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Nov 12, 2015
I worked on cars for the past two days, and I now feel confident in my ability to fix the most common car failures, and to understand what someone is talking about when they are talking about the basics of a car and what it does. The tasks I completed on my dad’s car were: […]
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
Partner dancing is a lot harder than it may seem, and, as we soon discovered, even more so when you’re working together as a group to create one seamless routine. Here are a few comments from my fellow group members: Max said: “At first I was really excited, but once we started dancing, I didn’t […]
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 has been noted in previous blog posts and videos, our group this week has been experiencing some communication problems. We’ve all been hearing about Dev’s challenge, and we knew that this one would help us with communication skills. In fact, the challenge today did exactly that. In the morning we met up and took […]
Oct 22, 2015
Ever since some pal a few hundred thousand years ago first rubbed a couple sticks together, perhaps as some kind of sexual or religious act, and discovered that that makes them explode, humankind’s relationship with fire has been… tentative. The same fire which the busker juggles for his living also inevitably burns down his apartment. […]
Oct 22, 2015
To be honest, for this challenge, we fell on our faces. It started out the night before the challenge day when we started brainstorming about ideas for a small business that would make us money in only a couple hours. Some people were exhausted and ready to just think of some practical ideas, while others […]
Oct 21, 2015
Give it a good college try. That’s what we did today. Try. A lot. My group was given several challenges to complete during our visit at Western State Colorado University. Our challenges were to talk with professors, students, admissions, as well as sit in on lectures. A bonus challenge was to get a student to […]