For the McCandless project, I chose to not text my friends for a whole school day which was a challenge for me. My friends reacted how I thought they would. They were asking “Nick where are?” and “Why aren’t you talking?”. I usually talk to them so it must of been weird not hearing from me. During the experiment, I felt very tempted to text my friends back, but I fought off the temptation. I also wanted to give them a little heads up in advance of the experiment, but I didn’t. I am very proud of that. I was fairly surprised of their reactions because I kind of expected it, but I didn’t really know they would notice me that much. I was also surprised that I was able to not text them! I consider it a good accomplishment. I am free to not conform because I did a pretty good job, and this experiment told me a lot. It told me that when you put your mind to stuff, you can fight all off the temptation and live how you want.

"When someone says you can't do something... turn to them and say watch me".  I chose my quote because it really connects with me and who I am. It represents me because that's how I act, I like to prove people wrong. My life would be so different if I always followed this because there are somethings people say I cannot do, and they are right. Like if they say I cannot fly, I can't. Im not a bird.