These lessons have proved to be very helpful in many ways. These lessons have taught me many things that can help prove to be beneficial for me in the long run. From these lessons, I have or can become a more effective researcher for my classes. I'm in Honors History and in that class there are many research projects and research papers that require in-dept and scholarly sources. Finding credible and reliable sources is really time consuming, but with some of the tools and tricks that we have learned from Google finding these sources has become fairly easy. Using operators like site:.gov is really helpful because it allows you to find websites that are government funding, so you can be sure that the information on the website is reliable. Another thing that can be proven beneficial to me is the (-) sign that removes invasive results. This would allow me to further refine my search to something very specific that could be in a broad topic; it would take a lot less time than if I didn't know this trick.

Things I Learned from Power Searching with Google

As of right now, there is not that much that I haven't already learned from exploring Google on my own when I am in need of something specific. But, I can say that I have learned a couple of new tricks that I can use with Google to get better results in my searches. In these past few days I have learned a lot about different Operators and how to use them both correctly and effectively. I learned that if in my Query I type in site:.gov or .edu I can come up with sites that are specifically from the government or educational. These are very important sites for me because in my history class we do a lot of projects and papers that require credible sources. Government and education funded websites are very reliable when it comes to that. I also learned how I can further refine my search by limiting what is in my search. This is done by writing in the query, but adding to it -(what you don't want.) This is super helpful for me. As I said before, often times I am doing a lot of research,but sometimes my topic is so broad that it takes forever for me to find what I am actually looking fore.Hopefully now my research will be able to be done more quickly with the new tricks that I have learned through this Power searching with Google unit. 

True feelings on Snow Days

Snow days? What are they? Honestly, they are just a bad excuse and waste of a day. I mean who doesn't like school? Snow days are an interruption of the one hundred and eight-one days of school that I want to have all in a row. I don't really need any breaks in the week because I am never tired; Never am I sleep deprived, never. I don't want a snow because then I have to wait to see if I did all of my homework right, I hate when I never know if I actually did all of my hard work correct. Snow days are for people who are lazy and want to sleep in and then proceed to do nothing the whole day. We teenagers do nothing of that sort! We are young, energetic people that are constantly doing something efficient with our time. Sitting next to a nice, relaxing, warm burning fire sipping hot cocoa can never be compared to sitting in the chilled, weird smelling math room. Math is awesome and nothing will keep me from wanting to be there.Overall snow days are a waste of my precious school time.

So we had yet another snow day. Yup, that happened. Now we have to get out of school a day later, FANTASTIC! More school! HOORAY!

P.S.  I'm not sure if you noticed, but I was being extremely sarcastic in this blog post. I LOVE snow days and I'm pretty sure that everyone does.