Going into my senior year, I believed the year would be really easygoing and I’d be able to slack off a lot, even though I did have calculus. AP Calculus was taught by Ms. Karcher, who, by the end of the year, came to become one of my favorite teachers and even helped influence my career in secondary math. I should have known that the class would be a lot of work, especially when we had to finish a math workbook by the end of the summer before the class even started, but I brushed it off. The first part of the class really got to me, because she assigned so much work, but by the end of the year, I knew she just wanted us to do well on the end of the year exams. Throughout the year, she saw how much effort I put into the class and talked to