Forgetful Me

 Forgetful Me

Last week starting on Thursday my exam for speech class opened up on bright space for the whole class to take. This exam was 2 parts and was open until Sunday at midnight. On Thursday I thought about taking it but had a bunch of other homework to do so I was to tired to do it by the time I finished all the work I had already done.

I couldn't of done it on Friday  . I had class until 5:50 and after I had to sprint home to take my brother to Illiana for a dodge ball tournament that I wanted to go watch since my brother was participating in it. After the tournament I went to culvers  with some of my friends and after we all went back to my house to play rock band. That's the last time I caught myself thinking about the exam.

Saturday I woke up and the exam didn't even cross my mind. I got my family together to watch squid games until I had to leave to go Frisbee golfing with my buddy Ben. After frisbee, we went went bowling for 2 hours, which then lead to going to steak and shake. Then Saturday turned into Sunday and just like Saturday I had plenty of free time to take the exam, but no I didn't even think of it. So all of Sunday I went without taking the exam all the way through the day and went to bed not knowing how bad I messed up. I only realized I missed it when I saw a friend from that class on Monday, and instantly felt terrible. 

That exam was worth 1/6th of our entire grade and I got a 0 on it since I didn't do it. Worst of all it was an easy exam that probably would have taken me an hour at most to do. S I guess I totally learned my lesson, and from now on I'm gonna try my best not to procrastinate things until the last minute anymore. 

Fall Break

 Over the Fall break I got to see all my high school friends again who were back for the long weekend. They have the same breaks as I do because they go to Purdue Lafayette and have the same breaks as us. The first day of the break we all went to bdubs to eat dinner and watch the sox game. The table was split with half wanted the sox to win and the other half rooting against the sox. This provided for some quality drama between the guys. After dinner we all went to the bowling alley and formed teams of three to have a little competition to see who could get the higher score.

 Then the next day we went to a soccer game to watch Illiana win their sectional championship game 10 to nothing and later we stayed up playing our favorite game mode that came out on rainbow six siege called doctor's curse. Which is a Halloween game mode in a 5 v 5 shooter game that we all play. We ended up staying up until 3 in the morning laughing and playing the morning away knowing full well we had plans the next day at noon so we weren't going to be able to sleep long. I stayed up so late that I went to bed as soon as my dad woke up to go to work. 

However, during the break I payed over a hundred bucks to go to Tennessee for a little trip, but eventually didn't go because I knew I wasn't going to have fun with the people who were going, but it was too late to get my money back. I think I made the right choice by staying home because all the guys going just wanted to sit and drink which I don't find fun at all.  I would rather bowl with my closer friends and have a better time that way. Plus I had a baseball game that I couldn't skip which provided me with another excuse to stay home for the break.

Cartel Land Guided Reflection

 Guided Reflection

During the beginning of the movie a group of civilians in Mexico took arms against the cartel who was kidnapping and killing the innocent civilians. This group of civilians went to other towns and protected the people in the town. The Mexican government came and stole the weapons from the civilian but the townspeople screamed and yelled to give them their weapons back because the government wasn't protecting them at all. So that's exactly what they did, but they didn't leave without telling the rebellious citizens that if they break the law then they will be paying for their actions. This surprised me that the government would allow the civilians to take the matter into their own hands without any consequences. And how could they just leave so fast without helping their citizens. It's their duty to take care of their people, how could they abandon them so easily? Some of the movie just didn't make sense. The laws in Mexico just aren't the same as in the United States and the documentary did a really good job showing these differences by including the perspective of an American soldier who worked on border control

These people acted like cops and arrested leaders of the cartel, plus they could use any force that they wanted to which included beating up their prisoners. This was very shocking to me because that can't happen in the US, but in mexico their is no consequences. One "cop" arrested the guy that killed his uncle and his brothers so he just threw him on the ground handcuffed him and beat him up. 

Some questions that remained after watching the film was what happened to the agency after they teamed up with the government? Do they still do the same operations to capture people from the cartel? Did they leave some of the film out from their missions because of legal matters?

Bridge Building

     For my engineering class our assignment is to build a bridge with a specific load that it should be able to take. I have built a truss before that was able to hold 40 pounds, but I have never had to build a full bridge. However, I was excited because we finally get a hands on project that tests the things we have learned so far throughout the year. However this excitement dwindled quite a bit and turned into frustration when I started to build. 

     We were given all the materials in order to build the bridge but all of the pieces we were given are only 1/32 of an inch different. Do you know how hard that is to tell the difference of. Even after measuring all the pieces and labeling them, I am still unsure if I have the sizes right. Not only that but when you glue the pieces together the glue goes everywhere. And this glue is extremely strong. It even comes with this spray that acts like an adhesive and speeds up the drying time for the glue as well as makes it stronger. 

f curse everything didn't go according to plan and I got glue all over my hands and when I was gluing one of the pieces together I also glued my thumbs together. I caught this quite quick but it was too late. They were already stuck pretty good to each other and when I pulled them apart it took some of my skin right off. I tried to use rubbing alcohol to get my fingers unstuck, but i couldn't open the closet door to get the rubbing alcohol.  I was also home alone so there was no one to help me either. 

After 3 days of construction my bridge has finally been built and I am proud and nervous at the same time. For the most part the bridge is looking pretty god s that makes me more confident. However, I can see a couple weak spots where I glued that it could possibly break. Hopefully it can hold up to 60 pounds of force so that I can pass the assignment. 

Ghost in the Graveyard

     This week my brother Luke had his high school friends over on Friday to hang out. They are all freshman in high school, but I know a lot of them from middle school. When they got there they kept asking me, Logan could you take us to the park to play ghost in the graveyard when it gets dark outside. 

    I absolutely love ghost in the graveyard, as a kid I would play for hours and hours with my friends that lived on the street. We would play it everyday in the summer no matter what the weather was like. However, we got to good at it and extended the boundaries to make it way more difficult. On average the seeker would be it for almost an hour before finding someone. 

    "Of course Ill take you guys" I replied, "but i'm going to teach you the way we used to play it." And that's exactly what we did. We spent the last few hours of daylight eating at dairy queen, and as soon as it got dark I drove them to the park. We played until they all had to get picked up, and right before they left they told me, "get ready for next week cause you are never gonna find me then."

Baseball

     I'm finally starting to miss playing baseball at a competitive level. I have always played baseball, ever since I was 6, but this is the first year i am not. I could have played for PNW, but I decided that six days a week before and after school is just to much. After all it is my first year of college, I want t get used to college before I overwhelm myself with other responsibilities. 

    I know my family would have loved to see my play baseball at college, but I think its time to move on and find a job instead. Because I used to play baseball year round, I never had time for a full time job, so I think it is time to get one since I have a lot of free time now. Would baseball be more fun, yeah of course, but is it the smartest choice I don't know. 

    I am still playing baseball for a fall league which helps me stay active with baseball, but the competition is not what i am used to. I am used to seeing mid to high 80's and the closest I get to that in my league is 75. There are kids that have just started playing baseball, and it just doesn't bring the same level of excitement that travel ball does. 

    There are also divisions in the dug out where the talented players sit and talk, and the place where the easy outs sit and talk. I don't like this and I try to talk with everyone cause I like having my team be a team that is close to each other because it makes it more enjoyable and the team better. And who knows maybe next year I will decide that I want to give college baseball a try, and i will play next year. 

Old Friends Reunite

     Yesterday I got to see two of my closest friends from high school that I haven't seen since the middle of summer. They are up at Purdue Lafayette, which I could have went to but decided against it. Even though we aren't that far away, it is hard to see one another because we are always busy doing something. They also haven't come home at all to visit during the week so I haven't had the opportunity to see them at all. 

However, Illiana, my old high school, had sectionals for soccer and they both wanted to see it. That's when I got the text from Simon telling me to get to Illiana as soon as possible. So that's exactly what I did. My mom drove to the car mechanic to pick up my car which just got finished with an oil change and I was on my way to the soccer game. Simon and Jake are huge soccer fans while I think its boring to watch. The players kick a ball for an hour and a half and if you are lucky, you might get to see a goal or two.This didn't bother me though because I didn't go for the game I went to see my friends that I have missed dearly.

I do have to say though I thoroughly enjoyed watching the game. The game was tied through both quarters and went into double overtime, but it didn't stop there. Both teams didn't score during overtime causing it to go to penalty kicks. However, both teams tied four a piece on the penalty kicks causing it to go into sudden death. This means the first team to make a penalty kick and the other team to miss it loses. The sudden death went five rounds until Illiana finally won against Kouts. We all stormed the field even though we had been told not to, and I stained my white paints when I dove on tp of all the soccer players.