Write about a character in your life.
Since Im kind of having trouble thinking of any particular friend or acquaintance with a specific character, I suppose I'll describe myself.
I'm a kind, loving, forgiving person who always tries his hardest at everything he does. If I ever let you down, it's because matters fell out of my control. I'm chronically forgetful and late, but I try not to let those kind of negative attributes be the characteristics that define me. I'm always striving to better myself, learn more, do better things, and not fall into the world's temptations that always seem lined up for me. I'm fascinated by things and concepts of high intelligence, but I still find much enjoyment in the simple things. I have a lot of God-given gifts, but I always try to remain humble about them rather than boast or brag. I try to do things against the world norm, because life wouldn't be nearly as wonderful if everyone bragged about their personal accomplishments every time one came to be mentioned.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Blog #8
What do you think about cell phone etiquette? Texting in others' company, etc.
Well, I surprisingly have an honest, fair personal opinion about it. I've got a significant other that I text pretty much constantly, and even when I'm with her, I have other people I text, but whenever I'm with other people, and I get a text message, I'll generally wait to answer it until a convenient point. That's more polite to your company, and it's highly unlikely that the text is gonna be much more than pleasant conversation. It's a little different when I'm hangin out with all my friends, though, 'cause they don't care, and it'll only take a few seconds to text my woman; plus, they understand how it is. I guess I don't have too much of a problem with this because I don't spend all that much time with people that don't really matter to me, so the problem doesn't arise all that often. Either way, cell phone etiquette goes out the window if it's your parents; it's either answer 'em promptly, or suffer their ungodly wrath!
Well, I surprisingly have an honest, fair personal opinion about it. I've got a significant other that I text pretty much constantly, and even when I'm with her, I have other people I text, but whenever I'm with other people, and I get a text message, I'll generally wait to answer it until a convenient point. That's more polite to your company, and it's highly unlikely that the text is gonna be much more than pleasant conversation. It's a little different when I'm hangin out with all my friends, though, 'cause they don't care, and it'll only take a few seconds to text my woman; plus, they understand how it is. I guess I don't have too much of a problem with this because I don't spend all that much time with people that don't really matter to me, so the problem doesn't arise all that often. Either way, cell phone etiquette goes out the window if it's your parents; it's either answer 'em promptly, or suffer their ungodly wrath!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Blog # 7
Explain a time when someone else's bias/opinion about you had an impact on your life.
In several classes during sophomore year, whenever I would make honest mistakes about either losing homework (finding it later in my humongous pile of crap I carried around everywhere) or just the assignments in general (I might do something completely, the teacher accused me of either not doing it or cheating on it, when I did the assignment fully as I knew, without any intent of cheating/whatever).
The teachers just straight up hated me, I think, for the rest of the year, because they thought I was somehow exploiting or circumventing whatever rules they had established. It really, REALLY offended me that year, since it didn't just happen with one teacher. I don't remember how many, but I remember several. It really made me sad that society and education have devolved to such a state that an honest mistake is instantaneously assumed to in fact be the most conceited, selfish form of success.
I just couldn't find one paper, and stumbled across it later that day (100 pages down into my bottomless pile of papers, mind you), and hurried to turn it in and apologize for losing track of it. This, of course, was interpreted as "the student lied about not having the sheet, cheated by completing it with the extra time they had earned for themselves, and is turning it in later on." It's depressing and shameful that this is often true; however, if that's not what happened, I shouldn't have been persecuted for an honest mistake. If I was going to hypothetically cheat and not turn it in, then I would hypothetically be the kind of person to take it home, ask other people, and not turn it in until the next class, and not say anything about it. That would be "typical teenagers, these days" for you.
I guess what I've really grown to find out is this: it's a lot harder to do what's right and be the good student than it is to do what's easy and be the lazy student, even though both of us will get the same grade on a test. I wish we'd actually be rewarded for doing good as opposed to being punished just as harshly as the bad kids, but I guess that's just the way the world works. It's not gonna stop me from bein' a good kid, but it's always somethin to think about.
In several classes during sophomore year, whenever I would make honest mistakes about either losing homework (finding it later in my humongous pile of crap I carried around everywhere) or just the assignments in general (I might do something completely, the teacher accused me of either not doing it or cheating on it, when I did the assignment fully as I knew, without any intent of cheating/whatever).
The teachers just straight up hated me, I think, for the rest of the year, because they thought I was somehow exploiting or circumventing whatever rules they had established. It really, REALLY offended me that year, since it didn't just happen with one teacher. I don't remember how many, but I remember several. It really made me sad that society and education have devolved to such a state that an honest mistake is instantaneously assumed to in fact be the most conceited, selfish form of success.
I just couldn't find one paper, and stumbled across it later that day (100 pages down into my bottomless pile of papers, mind you), and hurried to turn it in and apologize for losing track of it. This, of course, was interpreted as "the student lied about not having the sheet, cheated by completing it with the extra time they had earned for themselves, and is turning it in later on." It's depressing and shameful that this is often true; however, if that's not what happened, I shouldn't have been persecuted for an honest mistake. If I was going to hypothetically cheat and not turn it in, then I would hypothetically be the kind of person to take it home, ask other people, and not turn it in until the next class, and not say anything about it. That would be "typical teenagers, these days" for you.
I guess what I've really grown to find out is this: it's a lot harder to do what's right and be the good student than it is to do what's easy and be the lazy student, even though both of us will get the same grade on a test. I wish we'd actually be rewarded for doing good as opposed to being punished just as harshly as the bad kids, but I guess that's just the way the world works. It's not gonna stop me from bein' a good kid, but it's always somethin to think about.
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