Tuesday, October 7th

The following article was in the September issue of The Tiger Print. Read the article (even if you already have) and respond to it below. What do you think? Do you agree? Disagree? Consider all perspectives of the article while you respond.

I totally agree with this article. It happens way too often that girls are told to put on a sweater or jacket over their shirt that shows "way too much shoulder", or when a student is in a room that is colder than Antarctica all they are told is they "aren't wearing enough clothing." Yes, I agree some girls can take things too far and show off more than anyone wants to see, but if I can't see their butt then I am not worried about the length of their shorts and no one else should be. I also think it is annoying that dress code is directed at only girls. If they are so worried about our shoulders distracting the boys then don't allow boys to show their shoulders either, but in both cases that would be ridiculous. The rules for the dress code have been taken way to far. I refuse to wear shorts that go to my mid-thigh just because the boys around me seem to have no self control.

Monday, October 6th

Tell me about your weekend! If you don't have anything fun to share, tell me about the city you live in. What do you love about Kansas City? Do you have a favorite place in the city? Favorite team? :) Favorite event? Explain.

I had a really fun weekend except for the fact that I had to fast Friday night through Saturday night because it was Yom Kippur. On Friday, I stayed after school to talk to Ms.Volz about Relay for Life stuff, and then I went home and watched TV and ate before the sun went down. Then I went over to my friends house to watch the Royals game! I spent almost all day Saturday getting ready for Rockhurst Homecoming with my friends! Then we all went to homecoming together! We went to Brio for dinner and then we went to the dance for two hours. On Sunday, I had meetings for BBYO and then I spent the rest of the day cleaning out my closet. 

Monday, September 29th

Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

My Homecoming weekend was so much fun! My friends and I went to the football game and watched us kill Southwest! Then we all hung out for a little bit at our friends AJ's house. The next day Adam Houghtan and I went to Macy's to buy a tie that matched my dress, and we went to Dick's to get white clothes for our white out after party. I spent basically the whole day getting ready. I did my own hair and makeup. Then we went to pictures and from pictures and limo took us to dinner at Macaroni Grill. Then it took us to the dance for about and hour and then to Haley's house for the after party! The whole night was a blast and I couldn't have asked to spend it with better people. 

Monday, September 22nd

How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Share photos!

I had a very boring weekend, but it was nice to be able to chill. On Friday, Adam Houghtan came to my house to ask me to homecoming! He brought one of his foster kittens to my house to ask me. Then I went to the Miege game, but we got killed. On Saturaday, I helped work on the junior class float for the homecoming parade. Then I sat at my house and watched the Celebrating Joan Rivers special on Fashion Police for the rest of the night. That night my friend Matt took me and two of our friends out to dinner for his birthday. We went to Blue Koi and it was really good. On Sunday, I helped with the float some more and then went to a meeting for BBYO. I also went to help work on my brother's new house and spent some quality time with his puppy. 

 

Friday, September 19th

Now that you are several weeks in to this class and have coded one (super small) website, what do you think? What are your thoughts on web design? Is it what you thought it would be? Is it better? Worse? What's your favorite part? What's your least favorite part? Explain.

I actually have really enjoyed web design! It seems to come pretty easy to me, but I think its difficult to remember each and every detail. My favorite part is the CSS and seeing how much it can change the website, but my least favorite part is also the CSS because it can be very difficult at times. HTML is very straight forwards and pretty easy to remember but it gets difficult to remember when and where you need divs, classes and IDs. As much as I disliked Codecademy, it was really helpful.

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Thursday, September 18th

What is the importance of deadlines? How do high school deadlines reflect or simulate "real world" experience? Give an example of when you met or or didn't meet a deadline that was important.

Deadlines are very important. They are way more important in the "real world" then they are in high school. When you don't meet a deadline at a job they are way less forgiving than your math teacher after you forgot to do your math homework. Not meeting a deadline at a job could cause you to not close a deal, or make it so you miss an extremely important presentation. High schools do try to make deadlines more strict though. Some teaches will not be forgiving if you "forget your project at home", and they will not allow you to turn it in late. I am usually very good at meeting deadlines because I am very organized and I like to get things done on time. I cannot think of a time that I missed an important deadline.

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Tuesday, September 16th

Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.

This tends to happen in my chapter in BBYO. For example, last year we were planning on having a fundraiser that would be a Mr. AZA (an AZA is what a boy is called in BBYO) pageant, but we did not start planning in advance at all. We started planning the week before, and we ended up getting very low attendance and having a very poor fundraiser. We made a decent amount of money because we priced the tickets really high, but the fundraiser itself was very bad. We also start getting the word out about programs too late which causes us to have low attendance at programs.