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SUMMER MENTORSHIP
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7/11/20156 HoursThis is the first day I met my mentor. We talked mostly about what my mentor did for his job, and just learning about my topic in general, along with getting to know each other. He gave me a website to learn about my topic more and a book to read called The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. 6 Hours
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7/20/20152 HoursOn this day, I came to see what else I could learn about certain sub topics in my topic. I also told him how much I read The Total Money Makeover. I was telling him what I thought of the book so far and how I was intrigued by it.8 Hours
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7/27/20152 HoursOn this day, I told my mentor about what I had recently read about The Total Money Makeover. I asked him if he had any clients I could interview since I knew I had to do interviews for my senior project. He said he would ask two clients of his if they would do it. We then talked about what other things I could learn with my topic, like housing and what to invest in. Of course it was a lot to take in, so I wanted to listen and then do an example to keep the information in my head.10 Hours
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9/14/20157 minutesThis was a short visit since my mentor was busy, so I just did my interview with him. After that I asked him how he was doing and he did the same.0 Hours 7 minutes
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10/28/201510 minutesThis was a short visit since I only planned to get another interview done with him and told hi9m I was almost done with the book he gave me.0 Hours 17 minutes
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12/14/20152 HoursThis visit was about creating the outline for the concept of my website, we went back and forth with what should be included and what wouldn't. I originally thought that retirement should really be in their but my mentor said that everything else we already agreed on is more important and that everything else will lead to retirement.2 Hours 17 minutes
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12/16/20152 HoursMy mentor and I just discussed the book (The Total Money Makeover) he gave me since I finished it and wanted to talk about. We mostly talked about a lot of the book since I was confused at what many sections talked about, mostly from the end of the book. Yet I still don't know understand these ideas but hey I still have time to understand them. One of these ideas is "The Snowball Plan".4 Hours 17 minutes
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12/21/20154 HoursThis was a discussion on financial strategies on an individual basis. This was long since I had no idea where to start and that this would be hard since everyone is different. We were discussing at first what audience I want my topic to be aimed at and then we had to figure out would they actually look at our ideas.8 Hours 17 Minutes
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12/23/20152 HoursOn this day, my mentor and I discussed where I should look for information for specific subtopics in our outline like how to buy a house, attitude and how to make your money grow. 10 Hours and 17 Minutes
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12/30/20151 Hour 43 minutesHere, we first just talked about how our Chirstmas was. Then we talked more about what else I could find for the subtopics on my website. I asked a question to my mentor about Why do people just overspend when they really shouldn't? And he told was that some people don't have control over their impulse to buy, this question will be great for when I put it into my Attitude subtopic page.11 Hours
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1/9/20165 HoursToday, my mentor and I started creating my Budget Page for How to Save category. For what we did we wrote the basics of what people need to know before making a budget, how to start off their budget and put a picture of what the budget should look like that I created from excel.16 Hours
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1/14/20162 HoursToday my mentor and I created my attitude page for my How to Save page. We made the text on the subject, and how attitude affects people's impulse on money.18 Hours
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1/16/20161 HourToday my mentor and I created the You Need A Job Page. We wrote all the text, and why a job is important, even if the person is in college.19 Hours
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1/18/20161 Hour and 10 MinutesToday my mentor and I created the Credit card page that talks about why credit cards are bad. We put all the text, put in a debt reduction calculator, a video explaining a point I make in the beginning, and also why credit cards are bad for people.20 Hours and 10 Minutes
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1/19/20164 HoursToday my mentor and I created the How to Make Your Money Grow page. We did all the text, the title. The information took awhile to find, understand the information was a problem for me so that I could write it and make sure people understand it.24 Hours and 10 Minutes
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1/25/20161 HourToday my mentor and I created my Living Within Your Means page. We wrote the text, getting a picture for the page, and showing how living within your means is important.25 Hours and 10 Minutes
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1/26/20163 Hours and 45 MinutesToday my mentor and I created the Pay Yourself 1st page. Which has the image, the text about this topic. We also worked on making the front website page what I want it to look like. Finding all the pictures that are on the page, making little descriptions of some of the pages, and putting all the other text on the page like how long it will take to pay off debt.28 Hours and 55 Minutes
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2/2/20165 HoursToday my mentor and I created the Buy A House page. This includes the writing of how to buy a house, all the statistics, counters of house prices,
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2/3/20161 Hour and 20 MinutesToday my mentor and I created the Get Some Help page. This page contains the information the page is about, and the picture that helps give the page its look. This is the last page in the page line.35 Hours and 15 Minutes
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3/11/20161 Hour and 15 MinutesToday my mentor helped me create an idea of how to incorporate how to become a millionaire into a board game. Not only that but he gave me the idea to use cards with questions about money.36 Hours and 30 Minutes
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4/6/20162 Hours and 30 MinutesToday I showed my mentor all the questions I made for my independent component 2. We went over them and what needed to be changed and if they were good in the context of the game.39 Hours
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4/12/20161 HourToday I showed my mentor the edited questions and asked if there was anything that should be added or changed. He said they were fine and so were the answers.40 Hours
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4/15/20162 Hours and 15 MinutesToday my mentor was helping me research stuff that I could use for my senior project. I managed to get three sources for next week, after shuffling through a ton of bad articles.42 Hours and 15 Minutes
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4/20/20163 Hours and 45 MinutesToday my mentor showed me more budgets and what was wrong with them. After that he then showed me what buying a car with a credit card is like, plus he answered one of my questions about why houses are so expensive in California. He answered that what realstaters care about when it comes to houses is the weather in the location where the houses.46 Hours
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4/26/20162 HoursToday my mentor and I looked at some ways people paided off credit cards (not from his clients). After he helped me research some more articles for my research check.48 Hours
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5/2/20162 HoursToday my mentor and I went over what different investments are and what they did, like a 401k and a mutual fund. This took a while since I didn't know what a mutual fund was.50 Hours
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INDEPENDENT COMPONENT 1
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12/14/20151 Hour and 30 MinutesMy mentor and I created an overall navigation concept of what the new website would contain. We broke down the main categories that we felt were most important and then created subcategories to address the concepts.
It just ended up to be the first draft of what the website will be like.		1 Hours and 30 Minutes
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12/17/20152 HoursI created a sub folder on a existing domain, i named the sub folder htbw [how to become a millionaire] with my mentor. After I created the sub folder, I installed the latest version of WordPress into the folder. I upgraded the existing plugins and changed various WordPress settings to prepare the site for a WordPress install. I installed a specific WordPress theme that I felt was suitable to meet the challenges of my Independent Component 1 project. The next stage for me is build out the website pages to create the message I am trying to convey. 3 Hours and 30 Minutes
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12/28/20151 Hour and 15 MinutesI worked on making the How to Save page look to my liking. Changing the main background picture and the title, putting pictures and titles of what the sections are going to talk about, editing those pictures, and changing the hover background color of the buttons to blue.
I replaced the text from what it originally was and put the letter I, that will be changed when the page for that section is complete.		4 Hours and 45 Minutes
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1/9/20165 Hours and 30 MinutesToday, my mentor and I started creating my Budget Page for How to Save category. For what we did, I changed the title of the page, we wrote the basics of what people need to know before making a budget, how to start off their budget and put a picture of what the budget should look like that I created from excel.
I updated the navigation of my website so that it shows home, how to save, how to stay out of debt, and how to prepare to be successful. I added a description to my how to save page about the budget.		10 Hours and 15 Minutes
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1/14/20162 Hours and 30 MinutesToday my mentor and I created my attitude page for my How to Save page. I made the text on the subject, made the title with a little description of what people are going to read, added a picture, made a link at the bottom of the page that will lead people to my next article about jobs and fixed the format of the page so that the link at the bottom with the description would be full width but the text and title would only be in the center and not full width. I also added attitude to the How to Save menu, and added a description for attitude on the How to Save Page.12 Hours and 45 Minutes
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1/16/20161 Hour and 10 MinutesToday my mentor and I created the You Need A Job Page. I wrote all the text, put the picture of the page overall, made the title and the description for the page, made a little description of what the next page will be with the button. I also updated You need a job portion on the How to Save page with a working link and description. I updated the menu so that it shows the You need A Job and How to make your money grow page links.13 Hours and 55 Minutes
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1/18/20161 Hour and 40 MinutesToday my mentor and I created the Credit card page that talks about why credit cards are bad. I put all the text, put in a debt reduction calculator, a video explaining a point I make in the beginning, put a little description of what the next article will talk about, and added a picture.
I also updated the How to Stay Out of Debt Page with a description of the credit card page and updated the How to Stay Out of Debt menu.		15 Hours and 35 Minutes
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1/19/20164 HoursToday my mentor and I created the How to Make Your Money Grow page. I did all the text, the title, and added a picture. The information took awhile to find, understand the information so that I could write it and make sure people understand it.19 Hours and 35 Minutes
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1/25/20161 Hour and 15 MinutesToday I created my Living Within Your Means page. Writing the text, getting a picture for the page, creating the description of the next page with a button to that page, and making it pleasing to the eye.20 Hours and 50 Minutes
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1/26/20163 Hours and 45 MinutesToday my mentor and I created the Pay Yourself 1st page. Which has the image, the text about this topic, and a little description of the next page with a link to it. We also worked on making the front website page what I want it to look like. Finding all the pictures that are on the page, making little descriptions of some of the pages, having links for the main three pages that have the subtopics, and putting all the other text on the page like how long it will take to pay off debt.24 Hours and 35 Minutes
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1/29/20161 Hour and 30 MinutesToday I created the Choosing A Financial Adviser page. This includes the text of what to look for in a financial adviser, the quote, and the picture. This page took long due to finding out what people should look for when getting a financial adviser.25 Hours and 5 Minutes
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2/2/20165 HoursToday my mentor and I created the Buy A House page. This includes the writing of how to buy a house, all the statistics, and counters of house prices. I created the description of the next page with the link to it and all the pictures that combined with the layout make the page aesthetically pleasing.
This page took a lot of research to make this page with all the information that it has.		30 Hours and 5 Minutes
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2/3/20161 Hour and 20 MinutesToday I created the Get Some Help page. This page contains the information the page is about, and the picture that helps give the page its look. This is the last page in the page line.31 Hours and 25 Minutes
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3/12/20162 Hours and 30 MinutesToday I created the board game idea that I wanted to make. I wanted the game to have an end where the players have to reach. So I thought of how people would be going around the board along with some places that could either mess up the people, or help them. Then I started thinking about the cards that would be used, the categories I wanted to use, and what would make people get a certain category. A rough design of the card was also created.2 Hours and 30 Minutes
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3/23/20162 Hours and 45 MinutesToday I started creating the game board and finishing it with the template that I got from researching a site called the Game Crafter. This site would make the game for me by paying them, so I used the template they had to make the board.5 Hours and 15 Minutes
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4/4/20165 HoursToday I created the rough draft of the Savings and Lifestyle Questions and Answers. Researching all these questions took a while and coming up with answers for them. Especially when I was getting to the end of the savings questions.10 Hours and 15 Minutes
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4/6/20161 Hour and 20 MinutesToday I created the design of the cards, and started seeing how the questions would fit on the cards.
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4/9/20161 Hour and 25 MinutesToday I started making the cards. I completed the 5 cards front and back. 18 Hours
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4/10/20161 Hour and 25 MinutesToday I made more cards, 5 cards front and back.19 Hours and 25 Minutes
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4/11/20161 Hour and 25 MinutesToday I made the 5 cards front and back.20 Hours and 45 Minutes
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4/12/20161 Hour and 25 MinutesToday I fixed the cards with the template since the cards I made before had to be fixed or parts of it would be cut off when the cards are made.22 Hours and 10 Minutes
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4/12/201620 MinutesToday I created the rules for the game.22 Hours and 30 Minutes
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4/13/20163 Hours and 20 MinutesToday I edited all the questions and answers so that they make sense and that the questions fit with the category. This took a while since there was two questions that didn't make sense and a lot of the answers weren't good at all.25 Hours and 50 Minutes
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4/14/20163 Hours and 30 MinutesToday I looked at everything again to see if there was anything wrong aesthetically. There were minor things that I had to change, fixing the design of some cards that looked off, and figuring out how Game Crafter did their decks. Decks were weird when I first was putting in some of the cards to see how the cards would look, when I put the back of the card for a deck, I realized that it would be for every card in the deck. Not only that but figuring out what proofing was and how to put everything into an order, then going to see any mistakes on the cards.29 Hours and 20 Minutes
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4/14/20161 Hour and 30 MinutesToday I started to put all my cards and board design on the Game Crafter website. After that my Dad and I printed out the board and questions so we could play to see how it was. After that, we then ordered it soon after I found a box to put it in and game pieces.30 Hours and 50 Minutes
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