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Nov 22, 2015
Today (*sniff) we had our final official challenges of the Adventure Semester. In the build-up to this Thursday we did not know what our last two days would have in store, until we started to receive emails. Each participant was told that they would have one partner, and were given varying degrees of information. Rather […]
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
My dream school, Reed College, marked an end to a very long college search that I was eager to see finished. The Early Decision deadline was days away, yet I had come to a roadblock. Reed is the most expensive school in the state of Oregon, and affording it would be a challenge. The goal […]
Nov 3, 2015
For our introduction to our two day challenge, Blake Boles read us the poem The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein, in which a character goes to meet a wise guru. We were told that the following day we would go to meet him. We were emailed a packing list and told to have a belly full of breakfast by […]
Oct 29, 2015
In the immortal words of Midge Field, “I had heard the word lit before, but I never truly understood the meaning of it.” Today we learned. We began our challenge the night before when we sat down with Ari in The Spare Oom to discuss the trials and tribulations that we would face the next […]
Oct 28, 2015
Today six unschoolers completed six different challenges, with one unifying goal: to learn to persevere. Each of these challenges was narrow in scope enough to stress repetition, yet much variety existed. Some challenge involved a repetition of simple task. Oscar focused on learning how to juggle, a skill he found quite difficult to master. Max […]
Oct 26, 2015
Hello Reader, My name is Catherine Canann. I am a participant in the U.A. Adventure Semester. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. As you know, every day we have a unique challenge. Today, that challenge was to write emails to strangers in Denver who we would like to connect with, […]
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 […]