Once upon a fairly recent time, there was a girl. Her name was Enid. Enid was a fairly intelligent girl, able to think and make her thoughts known. She had a perfect amount of friends of varying degrees of nerdiness, and a difficult time keeping the verbs in written stories in the past tense.
Eventually, Enid realized that she interacted with her various groups of friends as if behind a veil, obfuscating her true personality. Her sporty friends all thought she was adorable, for she was a bit shy around them, unwilling to pull back the veil. Her academically inclined friends saw in her a smart girl who was too much of a lazyass for her own good, for she failed to move the veil enough for them to see the ways she passed her time, fearing judgement. She kept the veil on around the friends of her friends, for she was unsure how to behave around people she hardly knew. Then came her nerdy friends. Her veil was still on, because the fear of judgement persisted.
Then a revelation came. Enid found herself in the works of others. She found herself in the Internet, and in music, and more in books than she ever had before. She now had true passions, things she loved and loved to talk about. This was her greatest change, drawing the veil back from herself. She saw herself clearly, flaws and all, and saw plainly her deceptions. She saw the need to pull the veil back from anyone who was fooled by it, and started on the path. Following it, she found that others had been living behind veils, that they were not who they showed to the world. She found that so many people were like her, veiled in fear of judgement, and once she began taking her veil, others followed. And the exposed had never been happier.
4/08/2011
4/07/2011
BEDA VIIISKIPPEDADAY
I AM A BAD PERSON.
I have TWO WHOLE FOLLOWERS GUIZE! *waves*
I have decided that in order to be interesting today I will list things I find interesting in no particular order because order is for fascists. Here goes.
I have TWO WHOLE FOLLOWERS GUIZE! *waves*
I have decided that in order to be interesting today I will list things I find interesting in no particular order because order is for fascists. Here goes.
- Buckminster Fuller
- Music
- Why the enter button on the new text editor is not getting along well with firefox 4
- Firefox 4
- Pokemon
- Wikipedia
- Quotes
- Handwriting
- The French Revolution (it's not a revolution without pikes, man)
- The art of my friend Kristina (seriously, a-friggin-mazing. Check it out.)
- not the research paper I should be working on
- the Cold War and the spies of it and the red scare and the resulting space race and the scientific research it engendered
- WWII as far as the daily life of civilians is concerned esp. Jew hiders
- Nazis
- Soviets
- Fascists
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT IS CAPS CUZ IT'S AWESOME. REASON FTW!
- TRON
- History presented in the style of Kate Beaton (aka hark! a vagrant. check it out *too lazy to link*)
- the lyrics of Driftless Pony Club
- the quotes of John Green
- the general psyche of the Internet age
- OPEN SOURCE
- computer science
- xkcd
- the search for the Higgs-Boson
- subatomic particles
- science
4/05/2011
I am not a very productive person (BEDA V)
And the Internet doesn't help any.
Really it doesn't.
*tries to do homework*
Yup. Still nothing.
Also BEDA IV went on twitter but only one person reads this so yeah.
*poofs to try some homework for a change*
Really it doesn't.
*tries to do homework*
Yup. Still nothing.
Also BEDA IV went on twitter but only one person reads this so yeah.
*poofs to try some homework for a change*
4/03/2011
BEDA III
If you were wondering, you should be reading that as "Bayduh the Third." Yes.
Let's see, how can I be interesting today oh I know.
See why I love Computer Science:
First off, you know that you already have the tools you need the create the program you've been told to create. (Redundant? Whatever.) It's up to you to figure out how to implement them in a way that will make the computer do what you want, because computers are stupid without the help of programmers.
Second, it's a class that requires nice, logical thinking. The way I think can easily parallel to the way that I would need to think. It's problem solving, in the best possible way. The limitations mentioned above can only help. The answer is clearly and definitely there, and there just needs to be a bit of digging to find it.
Third, the computer tells you, perhaps in unclear and roundabout terms, what the problem is. I'm fairly good with deciphering meaning out of things, so I can figure out what the problem is and how to fix it.
Fourth, TRON.
Fifth, xkcd. Seriously. Reading that comic has made me want to be a programmer more than anything else has. I don't know why, but all the comics about science an programming have really pushed me far into the want to do that sort of thing.
How many ways can I end this let's see...
Peace Off!
(music)wheezywaiaiaiter(/music) *ding*
You will not see me and I will not see you, but you will READ me, on the next episode of Niki Wells blogs every day in April. GOODBYE.
Let's see, how can I be interesting today oh I know.
See why I love Computer Science:
First off, you know that you already have the tools you need the create the program you've been told to create. (Redundant? Whatever.) It's up to you to figure out how to implement them in a way that will make the computer do what you want, because computers are stupid without the help of programmers.
Second, it's a class that requires nice, logical thinking. The way I think can easily parallel to the way that I would need to think. It's problem solving, in the best possible way. The limitations mentioned above can only help. The answer is clearly and definitely there, and there just needs to be a bit of digging to find it.
Third, the computer tells you, perhaps in unclear and roundabout terms, what the problem is. I'm fairly good with deciphering meaning out of things, so I can figure out what the problem is and how to fix it.
Fourth, TRON.
Fifth, xkcd. Seriously. Reading that comic has made me want to be a programmer more than anything else has. I don't know why, but all the comics about science an programming have really pushed me far into the want to do that sort of thing.
How many ways can I end this let's see...
Peace Off!
(music)wheezywaiaiaiter(/music) *ding*
You will not see me and I will not see you, but you will READ me, on the next episode of Niki Wells blogs every day in April. GOODBYE.
4/02/2011
BEDA II
I think homework should be assigned differently. There should be options, for English and History at least.
Notes for history should be an option. They work for so many people, but there is a significant part of the students that view it as a waste of time busy work stupid face time waster that's stupid an takes too much time. Alternate assignments could be answering the questions at the end of the section. You know, thinking.
Instead of giving a narrow selection of topics for a research paper for English, let students choose what they want to research, like truly choose. Also give an alternate assignment instead of a research paper/speech. How about reading and analyzing a contemporary work of fiction, eh? Thinking, you know.
As far as I can tell, the purpose of high school English is to get you to think and to coherently write down your thoughts. If that can be done in lieu of researching some dreadfully dull topic, then why shouldn't it be?
And with History, I believe that its aim is to get you to be able to learn about the past, and by extent, be able to manage cause and effect.
None of the assignments in those subjects that I mentioned above currently require the use of thinking. That's my problem. Thinking is way more interesting for me than parroting information found in a textbook. I can easily thing in term of computer science, and math, and science. That's interesting for me. Research and notes, however, require more of a worker bee ethic than anything. And I can't do that.
Also those two things are making my spring break suck a bunch.
PS: in checking my page views because I'm a narcissist, apparently someone from Indonesia's seen thin o_0
Notes for history should be an option. They work for so many people, but there is a significant part of the students that view it as a waste of time busy work stupid face time waster that's stupid an takes too much time. Alternate assignments could be answering the questions at the end of the section. You know, thinking.
Instead of giving a narrow selection of topics for a research paper for English, let students choose what they want to research, like truly choose. Also give an alternate assignment instead of a research paper/speech. How about reading and analyzing a contemporary work of fiction, eh? Thinking, you know.
As far as I can tell, the purpose of high school English is to get you to think and to coherently write down your thoughts. If that can be done in lieu of researching some dreadfully dull topic, then why shouldn't it be?
And with History, I believe that its aim is to get you to be able to learn about the past, and by extent, be able to manage cause and effect.
None of the assignments in those subjects that I mentioned above currently require the use of thinking. That's my problem. Thinking is way more interesting for me than parroting information found in a textbook. I can easily thing in term of computer science, and math, and science. That's interesting for me. Research and notes, however, require more of a worker bee ethic than anything. And I can't do that.
Also those two things are making my spring break suck a bunch.
PS: in checking my page views because I'm a narcissist, apparently someone from Indonesia's seen thin o_0
4/01/2011
BEDA I
So Jess is suggesting that I do this thing where I BEDA and I said sure, I'll try it, so here I am trying it. YAY!
My spring break is kind of suckish because I've still got half a chapter to take notes on for Euro which sucks and also reasearch for some 500 point english paper which is basically my fourth quarter grade which sucks cuz I hate research papers especially when I have to use multiple sources and can't use Wikipedia because apparently it's unreliable and crap.
merrrrrrrrrrr.
SEGWAY!
These are some art styles I really like:
Kate Beaton
Adventure Time
My friend Kristina
My spring break is kind of suckish because I've still got half a chapter to take notes on for Euro which sucks and also reasearch for some 500 point english paper which is basically my fourth quarter grade which sucks cuz I hate research papers especially when I have to use multiple sources and can't use Wikipedia because apparently it's unreliable and crap.
merrrrrrrrrrr.
SEGWAY!
These are some art styles I really like:
Kate Beaton
Adventure Time
My friend Kristina
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