Official Start Time: 12:14 am
Date: 9/27/08
Official End Time: 12:54 am
I've noticed that I'm doing my blog post more and more often after midnight. Around midnight is when I usually have the chance to go on the computer but also the best time to start my blog seeing as I did the first entry around midnight.
Today's entry covers the presentation I gave at IBM and what lays ahead for me. Over the last couple of months I've been doing a lot of thinking in terms of what kind of future awaits me and what I should do to make it possible. The decisions are difficult and never clear which makes it even harder to decide. Hopefully overtime I will find something that gives me a better direction of what I should do to insure a successful tomorrow.
So today was the first meeting of the ITR&D program. This year I will be competing in the E-commerce course but will be helping out with a lot of the work being done with this year's ITR&D course. At today's meeting however my presentation was not related to E-commerce but Scratch and how to motivate in-coming teams to use Scratch. The presentation went well as we (Norbert and I) covered our past experience with the program and the Scratch Moodle Course we had developed in response to what we learned from the program. The course has proven to be successful and will be piloted with 70 students at North End Middle School. I'm excited to see our course come to life and hope that it accomplishes its goal of teaching students Scratch.
We got a lot of positive feedback with the course from Adam Scott and others who have taken a look at the course and say that it has real potential. There is still a lot of work to do to perfect the Scratch Moodle Course and eventually the Alice Moodle Course. Working on these kinds of project is something I love to do and talk about to people. I could imagine myself doing something like this in the future which makes me bring into question what lays ahead for me in the future to come.
I want to be an endocrinologist when I grow up seeing as I have diabetes and would love to give my patients first hand advice as we share the same disease. I think I can make a difference through my patients but I worry about the odds of me becoming an endocrinologist. It takes a lot of schooling and money to make it. Sometimes I wonder do I stack up and if I'm making the right decision. Would taking another career that involves less schooling and money be a choice I should be willing to make?
This is where I meet the fork in the road. On one side I could take the path onto endocrinology and never look back. On the other path I could choose to do something that gives back to the community through education or cultural exchanges. Both paths share the hopes of a successful tomorrow that would allow me to give back . . . but which path do I choose to meet this goal?
The second choice looks more and more appealing as time goes on. Making a difference is something I would always want to insure in whatever I do. So would the second choice be a more direct root to this path? Writing down my thoughts has helped me map out the choices I have but this problem involves more than a piece of paper and pencil. I must think deep inside myself and find a solution that I know is the right one.
Hopefully over the course of this experiment I will have figured out which path I will take and how that decision will help me fulfill my goals.
Till Next Time, Hector Guzman
Date: 9/27/08
Official End Time: 12:54 am
I've noticed that I'm doing my blog post more and more often after midnight. Around midnight is when I usually have the chance to go on the computer but also the best time to start my blog seeing as I did the first entry around midnight.
Today's entry covers the presentation I gave at IBM and what lays ahead for me. Over the last couple of months I've been doing a lot of thinking in terms of what kind of future awaits me and what I should do to make it possible. The decisions are difficult and never clear which makes it even harder to decide. Hopefully overtime I will find something that gives me a better direction of what I should do to insure a successful tomorrow.
So today was the first meeting of the ITR&D program. This year I will be competing in the E-commerce course but will be helping out with a lot of the work being done with this year's ITR&D course. At today's meeting however my presentation was not related to E-commerce but Scratch and how to motivate in-coming teams to use Scratch. The presentation went well as we (Norbert and I) covered our past experience with the program and the Scratch Moodle Course we had developed in response to what we learned from the program. The course has proven to be successful and will be piloted with 70 students at North End Middle School. I'm excited to see our course come to life and hope that it accomplishes its goal of teaching students Scratch.
We got a lot of positive feedback with the course from Adam Scott and others who have taken a look at the course and say that it has real potential. There is still a lot of work to do to perfect the Scratch Moodle Course and eventually the Alice Moodle Course. Working on these kinds of project is something I love to do and talk about to people. I could imagine myself doing something like this in the future which makes me bring into question what lays ahead for me in the future to come.
I want to be an endocrinologist when I grow up seeing as I have diabetes and would love to give my patients first hand advice as we share the same disease. I think I can make a difference through my patients but I worry about the odds of me becoming an endocrinologist. It takes a lot of schooling and money to make it. Sometimes I wonder do I stack up and if I'm making the right decision. Would taking another career that involves less schooling and money be a choice I should be willing to make?
This is where I meet the fork in the road. On one side I could take the path onto endocrinology and never look back. On the other path I could choose to do something that gives back to the community through education or cultural exchanges. Both paths share the hopes of a successful tomorrow that would allow me to give back . . . but which path do I choose to meet this goal?
The second choice looks more and more appealing as time goes on. Making a difference is something I would always want to insure in whatever I do. So would the second choice be a more direct root to this path? Writing down my thoughts has helped me map out the choices I have but this problem involves more than a piece of paper and pencil. I must think deep inside myself and find a solution that I know is the right one.
Hopefully over the course of this experiment I will have figured out which path I will take and how that decision will help me fulfill my goals.
Till Next Time, Hector Guzman
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