The Me from Six Years Ago
September 10, 2008
So I was cleaning my room today, and decided I so ahead and sort through the contents of the filing cabinet I’ve had since I was 12 or 13. Let me tell you, I was a weird kid when I was 13. There were plenty of interesting little gems from back then. For example, a photo backup cd from an crappy old digital camera with a lower resolution than my current phone, an old “physics” drawing, and an essay that my 8th grade Science teacher (Mr. Lee Wagstaff, best teacher I ever had) gave me on the topic of faith.
Old Digital Camera Photos
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- My hair was pretty short.
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- We still have those pillows…
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- I was so proud of that moon map.
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- You can see the wire for the temperature sensor in my alarm sneaking over to the window.
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- I’m pretty sure I had a map for just about every region of the world.
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- I never quite finished Luigi’s Mansion
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- Good ‘ol Starcraft on a Pentium II with 6GB hard drive
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- Not too long ago…
My Physics Drawing
I guess I was trying to prove to someone that swinging your arm would result in a harder impact than a straight jab-punch. I now see the flaw in my logic; there’s no such thing as centrifugal force!
Faith Essay
My eighth grade IPC science teacher, Mr. Wag, was probably one of the best teachers I ever had. He taught both evolution and creationism equally, stating the weaknesses in both theories. He let students have Bible studies in his room after and before school. He wrote papers on the topic of Evolution vs. Creationism in plain English that were very interesting. He even offered to talk to kids about faith after school (since teachers can’t legally do it during a class, unless specifically asked) and openly stated his Christian beliefs. He really was a great guy. I got pretty close to him, and he was definitely a great influence on me and several of my friends.
What I found was one of his original essays on faith, basically an introduction to sin and what we can do about it. And pretty easy to read, too. Here it is.
He still works at North Richland Middle, and you might find his faculty page interesting.
