Monday, September 29

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

While this picture is not from homecoming,
 it is from the weekend.

This weekend, I did not participate in homecoming festivities. However, I did do some fun stuff with my friends homecoming night. We all met at José Peppers and ate some delish food. We then went to my friends house and just hung out for a while. We ate some food, talked, and went to a park for a little bit. We helped clean up homecoming because two of my friends are on student council, but by the time we got there, most of it was already cleaned up. Overall it was a pretty fun homecoming!

Monday, September 22

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

Where I am hopefully going to school <3

This weekend was productive yet boring at the same time. Friday night, I went to dinner with my friend from Mill Valley and then we went to my friends play. He wrote one of the plays so his play was really good but the rest were kind of boring. On Saturday, I applied to Kstate and John Brown University as well as signed up for my preview day at John Brow. Saturday night I worked and it was not the funnest experience of my life. Sunday I worked for like an hour and then went to church. Then I spent the afternoon with my sister getting Jill Fisher a birthday present and then I brought Jill Fisher her birthday present. I then went to bible study and KCLYC and it was a party. That's about it!

Friday, September 19

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.

After making a small website, I now realize that coding is very difficult. I didn't know it would be so precise and hard. On web design in general, I do think it is very interesting to learn how a website is coded. Having said that, I don't want to do it for a career or have a career that involves coding in any way. I definitely thought this class would be more designing less coding but it's cool. This class is definitely harder than I thought it would be. My favorite part is probably CSS because it is a little easier than HTML and more fun. But overall, coding is hard. 

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Thursday, September 18

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.

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I think deadlines are important because without them nothing would get done. In school, deadlines keep teachers and students on schedule. However, what is different about real world deadlines and school deadlines is the strictness of the deadline. It is not true for all, but for some teachers, a deadline isn't a requirement but more of a suggestion. If a student misses it, they can turn it in the next day with no punishment. Especially senior year, a lot of teachers have very strict deadlines, and if you miss them, you cannot make it up.  They do this because, in college, a professor will not give you an extra day to turn in an assignment because they don't have time and have many other students to worry about. I think it would be better for a teacher to be strict rather than lenient because it prepares the student for college. I usually get things in by the deadline. However, if I don't, it is usually a smaller assignment and I accept lower points because I know it is my own fault I didn't finish it. 

Tuesday, September 16

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

This actually happens to me a lot in school. I will have so much homework that I can't do it all. A class will be left out, and I just accept the fact that I will get a bad grade on the test or assignment because there isn't enough time in the day for me to do everything I need to do. This happens mostly for French class because I do my homework in order of importance, and core classes beat french. A lot of times I will have a quiz in French the next day but I don't have time to study for it, so I just accept the fact I won't get a perfect score on the test. So by not preparing, I am prepared to fail.

Monday, September 15

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend was stellar. On Friday, I went to the football game with my friends. Although it was frigid, we still had a great time. On Saturday morning I went on a run and helped a dog find its owner. After that, I picked up my friend Jill and we met my best friend in the entire world, Marge Anderson, for breakfast! We had a running bear hug in the parking lot because she has been at college for a while it was a good time. After breakfast we went shopping for a while and then had to drop Jill off so she could go to homecoming. I went with Maggie and her twin Sam to pick out a birthday present for their mom. I then joined the Anderson family for a birthday dinner and s'mores. They are fab. Sunday I went to church, then bible study, then Lawrence with my family to visit my brother. We went to this super cool underground pizza place for dinner, then got coffee, and saw my brothers apartment as well as his girlfriend's. Overall, it was a fab weekend.\

 

Thursday, September 11

Below is one of my favorite quotes that I found on Pinterest. Think 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 with this post on so many levels. One thing I value and would like to do in my life is travel. I think there is so much in the world I haven't seen, and if I die before I haven't seen all of it, I will be peeved. I have a list of 5(ish) things I look for in a college and one of the top requirements is a great study abroad program. I want to be able to attend many different countries. I want to learn there, live there, and learn everything I can about the culture and people in that country. My best friend ever, Maggie, does a program called Amigos. She goes to a certain country every summer, stays there for over a month, and learns what it is like to live there. While there, she teaches in a school, organizes a community project, and changes people's lives while her life is changed.That's what I want to do. I want to change people's live through my work and, in turn, have my live changed by them. I'm so excited to travel the world and live in different countries and never be bored.