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.