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| What a glorious day |
This
morning I woke up without realizing how important today was going to be. This
morning I woke up around 8:00 AM, I thought I woke up very early so I didn't
get up right away. I was careless and let myself fall asleep again, Luckily I
always set up two alarms when I know I have to wake up early for something
important. Sure enough my second alarm rang at 8:30 AM. I took a look at the
time and jumped out of bed and into the shower to get ready for today's
important event, Learning how to write a blog properly for the Ivy League
Connection (ILC). Once I got ready I hurried to wake up my mother and ask her
for a ride, she woke up and got ready herself. meanwhile I took advantage of
this and ate a little bit of breakfast. Once she was ready to go I grabbed my
book, The Dialogues of Plato, and the documents I needed and went to the
car. On my way to the library where we would meet I started thinking about what
I was doing and how important this program really is to me.
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| Don makes all things possible |
Before this time I didn't realize just how amazing the ILC really is and
I still didn't understand how much of a benefit attending Penn University for a
summer program really is. I though about the experience of attending Penn and
about how I would get the opportunity to meet a wide variety of students that
have a similar mindset to me and about all the connections I would make
during my time at Penn. Connections that will maybe last me a lifetime,
experiences that will change my life for the better, and people that will open
up my perspective on the world. I got to the library about 35 minutes early.
Upon arrival there were people already outside the library. I read some of the
book I brought and waited outside the library because it was closed. Don got here
fifteen minutes early. Once we got in the library we got right to work and we
learned a lot from what Don was saying. He gave us the information we needed
and warned us of negative things that could happen and of mistakes students had
made before us. He followed this up with example of blogs written by students
before us, great blogs and blogs that needed a lot of improvements. Then we got
to work ourselves, we made a practice blog and worked on it step by step. We
first began with the formatting, the content could be whatever we desired it to
be. Secondly we learned about pictures, and how to take them and edit them to
make it better. Thirdly we went out and took pictures and had some fun and
relaxed. Finally we learned how to go from saving them into our computers to
uploading them to our blogs properly.
It was not until the end of the day that I
realized how amazing today really was. I had gone through some amazing training
with Don and my peers and was a step closer to attending Penn University. Not until
after it had all happened did I Appreciate all the progress we had made and how
far I've gotten. This is a dream come true to be able to spend a summer doing
physics and experiments. A dream of a younger me who dreamed dreams that seemed
impossible. The more I think about it the more surreal it seems. This
opportunity given to me is a once in a lifetime experience that will benefit me
greatly and will make me a better me. I am truly blessed to be able to be here
and make it this far. It Really is happening! A childhood dream coming true.
