Signing in the School

    If you’ve ever been on a rollercoaster, you’ll know what the slowest, most nerve-racking, least-fun part is—the ride up.     When the ride starts, you’re full of anticipation and ready to scream your head off. As the ominous clicking starts, you can feel butterflies in your stomach accumulating into a frenzy.     Halfway up, you’re still excited, but the butterflies are starting to disappear, and you’re getting a little bored.      Well, it turns out that starting a club is like the middle part of the ride up—you want to be excited…but it’s honestly kinda boring.     But if you want the ride down, you need to be willing to make the trip up. So these past weeks, I’ve been putting in the effort to get this club going, inching myself closer and closer to the fun part.     First, I had to figure out the basics—a hosting teacher, when the meetings would happen, and how I was going to get members.     I emailed a ...

     Have you ever heard of  20 Time  projects? You get 20% of your class time to work on a project of your choice. And I don't know about you, but that is the last thing I want to hear my teacher say. Not only could I fail the project, but I could fail choosing  the project—I could fail before I even started!     And thus, I began my 3-hour long internet search for "interesting purposeful hobbies".  I needed a worthwhile challenge. So I eventually chose to start something that I've been wanting to do for a while but never had the right push to actually do something about it.     At first, I had thought about learning  computer programming .           I've spent some time in the past learning to code, but never quite had enough time for it (just like with all my other hobbies) between work, family, and school. This project seemed like the perfect opportunity. I would be doing school work ...