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May 21

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May 20 Today was the last work day. Noah and I spent time together, and then I spent a lot of time on my own putting together all of our footage into a final video. We intended to make a 2-4 minute video, but ours ended up being a little shy of eight minutes. It’s funny, but we also have good content that is more meaningful. The shift in themes in the video represents our project overall—it was comedic at times, but there were also great lessons that we learned along the way, particularly in our interviews. We had a great time overall, and feel like the time was well spent. I am not very good at editing, which is apparent in the iMovie film, but some of the cuts are relatively clean. I am pretty happy with what I did for the video. Noah helped of course, but he was more focused on the record book. We each did work on both parts of the presentation, but focused more on our own part, because we wanted to keep all the components of the presentation pieces on one device to make p...
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May 20

May 20 Hands down, today was my favorite day. We interviewed Ashrita Fuhrman, who has broken over 500 world records, more than anyone else ever has—therefore, he has the record for the most world records. Technically, that record has been discontinued by Guinness, but he received the award prior to that decision by Guinness, and he still has more world records than anyone else. He was so incredible to talk to. He was put together, and very driven. He lives in New York, and says his neighbors are always watching him train for new records in his backyard. He knows who he is, and part of his growth in his philosophy of perseverance and self-improvement is done through meditation and record breaking. This is something that I personally strive for, whether I choose to continue pursuing world records or not. Aside from the enjoyment, today was a reminder of why Noah and I originally wanted to do this project—to push ourselves in a unique and creative way. Quote of the day: “Going beyo...
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Weekly Post 3

Weekly Reflection 3 This week showed us that sometimes things take a while to get started, but with persistence, momentum will eventually pick up. Before this week, Noah and I were starting to get a little worried about the outcome of our project, and therefore our future. However, this week was exciting and successful. We created a new record, as well as breaking another one, a record previously held by the YouTube sensation Dude Perfect. Breaking the record for a trick shot held by a group with over 42,000,000 Youtube subscribers who specialize in athletic trick shots was incredibly exciting. However, my favorite part of this week were the interviews we did with students who hold Proctor Records. These students are some of the best athletes in Proctor History in their sports, yet they showed humility in their responses to our questions. They thanked their teammates and coaches, they said that their success couldn’t be made possible by their team. They talked about how good it fel...
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May 17

May 17 Today was rather interesting. Since I did Polar swim, I got back to campus a little before 7. I finished breakfast, and then got to work at around 7:30. Noah got to the dining hall at our typical time of 9:00. We took a break for assembly, and then we got back to working on our project. After lunch,we went to Noah’s dorm room. I was so tired that I fell asleep, and didn’t wake up for four hours. Luckily, I still got enough hours in because of my early session. In fact, I finished up my fifty hour requirement. Of course, Noah and I aren’t done. We need to finish putting together our presentations, but most of the hard work is done. The video script is pretty much done, and we’ve made good progress on the Proctor Record book. Additionally, it looks like we’ve landed an interview with Ashrita Furman after all. In case you don’t know, Furman holds more records than anyone else in the world, so this is huge. Quote of the day: “When th3 going gets tough, the the tough take a nap...
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May 16

May 16 What a day. Actually, it doesn’t stand out all that much. I spent most of the morning work session writing up a script for our video. Later, Noah and I did interviews with Mikala Eacrett and Papi Diallo. They are the Proctor record holders for Girls Lacrosse and Boy’s Soccer respectively. Mikala scored her 150th goal last weekend, so that gave us good subject matter to talk about. Papi didn’t know he had reached his 50th goal (he scored 56 total) until later on, so he had a very humble achievement—not that Mikala was boastful about her achievements. The interviews were both good, and we got them both on video. We will put some edited footage into our final video presentation. I would put videos of Mikala and Papi into this blog, but I’d like to keep them to ourselves until our final presentation. Quote of the day: “All my interviews are paid.” -Response to our inquiry about about a ten minute FaceTime interview for a school project. Daily hours: 3 Total hours: 49
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May 15

May 15 Today was a work day. We didn’t try to break any records, because we feel that we have fulfilled that. We have each broken a record individually, and created a new one. We broke the same individual record (fastest mile while dribbling a basketball), created a “bizarre record” (most saltine crackers eaten in a minute while playing guitar), and broke a team record (longest pass of an American Football to be caught between the legs). For the last one, we only have me catching and Noah throwing on video, but on an unfilmed attempt, Noah caught one of my throws as well. Our main focus is on our other goals, interviews, the mini movie, and our record book. We have a couple of pages done, and almost all of the stats collected. We are just plugging away at our final presentation, and we’re excited to show our final product. Quote of the day: “I think a poet is anyone who wouldn’t call themselves a poet”        —Bob Dylan Daily hours: 3 Total...
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May 8

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May 8 10:00 Today I woke up late and felt pretty badly, but I got some good work done afterward, and did some extra while my partner went to lunch to make up for my tardiness. We spent our time meeting with Lindsey Allenby and working on the record book. Lindsey’s expertise, unfortunately, is not in the program we were planning on using, Adobe Indesign. What is also unfortunate is my lack of ability to understand technology. Noah and I found the most dumbed down tutorial video for Adobe Indesign we could find, but it was a totally new language to us. We eventually decided to try to make our book through the “Pages” program. If were doing a book solely for the project, we would make it on shutterfly, but we want it to be something students can add or replace record once they are beaten, so the book will be comprised of three-hole punched pages.     Tomorrow is a big day, and we I’m really excited to inform my blog readers about tomorrows project. Quote of t...
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