And it all started with Lil B...

The beginning of the many challenging projects. When we first got assigned the project of building a car and using a balloon to make it travel forward, we thought are you serious? Is that even capable? And as the days passed, and our lessons reflected how we would use the concepts of physics that would later help us make our car travel at least 5 meters. The project had started as smooth as sailing; we made minor adjustments to it and worked great the day BEFORE. But once judgment day came it wouldn't move it just stood there as if it was waiting for something to happen. And we soon started to wait for something as well...a miracle. So at that moment we had to figure out what wasn't working, after the most stressful two hours of my life it moved slightly. And the more we tried it the more efficient it got. I guess the saying practice makes perfect fit great in our situation. I realized in physics or any class you have to work hard and stay motivated to succeed.

The assignment from hell... -_-

I’ve said many times before math isn’t my favorite subject, and when I got into physics and realized math was used throughout I knew I was in trouble. And this is one topic I couldn't wrap my mind around, I had my peers attempt to explain it to me and but I was even more confused at the end of it. I know the ray diagram was suppose to make it easier to solve the problem but it just made me waste more time trying to make perfect and actually do it right. You could see my first attempt scribbled out. And once I drew it right, I had no clue what to do after. Lets just say I wasn't able to find the image and the height right away, it took many tries and scribbles to finally figure it out.

GOT WORK?

You have to work hard to get anywhere, and that's exactly what i did. My favorite concept in Physics was work, probably because it was the simplest in my mind. W=FD honestly it cant get any easier than that. Yes we had to draw little pictures or diagrams but it was actually pretty fun and made me understand it more. I even based one of my other projects on work, and how the calories we intake affect how much work and energy it takes to do daily activities. With all the work done i had hope it would lead to success for the future.

First Timer..

Quizzes honestly scare me, but group quizzes scare me even more because your whole group is depending on you to get it right or at least know how to do it. When we had a group quiz on Projectile Motion I was glad to be given the first question, I hadn't been at school for a couple days, but I remember a few of the equations. At first I read the question and it took me a while to figure out how to solve it and I prayed I was right. And when we got our quiz back, and I was called in the front to explain how I solved the problem I knew I had gotten it right, and I was so proud of myself. This quiz was one of my high points, but I owe to my group who put there faith in me and kept telling me if we all didn't get the answer correct it was okay just as long as we tried.

With each CRACK comes a new lesson!

Next on our agenda was the egg drop contest! Once again I was baffled at the idea of dropping a raw egg, from the top of the stairs at the office. Ideas ran through my mind, what is the a good way to protect it? Do we even stand a chance against the rest of our class who by the way are super competitive. All I wanted was for our egg "Cherrise" to survive. The requirements for this project were quite nerve racking, the mass had to be 25 grams, and when the day came to drop it our mass was 32 grams lets just say we had to do a lot of shaving of  our Styrofoam in 15 minutes. And after we shaved off most of our protective shield we had to see it would actually survive. I couldn't bare to look while one of my group members checked to make sure our egg survived, and once he yelled that it did a weight had lifted off my shoulders. Two projects down, three more to go.

Really? I hope F stands for FANTASTIC

One of the many F's I have received on a Test. I really do wish F stood for fantastic not failure. But as always there are going to be some topics you don't understand, and sound waves was one of the concepts. I thought I understood the basics of the topic but once the test came up I went blank and didn't know what to do. All I hoped for was I would make some good guesses but apparently I didn't as you could see. I'm upset that I failed but I realized that I need to study more and not think I know the concept actually know for sure that I understand and I will pass when the next test comes up.

Two Fs in a row does not make an A

 Another F added to my pile...I'm not proud and I'm more disappointed in myself. I truly hated this concept, as you could see in my previous post. Light and Optics was not the easiest concepts in my opinion and I felt defeated that I didn't understand. And receiving an F on the test really pointed out that i clearly had no clue what I was doing when it came to it. There was no bright light at the end of the tunnel when it came to this topic, all I could do is accept my F and move forward hoping to do better on the next test.

Did I really just get a B?? =)

I didn't know getting an B on a test would feel so great but it was one of the greatest days in my Physics class. I honestly couldn't believe I got a B, I had to double check just to make sure I wasn't reading it wrong. I understood the concept of work and power so well and it showed on my test grade. I was extremely happy of my grade, and it was overall the best grade I had got on any test. I've learned as you stay focus and concentrate you will be able to achieve anything you desire. You study hard, your able to play hard as well.

More As please?

I will not get tired of A+'s. I choose this lab as one of my artifacts for my portfolio not only because I received a good grade because I had fun doing it with my group.Yet while doing this lab I was scared of the boiling water spilling over and burning someone. But it was cool to see the change in metals.  I actually enjoyed learning about specific heat it was one of the many interesting labs we had done throughout the year.  I have always found labs fun and I enjoyed experimenting with different things to emphasize certain topics in physics.

Get me off this Rollercoaster!

My middle school dream had become my worst nightmare. We had heard all this talk  about how many hours spent, themes, loops, 90 degrees, hills, and failures of the past years roller coasters and we prayed our group wouldn't be one of them. I would have to say out of all the projects we had done, this one really stressed me out. At first I was excited this is the reason why I had taken physics in the first place to be one of lucky few who got to display their project to younger kids and encourage them to take Physics. Yet when it came to actually building and making it work, my excitement simply faded and anxious came and took its place. But we couldn't just give up and take the F, as we would say when it got really heated and stressful "Just do it". And that's exactly what we did, yes it failed to work when it was judged but we all tried all best and as we move on from this class we will keep telling ourselves "Just do it"