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What are your personal superstitions? The Power of Superstitions      Even though I believed in things such as ghosts and aliens when I was younger, I never really believed in the “traditional” superstitions. That’s why I never understood in elementary school when everyone made a big fuss over someone opening an umbrella indoors. I mean, it’s just an umbrella. The one superstition I did believe in was that four-leaf clovers were good luck, and I often spent hours at parks looking through the patch of normal clovers, picking them up, thinking they were four-leafed, just to realize that the leaves were just overlapped with each other. But this belief was also crushed when I learned that four-leaf clovers were just genetic mutations usually caused by people stepping on them, and that some guy found a sixty-three-leaf clover in his backyard. For a while, I was superstition-free.      I can’t recall when I started developing them, but at some point, I began su...

What kind of robot would you like?      Back in middle school, I could play games after school and still get everything done by my 8:30 pm bedtime. Now it seems nearly impossible to go to bed that early. Although I believe that part of the reason for this is that my homework is more difficult and time-consuming, it’s also because my time-management skills are not the best. Some nights, I feel lost on my journey to bed, with procrastination lurking around the corner and surprise attacks from sleepiness slowing me down. On those nights, I wish for a time management robot to help guide my journey.      A time management robot would have two main functions: it would help me plan my evening to achieve the earliest possible bedtime, and ensure I work efficiently at all times. It would be like my Google Maps for working; it would give me an ideal route and adjust depending on how my trip is going. Before I begin my homework, I like to think about the order I sho...