02/23/2015

Tell me about your weekend. Give me a story, something funny that happened, an experiencing you had, the way you felt, etc. Include photos!

This weekend was full of fun. Friday was the first day of state swimming in Topeka. The team did amazing, and I improved in every event. Because of the ice storm that was supposed to hit, the school had us stay overnight at the Days Inn in Topeka friday night. That was unexpected. The team got to hang out friday night, but we also got ample sleep because State swimming was saturday morning. The finals went very well, and the team got 8th place. That was my last meet ever, and I was pretty emotional after the last race. Sunday I went to PBR with a friend at the sprint center. I usually go every year, and this was fun! Then my long, action-filled weekend came to an end.

02/18/2015

My favorite food: Ice cream/seafood
Foods I'd like to avoid: Indian
My favorite things to learn: Math, science, Spanish
My favorite color: Red
My best friends are: Tanner, Tyler, Colin, Conner
My favorite games to play: Sorry, Uno, Monopoly
My favorite books: Old Yeller
My favorite movies or TV shows: Taken, Breaking Bad
My favorite holiday: Christmas
Things I do well: Math, learn, drive, swim, get things done, medical help
Things I need to practice more: verbal communication
My favorite place to go: The movies
My favorite family activities: Dinner out, family movie night, sports, vacations
My favorite thing to do outside: Fish
My favorite chore: Cleaning the counter (very easy)
My least favorite chore: cleaning my room (very hard)
What I want to be when I grow up: Emergency Room Physician/ Paramedic/firefighter
A place I want to visit: Mexico
My favorite part of the year: SUMMER
My favorite part of each day: Right after School

02/17/2015

Tell me what you believe this cartoon is trying to say. Do you agree or disagree with this idea? Try and look at this from two different perspectives. What is your perspective? What would be an adult/teacher's perspective?

This cartoon is trying to say that American students are falling behind other countries academically because they lack interest in education. I disagree, I think other countries are ahead because they are Asian, so they are naturally smarter, and have stricter parents. Some people believe this is true, and they think that this generation has become very lazy and dont want to learn. With some students, this is true. But to say that ALL of America is like this is false. I'm sure the adults/teachers think that there is a large amount of students like in the picture because they dont have the perspective of teachers in other countries. They SEE kids playing on their phone, or thinking about other things in class. But, their test scores usually reveal that they still learned the material. Maybe American kids are better at multi-tasking and/or having fun and learning at the same time.

02/10/2015

Think about the quote above. What does this mean to you? How could this apply to your life? How could this apply to your school work? I would love to give you less work in class if it meant you were going to focus harder on the work. Do you think you would get more out of it? Would that work for you? Why or why not?

"Do less with more focus" to me means that some work is unnecessary and that we should focus in the important tasks and put more work into those. In my life, it would apply to school work. Instead of doing a variety of assignments in different areas, I should have less assignments, and focus in one area. Also, instead of spreading and evenly dividing my time to all of the assignments, i would do only the important ones and spend more time on them. In my opinion, I think that teachers should use this policy. The teachers like to focus on one area at a time- in AP Calc, we do derivatives then integrals, not all at the same time. There are steps to learning- we learn chapter 5, but we do 5.1,5.2,5.3 etc in the right order to learn all the steps. Since teachers like to focus on one area, they should only give work that is necessary to learn that material. Then, have the students focus on that one area, but put more effort and focus into it. They could tell the students that it is for an accuracy grade, so they put in the effort to do it correctly and learn the material. Then, if they miss multiple questions, then the teacher can conference with the student to correct the issues. The student therefore learns more with less work.

02/09/2015

Tell me all about your weekend! I sure hope you have photos to share.

I had a very interesting weekend. Friday and Saturday was EKL for swimming. I placed 4th in the 100 back, and was a part of the 200 Medley Relay that got 3rd. I swam very well. After the meet on friday and saturday, the team went out to get food like usual, which I always enjoy. Friday and Saturday nights I was able to hang out with my friends and that is always enjoyable. Yesterday I had to move my grandma from her assisted living facility in Paola, to a nursing home also in Paola. This was a little difficult because all of her things are huge and really heavy, therefore we used my truck to move them. I don't have any pictured to share because I didn't really take any, and the ones i did are not appropriate to put on this blog. 

02/06/2015

Tell me about some interesting things you have learned about your global issue so far. What have you learned that you didn't know before? Include a couple images from the internet if possible. (Make sure to cite images that are not your own.)

My global issue is mental illness. What i have learned is 2 things: mental illness affects more people than expected, and the suicide rate is much higher than I expected. Most of the information I already knew, but those two things are new knowledge.

02/04/2015

You haven't had a chance to tell me about your Sweetheart weekend yet - tell me about it now! Include photos if you have them. Even if you just laid around on the couch and watched Netflix, tell me all about it.

Last weekend, i was not able to go to the dance. Friday and saturday night were devoted to partying. I went to several different after-parties on saturday night. The majority of the afternoon was used for writing an essay for Baylor University. I wrote this essay to apply for a full-tuition scholarship. It had a maximum of 750 words so it was relatively quick and easy to complete. 

01/28/2015

Finish this sentence "10 years from now I will be...." (explain)

10 years from now I will be a medical resident in a hospital, hopefully in Texas or OPRMC here in Johnson County. I will have finished undergrad studies, grad/medical school, and will have started my 3 year residency. At that point i will be Dr. Cade Blackburn M.D. F.A.C.S. Emergency Medicine. I will also be 28 years old and should have a wife and should be starting a family.

02/02/2015

What is email? When do you use email in your own personal life? List reasons and ways that people use email. What do you know about "email etiquette"? EXPLAIN.

Email is a quick way to send virtual "letters" to people with subjects, attachments, and bodies of text. I use email in my personal life for many uses such as emailing my family, friends, teachers, and colleges. Email is a quick way to send information to someone over the internet, so its a convenience to communicating with people. There are many different email domains such as Google, Yahoo, AOL, business domains, and school domains. Depending on the person to whom you are sending, the writing should change. If you are emailing something to a friend or family member, it can be treated like a text message. If its a professor, boss, coworker, unknown person, etc. then formal language should be used. Most of the time, you should greet and also say thank you for your time or sincerely in the end. Sometimes its appropriate to say something along the lines of: "I hope your day/week is going well so far" etc. There's usually two types of audiences only: informal and formal.