Genius Project Blog

TED Talk           Soooooo... I hate public speaking. The TED Talk was a complete and utter failure, I mean, I did meet the requirements, but I still hated every second I was up on stage. I managed to get through the whole thing, surprisingly, but I talked extremely fast and I am pretty sure my TED Talk was like under 3 minutes. That is probably one of the worst parts about the TED Talk, because I timed myself a hundred times, and managed to get 5-6 minutes most of the time because I had good pauses and kept a decent speed, but then stress just snatched my extra 2-3 minutes that I needed. Afterwards I deliberately ran out of the school to the bus because I wanted to escape the comments from everyone and get it officially over with. The Actual Project           So now for my opinions on the actual project that we have been doing for the past 6 weeks, I feel accomplished, but a bit rushed. I did manage to reach my goal of throwing a c...

The Day Has Finally Come           After a few days of a break, I have gotten back to throwing cards at apples, and to my surprise, I did it! From about 4 feet away, and with a hit ratio of 1:17.6 (5 hit out of 2 decks of 44), I managed to impale an apple with a card! My five difference impales can be seen below: Out of the Blue           The most interesting thing to me is the random jump in how well I was doing. I was not able to complete my 4th goal on my timeline, which was to impale cardboard. I mean, I just barely made my 2nd goal, which was to hit a 6-inch diameter target, or my 3rd of impaling Styrofoam. Yet somehow after taking a 3-5 day break, I was able to dominate this apple, I managed to impale it halfway through my fir st deck of 44, which surprised me a ton. I feel my improvement can be described through the diagram below: Is That It?           Well, I guess I am done, I have done...