My Education Experience

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Thursday, November 27, 2025

The Big Win

Tuesday was an awesome day. Ann and I attended a basketball game at my high school against our rival. The game was close for three quarters before we pulled away and won handily. What made the experience so awesome was that the gym was near its capacity of 1,200. Normally, basketball games draw... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 24, 2025

None of the Above

On the SAT, there are four choices, and D is always “None of the Above.” Tutor Rob once gave me a 10-question SAT math quiz. I struggled through it and figured I’d gotten maybe four to six questions right. Rob came back all chipper—though that mood never lasted long. Wrong answers irritated him. He... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

We Were Getting Bad Food?

Third Grade. Ryan Denning had the kids who bought school lunches in a tizzy. He said that the school's food was food that was not wanted by high schools and middle schools during lunch. Therefore, we were getting the bad food. I guess being an elementary school, we were the lowest on the totem pole.... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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