Category Archives: Fun

Challenge Weeks four and five: Media and a Memory

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When I was little I can remember spending countless hours playing with my Legos. My favorite type of Lego sets were the Lego Star Wars sets. I remember building them piece by piece until it was time to go to bed.
Whenever I had finished building one of my Y-Wing Fighters, or Jungle Speeders, I would bring out all of my other Legos and have a huge battle between them. I remember spending the whole day on a ‘special rescue mission’ and then the next on a ‘surprise attack’. At the end of the day when I put them away, I remember each one having its own spot on the shelf and how the had to be put up exactly like that.
As I got older I played with them less and less. They started collecting dust as I became interested in other things like sports, and video games. Now they are just a memory that I visit every time I look back at that shelf. These Lego sets were a part of my life, and I will never forget them.

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Lost Creek

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A nice big open fairway, standing right in front of me. I empty my mind of everything else. I step up to the ball… and swing. It’s times like these that make the Lost Creek golf course is my favorite place in Austin.

No matter what happened that day, or what’s going to happen tomorrow. I can always go to the golf course and just forget about all of it. The way that I do that is I think to myself, now is the time that I can relax and focus on something else. I can always go back to what I was doing, but right now I am golfing.

Another reason why the Lost Creek golf course is my favorite place in Austin, is because it is extremely close to my house. So that I can usually get there in just a few minutes. That makes it really convenient to go there because I know that I can get back to what I was doing almost right after I finish playing.

In the end, those are the two reasons why the Lost Creek golf course is my favorite place in Austin: because it is a convenient place where I can have fun playing a sport that I like and relax.

Grades are Important

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Grades are very important for a number of reasons, they show how smart you are, they decide wether you get into a good college or not, and the biggest one of all; decide what mood your parents are in.

60: Not smart; 70: O.K.; 80: Average intelligence; 90: Good; 100: Smart. These are the unofficial rankings that every student applies to their-self and others when they see a grade wether they like it or not. It almost happens automatically, within nanoseconds they have already judged that persons intelligence off of just one little grade. I guess grades are important, but sometimes they’re just plain annoying.

“This email holds decides if I have a future or not, a janitors job or a doctors job, all rest in the balance of this one email.” This is probably what goes through the mind of every person who is about to find out if they have been accepted into a college. I think that too much pressure rides on this letter, whose contents are decided by one thing grades. Grades are getting too important.

And now the reason that you have all been waiting for, drum role please, “pitter patter pitter patter.” Parents mood!
Yes the all hailing big reason is the mood of your parents, again can be changed for better or worse by one little miscalculation. Let’s say you get a 60 on a quiz, your probably not going to be going to gamestop this weekend, but if instead you got a 98 on that quiz you’d probably being going to gamestop and top golf that weekend. Either way it’s all determined by grades. Grades are now at there maximum importance.

In the end grades are extremely important, heck I’m only writing this paper for grades. So I guess what I’m trying to get at is to GET GOOD GRADES, or else.

July 15, 2532

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The burnt earth crackled after every step–as if we were one false step from falling through the ground. It made my morning walk home a very unpleasant experience.

It was almost July 16 the hottest night of the year, it was so hot that the U.N. sent out a mandatory notice to wear our BTR suits (Body Temperature Regulation Suits) for the whole night—If only I had one.

These were 2 peoples thoughts on July 15, 2532; you are probably very confused right now, here let clear this up for you a little bit.
It is the year 2532 the earth has moved so close to the sun that all activities have been restricted to night and the earths crust has been burnt so thin that sinkholes happen on a daily basis.

The expected temperature for July 16 is 208 degrees Fahrenheit.

Homework

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Homework used to be a good thing, used too. When homework started  out, just 30-60 minutes a day to practice what you have learned at school that day.
Those times are long gone.
Now homework takes 120-240 minutes every day, mostly practicing things that I don’t want on need to know. Yes, knowing the composition of a cell is useful knowledge for a microbiologist to have, but maybe I don’t want to be a microbiologist. Nowadays homework takes up the little time that we aren’t at school and replaces it with endless hours of writing until we can’t bend our fingers.

Well now that you know my side of that argument what’s yours?

The Match

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It was a cool brisk morning, I got out of bed with determination in my eyes. Today was my first golf tournament and I was ready. I spent an hour on the driving range warming up, 7 iron, 5 iron, and driver. At 2:00 I approached the tee box on the 3rd hole (there were multiple tournaments going on so the 1rst hole was unavailable.) and I smacked my drive almost 200 yards! throughout the tournament I successfully out played my opponent hole after hole. In the end I won by four holes(we were playing match play). And that was my first match.