Hey, it’s me, Junior Laforest, your friendly neighborhood InLab freshman. A few words about me: I’m a young Socrates and a speedster at heart. Another thing y’all should know is that I’m very verbal and energetic but in my free time I can still buckle down and enjoy a good book. I’m a passionate learner and I love to question everything; I want to know how everything and how everyone works. One thing that I believe a lot of people would agree with me on is that history is the greatest teacher because that is where the greats live and what we model life after. Therein lies the reason why I want to make history. They will know my name

So as you guys probably know I’m a freshman in GHS Innovation Lab. InLab as a whole is a new experience for me because it differs from the more customary style of teaching. I am attracted to the style InLab uses because it’s actually really interesting and makes a whole lot of sense; that’s not to say I’ve had a negative experience in my past learning. It’s just that when it comes to the traditional and InLab, I prefer InLab though I genuinely have a lot of positive opinions towards the traditional. “If it ain’t broke don’t fiddle with it.” It’s a common expression but it’s not always true, the traditional method works fine and gets the job done for most people just not for me. The project-based learning InLab teaches works really well for me, which I have known because of some experience with the style. Somethings are old but they ain’t gold.

 

The year has just started and I’ve already experienced quite a lot; I was ready for most of GHS due to my sister’s experiences and testimony. Although her testimony is not the same as living the experience itself, the new environment was actually really fascinating. The freedom that GHS  has gifted us with, provides so many opportunities to explore our individual interests and that’s why I chose Innovation Lab. InLab for me is more than just a class it’s a chance to ready myself for the future and how a career may be later on due to its project-based learning format. In Design Studio and Humanities I haven’t experienced all that much but how they carry and lead each class inspires me and I love almost every moment of it.

 

I expect Design Studio to be very supportive of my other classes like my partner in some type of spy mission filling me in on stuff that will help me in other classes like how to interview people, how to research and just be an overall bonus for me in this school year. Humanities is very interesting to me it’s a mix of two classes that make sense together and it feels really important I guess that’s one of the reasons I decided to join it kinda feels like a college seminar type course and I just like the ambience, going further I expect to make new friends that are interested in what I am interested in and to create well with one another whether it be essays or not.

 

It’s your friendly neighborhood freshman signing out,

Junior Laforest

 

I was doing this project in Humanities in which we had to make a slide explaining our selves and we had a lot of things we could do on it. As I was working my twin brother happened to go glance over a quote he had liked; “Never wound a snake; kill it.” a quote by Harriet Tubman. My interpretation of this is to always finish what you start to complete everything you set out to do because if you don’t complete anything your not going to have done anything. Take for example Julmis the Haitian hurdler in the 2016 Olympic games even though he failed at the first hurdle he got back up and kept going. If he had stopped people would have been said he’s a quitter or not of thought anything of him but because he finished there was a positive buzz instead of negative he was praised for finishing nobody even cared about who won because his perseverance his tenacity shone brighter than the winner’s gold medal.