited a city where I used to live 10–20 years before, and I hit up a number of neighbourhoods from my time there. * Near one of my homes used to be a public outdoors tennis court, and my family, friends, and I w…
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How do I greet the audience of a school in a debate?
When I participated in or watched academic debates in school, each participant generally greeted everyone at the beginning of their first speech. Something like, “Good morning/afternoom/evening to Mister/Madam Moderator/Speaker, our experienced judges, our honourable audience, and of course, our wor…
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What does it mean when a teacher tells you to sit in the front of the class?
This only happened once to me as far as I recall. It was during a high school class, when the teacher pointed out that a classmate sitting at the front of the class was socializing too much with the students around him, disrupting the lesson. That classmate happened to be sitting in the second row f…
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Why do you go to school and play games?
I’ll interpret the question as asking why I was personally willing to participate in games at school, where school staff hosted such games. I liked playing games at school mostly because of the possible scale of the games as a result of gathering 20 or more classmates as players. Outside school, I co…
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Can you give an example of when a student got extra credit from their teacher and what they did to deserve it?
In terms of receiving a sort of bonus assignment from a teacher that they didn’t initially plan to give, then I’ve gotten extra credit more than once. One instance I can think of was in relation to a language arts assignment, where I received a lower grade than expected. My teacher had left comments…
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What are three things that you like best about your school and three things about your school that you would like to change?
Some stuff comes to mind for what I liked and would’ve changed about my elementary school. I’ll answer from what I think what my point of view was at the time I attended school, not necessarily from my current POV as someone who had left school years ago. What I liked: 1. My school had a hallway that dou…
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