Independent Project

As with anything we discuss, I feel as though my views are fairly well known on every topic as soon as we leave Scholars.  To this point, it might be a smidge on the moot side to continue to discuss my opinion with the rest of the world.  As such, I'ma do it anyways because even though my blog is entirely fascinating no one actually reads it.

Anyways, the independent project.

I did an independent study in high school, and it was probably the best class I took all four years.  I worked with an English teacher and my TAG teacher on a class that didn't have enough people enrolled so it was dropped for the year.  It was a Selected Authors: Dickens class and so I just read Dickens and then I did a project.  I obviously got an A+ in the class but it was amazing.  I got to work at whatever pace I wanted and choose how I wanted to be graded.

The downside to this of course was that I had no discussion and that I could slack off as much as I wanted.  I presented to the English II class about David Copperfield without having actually read the last 100 pages until the night before....  Though I did a lot of extra work researching Dickens' style and writing a "mimicry paper" in the same way, it still wasn't nearly as much work as some other classes I've taken, and there was no one holding me accountable day-to-day.

Honestly, my only real memories of that class are:
1.  Sitting at my desk in the corner of the TAG room with my feet on the support bars and spinning          from side to side in my roll-y chair while reading.
2.  Making and frosting gingerbread men to look like the characters.
3.  Watching people in the mall to get ideas of something to write.
4.  Laying on the couch reading David Copperfield furiously.

So, in conclusion, I think to participate in the independent project you would definitely need to be extremely dedicated and passionate.  And probably not be an interest-spaz like me.  Do you guys want to hear about drugs?  I can talk about them for a while cuz that's what I crammed for last night.  Action potentials?  No?  Fine then, but I'm going to keep talking about something else.

AMATEUR DANCE CLUB

I had this awesome idea a couple weeks ago to start an amateur dance club.  What would happen is that there would be nights where you would go to learn a dance and then once a month there would be a formal dance, preferably with a live band, where everyone could go and dance and they wouldn't even have to be good at it or anything.

The dances would vary in style (ie line dancing, swing dancing, foxtrot, disco) to keep everyone interested.

It wouldn't matter if you were good at dancing or not, because it's just for fun!

Everyone who loves dancing would go, and people who like to just get out and not study, and also people who enjoy a work out that is way more fun than running.

I really am going to try to get this started.  Everyone I've talked to thinks it's a good idea, so there definitely would be support for it.  However, I still need a faculty adviser and a plan for implementation.

Oh and it also needs a new name because Emily doesn't like this one.  I've yet to find any better ones though.

So if I were in independent project, I would try to do all of my questions about amateur dance club and eventually it would become real.