So! This isn't really something huge that everyone has been debating but it definitely rubs me the wrong way. SENIORITIS= seniors don't want to do anything anymore and have lost all want to work in school.
Alright, it happens, yes, senioritis does hit! But then, the false statements of all the seniors last year screw us over! We definitely DO have work to do senior year and we CAN'T just cruze on by! If you have no academic classes then maybe, just maybeeeee you can see the real beauty of senioritis. This whole year I have been working my but off and complaining about it the whole way through because I am a senior and as a senior I am supposed to get less work than before! Tough luck! I've had same amount if not more work this year, than I had junior year, which is supposed to be the hardest year of high school. So seniors of last year, I'd like to tell you to stop telling lies because senior year is not just a cruze of fun, it requires work and time! Hopefully these last 16 some days of school will finally let me enjoy my senioritis.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Blogging around brahh
Moses Lin: Best of the Week: Prom.
I think this is completely, ridiculously awesome, I love that you got this idea from the do you mind questions because I as well have taken away more from them than I expected. It's nice to be asked questions that we usually would not be asked. Anyways, this idea is great and personal which is probably why it's weird that I'm commenting on it...but oh well. Great job Moses who knew two simple questions everyday in English would open so many doors!
Kayvon Vakil: Inconvenient Truth: "Land of the Free."
First of all... FISHIES! That made me interested in your blog, second I completely agree with you! This whole Land of the free is so not true. We are only free on the surface, to the public. When it really comes down to it, we can't do much at all! We can live and make decisions for ourselves but when it actually comes down to something important, we are as chained back as we could ever be. So yea man, I agree with your post! We definitely are not as free as we are said to be. [that rhymed]
I think this is completely, ridiculously awesome, I love that you got this idea from the do you mind questions because I as well have taken away more from them than I expected. It's nice to be asked questions that we usually would not be asked. Anyways, this idea is great and personal which is probably why it's weird that I'm commenting on it...but oh well. Great job Moses who knew two simple questions everyday in English would open so many doors!
Kayvon Vakil: Inconvenient Truth: "Land of the Free."
First of all... FISHIES! That made me interested in your blog, second I completely agree with you! This whole Land of the free is so not true. We are only free on the surface, to the public. When it really comes down to it, we can't do much at all! We can live and make decisions for ourselves but when it actually comes down to something important, we are as chained back as we could ever be. So yea man, I agree with your post! We definitely are not as free as we are said to be. [that rhymed]
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Best of the week: TED presentations.
I spoke in my last entry about how interesting it is to see how differently people view the world; well the TED presentations are just another place where this can be seen.
Everybody chose a topic that was interesting to them that talking about something that would help sustain life from here on into the future... When choosing my topic I knew that I wanted to do something that would be interesting to me, so right away I went and looked at more artsy/computer things and found Siftables! At first I didn't know how they would help "sustain life," but after pondering about it for a while, I came up with a way.
This week my eyes were opened by how many different things people find interesting. There were presentations on things I would absolutely HATE to write about because it is just not for me... while for the people who were doing that project, that subject was interesting and enlightening.
We are all taught the same things in high school, but then, when it is finally our time to step out and do something with this knowledge, we all choose different paths. Maybe it's pre-destined that someone will work as a doctor, or maybe with computers or even with plants... or maybe we decide our fate by the environment we are surrounded by. Every person's story somehow imprints on their life. Finally out of high school, we get to get a glimpse at this imprint.
Everybody chose a topic that was interesting to them that talking about something that would help sustain life from here on into the future... When choosing my topic I knew that I wanted to do something that would be interesting to me, so right away I went and looked at more artsy/computer things and found Siftables! At first I didn't know how they would help "sustain life," but after pondering about it for a while, I came up with a way.
This week my eyes were opened by how many different things people find interesting. There were presentations on things I would absolutely HATE to write about because it is just not for me... while for the people who were doing that project, that subject was interesting and enlightening.
We are all taught the same things in high school, but then, when it is finally our time to step out and do something with this knowledge, we all choose different paths. Maybe it's pre-destined that someone will work as a doctor, or maybe with computers or even with plants... or maybe we decide our fate by the environment we are surrounded by. Every person's story somehow imprints on their life. Finally out of high school, we get to get a glimpse at this imprint.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Mashup
Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away...
1. "You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language."
1. "You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language."
2. "Things and animals- and our enjoyment of it is so indescribably beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions. In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable."
3."For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first."
4. "When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are."
5. 
6. "It is also good to love: Because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward- beating heart, they must learn to love."
7. "But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and therefore loving, for a long time ahead and far on into life, is-; solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves."
8. "Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you."
9. You don't need to watch the whole thing. The first 2 mins are enough.
10. "We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. But how much better it is to recognize that we are alone; yes, even to begin from this realization. It will, of course, make us dizzy; for all points that our eyes used to rest on are taken away from us, there is no longer anything near us, and everything far away is infinitely far."
11. "Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent-?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances."
12. "But this is what young people are so often and so disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment...: and what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many other who still wanted to come."
13. "By about 4 AM he had decided he was in love with me. Which, though a little strange, since I’d barely spoken, was fine with me. It’s always nice when someone’s in love with you. Gives you leverage."
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15. "It is true that many young people who love falsely, i.e., simply surrendering themselves and giving up their solitude (the average person will of course always go on doing that-), feel oppressed by their failure and want to make the situation they have landed in livable and fruitful in their own, personal way-."
16. "You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss."
17. "Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?"
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Works Cited.
1. Rilke, Rainer. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Random House Inc., 1984. Print. (34).
2. Rilke, Rainer. (39).
3. Lightman, Alan. Einstein's Dreams. New York: Warner Bros. Edition, 1993. Print.
4. Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Dir. John Madden. 2001. Film.
5. Poehling, Allison. allie-poehlingx3.xanga. Dec 11, 2010. Web. 04/25/2011.
6. Rilke, Rainer. (68).
7. Rilke, Rainer. (69).
8. Rilke, Rainer. (41).
9. Akon. Universal Records: SRC Records, Inc.,2005. Film.
10. Rilke, Rainer. (87).
11. Rilke, Rainer. (69-70).
12. Rilke, Rainer. (70-71).
13. Poehling, Allison.
14. Nicholas. Otherwise source unknown.
15. Rilke, Rainer. (72).
16. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991. Print.
17. Lightman, Alan.
Best of the week: Do You Mind?
When Mr. Allen first introduced Do you mind? I was intrigued and that it was a very interesting thing to do. We get to answer two questions every day that we usually don't get to answer or think about. Answering the questions was only part of the beauty; the real thing that caught my eye was how people answered those questions.
Everyone sees the world in different ways and we often don't realize this. There is a psychology approach that talks about this. The Phenomenological Approach. Even though this is a very long and complicated approach name, all it really means is that people see the world in different ways.
Through answering the same questions and then talking about our answers, I noticed how very true this is. People would answer the question in ways I would never even think of.
People experience things in very different ways than us that is why we are not able to just assume that what and how we see things is the right way. It might be the right way for us, but the completely wrong way for someone else... this is what makes the world so interesting and every person so unique. People find beauty in the randomest things for the most random reasons. This is the whole reason there is so much creativity and uniqueness in the world. It's Awesome!
Everyone sees the world in different ways and we often don't realize this. There is a psychology approach that talks about this. The Phenomenological Approach. Even though this is a very long and complicated approach name, all it really means is that people see the world in different ways.
Through answering the same questions and then talking about our answers, I noticed how very true this is. People would answer the question in ways I would never even think of.
People experience things in very different ways than us that is why we are not able to just assume that what and how we see things is the right way. It might be the right way for us, but the completely wrong way for someone else... this is what makes the world so interesting and every person so unique. People find beauty in the randomest things for the most random reasons. This is the whole reason there is so much creativity and uniqueness in the world. It's Awesome!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Blogging around
From Me to Debra's Entry of Captured Thought: Free Will.
Your entry made me wish I was in that class, it seems like a very interesting one. I also wish to believe that we have free will but I think that our free will is very limited. Past our simple choices like "to go to the bathroom or eat some food," everything is influenced by something else. We choose to do something but past that someone influences us to make the decisions we end up making.
I feel that "freedom" is just a word. In reality we are far from free. Every action that actually matters is somehow limited. The bill of rights are even limited when they actually matter.
I feel that even in classes where we are supposed to have the freedom to say anything we want, we are limited by the teacher and their opinion. Many teachers shut down our opinions because they think that there's is more important.
A Response to Lizzie's Metacognition: First Semester.
I took humanities for the opposite reason than you did but I definitely agree that it opened up my creativity as well. I admire your want to take a more difficult class for you to explore the other part of your brain that you usually don't use, for me, I use my creative brain all the time but in the end of junior year and the summer I had a lot of trouble with creativity and coming up with my own ideas; this class opened up my mind and let me create new things instead of just taking from others.
I agree with you that the Mindbook was probably the best part of the class. It opened up my mind and let me explore assignments completely lacking in boundaries. That helped my mind the most.
I just wish the class was as easy going as it is now, the whole year, instead of being so tight-knit and 50 projects at once.
Your entry made me wish I was in that class, it seems like a very interesting one. I also wish to believe that we have free will but I think that our free will is very limited. Past our simple choices like "to go to the bathroom or eat some food," everything is influenced by something else. We choose to do something but past that someone influences us to make the decisions we end up making.
I feel that "freedom" is just a word. In reality we are far from free. Every action that actually matters is somehow limited. The bill of rights are even limited when they actually matter.
I feel that even in classes where we are supposed to have the freedom to say anything we want, we are limited by the teacher and their opinion. Many teachers shut down our opinions because they think that there's is more important.
A Response to Lizzie's Metacognition: First Semester.
I took humanities for the opposite reason than you did but I definitely agree that it opened up my creativity as well. I admire your want to take a more difficult class for you to explore the other part of your brain that you usually don't use, for me, I use my creative brain all the time but in the end of junior year and the summer I had a lot of trouble with creativity and coming up with my own ideas; this class opened up my mind and let me create new things instead of just taking from others.
I agree with you that the Mindbook was probably the best part of the class. It opened up my mind and let me explore assignments completely lacking in boundaries. That helped my mind the most.
I just wish the class was as easy going as it is now, the whole year, instead of being so tight-knit and 50 projects at once.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Final Blog for Lit. Circles
For the literature circles books I read the novel Thinking in Pictures: My life with Autism. By Temple Grandin.
For this final blog I reviewed and compared my book to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks from Haley Mooney's blog entry. Both books talk about challenging the status quo with oppression. In Temple's book she talks about how autistic people get oppressed in life and the disabled get pushed aside because they are thought of as incomplete. Many people see it as easier just to label disabled people and not worry about maybe they actually have something to offer. No one spend the time to figure out what their strengths are; Temple Grandin is able to see images in her head that no other "normal" human can see and yet she also at first was just labeled like everyone else. Henrietta had a similar story but she was not labeled purely by who she was, this played a role but really the problem with her was that no one ever tried digging to the bottom of who she was and what her real story was.
People in this society find it much easier to just go along with the rest of the crowd than spend time actually trying to find out the truth. Haley sums this up well in her blog saying that "people are afraid of change and therefore when "signs" show that something may not go so well, the idea is quickly dropped and moved on from." This is what happens with autistic people too. No one wants to spend the time to actually find their strength and work with it, that is why it is hard for them to get past basic level job work. Yet if one was to actually spend the time to find their strengths and utilize them in the future, for education and job preference (like Temple did) they would flourish and be able to accomplish much more than then the average person.
Society needs to stop being lazy and get around just normal stereotypes, there are deep secrets that are hidden in things we choose to ignore, all we need to do is actually spend the time looking in them. They could help up solve our biggest problems.
For this final blog I reviewed and compared my book to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks from Haley Mooney's blog entry. Both books talk about challenging the status quo with oppression. In Temple's book she talks about how autistic people get oppressed in life and the disabled get pushed aside because they are thought of as incomplete. Many people see it as easier just to label disabled people and not worry about maybe they actually have something to offer. No one spend the time to figure out what their strengths are; Temple Grandin is able to see images in her head that no other "normal" human can see and yet she also at first was just labeled like everyone else. Henrietta had a similar story but she was not labeled purely by who she was, this played a role but really the problem with her was that no one ever tried digging to the bottom of who she was and what her real story was.
People in this society find it much easier to just go along with the rest of the crowd than spend time actually trying to find out the truth. Haley sums this up well in her blog saying that "people are afraid of change and therefore when "signs" show that something may not go so well, the idea is quickly dropped and moved on from." This is what happens with autistic people too. No one wants to spend the time to actually find their strength and work with it, that is why it is hard for them to get past basic level job work. Yet if one was to actually spend the time to find their strengths and utilize them in the future, for education and job preference (like Temple did) they would flourish and be able to accomplish much more than then the average person.
Society needs to stop being lazy and get around just normal stereotypes, there are deep secrets that are hidden in things we choose to ignore, all we need to do is actually spend the time looking in them. They could help up solve our biggest problems.
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