EXPERIENCING EXPERIMENTATION, senior Ellen Bu motions in frustration as she finds out the spectrophotometer is out of battery during lunch on Jan. 13. To collect data for her Chemistry IA, a final paper all students taking IB Chemistry HL must write, Bu has been hard at work since before winter break. “This has taken me several days, and I spent at least three hours every single day working on it,” Bu said. “I really hope that this turns out well.”
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