Hey everyone!
Well, I'm back home finally. It's been a pretty amazing week. I did some workshops and I absolutely got the edge.
Taking home an 8th place Trophy for Help Desk was no small feat. I competed against the elite 100+ students from 50 states plus the U.S. Territories. I was excited to know that I was in the top 10 out of the NATION. I feel that nothing can stop my success now.
And now that it's over... It's time to start again. I am going to be recruiting for FBLA for my high school for the 2009-10 school year. If you are a) at my highschool and b) interested PLEASE let me know as soon as possible. I'd like to get this ball rolling.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
FBLA NATIONALS!
Hey everyone!
In Anaheim, CA right now for my FBLA National competetion. I just found out I made it to finals top 10 out of 100.
Hail Washington!
In Anaheim, CA right now for my FBLA National competetion. I just found out I made it to finals top 10 out of 100.
Hail Washington!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Stop acting like dumbasses.
Okay, so my farewell; end of the year blog is going to be discussing... high school teenagers; not all of them, but a majority. I'm pretty pissed off right now, so
First, don't fuck around with relationships.
So many people feel that it is an obligation to have a boyfriend / girlfriend; and then you take the popular stance "I'm going to focus on other things than boys/girls", and then go back to what you were doing an hour later because you "fell in love". Well; what you all consider "love" isn't love... I'm not even sure it's enough to call it lust! Remember, what you do in college decides what happens later on. If you want to work at McDonald's cleaning up the diapers in the bathroom for 8 hours a day making less than 12 bucks an hour... have at it. Everyone knows the world needs some deep friars.
Now if you are 14-25 with this job, it's acceptable as long as you're planning for something else. Everyone should want the best out of themselves. Settling for less is called quitting. You are never stuck in a position you cannot get out of. It's not going to be easy, but you can get out of it. Take for example Chris Gardener, who was portrayed by Will Smith in the pursuit of happiness. He struggled with being homeless and raising a son alone in San Fransisco, California. Today he is a millionaire and makes a lot of money telling people his story as a motivational speaker.
There are many people in this world that will tell you "there is not a situation you cannot get out of, if you try hard enough."
So going back to relationships... obviously there is an attraction between young men and women... it's not rocket science; it's biology, but that is beside the point. Don't feel desperate to have someone to date.
I'm not saying that all high school relationships are a bad thing... but a lot of them end in fighting. Just remember... take it slow.
Second, my history teacher's favorite quote "Excuses are like armpits; everyone's got them... and they all stink"
In social situations, I evaluate people on how much they bring to the conversation... if you just say "iran is entering a civil war" you're not doing much, but if you can clearly explain why, and can talk for awhile about it... A+ for you. People who call themselves "clutzy, stupid, dumb, bitchy, etc." piss me off because they are putting them selves down to a level they think they need to be at. Not listening to someone while they are explaining stuff because you say "oh, I'm to stupid to understand that" well... you're probably not. But the fact you won't listen tells me that you are!
Now; many people I know have excuses "I'm fat, I'm too skinny, I'm not smart enough, I don't understand that, I was raped, I'm too poor, my parents don't like me."
Those are stupid excuses, get rid of them. Chris Gardener applied for an unpaid internship at a business, he used a made up address and no one know/could tell he was poor. It didn't matter, he was human and he didn't want any sympathy from anyone because he was poor. So I don't care what happened before... I just want to know, what's going on from here?
If I ever start my own company, you can sure as hell bet that will be my philosophy. Excuses don't make the cut. I guess my stepdad's old boss used to say "I don't care about the problem, tell me the solution."
I strongly live by those.
I hope this helps some people... Just remember, no one cares about excuses... you may think I'm creating an exagerated generalization... but it's not. No one cares.
First, don't fuck around with relationships.
So many people feel that it is an obligation to have a boyfriend / girlfriend; and then you take the popular stance "I'm going to focus on other things than boys/girls", and then go back to what you were doing an hour later because you "fell in love". Well; what you all consider "love" isn't love... I'm not even sure it's enough to call it lust! Remember, what you do in college decides what happens later on. If you want to work at McDonald's cleaning up the diapers in the bathroom for 8 hours a day making less than 12 bucks an hour... have at it. Everyone knows the world needs some deep friars.
Now if you are 14-25 with this job, it's acceptable as long as you're planning for something else. Everyone should want the best out of themselves. Settling for less is called quitting. You are never stuck in a position you cannot get out of. It's not going to be easy, but you can get out of it. Take for example Chris Gardener, who was portrayed by Will Smith in the pursuit of happiness. He struggled with being homeless and raising a son alone in San Fransisco, California. Today he is a millionaire and makes a lot of money telling people his story as a motivational speaker.
There are many people in this world that will tell you "there is not a situation you cannot get out of, if you try hard enough."
So going back to relationships... obviously there is an attraction between young men and women... it's not rocket science; it's biology, but that is beside the point. Don't feel desperate to have someone to date.
I'm not saying that all high school relationships are a bad thing... but a lot of them end in fighting. Just remember... take it slow.
Second, my history teacher's favorite quote "Excuses are like armpits; everyone's got them... and they all stink"
In social situations, I evaluate people on how much they bring to the conversation... if you just say "iran is entering a civil war" you're not doing much, but if you can clearly explain why, and can talk for awhile about it... A+ for you. People who call themselves "clutzy, stupid, dumb, bitchy, etc." piss me off because they are putting them selves down to a level they think they need to be at. Not listening to someone while they are explaining stuff because you say "oh, I'm to stupid to understand that" well... you're probably not. But the fact you won't listen tells me that you are!
Now; many people I know have excuses "I'm fat, I'm too skinny, I'm not smart enough, I don't understand that, I was raped, I'm too poor, my parents don't like me."
Those are stupid excuses, get rid of them. Chris Gardener applied for an unpaid internship at a business, he used a made up address and no one know/could tell he was poor. It didn't matter, he was human and he didn't want any sympathy from anyone because he was poor. So I don't care what happened before... I just want to know, what's going on from here?
If I ever start my own company, you can sure as hell bet that will be my philosophy. Excuses don't make the cut. I guess my stepdad's old boss used to say "I don't care about the problem, tell me the solution."
I strongly live by those.
I hope this helps some people... Just remember, no one cares about excuses... you may think I'm creating an exagerated generalization... but it's not. No one cares.
Open the windows... It's time to vent.
Okay, so I got an e-mail this morning from my teacher, telling me that we need to take down a video that I worked EXTREMELY hard on off of our website, and stop showing it to people because it is offending the regular classroom teachers at my school. I'm not mad at my teacher, or the admins that told me to do it... but the teachers that (and I quote) "be hatin on us".
The program I am in right now is considered to be a technology academy, it was started by my district at the middle school level to test this theory of Small Learning Communities, Project Based Assessments, and Technology in Everyday Life.
So, they started it for incoming 7th graders, they looked at WASL scores, Test scores and other things... and they were considerablly high. They said "Okay let's keep this going" and opened it for 8th graders... Two levels of this program were getting amazing WASL scores and test scores. So the second semester of the second year of the program... they used the mother school that hosted this program... and gave every student a laptop, and transformed the school into a larger version of the program; guess what?! IT WORKED!
So they said "well, if it works here... then it must work everywhere" so now, in 2009 every 7th grader has a laptop and they're demonstrating it... and even though I do not agree with it... It's still the implementation that the District believed in our program... so they used it!
I've said it in past blogs... but I'll reitterate. The classroom enviroment is changing. Teachers don't sit up in front and just sit there... Students teach themselves many new things every day.
So back to what I was venting about in the first place.
The person who (I have no idea, nor do I care) complained about this video had no right to complain to the school district administrators. Most of the reason why I am mad at them is becuase they had to go out of their way to complain about it. The Admins and my teachers only complied with what they had to for their jobs.
I dont know what makes them think that we think we are elitists. I mean, we were test subjects that passed the test.
I really am going to miss that video; I put bytes of my blood, sweat, and tears in there...
However, I love the challange of making the next one.
The program I am in right now is considered to be a technology academy, it was started by my district at the middle school level to test this theory of Small Learning Communities, Project Based Assessments, and Technology in Everyday Life.
So, they started it for incoming 7th graders, they looked at WASL scores, Test scores and other things... and they were considerablly high. They said "Okay let's keep this going" and opened it for 8th graders... Two levels of this program were getting amazing WASL scores and test scores. So the second semester of the second year of the program... they used the mother school that hosted this program... and gave every student a laptop, and transformed the school into a larger version of the program; guess what?! IT WORKED!
So they said "well, if it works here... then it must work everywhere" so now, in 2009 every 7th grader has a laptop and they're demonstrating it... and even though I do not agree with it... It's still the implementation that the District believed in our program... so they used it!
I've said it in past blogs... but I'll reitterate. The classroom enviroment is changing. Teachers don't sit up in front and just sit there... Students teach themselves many new things every day.
So back to what I was venting about in the first place.
The person who (I have no idea, nor do I care) complained about this video had no right to complain to the school district administrators. Most of the reason why I am mad at them is becuase they had to go out of their way to complain about it. The Admins and my teachers only complied with what they had to for their jobs.
I dont know what makes them think that we think we are elitists. I mean, we were test subjects that passed the test.
I really am going to miss that video; I put bytes of my blood, sweat, and tears in there...
However, I love the challange of making the next one.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Soceity Lecture
Okay; here we go... I've been thinking about the philosophies, and here is mine. It's "Walkerism" great name, even better solutions.
The basis of Walkerism, is that we all stive for 1 common goal, success of humanity.
The technology will supplement soceity; computers will be for organization.
The basis of Walkerism, is that we all stive for 1 common goal, success of humanity.
The technology will supplement soceity; computers will be for organization.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Going Ubuntu
Well, I'm done with windows vista... It's giving me too many issues, that I would have to use illegal measures to fix. So Asta La Vista!... Vista!
Tech Blog
Technology Essay/Blog
Disclaimer: This is going to be a very long blog… I’m going to make almost all of the paragraphs independent, and not rely on the other portions of the essay to understand parts of it.
Today was KSD STEP’s (Student Technology Educational Partnership) last meeting of the 2008-2009 school year. We had our end of year celebration at the administration offices and it was pretty fun. We had one of the Information engineers (lead computer guy) come and talk to us about what we do, and what we are in for as students.
STEP isn’t based on technology, it’s based on the future… which is technology. I found out today that my school district’s website was entered into the Smithsonian institute for how technologically advanced it was… that was in 1995. My fellow group members are very amazing and outstanding students. Some produce great films, others know a motherboard like the back of their hand, and others interested in networks and other technical developments. I fall under almost all of those categories on minor levels; I know how to use video editing software, I could build a computer from scratch, and I’ve even got some networking in me… I just haven’t found my sweet spot for technology, I’m more of an innovator; and trying to get people into technology.
The traditional structure of the classroom has changed, we’ve gone from “I’m the teacher, you’ll do as I say, and learn what I teach” to “I’m the teacher, I’m here to help you, here is what our goal to achieve is, here are the instructions, if you need help ask questions.” Students have access to so much technology that we can learn virtually anything we want to, we just need to set our minds to it.
The United States has a large advantage due to a previously strong economy and a strong abundance of technological developments. So many people have access to computers and the internet, which helps to support stronger educations. A majority of my knowledge in the computer sciences field has come from surfing the internet and absorbing what I see and applying it in real life. Many people are trying to limit, and turn the internet into a business. I cannot support any of those, because I believe that the one thing that needs to remain open is our internet.
I’ve heard it from two significant people now… an IT administrator, and my freshman English teacher. I know everyone is talking about it, however today it sunk in pretty deep. There is this new theory that is going around “The world is becoming flat” and according to the evidence I’ve seen, I can support that claim. China has 1,330,044,544 citizens, and India has 1,147,995,904 and the United States has 304,059,724.
Now more than ever, the youth of America needs to get into gear and education needs to be a high priority. The famous “bell curve” along with the populations of the world’s leading countries tell us that the United States is going to be behind in the long run. In a few years, India will have as many people graduating with PhD’s as the United States will have graduating; from what I’ve seen. The youth of “tomorrow” is going to be left in the dust cloud left from India and China’s taking all of the high tech, high paying jobs.
Right now, our software relies on a numerous amount of things that can cause our computers to lock up and crash, however many companies like Microsoft and Amazon are creating these “clouds” which is in a nutshell… using their servers for our programs. For example… if you needed to render a video, you could use Microsoft FrontLoad (just an example software… nothing is called FrontLoad) which creates videos, and you press a button, it sends your files to their servers, and they render your video in ¼ the time it would take running on your hardware.
This could mean wonder’s for businesses, schools, and other orgizations for rendering videos, compiling software and other things. I can see the slogan for Microsoft FrontLoad now… “Imagine having the world’s most powerful supercomputer, in your room.”
You can see that technology hasn’t stopped moving forward, so neither should we. Though the world belongs to everyone we should all take pride in what our nation can do.
Disclaimer: This is going to be a very long blog… I’m going to make almost all of the paragraphs independent, and not rely on the other portions of the essay to understand parts of it.
Today was KSD STEP’s (Student Technology Educational Partnership) last meeting of the 2008-2009 school year. We had our end of year celebration at the administration offices and it was pretty fun. We had one of the Information engineers (lead computer guy) come and talk to us about what we do, and what we are in for as students.
STEP isn’t based on technology, it’s based on the future… which is technology. I found out today that my school district’s website was entered into the Smithsonian institute for how technologically advanced it was… that was in 1995. My fellow group members are very amazing and outstanding students. Some produce great films, others know a motherboard like the back of their hand, and others interested in networks and other technical developments. I fall under almost all of those categories on minor levels; I know how to use video editing software, I could build a computer from scratch, and I’ve even got some networking in me… I just haven’t found my sweet spot for technology, I’m more of an innovator; and trying to get people into technology.
The traditional structure of the classroom has changed, we’ve gone from “I’m the teacher, you’ll do as I say, and learn what I teach” to “I’m the teacher, I’m here to help you, here is what our goal to achieve is, here are the instructions, if you need help ask questions.” Students have access to so much technology that we can learn virtually anything we want to, we just need to set our minds to it.
The United States has a large advantage due to a previously strong economy and a strong abundance of technological developments. So many people have access to computers and the internet, which helps to support stronger educations. A majority of my knowledge in the computer sciences field has come from surfing the internet and absorbing what I see and applying it in real life. Many people are trying to limit, and turn the internet into a business. I cannot support any of those, because I believe that the one thing that needs to remain open is our internet.
I’ve heard it from two significant people now… an IT administrator, and my freshman English teacher. I know everyone is talking about it, however today it sunk in pretty deep. There is this new theory that is going around “The world is becoming flat” and according to the evidence I’ve seen, I can support that claim. China has 1,330,044,544 citizens, and India has 1,147,995,904 and the United States has 304,059,724.
Now more than ever, the youth of America needs to get into gear and education needs to be a high priority. The famous “bell curve” along with the populations of the world’s leading countries tell us that the United States is going to be behind in the long run. In a few years, India will have as many people graduating with PhD’s as the United States will have graduating; from what I’ve seen. The youth of “tomorrow” is going to be left in the dust cloud left from India and China’s taking all of the high tech, high paying jobs.
Right now, our software relies on a numerous amount of things that can cause our computers to lock up and crash, however many companies like Microsoft and Amazon are creating these “clouds” which is in a nutshell… using their servers for our programs. For example… if you needed to render a video, you could use Microsoft FrontLoad (just an example software… nothing is called FrontLoad) which creates videos, and you press a button, it sends your files to their servers, and they render your video in ¼ the time it would take running on your hardware.
This could mean wonder’s for businesses, schools, and other orgizations for rendering videos, compiling software and other things. I can see the slogan for Microsoft FrontLoad now… “Imagine having the world’s most powerful supercomputer, in your room.”
You can see that technology hasn’t stopped moving forward, so neither should we. Though the world belongs to everyone we should all take pride in what our nation can do.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Funny poem if you aren't a morning person
I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perched on my window sill,
He sang a song so lovely
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles
Began to slip away.
He sang of far off places
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.
I stirred beneath the covers
Crept slowly out of bed,
Then gently shut the window
And crushed his fucking head.
I'm not a morning person
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perched on my window sill,
He sang a song so lovely
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles
Began to slip away.
He sang of far off places
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.
I stirred beneath the covers
Crept slowly out of bed,
Then gently shut the window
And crushed his fucking head.
I'm not a morning person
In Response to: "To My dearest loved ones"
You aren't a buttjack. We've all got our ups and downs. Tech academy drives us into the ground and without our support groups we'd not make it through the days. I am super thankful for all of my peoples to. We complain to eachother and all of that and we all have good ideas of what each other are going through. I think we'd just crumble without it. Our teachers, pull us together by making us hate their assignments... together. It's been that way sense 7th grade and I love it.
I'm going to start another post soon. :) so
Live long and prosper
-Spock
I'm going to start another post soon. :) so
Live long and prosper
-Spock
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