http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/ Thoughts on 1421 en-us 2005-12-05T11:05:30-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/033513.html Hey how's it going? How was your Thanksgiving? So this will be our last blog writing to you guys. It would have been nice if you would have responded more to my blogs, and you could have written more and... 2005-12-05T11:05:30-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/032238.html Hey, It's Nick again. So, how have you been doing lately? I had a couple more questions to get to know you. First, are you a Twins fan, or a baseball fan in general? I love watching the Twins. I... 2005-11-15T11:29:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/031087.html Hey again. I was also wondering what kind of music you like to listen to. Do you play any sports? If so, what ones. Are you a Vikings fan? Anyways, tell me what kinds of things you like to do... 2005-10-31T11:18:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/030642.html Hi. My name is Nick, and I go to school here at the U of M. I am 19 years old and am from a very small town, so this is a big adjustment living in Minneapolis. In my free... 2005-10-24T12:04:38-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/029639.html One difference between Lincoln Community School and my school is the ethnic population. At Lincoln, the population of black students was at about 71%, with the Asian population contributing about 25%. At my school, the population was about 98% white... 2005-10-12T11:28:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/028867.html The main difference between LaRonda and Sherman is that Sherman has a very strong desire to learn. LaRonda's teachers say she is a bright girl, but she usually fails most of her classes. Sherman reads every chance he gets, and... 2005-10-03T11:30:24-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/028404.html Yesterday we had our second revision session on our first paper. I think they went well. Everyone in our group took the feedback from the previous session pretty well and put it to good use. We had better communication I... 2005-09-27T21:14:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/027823.html This story reminds me of the movie that came out recently by the same title. It sounds like typical high school stuff that goes on. I was curious if the setting was in a small town, maybe it said and... 2005-09-21T11:21:40-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/027219.html Frederick Douglas had a strong will to succeed in learning to read and write. He said that he was "compelled to resort to various strategems." Some outside factors were the white boys that he made friends with, in my opinion.... 2005-09-14T11:11:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/026959.html After reading "Shitty First Drafts," the sentence that probably most stuck out to me is when the author, Ann Lamott, says "Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts." I think this makes me a little more comfortable to... 2005-09-12T11:57:17-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/roll0134/thoughts/026609.html I grew up for most of my life in the country, secluded from other houses. My high school is new and opened when I was a sophomore, and my graduating class was about 100 students. I like open campus lunch... 2005-09-07T21:35:40-06:00