Passion Project For my passion project it took me a long time to make a final decision on what I wanted to do. I always know that I wanted to do something involving woodworking because I have been using tools and well "woodworking" since I about 8 or 10. I do say "woodworking" with the quotations because it has taken me a long time to get to where I am now, and even now I wouldn't say that I'm anywhere near being proficient let alone mastering the craft. So for my first plan I wanted to build a teardrop trailer, but that didn’t end up working out for reasons I’ll get into later. After that I still wanted to do woodworking somehow in some way or another so I decided I wanted to make a cabinet. Which then lead me to an awesome mentor named Kirk …show more content…
At the start of the school year I wanted to do something that would involve a multitude of different things, from woodwork to metalwork to finishing (the wood, be it paint, stain, clear lacquer, ect.) However I waited too long to get started building the trailer whale I was in limbo from the school as to what all I needed to have done before I started my project, so my plans had to shift to something more achievable or smaller. At this point I was about at the midpoint of my senior year and I needed to start working on my passion project. After more hard thinking it hit me, right in the middle of my taring my room apart looking for stupid ruler that I knew was somewhere in my room I just didn’t know where. It was right when I went to look through a cheap “build it yourself” cabinet from Target that had slowly been falling apart ever since the earthquake in 2014. That when I realized that I needed to do something about the damned door always falling off and the broken legs in the back of it, so I set out to build one to fill its place …show more content…
Well it’s actually a really short answer. My dad put me in contact with him. He is a good customer of my dads and he is a cabinet maker who owns and operates his own cabinet shop. So after my dad gave me his phone, I tried calling him and just got voice mail. So I called back the a few days later, got voice mail. So I thought “he’s probably just a busy guy I’ll give a few days.” So about 3 days or so goes by no call. At this point I wasn't sure if I’d be better off just going down and talking to him or calling him again. I decide that I’ll just go see him and if he’s busy I’ll come back at another time. Well he had some time to talk and talk we did. I think we talked for about fifteen or twenty minutes. That following Saturday if I’m remembering correctly was when I went down and he showed me how to build drawers and he walked me through my first one. Before I went and talked to Kirk, I was doing some research using two book that I bought, One is about joint making and is called The Joint Book, and the other is cabinetmaking and you guessed it, it about making cabinets called, Illustrated Cabinetmaking. I used the joinery one to figure out which joint I wanted to for my drawers and it came down to just a few choices, the I first was a dovetail, second rabbit, third and final a box joint. But all of that went out the window when I talked to Kirk, because he said that the joint they use is much easier to make and a lot less
Everyone at one point has to make a decision on what they want to be when they grow up. For me, that decision came rather unexpectedly and was a result of a new found interest due to self-discovery. It all began when I was around the age of 8 and I watched a documentary on aircraft. It documented all about planes, how they work and the science behind them. I was immediately captivated and gaining all that information as a young child really hit the spot in terms of a new found passion and interest that I could see myself later using. This passion stuck with me ever since as I have spent tons of spare time studying different types of aircraft and collecting model planes. It ultimately helped me with my answer to the question of what I wanted to be when I grew up as being an aeronautical engineer. It is not a career most would pursue, but it shows how self-discovery impacted me at a very young age and the impact is so log lasting that it has influenced most of the decision I make now in terms of courses I take at school and the extracurricular activities I am a part of. Without self-discovery, I was able to gain an understanding of where my interests lay, the abilities I have to acquire complex information and the feelings I had towards my new found interest and
For my passion project I made cookies, but not just any cookies, I made cotton candy cookie. There were many ups and a downs while making these cookies, but they all payed off in the end. I learned many things during this passion project. For example I learned why I wanted to make these cookies, I made three of my own recipes and learned some really cool facts!
It can be hard to know what one wants to do when they’re older. There are certain things to consider, like a level of interest in the topic, how much information one would already know, how much that will be needed to know, and to take in if this is what one would want to do in their future life. I know for me when I have to think about future plans it can really worry me. I tend to get stressed out, scared, and wanting to avoid the topic entirely, even though in the back of my mind I know I need to stop running away with what I need to currently take care of. It’s a lot like in the tragedy play of Macbeth. There was so much pressure to always be something more. If a right hand man of the king wasn’t good enough, then he had to be king himself.
In my first semester, I took English IV and dedicated all of my extra time to completing my graduation project. The project was a huge part of my grade for English, and if I did not meet the requirements for it, I would not have graduated. It was required that I write a research paper, create a product, record my progress in a portfolio, and present it all at the end of the semester. It was also required that I complete the project with a mentor. At the time, I was not sure what my career goals were, but I was interested in pediatrics and decided that it should be my topic in order to learn more about the
Throughout my life, I had continually believed that once I graduated college, I would engage in an action filled career. I wanted to be a police officer, a firefighter or even an undercover FBI agent. I had planned on studying criminal justice, and I took numerous high school classes based on it. Nevertheless, my plan transformed the summer between my junior and senior years. It was my grandma that influenced me to transform my criminal justice plan into a nursing plan. For most of my life, I may not have acknowledged exactly what I wanted to do when I grew up, but I did know that I sought to help people.
William Huang Sandburg Middle School Honors English & History. Ninth Grade Honor Placement Test Positivity, intelligence, and strategizing are all characteristics of a successful leader. However, a great leader cannot succeed without understanding and working with their people. For instance, John Wooden, a highly famed basketball player and coach that carried his several UCLA teams to win ten NCAA championships, is known for his positive teaching methods to maximize the potential of his students and make them try their best. This essay describes the legendary coaching methods of John Wooden and his leadership, who accomplished an all-time championship record left unbroken to this day.
Woodworkers contribute to the beauty and variety of the wooden products that surround us. Some woodworkers are employed in primary industries, meaning that they transform raw logs into a usable form of wood to sell to manufacturers or the public. Woodworkers can also be found in secondary industries, manufacturing finished products such as wooden toys, beds, dressers, moldings, and window frames. Many woodworkers have to read blueprints or drawings of a finished product, Measure the materials and operate the machines that cut and shape the wood. They also use hand tools to be more precise. Woodworkers need to use many different types of machines. From manual to almost fully automatic. The increase in computerized machinery has increased the productivity and precision, as well as the demand for workers with computer knowledge.
Kristy Woods put her daughter, Mariah, to bed on Sunday night in their home, but the child was gone when she went back for her, and now the three-year-old is still missing. The child disappeared from her home in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where she lives in with her mother and live-in boyfriend, sparking a nationwide Amber Alert, according to ABC13. North Carolina police have released surveillance images captured on Monday morning at approximately 9:30 a.m. in a Walmart in Morehead City, believed to be Mariah with an unknown woman. The FBI is reaching out for help identifying and locating the child and the woman appearing in the video.
The earliest glimpse of my future was at an elementary career day years ago. When I filled out what I was going to dress up as I wrote the word, “farmacist.” My mom was a pharmacist and I looked up to her and wanted to be just like her! So when career day rolled around I dressed in a white coat carrying a big bottle full of M&M’s to dispense to my classmates. Now so many years later here I am actually about to take on graduate school and follow in my mother’s footsteps to become a pharmacist. Of course my career path has been less than a straight line from “farmasist” to pharmacist. My passion and talent for math and science in high school allowed me to seriously consider a career in engineering. However, the more I considered engineering, the more there seemed to be something missing. As much as I loved solving problems I did not see
As a little girl I dreamed of becoming an artist. I wanted to share and express myself through paintings and sculptures. This dream has not yet changed, however I express myself in a different way which involves the world of fine dining and pastry cream. Taking that next step into securing my future has been what seems to be an endless journey of hardships, deciding on a career, and finding a way to help my people.
Brandon Jackson Ms. Johnson English IV 3B 26 September 2014 Carpentry A carpenter is a very skilled craftsmen. They construct things out of wood that we use in everyday life. The profession of carpentry has been around for many centuries.
In high school my ideal career seemed to change from day-to-day. I tried working at a fast food restaurant, and ice cream parlor, a day care, but none of these led to any career decisions. I wanted to join the military so I took the ASVAB but I was not confident enough in my ability to make it through basic training so I gave up the idea. I wanted to be an architect so I applied for admission to the CAD program at ITT Technical Institute and was accepted. I was scheduled to start classes on June 12, 1989, but deep down what I truly wanted was to a wife and mother and the idea of getting out of Rantoul, Illinois did not hurt either. My unspoken desire came to the fore when I met my future husband in January of 1989. We were married on June 10, 1989, four days after my high school graduation and two days before I w...
Passion for Family, Community, Business, Technology and Intellectual growth are what motivate me on the daily basis. These are vital parts that have contributed to framing me into the person I’ve become. They have also shaped my short-term and long-term goals in life. It’s critical for one to have a vision for their life and what they anticipate to accomplish. Without a vision or desire there is no hope for one to continue and to purse anything. My experiences with in my passions have helped me aligned my vision for my life. They have given me the valuable knowledge that have set me up for success to get to this point in life.
It was just an ordinary day. The sun had just set and we were all sitting around the table eating dinner. My mother and father always asked us about our future and what we were hoping to accomplish. My brother and sister always explained how they wanted to go into the air force and be doctor. Of course I would just sit there and think about how I didn’t know what I wanted to be. But this particular night I had an idea of what I wanted to do! So before my mom and dad could get out of their mouth the question, I said “I know what I want to be!”. They all stared and asked what that might be and I replied, “A famous artist!” I said, “I want my paintings and sketchings to be shown worldwide!”. They told me that, that was all good and well but that there was a lot of steps to achieve this goal and that it wasn’t very realistic. But what they didn’t know was that very line pushed me to prove them wrong.
It has taken a very long time for me to decide on the path that I wanted to take for my career. I have almost always known that I wanted to be an engineer. I was always more interested in applying my knowledge to solve problems rather than just research and understand the world. However, I had little to no inkling as to which field of engineering I wanted to go in to. I had always been a dabbler, involving myself in a large variety of activities with the interest of learning about how stuff works. I started out learning how to use the tools in the shed outback, making pinewood derby cars and model rockets. I would help my dad with home improvement and repair projects around the house. As time went on, my ability learns and apply