One of my passions in life, as nerdy as it may sound, is watching YouTube videos.
No. Wait! Come back! I promise I'm not boring!
Okay, thanks for sticking around. As I was saying. YouTube. I love YouTube for how simple it is to watch whatever you want, whenever you want it. Yesterday, I watched a video by Vsauce, a scientific explanation channel, and I learned all about the Zipf theory. Truly interesting. This video surfaced today during a walk I took with my aunt and I completely messed up the way I explained it. Oh well, I'll just send her the video.
Have you noticed I have nothing to talk about today?
Thanks for reading!
Alex
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Tuesday, September 15th 2015 || Personal Project(s)
I learned today that I actually have two personal projects to do as a high school senior (or Secondary 5 in Canada, where I live). One of them is an Art class project, the other is designed to prepare me for CEGEP. What is CEGEP you may be wondering? I'll get to that soon enough!
Firstly, the Art project. This is the personal project I already knew I had to do in my last year in high school. This project involves coming with an idea, a project, that will take months to create. You need to film yourself doing it, you need to research various topics and you need to make it interesting. Of course, it needs to relate to Art class. So make it pretty. Allow me to be frank, art isn't my forte, but computers are. So how did I manage to come with an idea combining art, computers and my passion for human biology? Two words. My father. His idea: design a 3D model of a human heart on a computer program and have it 3D printed. Brilliant. Thanks dad, I owe you one (and probably many many more).
Secondly, the orientation project. As a senior in Canadian (and more specifically Quebec) high school, I am require to soon pick a "CEGEP". CEGEP is a level of school between high school and university. It prepares the student for the reality of life they will face in the real world and in the subsequent years of university. CEGEP generally lasts 2 or 3 years depending on your selected program. Complicated? Yes. Useless? Probably. This "project" requires me to visit at least one CEGEP around my city. I do that, I get a credit. Simple enough right? Right! At least I hope so. I get the details tomorrow. Good luck to me.
In other news: I practiced driving some more, as I will be starting my practice classes very soon. Looking forward to that!
Thanks for reading!
Alex
Firstly, the Art project. This is the personal project I already knew I had to do in my last year in high school. This project involves coming with an idea, a project, that will take months to create. You need to film yourself doing it, you need to research various topics and you need to make it interesting. Of course, it needs to relate to Art class. So make it pretty. Allow me to be frank, art isn't my forte, but computers are. So how did I manage to come with an idea combining art, computers and my passion for human biology? Two words. My father. His idea: design a 3D model of a human heart on a computer program and have it 3D printed. Brilliant. Thanks dad, I owe you one (and probably many many more).
Secondly, the orientation project. As a senior in Canadian (and more specifically Quebec) high school, I am require to soon pick a "CEGEP". CEGEP is a level of school between high school and university. It prepares the student for the reality of life they will face in the real world and in the subsequent years of university. CEGEP generally lasts 2 or 3 years depending on your selected program. Complicated? Yes. Useless? Probably. This "project" requires me to visit at least one CEGEP around my city. I do that, I get a credit. Simple enough right? Right! At least I hope so. I get the details tomorrow. Good luck to me.
In other news: I practiced driving some more, as I will be starting my practice classes very soon. Looking forward to that!
Thanks for reading!
Alex
Monday, 14 September 2015
Monday, September 14th 2015 || Average
Today was an average day. Yes I know, just what you'd want to hear from the first post on a personal blogging website. Struggles? Sure I had a few today, like wrapping my brain around quantum physic's "Shrodinger's Cat" experiment in Ethics class (which is an actual class I have, yes). However, nothing major. To be honest, my life isn't all that interesting.
That being said, "things" did happen today. I got 20/20 in a grammar exam, I was lectured about bullying by an American lecturer. Sure, you may think bullying is old news, but the way he spun it made it quite dramatic and frankly interesting (visit teentruth.net). I was also evaluated in Physics class. Mirrors. Gotta love mirrors. How does light bounce off two mirrors at different angles to produce not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4 but an infinite amount images? Symmetry. A word my Physics teacher takes great joy in repeating. Over and over and over again.
I was also somewhat disappointed today when I learned via a Kickstarter backer update that one of the gaming projects I backed, The Universim, was yet again being delayed. The game, which was initially supposed to launch tomorrow will instead be released in, and I quote, "only a few weeks". Great. More waiting.
Thanks for reading!
Alex
*Late night edit* Tomorrow I'll be talking all about my Art class personal project!
That being said, "things" did happen today. I got 20/20 in a grammar exam, I was lectured about bullying by an American lecturer. Sure, you may think bullying is old news, but the way he spun it made it quite dramatic and frankly interesting (visit teentruth.net). I was also evaluated in Physics class. Mirrors. Gotta love mirrors. How does light bounce off two mirrors at different angles to produce not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4 but an infinite amount images? Symmetry. A word my Physics teacher takes great joy in repeating. Over and over and over again.
I was also somewhat disappointed today when I learned via a Kickstarter backer update that one of the gaming projects I backed, The Universim, was yet again being delayed. The game, which was initially supposed to launch tomorrow will instead be released in, and I quote, "only a few weeks". Great. More waiting.
Thanks for reading!
Alex
*Late night edit* Tomorrow I'll be talking all about my Art class personal project!
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