Tuesday, May 27, 2014

20% Final Post

    My project had to do with posting a question up on a poster and placing it in the lunch room, or writing it on a white board and seeing the answers written about it. Although I don't have pictures, there are a couple examples I could share.

   My first example would be that I posted the question, "What makes somebody a good person?" This question was given the most answers, where some people answered that they had to be honest people, to always be there for them, to have integrity, and more. I also posted one that asked students, "Where do you want to go before you die?" This received some responses as well, such as Hawaii, Italy, Speech Nationals, etc. The last one I posted received only one answer. The question had been, "What do you want to do before you die?" The answer to this was, "Be happy."
   
    The point of my project was to give people a place to write down their thoughts and what they thought when certain questions were open for them to answer. There had been a couple people that joked around with the questions, but it was the minority. Overall, I think my 20% project was successful for as much as I was able to do. Due to some depression and anxiety, it had been difficult to get started and figure out what to do in the first place.

    As for an evaluation, I don't think I deserve a high A. The reasons for this is because I don't believe this project was very hard at all, and it took me a very long time to actually start. However, I do think I deserve a low A or a high B due to the fact that it wasn't me being lazy, but having a hard time coming up with a fixed solution. I had started writing a book for a long while, but it wasn't coming out the way I intended. This had to be stopped, then I had to find a new project, this being it. I do think I deserve this high of a score since I was able to recover in the end, no matter the troubles going on in and out of school.


Monday, May 5, 2014

20% Project (Month Three?)

I finally was able to start my actual project. I was able to set up and tape the poster with my question on the wall during lunch and I got quite a lot of responses (most of which were serious). There were a couple immature answers, but that's alright. Now I'm planning on placing another one up soon so that I can get more responses. The purpose for this is to be able to see people open up and post their own true opinions and be able to think for themselves. This month has been successful so far and I'm happy I actually was able to get the project started.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Ashton Kutcher

I really enjoyed the video and what Chris Ashton Kutcher had to say about it. My favorite line of his was when he stated "Don't live your life, build it". This comment had an impact on me, who just lives her day to day life without thinking much about how I should build my life and live inside the world I built instead of living day by day with no hope in my life.