In case you didn't know, last summer I worked at NASA in a high school internship and I got paid pretty decent wages. This kept me busy from 7:30 to about 5:00 during the work week. I also took an acting class over the summer at the local community college. This summer however I am jobless. I haven't really worked since then. I pretty much considered school and robotics my job.
This week I am supposed to be helping my friend, Rene, teach a class for middle school students about robotics. Rene has been doing most of the facilitating and I have just been his right hand man. The lectures include things such as binary numbers, boolean algebra, logic gates, and basic robotics. I do about 10% of the lecturing and it's pretty much just the boring concepts like safety and analog vs. digital. I learned however that these kids are incredibly intelligent. For example today we lectured on logic gates and half adders and full adders and before 8:00 this morning I had no idea what they were and I barely understood it. These kids within moments of it being taught to them were running circles around me.
I have always kind of considered myself to be a fairly intelligent person, but after teaching this class I learned that I am not as smart as I thought I was. I don't remember what I was doing in middle school, but I know I wasn't spending my first week in summer learning the fundamentals of engineering.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Timeless
My name is Benji and I am now a true blogger.
I have dabbled a little in blogging via MySpace, but nothing like this where I am dedicated. I thought it would be a good idea to have a blog other than a MySpace blog. I just graduated from high school and I hope to use this so people can see what I am doing while at college. I will be attending the University of California Berkeley (Cal) in the fall and I am really excited about beginning a new era in my life.
"Scorns of Time" is a reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet during the famous "To Be or Not to Be" speech. I believe that time is something that we must not be afraid of, but to embrace it. We cannot live our lives of today for what might happen tomorrow. I believe in making everyday the best day and making it the best for everyone around you. I don't live my life according to a dogma that tells me to prepare for the worst that may come later, I worry about the here and now and my fellow human being. You will soon get to more my character by more blog posts.
Before I leave my first blog I would like to leave you with a few facts about me, I am a self proclaimed Deist Jew from California. I love Apple Computer, my dog, my family and my friends. I am a vegetarian of about two years. I enjoy tennis and my favorite color is blue (although I am colorblind).
World meet Benji, Benji... world.
I have dabbled a little in blogging via MySpace, but nothing like this where I am dedicated. I thought it would be a good idea to have a blog other than a MySpace blog. I just graduated from high school and I hope to use this so people can see what I am doing while at college. I will be attending the University of California Berkeley (Cal) in the fall and I am really excited about beginning a new era in my life.
"Scorns of Time" is a reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet during the famous "To Be or Not to Be" speech. I believe that time is something that we must not be afraid of, but to embrace it. We cannot live our lives of today for what might happen tomorrow. I believe in making everyday the best day and making it the best for everyone around you. I don't live my life according to a dogma that tells me to prepare for the worst that may come later, I worry about the here and now and my fellow human being. You will soon get to more my character by more blog posts.
Before I leave my first blog I would like to leave you with a few facts about me, I am a self proclaimed Deist Jew from California. I love Apple Computer, my dog, my family and my friends. I am a vegetarian of about two years. I enjoy tennis and my favorite color is blue (although I am colorblind).
World meet Benji, Benji... world.
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