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Oct 22, 2015
Well, this blog is different than the ones I’ve previously written. The difference is the fact that I’m standing in the middle of a restaurant with my guitar, writing this blog on my phone. Our group’s challenge today was to come up with a one-day business, and make as much money as possible. We decided […]
Oct 22, 2015
“HELLO! Welcome to Western Colorado State University! We are a small liberal arts college in Gunnison, and we would love to have you as a student next year!” Today, our group toured and challenged ourselves to integrate into Western State University. We had to complete challenges such as crashing a lecture, touring a dorm, talking […]
Oct 22, 2015
Today my group and I were with the excellent Dev. Our adventure today was to talk with locals in Crested Butte about social issues and genuinely listen to their opinions without inflicting our own biases or trying to “fix” them. We started the day out with going to the bus stop for a short, but […]
Oct 22, 2015
To be honest, for this challenge, we fell on our faces. It started out the night before the challenge day when we started brainstorming about ideas for a small business that would make us money in only a couple hours. Some people were exhausted and ready to just think of some practical ideas, while others […]
Oct 22, 2015
Today our challenge was to go to Western State Colorado University and to tap into the resources that a 4 year university has. We started off trying to talk to 5 or more students. Asking them genuine questions about life in college. As a group and as individuals we had great success starting conversations with […]
Oct 21, 2015
Our challenge today was to start a fire, an amenity we take for granted everyday. Turns out, it’s not as easy to start as it looks! Especially if you have no access to matches, a lighter, or flint and steel. We embarked on our challenge with two alterations of the rules that the previous group followed: we would receive […]
Oct 21, 2015
“Can you tell me more about that?” “Why do you think that you feel that way?” These are some of the questions we learned to ask today as we embarked on the communications and listening challenge. We served as listeners to the community today by validating and understanding where everyone was coming from with their […]
Oct 21, 2015
Give it a good college try. That’s what we did today. Try. A lot. My group was given several challenges to complete during our visit at Western State Colorado University. Our challenges were to talk with professors, students, admissions, as well as sit in on lectures. A bonus challenge was to get a student to […]
Oct 20, 2015
Communicating while cold and hungry is a challenge in and of itself, and our group got plenty of experience with it today. We were tasked with starting fires without flint & steel, matches, lighters, etc. We had to use materials that we found scavenging around town, and with the fires, we would prepare our lunch. […]
Oct 20, 2015
Today our challenge was to practice our listening skills with each other, learn how to talk about and discuss controversial topics, and then go out into the streets with signs asking a controversial question and listen to what peoples’ thoughts were on that topic. We started our day with taking the bus up to […]