Nelson May 7

May 7
11:30

Today, Noah and I worked on our Proctor record book. We talked about the format of the book so that it will be easy to update, and then met with Spencer to see how to do this most efficiently. Tomorrow, we are meeting with Lindsey so that we can get feedback from someone experienced in putting something like this together. With all her yearbook-making knowledge, we are enthusiastic about this part. We also spent time with stats. We combed through old scorebooks for basketball, only to find that most one available ones didn’t have the information we needed. Still hoping to gather data for all-time leading basketball scorer, I messaged an old player on instagram, and we’re hoping that he will respond soon. We have the stats narrowed down to four players, but we are unsure who has the most out of them. We did get the hockey stats today, though, and we are working on getting the baseball stats as well.

Quote of the day: Lose your dream, you lose your mind (Rolling Stones).

Daily hours: 4.5
Total hours: 22

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