Monday, September 29th

Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

This past Friday I spent the night with the Marching Band as we cheered on the football team as we won the Homecoming Game! 

I decided to spend most of Saturday Day looking for colleges as doing some research with that. Afterwards Colby and I swagged out into our suits and went over to the girls house. We went to homecoming with Ally and Maggie and that was a blast! First we went to Winstead's, then we crashed a nearby wedding. After getting thrown out of there, we walked around the plaza and watched a magician. Going to the actual dance was fun but it was cut short so we decided to go driving around screaming for an hour and that made the girls really mad. Then we went to Ally's house and had a great time until I ended up getting home late.. 

Sunday I really didn't do much, I didn't even get out of the house which was kind of a bummer. 

Monday, September 22nd

How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Share photos!

On Friday night I went to the Plaza and Loose Park to hang out with one of my new friends Cameron. We drove all over town looking for Thai Tea and never found any. But overall the whole night was great, and I got to drive my dad's MR2 convertible around town. The next day I woke up just to go to band camp for four hours. That was honestly not that much fun but band is really never all that fun. But immediately after band I ran home to get dressed for Homecoming. This was really fun overall even though we had a group of about 25 people.

I went to Blue Valley Southwest's Homecoming with Jori and we had a blast. Had some awesome italian buffet at Cinzetti's followed by an actually pretty entertaining night of dancing, videogames and new friends.

Then on sunday i had to come back to reality and did all my homework.

Friday, September 19th

Now that you are several weeks in to this class and have coded one (super small) website, what do you think? What are your thoughts on web design? Is it what you thought it would be? Is it better? Worse? What's your favorite part? What's your least favorite part? Explain.

I am actually really enjoying web design, I knew it would be hard to code things that look really nice but I believe we will get there eventually. I am really excited to be able to make my own website for the Sam and Colby Enterprises, inc. co. but my favorite part so far has been the All About Me project. I think this will turn out to be something really cool! 

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This will be a harder project that will take more time but with that being said it will have a lot more information and be more interactive. I am very interested in this class, I know some people just take it for their computer credit but I really want to be able to actually know how to code websites for my future businesses.

Thursday, September 18th

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What is the importance of deadlines? How do high school deadlines reflect or simulate "real world" experience? Give an example of when you met or or didn't meet a deadline that was important.

Deadlines give you a sense of responsibility. In a job, you gain credibility if you meet all of your deadline and thus, could be promoted or at least well respected from your co-workers. 

High school deadlines help, but they are kind of like training wheels for the real world. When the deadlines in highschool are not met, there is a penalty. However, there are many chances to recover and make up the mistakes on a deadline. The difference between that and a real world deadline is the recover part. In the real world there is no time for deadlines and if you do not meet them, you don't make the money, or you could quite possibly get fired. 

One time I put off getting tickets to a concert I really wanted to go to, (although this is not a life or death situation, it was important to me). Then finally one of my good friends ask me to go with them and there was no tickets left. I could've solved that problem easily but I missed the deadline.

Tuesday, September 16th

Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.

There are cases when I agree with this quote and some that I do not. I really like winging things and just making things up on the spot because I believe ideas are more natural and come off as the actual truth instead of something you have planned or prepared. 

However, last week during a Socratic Seminar, I had not prepared with the reading or questions so in this case I was truly winging it and did not do so well. I was in the place to fail because I did not prepare. So I think this quote has a time and a place just like everything else.

Thursday, September 11th

Read and think about what this says and then blog about it. What does this quote mean to you? Elaborate! Feel free to give an example of tell a story.

I agree completely with this statement. And in all honesty I say things like this and live by this as much as possible. In my life I try every opportunity for a new experience, to get a great memory or figure something new out. Now there is an infinite amount of things you could do or work on to better yourself or just explore in general. 

Every time in my life, not joking here, when I am about to say "I'm Bored." I get angry with myself and then list off a ton of things to do. Just because of thoughts like the statement above I quit playing video games or watching TV because these are wastes of time! I love getting out and actually doing things or experiencing new places. This life truly is amazing and it is just really sad that no one seems to see it the way they should. People will regret laying around or being a couch potato, do things now while you can!

Tuesday, September 9th

How do you express your creativity? Explain.

My creativity is actually expressed in a number of different ways. I really do enjoy pictures, and not really of any certain things. I usually take pictures of nature or surrounding and express myself through captions and quotes. 

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No matter how much one would judge a 17 year old guy that puts his creativity into quotes on a picture, I really do enjoy it. If you ask anyone that knows me well, I think way too much and take life really seriously; however, I just seem this way because of the pictures I take and the things I talk about. I like to make short movies of what I think is funny as well as set up really cool scenes for instagram pictures. 

I'm honestly not that creative but when I would like to be, I have no trouble finding an easy way to express it.

Monday, September 8th

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!
This weekend I went to the Buzz Beach Ball concert. My favorite band there was Weezer. I went with my two new friends Ally and Maggie! I bought a seated ticket so we spent the first our trying to figure out how the heck I was going to get on the main floor with the whole crowd. But after I got down there the three of us had a blast and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.





















Then next day, Saturday, after making an amazing Vine (if I do say so myself), Colby, Ally, Maggie, and I went down to the Plaza, walked around and in general just had a good time. We helped Colby take his senior pictures, then we went around the plaza area and sang with the street performers. It was honestly a really fun weekend because there was no drama or caring, just a lot of fun.

Friday, September 5th

Pretend you are in your 70s or 80s, complain about kids these days.

"I just wanna be normal" "I just wanna fit in" "I'm most likely going to a state or community college" "What's going to get me what I need"


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Kids these days just want to be normal, they skid through life wanting absolutely nothing with their life and then when they realize in their late 20s, he opportunities have already passed. Honestly, kids these days need to get off there lazy butts and do something with their lives. If I were a kid again I would take every single opportunity to experience, to learn, to throw myself at something uncomfortable just to get better at it!

However nowadays kids take the bare minimum, they want to pass, they are happy with average. I want to slap the kids in the face who say they are fine with where they are at, or they don't mind the fact that they are just average. Is literally all the passion sucked out of this generation? Where did the drive go? Seems like the only thing people strive to be anymore is 'high.' Kids these days really need to realize there is opportunity on their front lawn but they are just to lazy to open the door. It makes me mad that people are cool with being the same, or fine with being average. Do something with your life, maybe just maybe, something you actually want to do? Sound better kids? Thought so.

Thursday, September 4th

Tell me about what you have learned in this class so far. Have you learned a lot? Do you want to learn more? What do you want to be able to do by the end of the semester?

I've learned a lot about how to structure a website, and a lot of the basics. How to set up a website and really remedial stuff. However, I really do was to get into coding CSS and making professional looking Websites. I plan to make www.samandcolby.com after I am done with this class so hopefully by the end of the summer I will be able to gather all of my media accounts into one website that looks professionally done. 

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Tuesday, September 2nd

Tell me all about your Labor Day weekend. What did you do? Include photos!

Friday evening of this Labor Day Weekend I went to a Sporting KC Soccer game with my family. It rained a lot so the game got delayed but the sky looked sweet. There was a fight during the game which was really interesting. 

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The next day Saturday was actually a pretty boring day. I hung around the house until dinner time then i went out with some new friends. We went to sonic and McDonald's and most of these new guys wanted to talk about cars. So I wasn't that interested to say the least.

Then Sunday morning I actually decided to be productive and did all my homework before going to the Legends. We met up with some fans at the legends and spent some time with them which was fun! After this Colby decided to go to his friend Billy's house to play computer games for a few hours like we used to do when we were younger. But we decided to leave after about 2 hours to go meet up with Colby's new girlfriends. We hung out with these two girls named Maggie and Ally and danced in the rainstorm. So Sunday was a really fun day. 

Monday I got up and learned a few songs on the guitar and finished my reading for ELA 12. Then the rest of the day was a pretty chill day until I asked my friend Jori to go on a drive. We drove for a few hours and sang songs all night. This was honestly really fun even though we probably looked like idiots.