Nov 12, 2015
For the past few days, the participants have been doing two day self designed challenges. For mine, I decided that I would try and raise money for a recently announced Unschool Adventure trip to Buenos Aires. The cost of the program is $6000, but the total cost of going on the trip is $8000. I started […]
Nov 12, 2015
Hello, For the past two days I challenged myself to write spoken word poetry. The experience was phenomenal. I feel inspired, motivated, capable, knowledgeable, and empowered. However, that’s not what I want to talk about. I want to tell you about how difficult this was. I set out writing passionate poetry filled with zest, feeling, […]
Nov 12, 2015
My dream school, Reed College, marked an end to a very long college search that I was eager to see finished. The Early Decision deadline was days away, yet I had come to a roadblock. Reed is the most expensive school in the state of Oregon, and affording it would be a challenge. The goal […]
Nov 12, 2015
These past 2 days I have been working on a comedy podcast, but not a funny one. I have been working on a podcast about political correctness in comedy, and where to draw the line of what’s okay and what’s not. I knew I had a good chance of pissing people off. The first day […]
Nov 12, 2015
This week we had self designed individual challenges. My challenge was to harvest three online packages; so what I am saying is: I learned how to hack. I started out learning all the steps to see all the different wifi that’s in my area, and how many people are on those wifi. Then I learned […]
Nov 12, 2015
In life, I always find myself coming back, somehow, to art. Art is great, but when I try creating it, I ALWAYS end up frustrated and mad at myself for not doing something else. I set out to create a scrap metal sculpture, and I was pretty happy with my idea, but I think now […]
Nov 12, 2015
I worked on cars for the past two days, and I now feel confident in my ability to fix the most common car failures, and to understand what someone is talking about when they are talking about the basics of a car and what it does. The tasks I completed on my dad’s car were: […]
Nov 12, 2015
A couple months back, when I was at Not Back to School Camp, Dev told a story. The preface for the story was this: one time, he and a friend of his walked out the front door with $20 and a backpack, then spent three months hitchhiking around the country, using nothing but their own wits. […]
Nov 12, 2015
For the past two days I got to design my own challenge. The first day I chose to take a subject that I’m passionate about and dig deep into research of it’s history, taking note of names, dates, and how the idea was conceived. In the end, becoming more confident in my knowledge of the […]
Nov 12, 2015
My two day self design challenge was to create a role playing game. I stared with a pencil, an eraser, and a piece of paper and headed out to the coffee shop to get a first draft going. A little later, once I had walked back to the hostel, I finish the world map and started […]