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Nov 22, 2015
Hi, I’m Spencer, and this is Jack O’News and today our challenge was to do a comedy routine and perform it in front of 4 groups of 20 people and have 1 person in the audience film it. This proved to be much more difficult then originally thought, and made me feel so uncreative, it […]
Nov 22, 2015
Our adventures lasted for 60 hours in Denver, Colorado. Despite cold winds, long bus rides, and terrible directions, we persevered out into the city to explore. We focused on jobs and authentic cuisine for the first day. While Joel, Micayla, and I were going to a modeling call, Catherine and Jack went to a job interview […]
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 6, 2015
Imagine being locked in small room with three other people for 36 hours with no electronics, no way to tell the time, and no connection to the outside world. Imagine the strange topics or thoughts that one’s mind can come up with in a situation like that. Imagine the little things that you don’t normally […]
Nov 3, 2015
The group for this 2-day challenge was small, with only me (Jack), Midge, and Oscar, or as Addison called us: The Dream Team. Before Addison told us our specific challenge, he told us the reason behind it: simplicity. A simple, yet difficult problem, with a not-so-simple solution. Our challenge? Move a 5,000 pound rock 5 feet. […]
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
As you may or may not have noticed, the blog post from Wednesday’s fire challenge was not completed or uploaded to the Unschool Adventures website. So, if you were wondering about that, here is where I explain. Well first off, we did not complete our challenge of creating a fire without a lighter or matches […]
Oct 20, 2015
College: indeed a loaded subject for many unschoolers. Today our challenge was to navigate the Western Colorado State College campus as prospective students. A scavenger-hunt-esque challenge, minus the points and competition, plus real world skills. Some of the items on our list were to talk to an admissions officer about the requirements of applying as […]