Dolphins are cool.




When the concept of choice lectures was told to us, I was genuinely surprised. Certain things you can expect to change in a school, ie lunch or rearranging your classes, but the abrupt change was kind of jarring at first. It took me a few days to adjust to the new arrangements. I kept signing up for lectures that were at the same time like an idiot, it took me a couple days to stop doing it. Honestly, choice lectures are a great way to lose sight of how much actual work you have to do because the choice lectures are so short. You leave out of it in like 20 minutes and you're like,"Man, that was easy!", only to find you have a stack of work in Drive.

Blog 7? Maybe.




I should look at my grades more often. I feel like I did my work in Gill's class so my grade should be pretty ok, lowest being B-.  Honestly I can convince myself I'm doing well in a class when I'm actually uber-failing so.. who knows at this point. But I get good grades on the stuff I get back, so I have a pretty good feeling. This year, I'm trying to put worth some effort considering jobs look at high school, and I don't wanna be accused of being functionally illiterate or anything.

Blog 6... 7... I don't even know...







The Maker's Space is the only place where it would seem everyone is about the same skill in all respects. So it really just comes down to who actually wants to do it and who's here for the points, I, for one, am grouped in with the latter. This whole Ingenuity Fest situation is the kind of thing that would be cool to watch on TV and be like,"Well whaddya know," but doing it isn't as enlivening as one may thing by watching it. The process was introduced as this wow crazy cool new thing, when really it comes down to free labor. It's cool to be a part of a school thing, I guess, but the objective mind has to wonder what kind of compensation we're being offered for toiling in a wood dust desert. I wish I had a hijab for dark times such as these ones. It all balances out though, very little homework but trading for free labor. You gotta pick your battles I suppose.

Another blog for you dogs out there.
That's right, I called you a dog. Think about it.






The Robotics class was really something. They sort of dropped a care package of parts and walked away to laugh at us. I got paired up with Freeman, who does well with his hands so that was desirable in a partner. We got into the part with connecting steel beams. That's about as far as we got. I'm not quite sure what the robot does but I saw one of the students from last year bring it to my old school. It was rolling around and picking up stuff. Now that I think about it, I guess that's what it does. The freeform-esque atmosphere of it will prove to be difficult for ones of imbecilic nature. I could only assume the reason we have limited time in each class and the length between them is probably in place to throw off your mojo so you can't jump right back into it. I hope I can google where some of the parts go.

Blog 4 (?)

Yaow.

Let's go.



The Ingenuity Fest is an event down in the Flats for hipsters from all walks of life to show off their creations. I went one year with a friend of mine, and we got to try out a myriad of independent games that the developers had been struggling to get publishers' attention. Moreover, the event also shows off some contemporary art/inventions/my vocabulary isn't extensive enough to describe what these abominations of nature are. Overall, I feel as though if you're poor and want to be an artist like everyone else, it's a good place. A lot of odd music playing that I can't really put a genre stamp on. The function encourages individuality, hipster culture, creativity, and the like. Don't be afraid to wear your shirt with a cat wearing sunglasses riding a taco food truck with rainbows coming out of it, it's commonplace here. The atmosphere is something like a preschool, with a "Come touch everything!" vibe, which is inverse to most art showings where they shush your finger for coming too close to an art piece. It's a place I'd take someone if they were bored and needed ideas of how to make fun of hipsters in their natural habitat. Aside, it is a place that can have some artists with some potential.

Blog 2

My experiences at this school have been quite a blur actually, I tend to let semi-important events slip away. As for the school experience itself, it's the typical "everyone wants to prove they're better than everyone else" -esque hierarchy. The best way to combat it is to not be involved because you'll drain yourself trying. As stated in the previous blog, I'm trying to become, in essence, a useless eye-witness. I don't know anyone, I don't know anything about anything. This strategy can prove to be most advantageous in the long run. 

The Maker's Space was something of an oddity among public schools. I see what it's trying to do, and I respect and support the effort. The whole idea behind the Maker's Space, according to Wheeler, is,"Why buy things when you can make them yourself?" That's a good philosophy and all, but considering the lack of skill a student has and the cost of labor accumulated by all of us struggling to use power tools, the cost of all that tends to completely eclipse the cost of the actual thing we're trying to build, which is pretty funny to me. Hopefully, we will eventually be able to use the tools efficiently so the whole philosophy is actually canon and registers to the situation. Though we are essentially "building" the experience feels processed, planned, and plastic. We're running through a template they laid out. By the same token, I have no right to complain considering none of us know what we're doing. So it's an odd dynamic I suppose. You want the kids to do it, but you don't want anyone's head to get chopped off. Good luck, Staff.

Alright.

My name is Jalen Josef Izrael. I was born in May 8, 2001 at Cleveland Clinic. I've lived in Cleveland my entire life and I've only been out of the state a few times for visiting my friend and my father. The relationship between my mother and father was, and still is, a problem that I'm in the middle of. You often have to "choose sides" not in a literal sense but in a sense of who you'll listen to majorly.

I currently attend Design Lab Early High School, which you probably know considering the person reading this is most likely Gill or one of his friends he's given context to about said blog. I don't really plan on making friends at the school, but keeping acquaintances throughout the high school years. I put forth effort to not remember names.


Bye.