Eli Green

Student at Alpha School OKC

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

I'm a freshman, and today was Day 1 at Alpha School OKC. The campus opened this morning and I'm in the first group of students here.

Most people hear "AI school" and stop at the AI part. That's only the first two hours.

Academics are personalized to your exact level, so you finish math, reading, science, and language in about two hours. No lectures. The adults are called guides and they don't teach subjects — they coach you through the hard parts.

The rest of the day is the actual point. I'd normally be sitting through six hours of class and getting handed a worksheet. Instead the year opens with bootcamp, running through October 9th, and inside it are workshops built around real life skills.

Bootcamp is the on-ramp. It's building the habits I'll need everywhere else — showing up daily, setting a bar and hitting it, doing the reps when nobody's watching. That carries into academics, into life skills, and into Alpha X, where you spend your afternoons building something real. A business, an app, a project you actually care about.

One of my workshops is to build an audience. The idea behind it is 1,000 true fans: you don't need to be famous, you need a real audience that cares about what you make.

My bar to pass: 100 followers by October 9th. Posting 3 times a day, starting at zero, documenting all of it here.

Follow me if you want to see how Alpha actually goes.

Day 1. @Alphaschool @kevin2kelly

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

Took my first SAT today at Alpha School OKC. Then we did our weekly raffle, a JBL speaker and a bunch of other little things.

That's the part people don't get about Alpha. The whole model runs on motivation. They pay us to learn. There's a raffle every single week.

And we get trips. For example, next month we go to Austin for a week and have to survive on our own. Then they're flying us to Miami for homecoming.

Sounds like a gimmick until you sit in it. Most schools are built on making you show up. This one is built on making you want to.

Our first SAT is a start, not a score I'm keeping. Started at a 950, going for a 1550.

Follow to see how the whole Alpha journey goes.
@Alphaschool

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@Chris_LockeATX who runs all the Alpha high schools, came to our campus today.

He walked us through the next couple of months and what it takes to get caught up. Now I know what I'm actually working toward instead of just showing up.

Then I went deeper in to Legacy and got into the little things the stuff that doesn't show up in a highlight.

The part that stuck: it's not just the athletic side. There's the mental side, staying steady when everything's going wrong, and there's the business side, which nobody teaches you until you need it. You can be the most talented guy in the building and lose to somebody who handled those two better.

Sweeping the sheds made more sense after today. The small stuff builds up into the big stuff.

Follow to see how the whole Alpha journey goes.

@StoneCandenu9a @RemyHazen @CoenConnerAHS @Alpha_carzs @Alphaschool

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

Started a new book at Alpha School OKC: Legacy by James Kerr.

It's about the All Blacks, New Zealand's rugby team, and how they became the most dominant team in the history of any sport. Kerr got inside the program to figure out what actually made them that way.

First thing that got me: after every match, the players clean the locker room themselves. Best team on the planet, sweeping their own floor. Nobody is above the small stuff, and the moment you think you are, you're done.

We have to be done by Tuesday, and the assignment isn't a book report. We have to come out of it with two new rules for our school. Real ones. Things we'd actually hold each other to.

That changes how you read a book. You're not looking for what's interesting, you're looking for what's worth keeping.

Follow to see how the whole Alpha journey goes.@Alphaschool

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@smoovesports Chris Olave has never out produced JJ a single time when they were both healthy besides 2025 where olave had 25 more receptions but less than 100 more yards

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@gtmom @gtschool They went good little surprised by my math but overall they went great

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

Our Placement tests at Alpha School OKC are almost done.

Alpha is self paced, so you start each subject at your actual level. Ahead in math, behind in English. Then that's where you start.

Then hole filling, go back, close the gaps, catch up to grade level. That's the academic part of bootcamp.

Posting my whole journey though Alpha follow to see how it goes. @Alphaschool

[Stone Candelaria @StoneCandenu9a]

A month ago I published this martial that I wrote by hand with help from the @Alphaschool team. It is focused on exposing bias in the news:

According to Pew Research Center at least 86% of Americans read the news at least “sometimes”, and many people still trust they are getting factual, unbiased news. But what if the news we get every day is not objective and balanced? What if the news product itself is routinely altered to create more emotion in the viewer - particularly fear and hatred - to drive “views” and “clicks”? Or what if the news is slanted to benefit the news channel’s political views?
“The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about.” — Bernard Cohen, 1963

That observation, first made by political scientist Bernard Cohen in 1963, was confirmed in a study by McCombs and Shaw nine years later.
Bias is the tendency to favor one side, opinion, or perspective over others, often in a way that is unfair or not completely objective. This happens in the news all of the time. A great example of this is the Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, in which George Floyd’s death sparked protests, some peaceful, and some involving looting and clashes with police.

Fox News, a conservative news station, focused on the violence, riots, and property damage. On the other side, CNN, a liberal news station focused on peaceful protest and police brutality.
While both sides were not wrong, they each left out key details. Story selection, framing and tone are how the media tees up the topics that it wants us to focus on in our daily news cycles.

The danger is that sensationalism and emotional appeals, not facts, become central to the business model of our media.
Humans are very emotional beings and we can respond more passionately to emotional stories, and the news can take advantage of that.

A 2025 study by Haoning Xue, Jingwen Zhang, and Xinzhi Zhang found emotional content increases engagement but can reduce how effectively people understand accurate information.
This is good for news channels because the more the viewer watches and reads and clicks on their stories the more money for the news station, regardless of whether the viewer understands the problem.
Fear in news headlines: up 150% since 2000.

In an interview with Dr. Lori McKinnon (Christie) — Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Oklahoma State University School of Media & Strategic Communications — she said: “Framing relates to the way the story is discussed. For example, some stories may be framed with a liberal or conservative bias. Local issues may be added to a national news story to frame the story as part of a larger or national conflict.”
This is very true, and most people don’t even know that it is happening all around them. News and media stations use many tactics to alter your opinion on events or in general, and I believe people have the right to know what is really happening.
Now that you know the tactics the media is capable of using, you’ll have a better chance of deciphering what is accurate and what is misleading. The more you look for it, the more you realize it happens every day

[Stone Candelaria @StoneCandenu9a]

Another amazing day at @Alphaschool

We went on a fun scavenger hunt across OKC, and once we got back we did some critical feedback work.

Can't wait for tomorrow!
#AlphaSchool #OKC #ScavengerHunt @AlphaSchool @CoenConnerAHS @RemyHazen

[Stone Candelaria @StoneCandenu9a]

First week at Alpha School finished!

I’ve already learned so much through the two-hour learning sessions and team-building projects.

I never said this when I attended regular school, but I can’t wait for next week!

@Alphaschool @Big_EG7 @Alpha_carzs @CoenConnerAHS @mackenzieprice

[Stone Candelaria @StoneCandenu9a]

Second week at Alpha school starting strong.

Today we worked on a character test and finished up MAP testing.

Tomorrow we will be doing SAT prep.

We also went on an amazing visit of the botanical gardens.

[Stone Candelaria @StoneCandenu9a]

I am an Alpha school student, and I have a goal:

Gain 100 followers in the next 2 months and have 1000 true fans.

We are doing a workshop to build an audience and I will be posting once a day talking about alpha school and my experience, along with other things I am interested in.

My workshop is part of something bigger called bootcamp. Bootcamp will help my classmates and I learn life skills. These life skills will help us create a better Alpha X business.

If you want to hear what alpha is like from an inside perspective then follow me.

@kevin2kelly @Alphaschool

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@ClassyDameFan Dak prescott is much better than kyler in every aspect of the game he has more passing yards more touchdowns better passer rating more mvp votes and playoff wins.

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

Last week was 3 days. Kind of a warm up.

This week is the first full week at Alpha School OKC and it's when the real grind starts. 5 days straight.

Mornings are 2 hours of academics. Rest of the day is life skills.

Right now we're in bootcamp doing life skill workshops to get us ready for our Alpha X, which is the thing you actually build in the afternoon. Bootcamp runs till October 9. My workshop is to build an audience. The goal was 3 posts a day and 100 followers by the 9th.

I finished that goal by day 3 now my new goal is 1k by October 9

Posting the whole journey here follow to see how it goes

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

Week 1 at alpha school okc is done.

got a lot done, but a big part of the week was getting adjusted. figuring out how the day runs, how the 2 hour academic block works, what the afternoon looks like, and explaining what bootcamp is and what workshops are.

the campus opened the same week we started, so everyone was getting used to it at once.

week 2 is when we really get into it.

i'm posting this whole journey here as it happens. follow if you want to see how it goes.

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@johnjammin77 @BallMuse23 Kobe is one of the best players OAT dont disrespect him

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@BowTiedPeater Leader then Runner then Environmental person

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

Day 3 at alpha okc went great

we ran the everest simulation today. it's a harvard business sim where your team is climbing mount everest and every person gets a different role with different info and different goals. so you can't just do your own thing, you have to actually talk to each other every round or the team stalls out. way harder than it sounds.

we didn't do the best on it, but it was a valuable teambuilding exercise and a good workshop overall.

if you don't know what alpha is: it's a school where academics are about 2 hours a day on an app, and the rest of the day goes to life skills and real projects. no lectures, no sitting in class all day.

i'm posting this whole journey here, so follow along.

https://t.co/AqX3qJIfw6 @Alphaschool @CoenConnerAHS @RemyHazen @Alpha_carzs @StoneCandenu9a

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@CASTLEJ4CK Theres def someone

[Eli Green @Big_EG7]

@PubertArenas @champlahoma Chet would walk your team