Achievements and Goals
By: Wyatt Snider
Cross country
Future Goals.
Measurability, accountability and effort. As I stated last week, each of us is created differently and because of that we need to measure Success based on where we start and move up from there. I realize that all of us want to be the BEST, but few of us are willing to Work towards being the Best!
When we set Goals we must make sure they are indeed attainable. In other words things like getting an A in English is very attainable. However, saying my goal is to Sell $1 million dollars of Lemonade next week is certainly not attainable. Next you must lay out a path that can help you attain that goal.
For instance I stated that we can all get stronger if we use the Weight Room 3 times per week. This is a goal we can achieve if we are willing to put the time and effort in.
ONE STEP AT A TIME !!
Be accountable, responsible and measure how you are doing !!! If you follow the path your Goals get easier !!
Achievements
IU wasn’t happy. Purdue wasn’t happy. The whole Big Ten wasn’t happy about how its top teams were seeded Sunday in the NCAA Tournament. But our Bracketology Club saw it coming, they all saw it all coming. In fact, our students and teachers in the extracurricular club, dedicated to the soft science of putting together a perfect March Madness bracket, they did better than any of the college basketball experts among the 150 ranked. Our school’s mascot isn’t called the Oracles for nothing. Mr. Tonsoni helped form the club a year ago as a chance to talk sports and work on some research skills on the side. Bracketology isn’t a matter of picking round-by-round winners for the office pool. It’s the art of sizing up the college basketball landscape to come up with the 68 teams — 32 that get automatic bids and 36 that earn at-large invitations — and how they will be seeded before a 10-member NCAA Selection Committee selects them. It’s not in Indiana’s academic standards, for sure. But it does fill countless hours of speculation time on ESPN, CBS and the Big Ten Network leading up to Selection Sunday. And it’s what sports columnists across the nation spend their selection Sunday ripping apart after the match ups are out. Club members spent the season meeting one morning a week before first period to go over quality wins, bad losses, road records and the scads of data the NCAA Selection Committee use as criteria. Students produced weekly podcasts to talk over recent games and to work on broadcast skills. Also they learned the ins and outs of spreadsheets to crunch data. After hammering out a bracket Thursday night over wings at Tonsoni’s house, group text messages kept flying through the weekend about adjusting seeding and debating about the last team’s in and the first ones out.“We were at it long enough that I saw my clock change (for daylight saving time) Saturday night,” Tonsoni said. (That would be 2 a.m. Sunday, actually.) “And we were back at it Sunday, right up to the end.”On Sunday night, the Bracketology Club nailed the first 20 teams, along with the correct seeds, announced on TV. Rain knocked out Tonsoni’s DirectTV connection for the rest of CBS’ selection show. (A blessing, everyone who sat through the two interminable hours of it might say; but it drove the Delphi crew nuts.)Monitoring on social media, Delphi got 66 of the 68 teams — 44 with the correct seed and 21 within one of the correct seed. That worked out to 351 out of 408 possible points in a BracketMatrix’s system that gives three points for picking a team in the field, along with three points for the correct seed or one point for placing a team within one of the correct seed.No one did better once official results came out Monday afternoon. Daniel Jakes, a junior, said, “I just felt that we were going to be somewhere in the middle of the pack, not the top bracket. … It’s a huge accomplishment.”