Week 8 October 24-28, 2011

I have been working on my college application essay.Here is a copy of what I accomplished over the time period.

“I pledge allegiance… one nation UNDER JESUS…,” the blond Southerner directed at me. I looked at her, shocked. How could anybody be so rude just because I’m Hindu? I was so angered by her judgment that I forgot the rest of the pledge. My blood bubbled a little at the thought that she tried to offend me in front of the class, but I was not going to allow this girl to slither under my skin. I just sat down and continued with my day.

            This was not the first or last time someone had done this, but eighth grade seems to magnify everything, so it is the most vivid in my memory. I live in a small town in Texas, so being Hindu in a sea of Southern Baptists, I have had some jabs about my beliefs, but I have come to learn that fussing over the small things in life will never take me anywhere. My goal since I was little is to make a positive impact on the world. I always wanted to help anyone around me in any way possible. I slowly realized, however, that my goal to help the world was a little more challenging than I first thought. I was just one person in a world of 6 billion, was it even possible to cause a change? My mom helped me understand what I needed to do. She told me that “Before you can be Gandhi, you have to be somebody.” My impact had to start in my hometown, if I were to show the people around me that building people up goes much farther than tearing people down.

            I love a team – team spirit, team tears and defeat, team success and joy. The best way to build people up is to build community through bonds of work and friendship. I believe that in order to be a team player, I have to be the best I can be.  I show my dedication to learning, I help people with any problems they have, I play on sports teams, and I try to use criticism to better myself. I have accomplished a good deal in high school, but I have realized that going up in life is never much fun without bringing people with me. Leadership roles like UIL Science Team Captain and Tennis Team Captain, have given me the opportunity to try to be my very best and to help and motivate everyone around me so we can all enjoy our achievements together.

            Because of this, people react to my actions in a positive manner. They tend to see me as a person they can rely on, and I have a wide circle of friends, many from the Baptist Church. What I can bring to a college because of my unique background is the ability to contribute, to build community, and to bring a spirit of unity and accomplishment to my school and fellow students. The Gandhi thing will come later.

            

Week 7 October 20-21, 2011

Well I took a test yesterday in Science, and it made me realize something, I need to stop trying to go so fast on those tests. I was really dumb while taking that test and forgot to put some answers on the answer sheet, so instead of making a 124-130, I made a 102, and that was just saddening, especially when one of the other members of the Science team made a 104 and got first place. That was really dumb of me, so from now on I'm going to take my time on the Science test. I've been working on Mnemosyne a lot recently, and I'm pretty sure that I have my cubes down really well now! I'm pretty happy about my accomplishments there. In Computer Science I've been doing pretty well. Parameters are the new thing I'm working on at the moment, and I'm keeping up pretty well on those. These two days have been pretty good so far, so we'll just have to see how things go. October 29th is the first meet for Science, Number Sense, and Math..e..matics....OH CRAP!!!!! I haven't been working on Mathematics at all!!!!! Golly gee wilakers I gotta get that done! I'll take some Mathematics tests over this next week, and then I'll take some Science and Number Sense tests on the side. Sounds like a plan to me...kinda...

Week 7 Wednesday October 19, 2011

Now to put on this blog. I'm actually having a pretty awful day. I'm having trouble catching up with things, and getting home at 11:00 P.M. from tennis isn't really helping much with my trying to get more sleep initiative I'm trying to start. I feel that if I have a lesson today, I will more more than likely not learn anything due to the fact that my brain will not be able to soak in the information because of my lack of sleep problem. I guess we'll just have to see how things will go today.

Week 6 Friday October 14, 2011

I freaking love mnemosyne! It is the one of the best inventions I have ever seen in my life!!! It's this flashcard system that shows you the information on the flashcards in a particular order so that the information will be transferred from short term memory to long term memory, and it's pretty amazing. I'm not going to be using this to learn all different kinds of information for UIL Prep, like Biology terms, Number Sense, and much much more! This is getting me pretty excited.


I actually wrote this on Friday, October 14, but I think I just forgot to post it onto my blog.

Week 7 Tuesday October 18, 2011

I forgot to post on this yesterday. I think I took the wrong approach to this blogging ordeal. Oh well, I guess I'll have to deal until I think of another way to approach this that will fit my time schedule. I actually had a good day yesterday. I spent the entire period covering my cubes for number sense, so now I have them memorized from 1-25, and that makes me pretty happy. Mostly didn't really work on anything other than putting in data for mnemosyne, so besides that, I don't really have anything to talk about for yesterday.

Week 7 Monday October 17, 2011

I'm so pissed off!!! I'm tried, angry at freakin everything, and nothing is allowing me to feel any better! I feel like I can't freakin catch up with life! It's just leaving me behind in a heaping hot mess while I try to crawl back to a caught up state with broken legs and a tumor! Can things get better?!? Ugh, life sucks at this moment in time, but I guess I gotta bare it. Sorry I didn't put a blog for Friday, I was very busy and time and I haven't been on the best of terms. Science practice today, so I gotta go do this, even though I'm pissed off. Gonna start reading Beyond Einstein, OMG!!! That's another thing I have to do! I just freakin remembered that!!!!!!! That makes me even more angry!!! How am I so angry?!?!? Mrs. Tochterman needs a punching bag in her room so I can relieve some of this anger!!! Maybe I'll ask her to get one. Hmmm, idea, I could just have a nap time, but I think if I nap I won't get ANYTHING done, UGH!!!!!!!! Gotta get my life in check.

Week 6 Thursday October 13, 2011

So I found this new program that could help out with learning Number Sense tricks. It's not really that new, but it's still really really cool. The program is called Mnemosyne, based on the Greek goddess of memory, just a fun fact, and it uses an algorithm that allows information to be transferred from short term memory to long term memory. It's actually pretty cool, so I'm going to put in Number Sense tricks and try to learn them that way. I guess we'll see how it goes. =]

Week 6 Wednesday October 12, 2011

Today will probably be spent working on Number Sense once again. This is actually pretty fun, my test scores are still in the 70s, but that's because I don't really know some of the tricks. The only questions I've been missing are because of lacking tricks in my mind. I'll get these tricks learned though, so no worries here. =]

Week 6 Tuesday October 11,2011

I didn't really get a chance to blog on Thursday because...well I just got really busy. This weekend was pretty fun, with going to Memphis, but it didn't really correlate to anything I need to accomplish for my goal, so I won't write about that. "Well you're fully allowed to brag on yourself if your awesome."-Elizabeth Leese, I just had to throw this in there because it made me laugh today, I'm starting to get ahead in UIL, and Lizzie said I should quote her in my blog, so it has been done! I'm mainly going to just work on Number Sense today, so today will be test day.

Week 5 Wednesday October 5, 2011

Well I took my first Number Sense test since...well a while, and it didn't turn out as badly as I expected. It was a 79, not the best score, but not the worst score. I actually beat all the Andrews kids, which is actually pretty good since it was my first in a while and they have been practicing a whole bunch. This actually excites me for Number Sense, so maybe I will add that to my list of UIL tests along with Science, Math, and Computer Science. I found out yesterday that we actually have a meet October 29th, so I'll have to see if I can go to that, hopefully I can.

Week 5 Tuesday October 4, 2011

Well, now I'm finally caught up on blogging. Today I'm very busy, but I don't think it will be with UIL. I have a bunch of homework to accomplish, so I'm going to ask Mrs. Tochterman if I can spend today catching up on things. First actual Science meeting is today, so I get to put plans into action! Now I have to make plans...I'm also going to be spending lunch today with Mr. Fleming, so that'll be good for me as well.

Week 5 Monday October 3, 2011

...I realized I'm actually two blogs behind...someone shoot me please? Well yesterday I wasn't in GTIS because I had my first FPS competition, but I don't think anyone wants to hear how that went...After school, the Director of UIL in our school, Mr. Galvan, decided to have a UIL meeting for anyone who just wanted to know more about UIL. This meeting went very successfully, especially for me, >:]. 23 students. Yes that's right, you heard it correctly from me, there are 23 students who want to do UIL Science this year, and 13 of those 23 are freshman! This is just gonna be more work for me, but I'm ready to kick butt and take names this year! Also, and this might cause people to be happy or mad at me, but Mrs. Jaekal has persuaded me to try Number Sense....well, I guess we'll see how that goes, since that will be my 4th UIL test to study for. You want to see me at the end of this year? XP----<, I'm dead.

Week 4 September 26-30, 2011

I'm soo sorry for not blogging for all of last week! I feel very bad for not keeping you informed on my UIL escapades! Last week was pretty stressful, so most of the time I went straight to Mr. Fleming's room to work on labs. All of last week I worked with Mr. Fleming on matrices. Most of the time I had trouble with those, with most of my exasperations being UGH MATRICES!!!! and Mr. Fleming saying that I'm over thinking things...sigh...I've been trying my best to understand that stuff, but some puzzles just really bug me. Luckily, I have Andy to help me through Programming Competition. Sadly, it's Andy...oh well. In Science news. I got my Feyman Lectures on Physics!!! There almost 100 chapters worth of stuff in there...so I might just let Mr. Viray or Ms. McNew help me out with those. This is going to be very challenging. I tried my best to understand the information, but UGH! During last week, since I'm the team captain of the Science team, I was trying to see who all would like to join the UIL Science team, see I know the results of that adventure, but I want to have something to write about in my next blog! (Which will come out in what of about a few minutes...) ....It's hard to remember EVERYTHING that happened last week. I spent most of my lunch periods last week working with Mr. Fleming on matrices, mainly so I could catch up on what I needed to learn. I feel so behind on EVERYTHING!!! There's so much to learn and so little time. =[. This next week ( this week), I'm going to be working on Mathematics, so maybe I'll be able to handle that better.