Dear diary,

How hot a hot plate need to get before it will boil water? Water boils at 100 C. So it seems reasonable that if I made the hot plate 150 C it would make the water boil. I waited and waited for like an hour - maybe it wasn't really an hour but who's counting? and it wouldn't boil and wouldn't boil so I turned it up and up until it was on full heat and then... it burned. But it never boiled. It was sad. And then I poured the solution down the sink and maybe I shouldn't have done that? I guess I'll know when I get yelled at. I was going to ask how hot to make it but then I got made fun of for not knowing how to do anything so I thought it would be not so good to ask how one boils water. True story.