How do you live your life?

In high school, I see many different ways people live their lives. Many feel like they need to push their bodies to the limit, they strap on a helmet and blast off into flight and fly high for as long as they can. Unfortunately, what goes up must come down, and often times they crash and burn. People need to be more careful with how high you must go and how often you visit the cosmos. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with going to space ever once in a while, but how many times has even Buzz Aldrin gone to the moon? All I'm trying to say is students need to make sure they have their feet on the ground for as much time as possible if you want to shine like a star.

I love candy! But not that much...

I love candy! I bet many people will agree with me when I say candy is great! However, I would not make candy my only snack and I probably would not eat at a place that only offers candy everyday. I get hungry at school sometimes, and even though I love it, I'm starting to notice that the only snack being sold around school is candy. DECA sells candy, ROTC sells candy, the band sells candy, BPA sells candy, seniors raising money for prom sell candy, it seems like every organization at this school sells candy! Even the vending machines are loaded with candy! When is somebody going to come up with something else to sell? Like maybe apples, peanuts, or Wilt Chamberlin bobble-heads. I'd buy peanuts and a Wilt Chamberlin bobble-head! Wouldn't you?

Playing at the pep rally was terrible!

I had to be there for drumline because we had to play with the band in the beginning and somebody planned for us to play a couple cadences. Who ever planned this thing was not the best planner in the world, I would say. On paper having the band sounds great! But in the real world nobody wants to hear them. Also we played terrible because we didn't know what we were playing or what was going on until we got there (late). After playing to basically nobody, the band left and the drumline stayed, because we were scheduled to play some cadences, but because we still had no idea what was going on when, we ended up just standing around in middle of the football field. Some one could have told us we weren't playing for another 45 minutes and that we should wait at the sidelines, but instead we just stood waiting in middle of the fricken field. Who ever is in charge of planing events such as these should make sure everybody involved knows what's going on, and they should be out there making sure things go well instead of leaving a bunch of bored clueless drummers stranded.

How you decide?

I've been having a lot of trouble narrowing down a list of what colleges I want to apply to, and where I should apply to for early admission. I have a certain set of criteria, but when I go to do my research and make my decision, it seem that 5 billion school match it. How do you make decisions as to what colleges to apply to?

Which answer do you give?

After much thinking, I concluded that when someone asks you your opinion on a certain issue, there are two types of answers you can give: What you really think, or what you think they want to hear. Of course often times what you really is the same thing they want to hear, but often it's not. In the classroom, there are students who don't really tell the teacher what they truly think because they are afraid their true opinion might offend the teacher (which in many cases it will). When a friend asks your opinion and your "true" answer might offend them, do you give it to them? What about when a teacher asks?

PSATs: Is There a Better Way?

Last week we had PSAT testing, and all the juniors were testing in the auditorium. It took around a half hour to get us all seated. Every time I tried sitting down someone told me I wasn't allowed to sit in this section until a different had been filled, which I couldn't sit in until another was filled, which I couldn't sit in because it was filled. I ended up going around the auditorium probably three times, and it probably took a good 20 minutes for everyone to get seated. Then for another 5 minutes kids were being moved around and rows were being emptied and told to sit elsewhere. Whatever focus we had accumulated going into the test had been diminished by frustration at this time, and they were still rushing to get the test started. Another 15 minutes later, we finally opened our booklets to get underway, when the fire alarm suddenly rings.

I am willing to bet money that these unnecessary delays and interruptions indirectly caused a drop in everyone's scores. It is a lot harder to focus when you're frustrated, and you're not as calm as you should be while taking a test. So of course after the test, I wondered, "Is there a more efficient, better way for these tests to be taken? Could it be that hard for our school to figure out an easier way to get us more organized and situated?" Maybe having separate testing days of times for different grade levels would help. What do you think?