My Education Experience

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Sunday, May 2, 2021

Ken Klive

I met Ken Klive during the first Friday Computer Applications class. He was wound up. "Hey, how's it going?" he said. "I've had too many cups of coffee today." He kept talking. I felt like I could say I had finally made a friend the first week of school, something that had been difficult in my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Computer Blues

I did well in Computer Applications in the first semester of freshman year. I earned myself a B+. I slipped down to a B- the following semester. What it came down to was a lack of motiviation and a willingness to learn. I found first semester interesting. First semester enabled me to show up my warp... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 26, 2021

My First Detention

I don't count when Mr. Morse gave the entire class detention, for I was not yelling dork at the student who dropped his chair (I'll be getting to that in this series). What I count as my first detention was in Computer Applications. I did not think we had any homework only to find that we did. It's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 23, 2021

Funny Reaction

My favorite typing occurred when Brendan Watkins was paired with me during Computer Applications. Mrs. Watkins would sometimes have us do an assignment where we should only see one line of the paper to type from. The job of the partner was to move down a blank sheet of paper as needed. When I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The Save

Mrs. Bradley had a convulted grading system for our typing assignments. The easy part was that our grades were determined by our words per minute and the number of mistakes. Where the convolution came into play was with what she called the save. The save was used if you were above 50 words per... Sign in to see full entry.

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