The Newspaper Narrative

The assignment was to construct some sort of tower out of newspapers that would be able to withstand the weight of a block of cement. Our goal was for the tower to hold the block up as high off the ground as we could make it. At first I had no idea how to start off. I mean the obvious answer seemed to be to stack up the newspapers as they were-that would guarantee like 5 inches. Then I wanted to construct a large cylinder-type tower but noticed a lot of people making cylinders so scrapped that idea since I hate using the same idea as someone else even if I thought of it on my own. Be original please, don’t be lazy. After a long while I finally decided to build it sort of the same way that bridges are made since they’re designed to bear incredible weight. I was going to stack these “bridges” on top of each other but by the time I finished-not really-the first layer, time was up. So of course my tower only sustained the block of cement about as high as the newspaper was thick. If only I had more time, but perhaps it was too complicated. I want to build another one and turn it in later for credit, but who knows.