Screen of Secrets

Chapter 4

Fredric

I’ve been using this program for two weeks now, and it's been amazing. It automatically organizes my entire schedule, from when school ends to my meal times, study breaks, and even time for television. I'm not sure how it manages to do it all, but it's impressive, I guess it includes the school time which most of the schools have and a particular time table which most of the students follow. All I've to do is one click and my time is perfectly managed.

The program includes beautiful animated lectures, eye-catching fonts, and practical lessons. It’s so well-designed that even students who have dropped out due struggle with their studies could succeed with its help. I started with just a bit of hope for improvement, but over the past few days, I’ve done much better compared to last month.

I haven't spent much time with Evan and Nathan recently because the program's schedule is so demanding. It doesn't explicitly say "hang out," it just calls it "break time," which I use to meet with my friends.

With the test in two days, I need to review everything, but I doubt the program will give me enough free time for that, so I'll probably revise during my breaks.
Even though I don't follow the schedule perfectly except for the study time. It's been a great help in my studies as well as my personal growth. If I keep following it, I'm sure I'll score high.

Today was hectic at school. They announced that the bottom ten students would face punishment this time. I’m not sure what that means, but I’m scared of being in that group. I hope I can avoid it.

The test is tomorrow. I've revised history and geography, but I still need to cover four more subjects. The test will be split over in two days with three subjects each day, unlike last year when we only had two subjects a day over three days. Now that we're older, the school has increased the difficulty.

I don't think I can manage my time with the program anymore, so I'll have to make some adjustments today. It’s time for math now, and I'm using the program to study trigonometry. The animated triangles and angles make it surprisingly interesting. I never thought trigonometry could be this engaging.

I’ve been working on deriving an expression on paper with the program. It took me four minutes, but I got it right. I never imagined I could solve trigonometry problems in my life. I'm ready to move on to the next derivation.

Then, a message popped up: “TOMORROW IS YOUR TEST. PLEASE REVISE. NO LECTURE REQUIRED FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS. YOU CAN RESUME AFTER THE TESTS.”
I didn't enter any information about my test into the program, although I've been stressing about it. How does it know I have tests tomorrow and the day after? Is it spying on me? It's a bit unsettling how it knew about my tests.
But I don't have time to worry about that now—I need to focus on revising my chapters.