Have you ever been in a car with a driver that just made you nervous? Maybe is was that they seemed to react to everything at the last second. Did they miss signs and seem like they were driving in a trance? Were they more concerned with the hood ornament than the road? Driving is one of the most life threatening tasks that we will ever encounter. In 2008, 37,261 people died in US car crashes. This means that, on average, 102 people died in a car crash every day that year in the US alone. Obviously, even if we drive with relatively few errors, many other people still make the road extremely dangerous for us. Several weeks ago, I completed a driving course at the Skip Barber Racing School. These basic (but surprisingly seldom followed) tips helped improve my driving skills and confidence on the road by at least 1000%. To drive safely one needs to have an alertness level that borders on paranoia. These tips will help you stay that alert. Read more…
I just got home yesterday from my first college experience. And yet, I’m still in high school. During the past three weeks, I was living at the University of Connecticut as part of their Mentor Connection program. Working with a team of three other high school students and a mentor on an electrical engineering project–we set out to design and build a portable system that would allow us to transform music into light, beam it across a room, then transform it back into some sort of understandable sound–we not only achieved but surpassed our original goal. I had some of the most enjoyable experiences of my life and learned some important things about moving quickly while remaining flexible. Read more…
I recently installed Call of Duty 4 (COD4) on my new laptop. My kill:death ratio was consistently in the 18:1 to 22:1 range during certain game play conditions. In the following post I detail exactly how you can repeatedly achieve success in COD4 using methods that I have proven to myself time and time again. Prove it to yourself after the jump… Read more…
