The McCandless Project
Julia Gualtieri
Honors English 1


    The Experiment that I did for this project, was me and a few of my friends who are doing the project as well dressed as weird as we could to make us stand out from our surroundings. The first thing we did was got dropped off at Kroger and bought the most random things we could find to make people even more concerned. We walked around that store for about a half hour and then checked out. After we were done there we walked across a busy street, perimeter and went into chipotle still wearing embarrassing clothing. We got our burritos and spent about twenty minutes there. Then, we went home. Surprisingly, I don't think that people reacted as weirded out as I thought.  At Kroger, no one seemed to look at us in a weird way, except as we were checking out the cash register asked us if we were having a slumber party. We were kind of concerned on how there were any signs of a slumber party but we said not this is our normal look and then made our way to Chipotle. None of the workers at Chipotle reacted to our looks, but of course all the teenagers in the line did and were laughing. During the experiment I will not lie, I felt a little embarrassed but I thought it was fun at the same time and learned not to care. I was confused on why we did not get many odd looks, but it was still fun. I was probably more surprised by other peoples reaction because I knew what was going on the whole time, while others were most likely wondering why a random group of girls are in Kroger dressed completely abnormal. I do believe that I am free to break from the norm, because in the experiment we were not told no by anyone, and no one really confronted us about what we were doing and we did not get in trouble. Everyone was minding their own business. I think the whole experiment/project was cool because the thing I was most excited about was to see what other people would do, and that was what happened.

quotation

The quote I chose was "Successful people are to gifted; they just work hard, and succeed on purpose." I chose this quote because as soon as I found it, I could relate immediately. The quote represents me because I believe that not one is gifted, but they must work hard to achieve great things. No one is naturally smart in school, they must work hard to achieve getting good grades. That is an example about something the quote could relate to for some people, but when I first saw the quote the first thing that came to my head was playing soccer and my team. None of us are specially gifted. I couldn't just wake up and play soccer for the first time and be good at it. I have to keep working harder and harder each day to become better. To be completely honest I think my life would be more intelligent and maybe even a little better if I lived every second of my life according to my quote, because it's saying that you can be gifted if you work hard at everything you do and I do not think I work my very hardest at things I care a little less about. I wonder how much my life would change in a positive way if I lived my life by the quote, on everything I do.