December 2008
Things I need to work on
I do a lot a few things well but I have come to realize there are still some basic things about being a person I need to work on some more. A few that I can think of off the top of my head:
Smiling and saying hello to people I know when I walk pass them–I’ve [...]
One Semester Down
I’m sitting on my bed waiting for 6am to come around. I leave for home in the morning so I probably should get some shuteye, but I can’t sleep. Not sure if its because I’m excited to go home or if I’m just too used to going to bed at 3am. Either way, here I [...]
August 2008
2008 Portland Flugtag
The Red Bull Flugtag event is a testament of human ingenuity, foolishness, and love for watching things crash. My friends and I went down to the Waterfront today and watched as teams flew their man-powered flying creations off a 30 foot deck into the water. Some of them glided for a few short seconds, but [...]
June 2008
Finem Respice
I have a policy when it comes to rating experiences: never rate experiences until they’re over, only in retrospect, because you’ll most certainly hate it at the time if you’re rating it in the first place. I remember the councilors saying that high school is going to be some of the best four years of [...]
April 2008
My Childhood Dreams
My teacher suggested I watch Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” yesterday. I saw the story go by in my Google Reader a few weeks ago but didn’t think to look at it. I forgot about it again when I got home and didn’t remember to watch it until I saw a quote by him on a [...]
Deciding College
I had been having a bit of trouble deciding where I want to go for college as some of you may know. I was torn between UCLA and Carnegie Mellon. I had been researching each school for sometime and trying to figure out what mattered to me the most. UCLA is on the west coast [...]
Two-Time State Web Design Monster
I competed in the Oregon SkillsUSA web design competition again yesterday. The rules were the same as least year. We had four hours to build a website based on a fictitious website proposal. However, I went solo this time around and competed against six other teams of two. It was interesting to say the least.
After the [...]