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Oct 14, 2015
I challenged myself to blacksmith a knife in 2 days. I was hesitant to choose this challenge because this is the type of stuff I do at home, and I thought it would be too easy, I was very wrong. My plan for the forge was simple, have air constantly blowing on a contained wood […]
Oct 10, 2015
Imagine, you are walking down a street in the south Bronx in NYC on a warm summer night. You hear yelling, turn around, and promptly a gun is shot. A bullet flies by your head. Then another. You are now deaf. Cochlear implants might give you an artificial, eerie representation of the sense you once […]
Oct 8, 2015
Today I had a challenge to portray myself on the internet. I have created a few websites for others but this time I was making one for me. This was a challenge that brought self counciousness to another level. It was hard thinking about your whole life and then condensing it in to a few […]
Oct 6, 2015
Our group’s first task today was to come up with a few questions about our surroundings. These questions weren’t your typical questions, though! These were questions of a mysterious sort; questions even the all-knowing GOOGLE couldn’t immediately answer. Try, right now, to think of a few questions yourself. It’s harder than you may think, isn’t […]
Oct 6, 2015
Ladies and gentleman! Have you been craving a good workout? Looking to shed those extra pounds? Boy, do we have the thing for you! It’s day week four day one of the adventure semester, and our challenge was to plan and execute a thirty minute long exercise video. Being the first group to experience this […]
Oct 3, 2015
To bring an end to the third week of the Adventure Semester, new groups got together for the first time to be together for a mere two days in which they would design a challenge designed completely by them. My group threw around a few options, but eventually settled on learning how to reupholster furniture both for […]
Sep 30, 2015
These past 2 days have been intense for my group, and very accomplishing. We were the exercise group and we were true to our name. The first day our group (Joe, Katie M, Max C, Kieran, and myself) started out by waking up at 5:00 in the morning and driving to the base of Mt. […]
Sep 25, 2015
***Warning: Full Details of Chicken Slaughter – Only Read if Able to Handle It*** As I took a deep breath, I counted… one, two, three. Then came that unforgettable crunching sound. I stood still while I processed the fact I had just killed a rooster with a hedge clipper. Our group challenge today was to […]
Sep 24, 2015
Today my group embarked upon the most hands-off challenge to date. Many previous adventures involved a group interpretting a challenge as they saw fit, but all envolved a greater deal of staff oversight than this one. This challenge only possessed an end goal: a map that was both accurate and informative, and that highlighted something […]
Sep 23, 2015
Do you remember the last time a stranger did something for you and how it made you feel? Today’s challenge was to perform radical acts of kindness for others. Our goal was to complete two acts of kindness on our own in the span of two hours, then to collaborate on two group projects for […]