We made our own video version of Hamlet and I did all the video editing, including a scene based on Phantom Menace, including the music and me rotoscoping in the lightsabers.

Literally a 10 second lightsaber duel took me a whole day in premiere and photoshop. But the fact is in my high school in 2002 it blew everyone’s minds. In my humble opinion it looked very good.

I once wrote a larger piece on nuclear energy.

I had to do a comparative religion project in secondary school. I completely forgot to do it, which was the custom at that time. It was Sunday at 7pm and I resolved to do the whole thing in less than an hour.
I searched through the garage and found a small compressed cardboard reindeer that was painted gold as a winter decoration. I used tin snips to remove the antlers and wrote a paragraph on the Golden Calf.

Most efficient B- I have ever received.

In high school physics I wrote a parabolic motion simulator. You could set the angle and initial velocity, and it would draw the path of the projectile. I made it so you could set the force of gravity. I also added the ability to set a horizontal force just for shits and giggles.

When I was in gym class later, we were out on the field playing baseball. I saw a ball hit into the wind and the trajectory matched my simulation of the trajectory of a projectile with a horizontal force acting on it.

So, I was pretty pleased by that.

Halloween project in elementary school: “peanut house of horror.” Had a little diorama of peanuts with googly eyes in a dungeon getting destroyed in every way a peanut could. Swinging pendulum halfway gouged into one. Another on a stretcher rack cracked in half. One getting crunched in a press. Shells all over the floor like a damn Texas Roadhouse.

Building a computer over the year and learning parts by parts what it all does and how to put them together and all that stuff. All the computers where broken/donated to the program, afterwards our teacher was cool and let us all play quake together on a lan network.

Manual drill using a large dowel, flat bit of wood with a hole for the dowel and string to attach the ends to one end of the dowel with a drill bit in the other end.

Wind it up and then press down on the bar forcing the dowel to spin. Press hard enough and excess force winds it back up again so you can keep pumping it to drill.

We did cheat by using a modern drill bit but was fun demonstrating it at my elementary science fair.

Two assignments. First was in high school for a media project we had to write a short story. The teacher gave us free reign so I made a story set in the Last of Us universe since I was playing it at the time. Today, I’m editing that story, which I turned into a completely original story, in preperation for submitting it to agents to be published.

Second, in university I took an elective to learn how to make games. I created a side scroller with sort of the help of another student I knew that bailed on presentation day and who also didn’t do much to help anyway. Today, I have a working prototype of a 2.5D beat em up survival game that I have been working on my spare time.

Bruh, I literally took a short nap becauae I sort of had a panic attack, then I had a dream/nightmare of being in K-12 school again 💀

which just means I wake up for a nap with more panic… lol