Elliott's English Blog

 Something I've always been curious about is how we've advanced so far so quickly. Humans have gone from nothing to technology and going to the moon in a relatively short amount of time. 1903 1926 For example the first plane was invented in 1903 and the first rocket humans launched, launched in 1926! That's crazy! We've come so far in such a short amount of time and no one really acknowledges how amazing that is. Summery --- Rapid advancement    

One of my favorite holiday memories is the year I got all the gifts I wanted. I spent weeks making my list but never expected to get everything i wanted! On Christmas morning, I unwrapped a new camera, a stocking full of candy, and the video game I’d been wanting for months. summery --- I got all the presents I wanted

 The best gift I've every received I got two Christmases ago. Two Christmases ago I was in my freshman year and my laptop had recently burned itself and stopped working, so that Christmas I got my first real computer. Every since I got my computer I've used it almost every day, I use it to play games, to edit the school news, and I use it to get all of my homework done! Summery --- My computer, I use it everyday for everything.

 A song that brings back memories for me is "Drain You" By Nirvana. The first time I had ever listened to them I was in the car on the way to Panama City beach, and I decided to listen to every song they had ever made since there are only 4 albums. So now anytime i listen to nirvana i get brought back to the beach in my memory. Summery ---- Nirvana makes me think of the beach 

 I believed in some pretty silly stuff while I was a kid but this one stuck out. When I was around 8 years old I started falling sleep to rain sounds on Spotify but I didn't have premium so adds would play from time to time. So i would be falling asleep and right when i would flip over an ad would start playing and scare me. And it happened again, and again, and again.... it happened so often that i started sleeping on one side for like a year because i believed that there was a ghost in my room!

A time i couldn't stop laughing happened while I was at the beach. I was on the beach with my dad late at night and we were racing across the beach when something happened. While my dad was running across the beach, he ran directly into a hole someone dug in the sand and fell face first into the beach. He was okay and we both laughed really hard about it. Summery ---- Running across the beach when my dad fell

I recently got over my fear of failure or missed out potential. For a while I was really hard on myself for getting a poor grade or not getting a high enough SAT score and it really sucked because I realized that I was stressed ALL the time. So recently I've been a lot easier on myself and understanding that I wont get a perfect score on everything, and more so that not being stressed 24/7 is worth not getting the absolute best on everything. Obviously I'm still going to put in a lot of effort and get good grades, but I'm not gonna stress over it all the time, atleast not till next semester. Summery -- Fear of failure Also sorry for posting a day late, I checked the canvas yesterday and I couldnt find the blog post

My most memorable meal ive eaten I ate while i was still living in france. It wasn't the most memorable because of how good the food was, it was the people i was eating it with. I remember i was staying at my grandmas house with a bunch of my french family and we were all eating crepes. But instead of just getting crepes and putting a serving on our plate, we all took crepes from the middle of the table and filled them with a huge variety of toppings! Everyone brought at least one thing to put on them so i got to try a lot of new combinations that i had never had and it was a ton of fun. Summery --- Crepes in france with family

 I cant stop thinking about Christmas and winter break! Im super excited for Christmas this year and I've been trying to get more into the holiday spirit. I'm also really excited for winter break! Finals and whatnot are stressful but after that its a total grade reset and a 2 week break so that's awesome. I'm gonna try and study hard to end this semester with a bang and have a relaxing break not worrying about grades.  Summery - Winter break and Christmas

There have been many times where I'm working on a group project and it seems like none of my group mates are really working on it even though they say they are. So I'll confront them about it and theyll usually say "I'll work on it when I get home" but when they get home to work on it they're too tired to actually put any effort in. So then the day to present comes around and I check the presentation to see if they had actually don't their part and they really haven't! all of their slides only have 1-2 sentences on it and I give them the easiest parts! So I have to go behind them redoing all the work they barely did and it ends up being more work and stress than if I had just done it myself. Then when the teacher grades it we all get equal scores even though I put way more effort in than any of my groupmates. Summery --- Groupmates not contributing to group projects and getting the same grade 

 I was talking to one of my friends about how stressed i was over school work and he said, "why dont you try making a list? it lets you stop thinking about it and instead you can just look at your list!". At first i didnt want to because i thought it was dumb and wouldnt work so i didnt try it. But recently ive been making lists to keep track of my school work and its been working great!  Summary -- Friend suggests making a list to reduce stress