This is Arca. As of today, I will be making several key changes to this blog. Watch the video above at 3:00 AM on Wednesday (this post is scheduled to publish itself at midnight) to learn the details. But whatever you do, don't use fidget spinners at 3 AM!!!!<br /> <br /> https://youtu.be/ISYySQ0AR8c To summarize:<br /> <br /> <ol> <li>I will leave this blog, likely for good.</li> <li>I will switch (likely permanently) to using Hubpages, which is the company that acquired Squidoo, my third-grade blog platform.</li> <li>Xiang will be free to do whatever he wants on this blog.</li> <li>The AABO Show is cancelled.</li> <li>Taner Baran is now my primary YouTube channel. I am quitting using Arca Baran.&nbsp;</li> <li>If you're wondering about that epic music in the background, its name is Darude Sandstorm. You're welcome.</li> </ol> <div> ...

Long... have I waited. And now, your coming-together, is your undoing... of being able to continue blogging. Who am I addressing right now? All of my peers who are relieved to stop blogging for life at the end of this project. I may be relieved, but for other reasons. Namely, now I don't have to rush to create a post on a day that I don't feel like it or it was too late, and also I don't have to remember to copy and paste the first paragraph plus a link on my "Edublog" class page so that my classmates get exposure to it and my teacher knows which posts do and don't qualify as Edublogs on this blog this month (in short, it's literally every single post I've put on this blog in March minus literally just one post written and published entirely by my new contributor, Xiang). Basically, if you have been confused throughout this month as to what an "Edublog" is, it's a post on a class blog for my English credit that I'm receiving extra ...

I am sure that a lot of you guys are viewing this right now due to the title. I can assure, you, it is not clickbait in any means. However, it relates directly to the subject of my post, which is the new upgrade, so if you want to find out about it, I would read on or scroll to the bottom.  As you may have noticed, at the start of the month, I laid out an elaborate summer blogging schedule . As you may have also noticed, my amount of commitment to that schedule has been simply, well... mediocre. Luckily, a change is near! I will change my summer schedule once and for all to make the situation at hand a lot better. What kind of change, you may ask? Well, let's put it this way: Now, there is no schedule. You heard me right: For the rest of the summer, I will be adhering to no specific blogging schedule. Why would I ever do this? The other system, as you could probably tell, simply wasn't working. While the promise of a viewer being able to, if they wanted, pick and choos...

303 days ago, I arrived at a very important building. It was large, made of brick and mortar, and had a statue of a lion in front of it. As I slowly shuffled out of the yellow vehicle and onto the pavement, I didn't stop and think about how long I was going to be stuck inside of those shiny, gray halls covered with cheesy inspirational posters. 235 days; 10 months; 83.3% of the year; 0.0125% of the average human lifespan. And that's just for the sake of time spent. In that same amount of time, I made only 16 blog posts, gained shy of 23,677 additional views, and spent hundreds of hours on schoolwork, tests, homework, and studying. Sorry for all the math (it makes me dizzy, too), but I'm trying to make a point here. You see, while I was off for several months spending my time learning about systems of exponential inequalities, meiosis, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Black Death, I happened to leave my personal life (AKA everything I do other than school) in a state of jeopar...