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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 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 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 14, 2015
How many chord progressions can one person scrap before settling down with one? That was the key question of my individual challenge. I chose to write and record a song, along with writing an accompanying short story based on the song. To make things quick, let’s just say I bit off more than I could […]
Oct 10, 2015
Today, the High Desert Center experienced its largest conflict yet. A battle for the ages: a fight between Pirates and Ninjas. A fight so epic that it included, squats, lunges, lizard-crawling, farmer walks, “ninja” jumps, and a full-body shark suit. it was a battle that would not only go down in history, but also burn […]
Oct 8, 2015
Imagine not being able to see, hear, use your dominant hand, or speak. Each one of us experienced to a certain extent not having these capabilities for the length of today’s challenge. As we experienced this, we were also rotating and teaching one another first aid techniques. Joey, Dave, Ben, Max, and I each taught […]
Oct 7, 2015
Today, our group’s challenge was for each of us to create a personal website, which will be our public online presence. While the technical work was a hurdle, the main difficulty was trying to figure out what you want your public appearance to be. Speaking for myself, Joey Phelps, I really enjoyed the entire process, […]
Oct 6, 2015
Our challenge began last night when Dev regaled our group stories of his past exploits in grad school. He went into detail on adventures he went on in the name of science before revealing to us that our challenge the next morning will be to create a science experiment from observing the area around us. […]
Oct 3, 2015
Finding your capacity for adaptation can be a challenging experience. Our group faced many obstacles these past few days, but we overcame them in an admirable way. On Thursday, we were tasked with designing our own two-day challenge, with little to no help from our facilitating staff member. Beginning with a decision about the decision […]
Sep 30, 2015
We were told we could only bring 5 things each.. We brought 3, cause we are that good. We walked in just shorts and shoes. Jumping at crickets on the path to eat later. We stored them in Eric’s pocket (they escaped when he took a nap). Every so often we stopped and passed around […]