Cole's Blog

  The other day I was sitting and thinking about things, as one does. I started thinking about something that really really boggles my mind. I was watching some video on some social media platform, and the video mentioned mechanical calculators. This really made me ask one question: how? I simply cannot wrap my head around how these engineers managed to add, subtract, divide and multiply with only mechanical parts. The amount of micro engineering to fit all these gears and chains inside of a shell.  I understand that the same logical processes are going on in digital calculators, but to see them happen physically is truly amazing to see.  Anyways, it is almost Thanksgiving break. I’m excited to go home for a few reasons: I miss my mom I miss my mom’s cooking I miss my gym The only issue is I have a seven hour drive back to New York ahead of me, and the drive back is worse than driving here. I usually stop in Angola, New York, which is around four hours away from Ada. From...

As many of you know, this week I was shipped off to Atlanta, Georgia for the College Media Awards. An article I wrote was nominated for the interactive infographic I created for it. I ended up not winning the award, but ONU did win a few other awards. Since I didn’t win (I’m totally not bitter), I will be writing about the stuff we did in between the important events. Sunday: I arrived at the Columbus airport. We land in Atlanta late at night and take a car to the hotel. We check in and go to sleep. Monday: We woke up for the first keynote speaker. He spoke about the history of hip-hop, specifically in Atlanta. He just released a documentary where he interviewed people like Andre 3000 and Ce-lo Green about hip-hop in Atlanta.  After the speaker we attended the first individual award ceremony where ONU won 1st place and honorable mention in categories that I can’t remember. I attended one more speaker and then we went out to dinner. We settled on Mexican food which was right down th...