Young People Today

When it comes to how i would prioritize money, happiness, and meaning i dont find it very difficult.

The least important to me would be money. i hate to say it lol but it is true. i love the things money gets me but i can do without them as long as i have happiness and feel like there is a sense of meaning in my life. Not that my family is poor but we didnt always have money and it didnt bother me, so in the logn run i  could do without the cash as long as i have happiness and meaning.

The second priroity would have to be meaning, I think that I must having meaning behind what i do. I teach karate to 4-5 year old and to be honest it is not becuase i find them adorable or becuase i need that job; i wish i could quit that job becuase it takes up a lot of my time. I cant find it in myself to leave it though becuase i might save one of the munchkins lives and if i save one then it is worth it. They need to be taught how to defend themselves and someone has to do it, so i do. I also apply this idea to what i want to do when im done with college. I would like to be the person that makes sure a company follows the guidlines for how "clean" they are becuase many people are ignorant to what the companies are pumping into their surroundings and dont realize the affect it has one them. I know it sounds kind of Big Brother of me, i mean if someone wants to live in a crappy place i shouldnt stop them, but at least i can warn then, which is a lot better than most people do.

The most important to me is happiness i dont care if it is self centered it is very true. If the whole world fell apart i would like to be surrounded with my family and us just simply be happy. It sounds mean but i do stuff for other people and they never return the favor and i am getting sick of it. When i was little i always thought that non-profit organizations were so nice helping all the people they do, but now a days so much of that money goes to just running the machine that poor Tommy may only get 8 cents of my dollar and that isnt right, so i just dont donate becuase i will not support people that run those types of machines. The only person i truly feel the need to help indefinitly is my dad becuase he has always been there and helps me blindly. Another person i always want to help is my boyfriend even though i never tell him, becuase his head would get big, is that he is always there for me, he may not be a mushy as i am and understand feelings but he tries to do so much for me that i just want to squeeze him and tell him to stop.

When it comes to the order of these one must consider even if they sound self-centered what their order honestly is and if they dont like how they look at things then may be they can go around and start having experiences that would change their life and how they look at things.

Difficulties of this Semester

This semester was a learning experience. I had to sign up for all my classes and figure out my loans by myself and the school wasnt the best of help. I called them everyday wondering about my information because some was needed and hadnt been recieved by them yet. In the end they said they still havnt recieved it and that it was okay they didnt need the information to give me my loans anyways, which was very aggravating. I learned to be on the office and to make sure my stuff is done and if it wasnt to keep calling until it is figure out.

Something else i have learned is that I am on the world team for karate. This means that in two years I will go to Calgary for the tournament. It is not the olympics but it is a big deal to me and everyone that is in the same karate as me. Since i am on the team i will have to start training a little bit more. I dont come that much anymore becuase i am at school and i need to study to get a good grade and karate is too time consuming. This bothers my instructors but i cant help it, I will not give up a good grade for going to class because its not like i get paid to be there and school is an investment in my future.

One of the hardest classes i have is chemistry. I learned that there is lower chemistry classes, but since i took chemistry in high school i got placed in chemistry 134 when i think i should have taken chem-100. This class is hard to grasp sometimes and i think it moves a little to fast for me, so i should have taken a lower level chem class first. I have gotten use to the pace a little but only becuase the chapters we are covering are easier to understand than the previous ones. They do not tie together yet. If i could go back i would have taken a lower level first, i dont care about the cost. i need go grades it doesnt matter how long it takes me to get there.

Picking sanity over Money

when it comes to Moffitt it is obvious why he left the N.F.L. He said he wasnt happy and that he felt his health was in danger. Can you imagine going threw a train crash every Sunday night, i mean i beleive him when he said his health was a factor. Being a line-man has got to have even more heath problems because all you have is guys bulldozing eachother down every time they hike the ball.

I would make this same descision if i had a physical injury and would never get better. I am a karate instructor and i think that i must be in some kind of shape to teach and if i was injured i would stop teaching. This idea can be applied to someone that works in landscaping, if a person can not pick up plants anymore or do the basics then he must quit his job, but a smart man would notice his back was starting to give out on him and quit before he had to have surgery on it.

If i was working towards a job for my entire life crazy thing would have to happen inorder for me to quit. For instance, if i had a family and my boss was forcing me to travel often and it was creating a strain in the houshold then i would have to quit my job. Another would be if i completely lost interest in it, i would be stratigic though, i would get an education for something else i wantto do then quit my job, the few years it takes to get there would be hard, but at least me or my family didnt have to finacially suffer. If i didnt like someone at my work place i would honestly put up with it, but if that person was making it to where i might loose my job i would try to be transferered instead of having it on my record as "doesnt play well with others" exspecially with how many organizations want people to be a "team player".

Teachers in Secondary Schools

When I was in highschool I encountered all types of teachers. Some were good while others were bad. my favorite teacher was an Environmental Science teacher Mr. Black. He was very interested in his work and was going for his masters the last i have talked to him. He always had interesting stories to tell us that related to the topics that we were talking about, but when it came down to teaching us the material he wasn't very good at it. He would just scratch the surface of every topic but never actually go into detail to where when i was taking the test i could even understand what the question was asking me. He was a cool guy but when it came to teaching he just didnt have it.

Another teacher i had Mrs. Farrell. She was honestly probably one of the smartest people i have ever met. We all joked that she knew everything because whenever someone asked her a question she knew the answer it didnt matter what it was about it could have been my Calc homework and she would understand it. When she was terribly known for was giving us a worksheet, having us read the directions and then expecting us to be able to know what to do. I think she was so smart and what we were doing was so basic to her that she didnt feel the need to explain it to us. 

A teacher that actually taught me something in highschool was Mrs. Thorington. She was my math teacher and she was a person with an agenda for sure. Sometimes she would have us go over 2 sections in one day, but honestly she explained everything very well and if we had questions she would sit there and explain it to us until we understood it. One thing she did do is assign a lot of homework, which i thought was terrible but it actually helped me. I think I got a B in her class but honestly if someone else taught it to me i probably would have gotten a C. 

When it comes to being a good teacher the person doesn't have to be the smartest person in the room they just have to be able to portray the knowledge to the students in a way that everyone understands which is difficult if you factor in the fact that everyone learns differently. If I knew someone that wanted to be a teacher i would suggest them to go to a place like Sylvan Learning Center and teacher to a small group of students so they can experiment on a smaller scale all the ways of teaching that help certain students and the technique that arent as successful so they know what they should and shouldnt do. Then by that time they will know if teaching is actually what they want to do.

restriction on pain killers

Some people think that there are too lose of restrictions on not as strong doctor prescribed pain killers. These people are nervous that they are being abused and need to regulated better. While other people may argue that the restrictions would be an inconvenience to the patient.

These regulations seem innocent at first. The FDA is going to limit the amount of refills a person can have on their medication, which mean the patient would have to go into the doctors office more to get a refill on the drug. Their argument is that many people only use these type of pain killers for about 14 day but the are prescribed 5-6 refills that can last the person 6 months. This excessive amount of extra pills allows teenagers to get a hold of them or other people. With drug over dosses being about %70 from prescriptions from the doctor, they FDA is trying to limit this and bring down the amount of deaths per year. Another part of the regulation would be that the patient would have to go into the pharmacy to get the prescription filled instead of the doctors office just calling it in.

Some people are not happy about this. They know that they will have to go into the doctors office twice as much to get their medicine than they regularly  would have. This will cost the patient more money in doctor visits and is inconvenient to them.

What I think is that their should be stricter regulations on prescription medication because I am a teenager and I see it abused all they time. May teens go into their parents cabinet and get their left over medicine and no one ever really notices. They get addicted to these and they some even die from it. If even a few less deaths happen because their are stricter regulations then I think it is worth a shot. But the fact that people will have to pay for doctor visits more because they need their medication is not fair, if someone does not have that type of money then they may go without and that is truly not right. The regulation that the doctor can not call that prescription in I think is ridiculous because the doctors office is going to be able to tell if you are who you say you are a lot better than a pharmacy is. This may give people more leeway on abusing the drugs.It makes me think that the doctors offices are understaffed and they are trying to compensate and get the FDA to approve it so they do not have to do as much work.

College Dept

When it comes to college it does have its perks in the end but of course they are hard to see when you have so much stuff you have to do to get them. A person that has a college education is more likely to get paid a better amount, which seem obvious even though many of us college students think we will never find a job once we go into the job market. This is a very stressful idea, to put so much money and time into something that gives me no rewards.

Statistically there has been more people going to college which to me is good and bad. Does that mean by the time I get my degree all the jobs will be taken up or that I will settle for a job i do not really want because its the only one that will hire me. If i look at it like there will be better quality of things because we are more educated i guess it helps. Then there's the many people out there that cant find jobs because they dropped out of college or because their field is flooded. The statistics are good to the people who own and run companies but to me its just a sign that I need to get my degree quickly.

College is very expensive and it is interesting how many people a college has running it.I mean i go into an office and it's like there is always one to many people in there scratching their ass and then to find out all of these tutors get paid is crazy, especially when I know certain ones aren't even being used they are just there to get a pay check. I understand there are many things that need to be done to run a college but seriously get it together it cant need that many people.

Another thing that isnt mentioned is that so many people change their majors they are probably able to do many things will the knowledge they no longer need and they will never actually see they benefits for that in a paycheck. I worry that i will be one of these people. Its weird to me because i know the 3 degrees i am considering but it just seem like I cant choose which one i will be more happy doing once i put the effort into getting it. The statistics dont show how much money we loose because of our indecisiveness and I wonder if they did if we would get our act together faster and figure out what we are doing. If we could more of us would probably graduate in 4 years and not to mention the money we could save.

The debt for college is tremendous. Yes we have an idea of how much it will cost but many students dont have an idea of how much a dollar is worth. This is an important idea and can only be learned it took me until I made sacrifices on what to do with the money i earned to understand this idea. Many people buy cars and houses when they are still in debt and this does not help. They need to take the debt one thing at a time if they have a big college loan they need to pay off their next step shouldnt be buying a house even though it looks nice.

Yes college debt is terrible and maybe the colleges are over charging us but if we study get a career and pay off our student loans then get a house we should be fine and able to figure out what to do with the perks of having a degree.  

Football a Rough Sport?

When I think of football I imagine my step dad and I watching all the U of M games and hope Ohio lost all of there games indefinitly. But the truth is...how good for you body is this sport. After reading an article I realized its not good for your body at all.

Some people may argue that it is good for you. Many foot ball players are in very good shape regardless of there mass. They work out it seems like constantly, even in the off seasons. For many people it may keep them out of trouble, even though now a days that seems like all the proffesional football players are doing is getting in trouble. It sound promising, I mean i know if I worked out everyday this body would look amazing but I am too lazy. lol.

What people neglect to remember is that they are basically hit by a train every time they step out onto the feild. Even though they have set rule to accomidate for all the violence its still there. Just becuase there are rule and reffs to inforce them doesnt mean it gets done 100% of the time. When I watch football on tv i see a lot of stuff happen and it may get called and it may not but the point is...it still happens.

Football is started to get played by little people, which is fine i think its adorable to see 5 year olds starting to figure out how to play as a team. The bad part is many of them are starting to do tackle football and to a big person 2 little bodies colliding cant cause that much damage, but to the little bodies its happening to it is actually a lot of damage. The brain damage that is caused from football is sometimes long term, which i dont think is acceptable. Why would someone put their child in that sort of position, its like beating the shit out of your 5 year old twice a week but they like it. When it comes to football they need to create better protection for at least young people or not have them play tackle football at all.

Over all yes football is an entertaining sport but as it goes for saftey and how smart you will be at the end....it is quite questionable.