Austin Madman Character Analysis

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Austin Valle is a senior who is widely known for his kind and good-spirited attitude. For those of you who don't know Austin, you have probably seen him in some AP class. This year Austin is challenging himself by taking some difficult classes, which include AP Physics and AP Statistics. Austin says that his favorite class is AP Stats because Mr. McIntosh is a very good teacher and there are always very interesting discussions going on in class. He is taking AP Physics as well, because he thinks that Mr. Tran is a great teacher and wanted to be with all of his friends taking the class as well; that way when he doesn't do so good on a quiz, he knows that he is not the only one and he can laugh it off with his friends. So far, Austin says that

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