I decided that instead of letting this blog go to waste, I'm going to sell it for millions of dollars. This way I can afford a four year school and a .......blackberry..... and not have to work. This site is going to be the next google...!
Im calling my investors now,
Samantha
Friday, December 12, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Help me Help theachers .....
When I walk into a classroom, I wish professors knew how much some students I had on their plates, how thin they spread themselves out. In high school, I despised more than anything when a teacher would tell students that "they knew what they were going through." That would never make me feel better because I felt like no one could truly understand the exhaustion that I sometimes felt on a daily basis. I would understand that some teachers might have been through similar experiences, but no one is truly able to know exactly what another human is experiencing.
I wish that professors would know that "busy work", or assignments handed out just for the sake of passing time literally kill busy students... and when I say kill I mean slaughter mentally. In high school, which I now officially call a pure waste of my time, I would literally almost cry every time a teacher was absent and we were assigned bookwork to keep "busy" with. These assignments were never graded, and most times never checked, but just completed so the class would "behave for a sub". During times like these I literally sat in my chair and through a SH*T fit in my head. How do teachers expect students to knowingly complete pointless work when most of them don't have time to be in class in the fist place?
O man; I also wish that teachers would not throw out completed and graded work (projects) in front of students. In physics last year, we were assigned a group project of building a chair out out cardboard (thank you public school systems). As one of the main "point earning assignments" within the project, the group as required to draw multiple diagrams of the chair. Well, I was in charge of drawing the diagrams, and after a morning of school, lacrosse practice, and getting called into work after that, I finally finished the diagrams well into the night (or early morning). The next day in class, the teacher took one glance, and when i say glance I mean barely flip through the pages, of the diagram book, says "yea looks good" and throws it in the trash. Vomit. Yea, we got the points, but my work clearly seemed not worth it. If I knew she was only going to glance at the book, I would have gotten a better nights sleep.
Basically, I wish that teachers knew that any work that is not related to the real world, or real world appications, is not benefitting any educational expierence.
I'm going to go overdose on STAR magazine,
Samantha
I wish that professors would know that "busy work", or assignments handed out just for the sake of passing time literally kill busy students... and when I say kill I mean slaughter mentally. In high school, which I now officially call a pure waste of my time, I would literally almost cry every time a teacher was absent and we were assigned bookwork to keep "busy" with. These assignments were never graded, and most times never checked, but just completed so the class would "behave for a sub". During times like these I literally sat in my chair and through a SH*T fit in my head. How do teachers expect students to knowingly complete pointless work when most of them don't have time to be in class in the fist place?
O man; I also wish that teachers would not throw out completed and graded work (projects) in front of students. In physics last year, we were assigned a group project of building a chair out out cardboard (thank you public school systems). As one of the main "point earning assignments" within the project, the group as required to draw multiple diagrams of the chair. Well, I was in charge of drawing the diagrams, and after a morning of school, lacrosse practice, and getting called into work after that, I finally finished the diagrams well into the night (or early morning). The next day in class, the teacher took one glance, and when i say glance I mean barely flip through the pages, of the diagram book, says "yea looks good" and throws it in the trash. Vomit. Yea, we got the points, but my work clearly seemed not worth it. If I knew she was only going to glance at the book, I would have gotten a better nights sleep.
Basically, I wish that teachers knew that any work that is not related to the real world, or real world appications, is not benefitting any educational expierence.
I'm going to go overdose on STAR magazine,
Samantha
Monday, December 8, 2008
Next Semester
No lie. Next semester I am taking all of the same classes, with most of the same teachers. The only difference will be the class itself. I'm taking English 1 this semester, next semester I'm taking English 2. The same goes for western civ, bio, and writing. I'm taking a different math course with the same professor. My goal is to get some of the stupid classes out of the way early.. and by stupid I mean anything to do with numbers ... and cells :)
I NEED A BREAK!
Samantha
I NEED A BREAK!
Samantha
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Spelling Failure
The most effective way to toatally crush an ego.. an ego of one that can't spell her way out of a paper bag.. is to design spell check to reject horribly mispelled words. Seriously, sometimes I completely butcher words so badly that spell check is like .. WTF? I would cmpletely fail in life without the comptuer fixing my embarassing mistakes. Still to this day I blame my low SAT writing scores on the fact that I was too scared to use rich vocabulary on the essay portion of the test because I would spell them wrong. Spelling is stupid.
I can't spell half the words that I just typed,
Samantha
I can't spell half the words that I just typed,
Samantha
Thursday, December 4, 2008
19 and 20
A. The best part of the year (Semester? .. this doesn't seem like the end of the year) was being totally surprised to see Mrs. Wright observing English class a few weeks ago! I also loved loved being home from school at 1130... Just in time to catch the last half of the View.
B. Here it goes, the most important thing that I learned all year was that my life is not ending just because I am going to community college. Yes, I'm miserable sometimes.. still... but I'm becoming less miserable. YaY! I'm too busy working and doing homework to feel like I'm missing out on college. Yes, another thing, I learned that community college is not easier than four year college .. well at least not in my case. I'm still stressed out and crazy.... I'm also learning that that will never change.
I'm spending all of the tuition money I would have spent at Penn State on a pony,
Samantha
B. Here it goes, the most important thing that I learned all year was that my life is not ending just because I am going to community college. Yes, I'm miserable sometimes.. still... but I'm becoming less miserable. YaY! I'm too busy working and doing homework to feel like I'm missing out on college. Yes, another thing, I learned that community college is not easier than four year college .. well at least not in my case. I'm still stressed out and crazy.... I'm also learning that that will never change.
I'm spending all of the tuition money I would have spent at Penn State on a pony,
Samantha
Monday, December 1, 2008
cheater cheater pumpkin eater
I can honestly never sit here and say that I've cheated, its just not my thing. First of all, I'm too much of a spaz. There is no way in Hades that I would have the amount of coordination to successfully look down at answers written on my sleeve/shoe all while trying to hide from my teacher and take a test at the same time. I'm too much of a worry wort. The simple thought of getting caught and being called out for cheating my a teacher seriously makes me never even want to try, I would be too embarrassed. As for plagiarizing papers, DUH. Every college student has been to high school. Everyone knows that high school is just a vehicle that students use to learn how to become a professional bullshi**er. It is ten times easier to write a crappy paper than it is to copy one. Its a loose loose situation either way.
Even though I would never have the Ba**s to plagiarize, I could understand why some students would. Some kids, at least from what I've seen are put under an immense amount of pressure to succeed, not only succeed but be the best at everything. They could be working full time and doing school, all while trying to make time for themselves and others. I look at their situations and feel sympathy.... for a second. REVELATION: Yes, i feel bad for these people but then i remember that I work five to six days a week and am a full time student .....with friends! So I take that back. No excuse suckers.. plagiarizing is stupid.
Some people cheat, or even accuse others of cheating, in order to get ahead in life. In high school, for instance, there was this person who accused another person of cheating in order to try and move up in class rank. (I'm not going to use names in order to avoid mean facebook comments). The accuser had no basis for accusing; everyone knew that the accuser was a total B.S er anyway, but still found it necessary to accuse to get ahead. The accused was not cheating, the accuser was not even in the same class as the accused. This semi-cheating story shes light on an unfortunate truth, some students cheat because they are lazy, others cheat their way to the top because they don't have anything else to work for.
Another reason as to why cheating is just not for me; I hate pumpkin pie,
Samantha
Even though I would never have the Ba**s to plagiarize, I could understand why some students would. Some kids, at least from what I've seen are put under an immense amount of pressure to succeed, not only succeed but be the best at everything. They could be working full time and doing school, all while trying to make time for themselves and others. I look at their situations and feel sympathy.... for a second. REVELATION: Yes, i feel bad for these people but then i remember that I work five to six days a week and am a full time student .....with friends! So I take that back. No excuse suckers.. plagiarizing is stupid.
Some people cheat, or even accuse others of cheating, in order to get ahead in life. In high school, for instance, there was this person who accused another person of cheating in order to try and move up in class rank. (I'm not going to use names in order to avoid mean facebook comments). The accuser had no basis for accusing; everyone knew that the accuser was a total B.S er anyway, but still found it necessary to accuse to get ahead. The accused was not cheating, the accuser was not even in the same class as the accused. This semi-cheating story shes light on an unfortunate truth, some students cheat because they are lazy, others cheat their way to the top because they don't have anything else to work for.
Another reason as to why cheating is just not for me; I hate pumpkin pie,
Samantha
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