My Education Experience

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Monday, November 17, 2025

Rob at Huntington

September 2002. Going over to the new Huntington Learning Center was more miserable than what I expected it to be. What I had expected came to fruition. I was losing about two and a half hours on a school night. I could not use that time to do my schoolwork or wind down. What made Huntington more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Doc Cam

When I was in college, I was fascinated with the Doc Cam. The Doc Cam was an improvement of the overhead projector. With the doc came, you could put up regular sheets of paper and have them on the projector screen. So no more plastic sheets were needed that the overhead projector required. Pretty... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 10, 2025

A Magical Autumn

The fall semester at my high school was a great time for sports. The soccer and football teams had magical seasons. Soccer was the more incredible of the two sports. The team went unbeaten (no losses, although there were some ties). There was one team in their conference that was a threat to defeat... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 3, 2025

Morality and Geometry

I’ve written a lot about how stressed I was at the start of junior year. But there were two classes that, at least early on, didn’t add to that stress: Morality and Geometry. When it came to religion courses, I always did well throughout high school, and Morality was no exception. Math, on the other... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Fast Forwarding Chaos

Sometimes in class, we’d watch a video over two sessions. The second session was always chaotic. The chaos came from one simple question: Where did we leave off? The teacher would start fast-forwarding through the tape. “ That’s where we left off, ” someone would say. “ No, we’re further ahead, ”... Sign in to see full entry.

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