week 7 - valerie wilhelm

 Thanksgiving’s gonna be different this year for sure. Usually my family goes to visit some relatives in North Carolina. It's really fun, we go to my cousin’s house and have a huge dinner and pretty much just hang out and watch football. This year is different, however, and it's just gonna be my immediate family in our house.

Week 7 - Melanie Duronio

There was one morning where I was in class with a friend virtually, and I had to send her a quick text about the classwork we were working on. As we briefly messaged back and forth, I could see my friend smiling down at her phone as my messages were delivered to her. It made my heart warm to see how happy she was to be talking to me, and think of how important our friendship must be to her. I feel like most people don’t seem to have an expression on their face when looking at their phone, so I was really happy that receiving a message from me was able to make my friend smile.

Week 7- Beatriz Ferreira

I like reading, but sometimes I spend too much time reading school stuff that I don't want to read the books I like at the end of the day. I love that it feels like we enter a new world when we are reading and that it is just an effective way to learn, not only about topics that we find appealing but exploring new worlds. 

Week 7- Sakthi C

For the first time in two months, I picked up my rubik’s cube. For a school project, I was searching for some colored pencils in my drawer and I came across my old rubik’s cube. It was a speed cube that I used to always use in freshman year. I remember solving the cube within five minutes, which I thought was impressive at the time, but it really wasn’t because I had multiple friends who could solve it under two minutes. I had joined a rubik’s cube club and all we would do was practice solving rubik’s cubes in an efficient way. In the summer of freshman year, I had stopped using the cube because I had gotten bored of it. Overall, the finding of this rubik’s cube inspired my day because it brought back multiple memories.

Patrick Zheng - Week 7

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for my teachers. I hadn’t fully appreciated what teachers do until this year. Seeing all the work teachers put into their class plans and syllabi and their efforts to give help for students is one thing that really became clear to me through the hybrid learning model.

Kate Barnes- Week 7

 Nov 24, 2020- Recently my sleep schedule has been a little bit out of whack. But I’m still pretty well rested. This is because I’ll sleep for five or so hours at night and then take naps. My parents say that this is unhealthy, but in ancient Rome people slept in two increments during the day as well. The Spanish do it too. I don’t know why it’s not a thing in the United States. Probably because of our hard working culture. But I think I would work a lot harder if I had a little nap everyday.

Olivia Davies - Week 7

 Most of my thinking is subconscious. I am never fully aware of my thoughts. Lately I try to catch myself and look inside my brain, because I’m curious of what is going on in there. Most of the time it’s never anything profound or revolutionary. Most of the time I’m just singing a song in my head, or having an imaginary conversation with someone. That’s why journaling is a great habit. You can stimulate your brain and put your true thoughts onto paper.