Backstory

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Mario. I get easily excited and distracted, so beware for caps.

NAME: Mario B. Soriano
AGE: 18
PRONOUNS: he/they
BIRTHDATE: December 27, XXXX
NATIONALITY: Spanish
CLASSES I'M TAKING: ASTR-301, TNFG-301, CHRM-301, HERB-301, HOM-301, PTNS-301, ALCH-301, ANCR-201, MUST-401, DIV-301, COMC-301, ARIT-601, ANST-401, DADA-301.
HOBBIES: music, writing, spreadsheets, family trees and lists. I play cello and piano and I also sing covers
LIKES: pop, rock, singer-songwriter, occasional folk and country, classical, instrumental, soundtrack and basically anything except EDM, rap and trap. Including but not limited to Taylor Swift, Queen, Michael Jackson, Bright Eyes, Mozart, Williams, Morricone, MIKA and many more. My playlist is pure chaos.

ROLEPLAY: nope, sorry! I'm mostly here for grades, but I'm open to a chat too. If you want to chat, though, I recommend the Discord School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Check the second-to-last newsroom post to enter.

MEDAL ROOM

I have earned the following medals in the House Points Competition throughout my time in HiH:

-March 2023: gold (186)
-February 2024: bronze (26)
-February 2025: gold (873)
-March 2025: silver (598)
-April 2025: bronze (330)
-Likely a gold medal in May 2025

Don't spam my wall. I have nothing against you posting your books and groups on my wall, but don't expect me to respond if I'm not interested.

GRADES

The courses I'm currently taking are underlined in yellow

FIRST YEAR

Astronomy 101: 86% (E). Completed on 18/2/2025 with Prof. Plumb, + 3/5 EC. I resubmitted these assignments a million times. Granted, I started in like 2021

Charms 101: 95% (O). Completed on 15/2/2025 + 5/7 EC, with Prof. Laurel. Great course, very well written

DADA 101: 94% (O). Completed on  3/2/2024 + 3/6 EC, with Prof. Kwan. Easy course, entertaining syllabus, great grading experience.

Flying 101: 90% (O). Completed on 15/2/2025 with Madam Fox + 1/4 EC. Very easy course, very fun to learn about, great grading experience!

Herbology 101: 89% (E). Completed on 6/3/2025 with Prof. Aspen+ 2/5 EC. This one I had a hard time with, because I'm stubborn and questions that require a bit of extra thinking aren't my strong suit

History of Magic 101: 93% (O). Completed in March 2023 with Prof. Everby + 4/4 EC. One of my faves and the first I completed, back with Everby.

Potions 101: 92% (O). Completed on 19/2/2025 with Prof. Draekon + 3/7 EC. I liked this one very much.

Transfigurations 101: 98% (O). Completed on 27/2/2025 with Prof. Mitchell + 8/8 EC. This one is probably my all-time fave. Did the EC just to see if I could do the PA app and fell in love with it. Grading was very busy, but very sacrified on the PAs' part

FIRST YEAR AVERAGE: 92.13%

SECOND YEAR

Alchemy 201: 98% (O). Completed in 14/5/2025 with Prof. Rosenquist. Not nearly as hard as I was told it would be, really fun to complete while I was finishing Chemistry in school. Grading was still good, only slightly slower.

Ancient Runes 201: 97% (O) [in progress]. Very good experience until I got to ideographic translations: still adored it, but I had to do a retake thrice. Amazing grading experience considering the only grader was a professor who isn't even teaching the subject. (Yes, I know, I'll say it again, I love Prof. Kwan).

Astronomy 201: 90% (O). Completed in 7/4/2025 with Prof. Plumb. Really interesting course, hard but not as much as Y1, I really enjoyed going through it.

Care of Magical Creatures 201: 98% (O). Completed in 20/2/2025 with Prof. Montclam. Really great grading experience, really easy and fun to read and do.

Charms 201: 91% (O). Completed in 23/2/2025 with Prof. Laurel. A bit more boring (to me!), but I appreciate the huge amount of work that went into both writing and keeping up with the grading.

DADA 201: 89% (E). Completed in 14/5/2025 with Prof. Kwan. I procrastinated a lot, but the experience only got better, both in grading and lessons.

Divination 201: 89% (E). Completed 22/2/2025 with Prof. Fayge. A bit challenging, but beautifully written and I ended up taking a lot of interest in it. I loved doing the essays, and the grading experience was great.

Herbology 201:  94% (O). Completed on 19/5/2025 with Prof. Aspen+ 5/10 EC. Great grading experience for such a busy queue, I started hating it and ended up repeating the 90s just to get 100s. Writing a course this detailed shouldn't be legal

History of Magic 201: 88% (E). Completed in February 2024 with Prof. Everby. Possibly my all-time fave, did it in no time, though it had a couple tricky things. Great grading experience.

Potions 201: 94% (O). Completed 2/4/2025 with Prof. Draekon. Even better than Y1. Great grading experience (once again, I see you, Andromeda!), beautifully tied to the real world.

Transfigurations 201: 93% (O). Completed 22/4/2025 with Prof. Mitchell. Not as good as Y2, but still really cool! Very sacrificed graders (my poor babies), very nice assignments, especially the essays. One of those courses that's super well constructed.

SECOND YEAR AVERAGE: 92.82%

THIRD YEAR

Alchemy 301: 100% (O) [in progress]

Astronomy 301: 93% (O) [in progress]

Care of Magical Creatures 301: 100% (O) [in progress]

Charms 301: 88% (E) [in progress]

DADA 301: 95% (O) [in progress]

Divination 301: 92% (O) [in progress]

Herbology 301: 91% (O) [in progress]

Muggle Studies 301: 95% (O). Completed on 18/5/2025 with Timothy Walsh. Great grading experience, clearest prompts in all of HiH (thank God!), gives you lots of creative leeway and is really fun to read and write!

Potions 301: 96% (O) [in progress]

History of Magic 301: 96% (O). [in progress]

Transfigurations 301: 94% (O). [in progress]

FOURTH YEAR

Ancient Studies 401: 95% (O) [in progress]

Muggle Studies 401: 97% (O) [in progress]

SIXTH YEAR

Arithmancy 601: 88% (E) [in progress]

Magical Art 601: 90% (O) [abandoned because I don't want to do the practical assignments]

I entered the May 2025 competition on May 2nd at around 5:30 pm my time.

Extra points: 1 in PTNS-101, 8 in TNFG-101, 2 in DIV-201, 2 in COMC-301, 2 in HERB-201

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MILESTONES

March 2023: finished HOM-101 with full EC

February 3rd, 2024: finished DADA-101

February 2024: finished HOM-201

February 15th, 2025: 1.000 points

February 15th, 2025: finished CHRM-101

February 15th, 2025: finished FLY-101

February 18th, 2025: finished ASTR-101

February 19th, 2025: finished PTNS-101

February 20th, 2025: finished COMC-201

February 22nd, 2025: finished DIV-201

February 23rd, 2025: finished CHRM-201

February 27th, 2025: finished TNFG-101 with full EC

February 28th, 2025: became a Y2 student with HERB remaining

February 28th, 2025: sent my TNFG PA app

March 6th, 2025: finished HERB-101

March 8th, 2025: 2.000 points

April 2nd, 2025: finished PTNS-201

April 7th, 2025: finished ASTR-201

April 22nd, 2025: finished TNFG-201

May 14th, 2025: finished DADA-201

May 14th, 2025: finished ALCH-201

May 15th, 2025: 3.000 points

May 18th, 2025: finished MUST-301

May 19th, 2025: finished HERB-201

May 19th, 2025: became a third year student with ANCR-201 remaining

As of May 2025, I am the 3rd person with most points out of the Ravenclaw 2nd Years, using a control group made of 1.000 people.

MY BEST WORK

-DADA-201 essay. Even if I got an 80 because I was dumb, the writing in itself I'm very proud of. 1000 words

-Anything from MUST-301. MUST essays are the only ones that have clear prompts. They give you lots of creative leeway and I got 100 in every single one of them.

-TNFG-101 variations essay.

-HERB-201 dandelion project. Did all the EC a bit longer than the minimum required, then did more diary entries than necessary and wounded up with a 1.5k project that got me 2 extra points