Update: Observations

So the other day I was very casually looking around, and well observing. How interesting would it be if my 'individual pursuit' is observing? I mean i don't know if I can technically do that, but it would kinda interesting if you could just see different situtions from an outsiders viewpoint. Especially because a situation can appear to be like one thing on the outside, and be something completely different on the inside. I have a Speech Team tournament this Saturday and I will very subtly 'observe' there body language, reactions, etc. Does that sound like a promising topic-ish0thing? Lemme know, expect a anaylsis post by Monday!

Nids xx

RANT: Confusion

Hey everybody! Its been awhile huh? Okay so as the title of this post suggests, I'm really quite lost with my individual pursuit. I don't really know what my passion is, and what I want to further pursue because, in all honesty, I want to learn about everything! Here I am still only fourteen years old, and I am being asked to choose something that I could potentially spend the rest of my life doing. I know for some people its really easy, and they know exactly what they want to do with their life, but I am not one of those people.

My original topic of my Arangetram is something that I am pursuing outside of school, and much later than I should have, I realized that I just couldn't spend everyday of the next nine months focusing on something that I already focus on so much outside of school. Then I tried to morph this topic into something more research-able, which really turned out to be a bust, and something my heart just wasn't into. And after all that, I tried to narrow down what I could potentially focus on for this project, I started researching both the topics mentioned in my previous post, but still some how I manage to get interested in reading a newspaper article about current events, listening to interviews from world leaders and activists learning about everything but my main topic. My biggest problem is, is I can't just focus on one thing at a time, I don't know how I can span one topic over such a long period of time. I can't figure out what to peg myself on and move forward with. However, with the negligence of my blog, I have been devoting my full attention to our current group projects. With both projects we have accomplished a lot.

Now though, what I think I am going to do is try just making this blog about everything and anything. Maybe a review on a book I just read, an interesting lesson in school today, my point-of-view on current events, problems I notice around school, things that annoy me about school and so on and so forth. I'm going to really commit to this randomness for about two weeks and see if this works for me, so if you have stuck with me this long, let me know if this is interesting, if this qualifies for a 'individual pursuit?' (Mrs.Sheehan, Mr.Leathem your feedback would be awesome:) Thanks for reading this jumbled up mess of a rant/confessionish-thing. Later alligator!

Nids (:

Change

Hey everybody! So if you have been watching my blog for some time, then you know it is pretty much dead, still, dormant, whatever you want to call it. In all honesty, its because I think that my Individual Pursuit is dead. I have been feeling incredibly lost, and uninterested by my topic. I believe this is because my original choice was something rather than to "research," was something that had to be learned and I already knew so much about it. So I tryed to develop that topic into something that I could keep along the same lines, but be able to research, and still it didn't hold my attention. I have put together a list of two things that I seemingly enjoy and would like to learn more about. I will create three posts about each topic and hopefully get some feedback (Mrs. Sheehan, and Mr, Leathem) from the public about what you feel is the most successfully excuted in terms of the posts I put up and the content. I'm giving myself two weeks to get my IP (Individual Pursuit) in order. I will post the list below:

1) Computer Programing-I have been experimenting with this the last year, year and a half, and it is one of my favorite random passtimes.

2) Art-I have always enjoyed paining as a hobby and would like to learn more about the technical aspect of it.

What are your thoughts on the topics themselves? Expect the first posts for each topic within the next three days. Thanks everyone who has bared with this project!

-Nids