College vs. High School

In my compare contrast essay this week I wrote about the few similarities and many differences between high school and college. We've all made the transition; we all know what its like. In my paper I wrote about the similarities first, like how there is still a teacher who lectures in front of the class, and you take notes and have to raise your hand to answer questions, but then I got into all of the differences. College is way different than high school in many ways. For example, the campus is bigger, the classes are longer, but you don't have them everyday, the professors, your attendance and homework, tests, and the way teachers grade. You've all experienced it by now; you know how it goes. Its a big change and you need to be prepared and responsible enough to get through it.

TED Talk: How I Built a Windmill

In the Ted Talk “How I Built a Windmill” nineteen-year-old William Kamkwamba was interviewed on stage. He talked about how he had this idea when he was only fourteen. He wanted to build a windmill to power his family’s home in Malawian Village. He then went on and talked about his process of going to the library, and finding and reading a book about energy, and seeing how to build one just by looking at a rough sketch. Then, he went home and built an electricity-producing windmill that lit four light bulbs and two radios throughout his home. He made it from spare parts and scraps from around the village, following his rough plans he has found.

Because he had such a thick African accent it was kind of hard to understand him, but I can’t believe that he built a windmill on his own just from looking at a book and using spare parts around his village. That’s amazing to me. No way would any nineteen year old in America would do something like that. We take for granted how spoiled we actually are. Although he was very vague and didn't get to go into detail and explain the process of how he put all the parts together, I still thought the story was amazing.