Goals to Follow Up With in 2013

What do these goals have to contain:

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time-bound

Individual Pursuit Goal:
-FIGURE OUT A REAL TOPIC
While I am confusedly moving forward, I am not moving forward with a real focus. Unfortunately, I think for my individual need I need a class with a little more direction so I am currently working toward moving into PLTW (Project Lead the Way), but with the time I have left I will work on focusing my interests into something more solid and streaamlined.

Palatine Problem Goal:
-Gather some effective data about our topic
We are currently running on opinions and internet articles. I think its crucial that we attain some real statistics.

Year Long Group (Fashion Show):
-While I am leaving this class, I will continue to aid my group in our year long project\
I will continue to help out with the contact of sponsers and still show up and plan the Fashion Show.

Check-In Questions and My Evaluation

#1 How has your knowledge evoloved this semester? Documentation.

Evolving wise, I have this mentioned in my post labeled 'Uh-Oh.....'

#2 What research has informed your now deeper understanding of your topic? Documentation.

I think where I have gained a deeper understanding is not really in my topic, but more so in my deeper understaning of myself and my capabilities. While yes, we can safely say my individual topic has been a epic fail (with dignity might I add), I have found where my strengths lay and where my weaaknesses can be improved. I went throught the rather stressful process of not fully knowing where my passions are, and  started jumping topics until I landed on something that doesn't quite have a name. I generally anaylze everything around me, and have a tendenacy tell everyone what my thoughts aree whether they want to hear it or not. At this point in my individual pursuit I have used this blog as an outlet to voice my analyzations starting with my last Speech Tournamnet. So while I haven't entirely pushed in my topic, I have gathered a deeper understading for a quite topics I attempted to pursue, as well as find where my strengths lie.

#3 Where do you plan to go with your research in the coming weeks, months, or years? What do I not know, and how to I plan to address that?

I plan to make my "anaylzation game" into a real topic. I need to figure out how this can play into a real world career or occupation. I plan to make more analyzation posts but catagorize them by similarities.

If I think of anything more I will add to this!

Later alligator.......in awhile crocodile :D

Nids xx

Uh-Oh.....

Hey guys.....

So news......

Individual Blog Check In's start today.....

Well lets go over what I have accomplished this second quarter now shall we.....

1) I attempted to narrow my original topic, to no avail
2) I tryed to switch my topics track all together, but keeping it along the same lines
3) I confused myself and am now sort of in a random faze of documenting my observations

So have I had progress this second quarter, I won't call it substanial progress, but I would say I'm following through a preocess, not progress. I am discovering what I enjoy, what I don't, and where I need to better develop my skills. So no, my individual topic is not all in all neat and tidy, but my knowledge has evovled in more ways then one.

Expect a post describing my answering to the check-on questions fo our blogs. (Mrs. Sheehan, Mr. Letheam  this is for you :P)

Nids xx

Speech Team Reactions and Quick Thoughts!

Hey everybody! Alrighty, so here is my analysis on the Speech Tourment.

In round one my partner and I did well, our personal feelings were rather positive and we could have very easily been labeled as cocky. The other contestants were smiling and expectantly a bit nervous. Through out the round the conntestants were friendly and atttentive always clapping. One thing that I think greatly changed the atomosphere was the judge. The judge we had was very ppen and friendly, which really helped put us all at ease. This was in contrary to round three, during which we had a rather stoic judge. All the contestants in that round started out friendly, however with the judge so uptight and not interactive the overall round was full of tension. And skits that reaally were fiunny, no one felt comfortable enough to laugh!

Alright so outside that mediocore anaylsis I'm still rather lost with my whole concept. So I think I'm just gonna try to post interesting things I see, aand hear, and 'observe.'

Okay I will let you all go now!
Nids xx

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