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Nov 22, 2015
Why did we do this? Why did we decide to sacrifice 10 weeks of our lives and thousands of dollars to a program that would pull us together from every corner of the continent? We didn’t do it because it was fun, we didn’t do it for a vacation from our every day life, and […]
Nov 12, 2015
The challenge: be blindfolded for two days, go to a coffee shop and order a hot chocolate, talk to a stranger, buy something at the groceries store, play guitar. My shin is bruised after someone moved a chair into a stupid place and I collide with it. I screamed in annoyance “Who the fuck keeps […]
Nov 3, 2015
Letting go can be hard, either of something that’s close to you or a fond memory. It can feel traumatic at times, but when you truly release something you feel free. It can be especially challenging when you put lots of time and effort into your your art, knowing its demise, like I did today. […]
Oct 30, 2015
Have you ever wondered what people think of you? Have you ever wished you could find that out in a healthy environment with people you respect? Today our challenge was to give and take constructive criticism from our group. People told me that I have a habit of using humor to express and invalidate my […]
Oct 29, 2015
You might ask yourself what happens to a born criminal mastermind when you make him do repetitive and pointless tasks, like juggling potatoes for hours. Well, he gets bored, then runs off and picks locks on electric panel boxes in construction sites, diving in bushes when he hears a noise. I started out trying parkour, […]
Oct 28, 2015
Today, my group’s challenge was to learn how to compose and send different types of emails to individuals we didn’t know, but found interesting in some way. Through this challenge, I’ve learned how to ask for a letter of recommendation via email, and sent one to someone who I thought would be a good candidate […]
Oct 23, 2015
Hello homeschoolers, unschoolers, so on and so forth! Today is day 5 of week 6 of the UA Adventure Semester, and today, I believe, we took an important step in our lives – we spent the day visiting Western State Colorado University. Now, I know some of you may be considering skipping college, living your […]
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 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 20, 2015
It was a dark and stormy night, in a small town where, if you come up with any business idea aside from a coffee shop, you won’t have any competition. We were given $20 of seed money to make into the biggest amount possible in 5 hours. Ideas of bake sales and conversation booths were […]