Night

Posted on November 30, 2020 by jcampo

While studying for our upcoming test and reflecting on the interstice “Night”, I realized I am definitely a night person. There’s something about night time that gives me the stamina to do all of my work. It definitely could be force of habit too. In high school I had a jam-packed schedule. I would be at school from 7am-2pm, at drama rehearsal from 2pm-4:30, and then at my part time job from 5:00-9:00. Then, I would come home, eat dinner, and start my homework. Thanks to all of my AP and honors classes I would be awake well until 2am, and then I’d wake up for school at 5:30 and do it all over again. It was very very tiring and definitely not healthy either. Now in college, and even maintaining a 25 hour work schedule, I have much more flexible hours. I could potentially get homework done in the mornings, but I can’t mentally focus because I am so used to doing everything at night! Hence why I’m writing this post at just before midnight on a Monday. I have so many friends who go to bed around 10:30pm on weekdays. A part of me wishes I was like that, but if I go to bed too early I feel like I’m wasting a part of my life. It’s so peaceful at night. It’s addicting! (Plus I’m more of a sunset type of person than a sunrise type of person. I have been awake long enough to see a sunrise, though!)

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Space

Posted on November 30, 2020 by ewoolsey

In eighth grade I took earth science, and something my teacher said regarding space really stuck with me. We were watching videos and talking about the size of the universe, and he said to the class, “No offense, but you are so small and insignificant compared to the universe as a whole.” Initially, I thought his comment was rude but then I really thought about it and realized he had a good point. We often stress about little things and think what we are struggling with is “the end of the world”, when in reality our problems are sometimes very minor. I was reminded of this on our zoom discussion about space when we were talking about how after seeing how enormous the universe is, it really makes you question your existence, and wonder if missing an assignment is such a big deal after all. Obviously I think it’s important to do the best you can in your lifetime, but thinking about this is also comforting and helps to put things into perspective. There is so much more to the world than the problems we face each day, so many more people going through the same things, so many new things to learn, and so much room for exploration of the world around us (and beyond what we can see).

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Space

Posted on November 30, 2020 by glaviano

I often wondered how big space really is, but after watching the videos in class I am actually a bit overwhelmed.  It is crazy to think about the size of the universe or perhaps the universes.  How do we actually know what is all looks like as shown in the videos? They proved that it would take millions of lightyears to even experience the sight of some stars and black holes, so how do we know that they are there? In one of the videos where the size of the planets and stars and black holes kept getting bigger with exact measurements, I was wondering how we actually know the sizes and even that they exist if we can never reach them.  Quite interesting.

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