101 Lists

Lately I have found myself making list after list, one list for stuff I need yet to finish before I got to college, another list for the supplies for school, one list for the furniture for my room..you see how these lists are piling up! For some people lists are annoying and pointless, for me, I see them differently. If I can not actively accomplish things at a specific moment I make a list, I used it for school, and obviously I am using them now. Every new list I make I one, get to forget about something specific so I don't have to remember it by myself and two feel one step closer to college. My earlier post was of worrying about leaving the nest, which honestly is still there, but the atmosphere of college is sucking me in.

By now I have been to orientation, met one roommate, and facebooked others about our apartment in the fall, and with someone drawing my attention to the fact of only 32 days, a little over a month till move in day, I can't seem to get passed the excitement. Excitement of everything, new classes, new people, new place. Don't get me wrong, I am sure that after a week the excitement will wash away and the realization of leaving home will hit me, but as for right now I can't wait. To tell you the truth I can't wait to be in classes again as well. Something about college classes seems new and intriguing, I am hoping that I am right. I do not know for sure where college shall take me in the next month, and I am sure my nights will be late as I have a weakness for procrastination, but I am glad that I am finally making a step towards my career and the rest of my life. So for now I will continue my 101 lists and getting supplies for school, until eventually I have no choice but to put it all in boxes and drive to my new home.

Leaving the Nest

It's June 16th and only two months until Fall Semester in college begins..wow, college. I don't know about other Seniors in the world but it is hard to believe that Senior year and graduation is over and now in the middle between highschool and college. When your small you always wish to be older, to be 13, then 16, then 18. Each time you can't wait to be a little older. Now being guilty of that myself sitting and looking back on the last 18 years of my life is hard to believe. 20's used to seem so far away and now they are only two..And college? well thats a mere less than 100 days for those people who are counting. It's a freeing feeling to know you are moving out and moving away to go to college, even if it is only two hours away, but even then it is wierd to think that everyone, everything, even the four walls that you have grown up in won't be the place you lay you head down at night. It'll be the place you have to drive to go visit, instead of waking up every  morning within those four walls. I'm sure so many people can't wait to be out of their houses, away from the parents they sware are ruining their lives, or away from the people they just can't wait to leave in the dust. But what I think those people are going to find out is just how much they miss when they leave, and just how different things are. I've noticed it with little things, getting mail addressed to me from a school, when normally it was to my parents. Having the place I'm going to live for the next year dealing with me, calling my phone and not my parents. As we take that step into a place that we are bound to learn more than we have in the past, we learn how to handle more of the stuff in our own lives as well. It's a strange feeling wanting to leave and being excited about the whole new adventure that lays in front, but wanting to stay to what is familar at the same time. Some may think I'm crazy but I don't think I'll ever be fully 100% ready to leave the nest..not just yet anyway.

Bullying part 4

This will be the last part of the bullying blogs. I wrote these blogs not to harp on people about teasing others or to throw statistics in people's faces that I am sure have been on the news or in the paper or somewhere that is easily seen. My point is to possibly wake some people up to the reality of what impact you have on people's lives. We are going to college for some of the people reading this, and in college try and make a promise to yourself to be more open to people. Don't ridicule someone because they are different because you never know when that is their last straw, when they no longer can do life anymore. I once read a book called "Thirteen Reasons Why," by Jay Asher( I truly reccomend this by the way) and it was about a girl who had committed suicide but not before creating 13 tapes that were to be sent to every person on a list that had some impact on why she decided to commit suicide. It went through her story of how everything ended up linking together and causing one massive situation that she couldn't handle anymore. That book truly shows that you never know what someone is dealing with outside of the environment you see them in. You don't know what they deal with when they go home, or what they have to handle in other classes. We have so little time in some people's lives and do you really want that little time to be you bullying them or making them feel inferior to you for whatever reason?

What people chose to say to others does hurt, that saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me," Is wrong, it can hurt you. It is not okay to chose someone out of a crowd and make them feel alone or inferior, because chances are what you are making fun of them about they probably can't change. If you do anything in life at least try to remember that you may think its funny but that person probably doesn't and would you want to wake up in the morning and read in the paper about how someone YOU bullied died because something you said? Personally I woudn't want that on my conscience. I have my moments where I forget this very thing I am hoping people will learn to do, but I am getting better and I hope that someday it never happens because life could be so much simpler if people learned to accept others for who they are and not avoid them because of things they can't change.

So here is a blog I found about bullying, one story of millions that happen all the time.. http://bullyingstatistics.blogspot.com/

Here is a link where I found some of my statistics http://www.pascack.k12.nj.us/70271919141818/lib/70271919141818/Bullying_Statistics.htm

and this is a link to a video about a bullying project movie or show that is coming out..
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/04/27/bully_project_movie_trailer/index.html


I hope that even if you chose not to go along with what I say that someone out there learned something and maybe was able to change a few lives in the process.

(Oh and sorry Mrs. Healey that this one is like 13 minutes after 12!)

Bullying part 3

I know many people may read this and say, bullying really? What more is there to say about bullying? What haven't we heard about that growing up, especially in todays society? If you turn on the news you can hear stories about someone being bullied all the time. So what are the effects of bullying to someone? What will happen to them in the future? Well let's find out..

Bullying has many effects on different people, and can depend on your personality and whether you have real friends and even how your home life is. There will be those people who are bullied and when they get to college will have found what they are meant to do and be, and not worry about what other people called them when they were in 5th grade, but this isn't what happens to everyone. For example, imagine that there is a student who is now in highschool, they have been bullied nonstop every year since at least 5th grade. Their home life is horrible, their parents treat them just as badly as those people at school do, what do you think will happen to them? Well they will either toughen up and harden themselves from being able to be hurt or they could get extremely depressed because they feel as if they have no one. That feeling of loneliness has a huge impact on a person's life. They could start to believe what everyone tells them and even start to do worse at things like classes or not perform well, they become self-fulfilling prophecies. However, again this is not the only outcome, some cases do lead to suicide.

Yes I went there suicide, a topic I have heard many people talk about in ways that I am shocked beyond belief by. People look at those who have killed themselves or try to hurt themselves and say there must be something wrong with them, they have to be crazy, why would you ever do such a thing? Then they continue to ridicule them as if they up and did this for no reason. This appauls me that no one sits down and thinks to themselves, you know I wonder why they did that? I wonder what the breaking point was? No one tries to say, "Hey maybe they aren't crazy, maybe they just had a lot going on in their lives, you shouldn't judge them because they did that." So many people not just teens die from suicide because of what someone else has said to them. Due to abuse they have received and isn't that what bullying is? Abuse? So many people do not link those two words together but even when a parent abuses their children that is still bullying. Even when two adults bash each other based on something that is bullying!
People assume that this word has one finite definition, a definition that people are excluded from when they reach a specific age, and a definition that is limited to only being two children or two teenagers involved. I am sorry but that is NOT the definition of that word, and we make judgements about that word without even thinking about what it does to someone.

Bullying doesn't just effect the person you hurt with your words or actions, it effects everyone in their life that they communicate with, that they live with, and that they are around on  weeky to daily basis. People forget that as humans we have feelings and that feelings DO matter, that what we do to others makes a big deal and should be watched.

Bullying part 2

So to begin this post off I decided to show some statistics. 1 out of 4 kids are bullied. In a recent study 77% of the kids were bullied physically,mentally, and verbally. 1 out of 5 said that they were bullies or did bullying of some kind at some point. 8% of students miss one class per month due to being scared of being bullied. Playground statistics- Every 7 minutes a child is bullied. Adult Intervention -4%. Peer Intervention -11% No intervention-85%.

These statistics go on and on. Students everywhere have to wake up in the morning and go to school worrying about who is going to beat them up, who will make fun of their hair, shoes, clothes, or whatever that person decides. Some students live in constant fear of being attacked by someone around them. My question to that is what kind of effect is this going to have on those kids? Being in constant fear, unable to feel welcomed or unable to belong to something would not be pleasant. In fact it would go past that to be downright unbearable. Most of the time you will hear stories about people only being bullied about one thing, maybe they had an embarassing fall and everyone saw, they may be laughed at for a little while but eventually people forget. But what about those kids that are bullied everyday? What do they do? How do they live?

Those people have to feel so insignificant, so separated from the rest of their classmates and their peers. I for one know that feeling inferior to someone is not fun and makes for less self esteem or confidence in  your abilities. The feeling of inferiority can make someone doubt their abilities about something they should be able to do with no problem.

There have been laws, and riots, and protests against racial bullying and racism, yet in schools all across America and across many other schools in the world bullying still exists. I remember being that age and thinking that you couldnt tell your parents or you couldn't tell a teacher because they would call that kid's parents or tell the principal which never helped because once the bully got in trouble, you felt more of the pain. Honestly those kids were right, it is hard to tell on a bully, because the system for dealing with them does nothing. That system does not help whatsoever. So what is a kid to do when they feel desperate and feel alone because of bullying? That situation doesn't leave much room for safety in a child's life.

Now in today's society with the booming technology with more and more people having cell phones that get the internet, that have the ability to have emails sent to their phone and a connection to social websites like facebook without needing a computer, information spreads quickly. Before it used to be that the school building and area around it was the only danger from bullies. Today that isn't even where most of the bullying takes place. The internet has spawned a bullying beyond what it used to be. It has spawned something that can create a falsehood, spread it within minutes to hundreds of people, and do it all anonymously because it doesn't have to be face to face anymore. What does this mean to those who fall on the lower end of the social network? It means utter humiliation not just in school but outside of it and with the ability of spreading something untrue and reputation destroying so much faster than before.

Bullying is not something to take lightly, in can have tremendous effects on someone all the way through adulthood. Many people assume that bullying at grade school age is normal, its a rite of passage almost, everyonse has it happen to them and it is just the norm. What I say to that is why does it have to be the norm? Why is that ever okay to let people make judgements about someone because they are different or because they can? There is no benefit by someone being beaten up or emotionally abused by someone, there is never and will never be a good outcome of bullying or abuse. So my question to America is why haven't we done more to help the youth of this country? Why don't we try to stop it to change the views because at those ages we have the ability to mold their future habits, and if we let it happen when they are little, they will only learn to do the same thing to adults as they continue to get older.

Bullying part 1

Bullying. There isn’t a human being on the planet that doesn’t know what this word means. As soon as you hit the age to be in school it will happen. Whether you are the victim or the bully, or whether you are an adult who watched it happen you know what it is. So many people, adults and children, around the world and in many homes have to deal with this word. Chances are they have felt the pain of this word at some point in their lives, and probably did it to someone else too. When people hear bullying they think of two children, possibly on the playground or in classes at school. However, only thinking bullying happens in these two places, and only these two places are naïve.  It doesn’t matter what age you are, bullying can still happen, the difference is that when people are older, others feel that they should be able to handle it and are probably being dramatic if they can’t handle it. I remember being in middle school and I think many people would agree with me that at least for girls middle school was one of the worst times to be a kid. Bullying was a commonplace thing and when everyone got aim accounts it became even easier to attack someone at home and not just school anymore. With the internet steadily growing bigger and bigger and invading more homes and more opportunities to invade people’s lives the aspect of bullying grows tremendously as well.  To imagine being a middle school child in this era where it’s extremely easy to get on the internet and harass someone, it would be much worse. I’m sure the feeling would be claustrophobic and one that would feel as if you couldn’t get rid of the person who was making fun of you. It’s sad to think of what that would be like and how you would deal with that. The feeling of not being able to escape what someone was saying, and not only that but being able to have it spread to more people faster without control. Imagine all this is stemmed back to one kid bullying someone else because they are different or just because they want to, it doesn’t seem to be just in the playground anymore does it?

Quarter Three Project

My readership has greatly improved since Q2. The month of December I had 14 views, the month of November was 91 and October was only 12 views, the entire month of February I had 218 page views. I think the biggest difference from before was that in quarter three I started putting my blog as a link on Facebook a couple times a week and after I made a new post so that more people could reach it. I also put labels at the end of my blog so that anyone searching those could possibly find my blog that way too.

            My two most popular posts were my contribution post and my MTV 16 and pregnant post. I am not sure why the contribution post received so many views, but as for the MTV one I know that I advertised on Facebook for it and I told my friends to go read my blog. This worked really well because MTV is a very popular TV channel and many people my age would be interested in reading something that had to do with a TV show they would understand. The other posts that were after these two, were also posts that had to do with main stream ideas, like for instance American Idol, I noticed that the more I made my posts about something many people would know about, the more people I had that viewed that particular post.

            My referring sites were mainly Facebook and Google. The only key word I had where someone found my blog was from the MTV 16 and pregnant. These referring sites taught me that many people are on Facebook all the time, and the best way to get more people to read your blog is if you advertise it on a website, like Facebook, that can be spread quickly and effortlessly.

            Some questions I have would be why some posts weren’t as popular as I figured they would be. I had assumed that most people would know American Idol more than they would know about MTV’s 16 and pregnant. However this was not true.  During the third quarter I also became a follower to more than just the other students in my class, and I only had one person follow me back. It showed me that some of the bigger blogs won’t necessarily follow you back just because you follow them. If I would assign myself a grade I would say that I would give myself an A. I kept up with the weekly deadlines of doing a post every week, and I also accomplished getting more readers for the third quarter than I had in the second quarter. Not only that but I tried to broaden my topics so as to attract more readers that way and I would say that I did succeed. More importantly is that I branched out to other blogs and started to follow them, and by reading other people’s blogs who had many followers, I was given ideas on how to improve my blog so as to gain more followers as well. Lastly, I read my fellow classmates blogs pretty religiously, I did not always comment on everyone’s blog, but at the very least I did read a majority of the blogs that they all wrote.

            In doing this assignment with the blogs I learned that sometimes when you want to gain more readers, the topics you write about have to change. For instance some topics will be more popular than others, and at the very least if you choose not to pick relevant and popular topics, you must have a theme in order to keep people coming back to your blog. I feel that my writer persona did change when I was writing for other people. When I first started I blogged about whatever was in my head at the time or a topic that was important to me. During this quarter I had to adapt that idea and make it more relevant and important to readers than necessarily to myself. For future writing I will remember this so that if I want people to read it and the writing to not just be for me, that I need to write it differently. I need to make sure I consider the audience in my work instead of just making myself feel better afterwards.

College

Today while we had off at school and everyone was sleeping in I was waking up at 5:45 to get on the road to go to a Spring Open House for University of Maryland. Granted I am one of those people who knew what college they wanted to go to as they were applying, which is a huge advantage. When I went to the Fall open house I  basically knew I was going there and that I was going to major in elementary education. I wouldn't say there was an A-ha moment with University of Maryland the first time I heard about it or even got information on it, but I was definately excited after that fall open house and agreed that the education program was a great one. Today was like 200000x that feeling of excitement. Not only is there only like 40 some days left of my Senior year in highschool, I also got to learn more about the process that my Education major was going to take me in the next four years of my life. The open house started off with an introduction which had some musical entertainment of an acapela group called the "Faux paz" which I have to say were amazing. They were all extremely talented and performed with a lot of energy. Once the other parts of the day happened with the meetings and what not at the building for my major I was so ready to be there in classes, to be at college and living that lifestyle. I am so beyond excited to go to college after today that I can not even explain it, I don't even really want to go back to high school on Monday, even though I know I have to.

College is going to be an amazing experience, and I cant wait to be one of many new freshman as the Class of 2015 to be partaking in this experience in the fall. The feeling of taking classes that may be CORE but you have more options of and then doing classes that involve your intended major is so exciting. The atmosphere is so different than high school, and even though I will miss that part of my life, I can't wait to start my next journey.

Dreams

As I was watching American Idol on thursday it occured to me that many of the contestants this year that made it through to the Hollywood week and then to the top 24 were under the age of 18. I then imagined myself being on stage and in front of all those people, which of course is not something that I would particularly like, but even without liking being on stage I can not imagine being that young and doing what you want the most, to perform to the entire country. It must be an exhilarating experience to go and sing in front of millions of people and in front of well known artists like Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler. I think that it is wonderful that they get to fulfill their dream at a young age, because many people don't even get that ability. My dream job isnt something like singing, but I definately have dreams that are large and could potentially never happen. For instance I want to travel to a lot of Europe and see many countries, and even though I have started and been to France and Spain this past summer, I don't know if I will be able to see all the countries I want to. I think its important for people to have dreams, because even if they all don't come true, its something to live and strive for, its a goal that could be obtainable, and having a goal and ambition is important.

So what are your dreams? If you could do anything what would it be?

The healing power of music

Music has been a wonderful gift that many talented people over the years have given the world. I do not know about you, but I know many people who use music so strongly to help them when they are upset or just in their daily life. I love many types of music, yes I have a select few categories I usually do not like with the occassional exception, but mostly I do not only stay to one genre. I have had many people look at the songs in my itunes and call it a completely random group of songs. I feel music can be an extremely powerful thing if someone is open to what the story of the song is going to tell them, or where they will end up after hearing it. Some songs are just fun to listen to when you are happy and carefree, like the summer songs that everyone loves to hear when it starts to get warmer. Music can tap into memories of certain periods of your life so quickly and can even create the mood you are in. More importantly is I feel that music has the ability to heal. I can not explain the feeling of I get being in your car(or whatever vehicle you have) and blasting the music to the point that you can hear NOTHING else, no thoughts, nothing, just the words and tune that are coming through the speakers. You do not have to be in a car for this to work, having headphones in and turning the music all the way up helps as well. I know that when I have a hard day, or I am upset that after I do this I will miraculously feel a lot better especially if I end up screaming the lyrics, even if to others it doesn't sound good doesn't matter. No the problem doesn't go away just because I sing a song, but sometimes its the best way to just let it all out.

I know that not everyone reacts to music the same way, for example I know that my cousin will hear the lyrics to EVERY song on the first time she listens to it, and I can do this with some songs, but it will usually take me a couple times to hear all the lyrics first. Regardless of how you react to music, it is usually in a positive way, and I feel it helps everyone at some point, and does heal those who let it. So whats that song that you let blast in your car or on your ipod? Is there a song? Or do you react differently to music?

Here is a song that was sent to me recently, and thanks to that person I love listening to it :) I can't guarantee you will all like it who listen to it, but someone may and thats all that matters.

Give them a chance!

This blog post might be slightly different then my previous two blogs about TV shows. However something that has come to my mind this week is about learning different cultures. Being in a world lit class and a world religions class at the same time would probably be the culprits of this idea. In addition to these two classes, I have always had somewhat of a philosophy that learning about other cultures and religions are a good thing not a bad thing. One of my pet peeves would be when people make assumptions about a particular culture or group without even knowing much about it. These assumptions usually do not lead to good outcomes, some examples would be war, violence, and hatred of some people without having just cause to. I have heard more than once people my age and other generations say some comments about certain people or certain cultures that they really had no business to. Yes I am aware that everyone is granted to their own opinion, but I would strongly disagree with their opinion. I know that I wouldn’t appreciate being judged because of superficial things or my background, without any one even knowing me. So in my life I try to not judge others or other ideas or cultures without knowing more about them first. Something my dad once told me is that “we should look at life like a rubix cube. You may see green, red, or blue, but I see white and yellow. Now neither one of us are wrong, but without knowing the other ones perspective then you may be making decisions or judgments on things you don’t fully know or understand.” This has always stuck with me, and since then I try even harder to do what I can to know about every angle before I make a decision or pass judgment.

MTV-16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom and Skins

 Many people would agree that MTV airs far more reality shows than music videos these days, but many programs that they are playing have many parents up in arms. 16 and pregnant and Teen Mom followed by Teen Mom 2 have been on their second seasons and showing the hardships and challenges that teenage parents have to deal with. One day on my ride to school the radio station I was listening to was asking people to call in to give their opinions about these two series. Many people were saying that these shows glamorize teen pregnancies and don't really show them what it is like, or it shows that MTV will pay you to be irresponisble and a bad mother in some of the cases of the moms on Teen Mom.

  Some mothers blamed Teen Mom and 16 and pregnant of making it looking okay to get pregnant. Being a teenager I would have to disagree with this statement. I have watched 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2 and no where in any of those have I felt that they glorified being pregnant. If anything it shows how crazy and hectic some of these teenages lives are because they ended up getting pregnant before they were old enough. A lot of those women either do not have the financial ability or do not have the father to help them which makes it extremely hard for them. If there is a rise in teen pregnancy then maybe people should look more to the parents instead of to the TV shows, because even if there is something on TV if a parent doesnt't talk to their children about it and how to prevent such things, then they should be held responsible as well.

Another show that has even MORE controversary than Teen Mom and 16 and pregnant would be the show Skins. I have seen the commercials for Skins when MTV was heavily promoting the show before its series premiere, and honestly those advertisements were uncaptivating to me. I do not really have any friends that have watched this show, but from what I have seen of it, even if they did they probably would not watch it for long. MTV has been claiming that it is a show that represents what kids in high school are going through and what their lives are like, instead of other shows that gloss over the really bad things. I am sure that like with other MTV shows they have overeaggerated certain things, but at the same time it probably has some truth to it. Having not watched the show myself I can not be certain, but I wouldn't want to watch it necessarily either. Many mothers have been against the excessive drug use, alcohol, and sex that Skins displays in their episodes. MTV is close to child pornography  because of the underage actors that are on this show. Many mothers want this show off air so that their children will be saved and not exposed to it.

MTV will be a controversial TV station for years to come. They will have shows like Skins, and Teen Mom and 16 and pregnant around for awhile. I do not feel that they will change what they think will get viewers on their network, regardless of how many moms make petitions. Being a teenager I have watched some of these shows and I think that it is naive to assume that ALL teenagers will watch these shows and think, " Oh, it's on TV so it must be okay to do so." No, those who think that are the same teenagers who will be influenced by their friends to do certain things like drugs or drink before they are legal to. If parents are worried about what the show will do to their children, then they need to sit them down and make sure their children understand the reality of certain shows, and that not everything that is on TV is okay to do in real life. Parents should be parents, TV shows, songs, and bad movies will always be out there, it will be a reality in this world for many years to come, and instead of just trying to get rid of those shows, they should combat the behavior. Just because you get a show off the air does not mean that teenagers do not know about the possibility of what the show was about. It is not out of sight out of mind, the behaviors are still out there, so do something about THAT and maybe those behaviors will be lessened. As for me, I am going to continue to watch Teen Mom 2 and 16 and pregnant, but I know better than to imitate these behaviors that I see on TV.

I would love to hear your opinions on this topic. It doesn't have to be just these shows, or just MTV, but other shows that relate, and how you feel it affects those who watch it, if it affects them at all.

American Idol

American Idol is now on its tenth season since its beginning. This season however they are starting it different with two new judges, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler. I remember when this show first started, I didn't watch it until the second season, and then I watched all the episodes until the winner. After the third season I watched, the show became less intriguing except for the auditions. I always enjoyed watching the auditions because there would always be someone who thought they would be the winner, and turned out to be tone deaf.

I have watched some of the episodes during this season and I think that the different judges bring something different to American Idol because of their personalities. Maybe the new judges will gain more viewers like the producers are probably hoping for, or it might turn out to be the worse season, but it is too soon to tell.

So who still watches American Idol? Who would you say were the people you remember most: the people who cant sing and make fools of themselves or the actual winners? Do you think American Idol should stop airing? Let me know what you think!

Here are some of the videos of auditions over the seasons.

Zodiac signs!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110113/us_yblog_thelookout/earths-wobble-means-your-zodiac-sign-may-be-wrong

This is a blog that was inspired from conversations on Facebook about zodiac signs. This article states that because of the earth's wobble, zodiac signs are off and you may have a different zodiac sign. I have heard that some say that this starts to apply only after a certain year, so it is possible that this might not even apply to us. However, even with what this article says, I have been a Gemini for 17 years and I plan to still call myself one. I have noticed over the years, that there are some people who truly do fit their zodiac signs, myself included. There are those who say that zodiac signs are pointless and don't really tell us anything about ourselves, but I think Zodiac signs have different purposes now then when they were first started. Today people can receive what will happen to them that day because of their zodiac sign. Now I don't think those things are 100% accurate because they make them quite vague. However there are occassional times where it is fun to go and see what it says about what will happen. I think zodiac signs have transformed more into a fun thing for people like fortune readings and not a scientific thing based off what constellation was in the sky when you were born. So I would like to hear what you all think about zodiac signs. Do they apply to your life? Do you think they are a bunch of nonsense? Would you be mad if you found out this wobble changed your zodiac sign and you are now something else?
P.S. I have nothing against those who are Taurus, but I will not be changing my zodiac sign to that anytime soon!

Education

This post will be quite random to some of you, but as for me, this is what has been on my mind as of late.

Over the last couple of months school subjects have become more and more interrelated, or at least in my opinion. During this year certain topics haven't just been talked about in only one class, but two or even several other classes. For instance, one of the chapters in Outliers, ended up making its way into discussion for my Child Psychology class on concerted cultivation. I happen to enjoy seeing certain topics being brought into other classes and having them connect together in some way. Reflecting back on previous years in highschool, I feel that topics and themes didn't crossover into other subjects, math stayed with math, english with english, and so on and so on. Now either I wasn't aware of enough knowledge back then to make the connections, or they just really haven't happened until this year and somewhat of last year. The information in my classes seem to be taught differently as well. Most of my classes seem to have a more of a laid back purpose than in previous years. Sort of hoping that we can take some of what we learn this year into college for the next four years. Due to this purpose, I think it allows the subjects to merge, because at this age we have gained a lot of knowledge on several different subjects and know enough to make connections so as to think of things on a larger scale. I feel the merging of subjects as a gate way of some sort into college, because college for the most part will be geared more to our career, than extra classes that we have to take. I hope that this will continue into college because I find it more beneficial and more relateable to life.


On a side note, 85 days left of school not including finals! :)