The fast approaching holiday season has brought a lot of news media coverage on black friday chaos and commotion. One article I read about some of the sadistic, psychotic and tragic events that occurred this past weekend made me stop and think “how mentally stable is America?” It was an article about a woman in Chicago … Continue reading
Category Archives: 60 second ideas (blog 12)
Documenting the Most Important “History”
Ever since I can remember, my Mom has always made a considerable effort to video-tape my siblings and I, doing everything from playing hide and go seek at age 4 to graduation. When I was really young, my siblings and I loved the attention and could not get enough of the video camera. Of course, … Continue reading
WARNING: This is Not Real Life
You’re standing in line at the grocery store. As you’re waiting to check out, you can’t help to glance at the magazine display depicting the popular celebrities, with their tanned flawless, skin and perfect bodies. You wonder…what exercise regiment do I have to follow to look like that? What do I need to do to … Continue reading
Be More like Kid President
I would suggest watching this whole video. I seriously think being more like Kid President will change the world. I want a corn dog. I want to share corn dogs with the world. If only people would do these nice things for each other. I always think back to the suicide story of the person … Continue reading
Let me sing.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. –e.e. cummings How many times have you been sitting in class, trying to listen to the professor’s lecture but actually stressing about the homework you need to do later, the test you need to study for, … Continue reading
From Bike to Light
In the United States alone there is 45.5 million people with gym memberships. With people agonizing on exercise machines throughout the country there has to be a way to capitalize on the mass amounts of energy that people are putting into the gym. While the technology already exists to capture the energy and use it … Continue reading
H2O NO!
Water. About 70% of the Earth’s surface. Yet, less thank 1% of that is drinkable. A human can survive for a month or more without eating food, but only about a week without drinking water. Water is a necessity for all kinds of life on Earth. However, 3.4 million people die each year from a … Continue reading
Who would you help?
I would love to have everyone take a gap year. I often feel like I am too focused on the future and planning. With a year and a half left of college I’m starting to realize that the working world of accounting isn’t too far away. I often find myself wishing that before I jumped … Continue reading
Catch a frog, save the planet: Outdoor Education Can Change the World
Little kids get so excited about the smallest things. Have you ever seen a group of third graders react to finding a frog? You would think they discovered a unicorn. I know this because I worked at a nature reserve this summer that was a popular place for elementary school field trips. I was potting … Continue reading
Teaching What Matters
We learn a lot of material in school. But do we learn the right material? Students leave high school or college unsure how to balance a checkbook. What’s that thing called a credit score? What do I do when I want to buy a house? How does that whole thing work? But I did learn … Continue reading
