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.

The Story of Me in a Perfect Place

In my perfect place there are many imperfect people. Of course that is okay because no one is perfect. One day I will not forget is when the first time I ever came here. It was during the fall and I was not actually here to do anything related to school. I was over in the feild house for a karate tournament. It was early and no one was really here yet besides some of the masters and other people like me, who like to practice when there is not as many distractions.

I walked into the giant basketball court area and think this place has got to be cool it was a rock climbing wall and a high ropes course, eventhough  I am sure many colleges have these things, I thought this school was special. The tournament started off like all the others...boring. We (all the black belt judges) had to go and have a meeting about fair judging and how we score certian catagories, it is quite boring and repetative. After this though, is where the fun begins.

All the black belt competitors are divided into divisions, which we already know everyone in them, and are diverted out to rings. This process is very slow becuase there are not that many rings running since a majority of the people that run them are competing. Waiting to compete use to be nerve racking but now i am use to it and am not phased as much.

When we finally get to our ring the write our names down and tell us the order we are in, I am always mysterious first a majority of the time. I comepete and then must wait for all the other competitors to do the same. Once everyone is done we have to wait for someone to get the medals and during this time one or all of the judges will give us individual constructive critism. Then they say the places and we recieve our awards. My placement in the particular tournament was first in every event.

Then we judge the gups (which is everyone under black belt).  I was lucky and got Chelsea as my center judge (the person that basically runs the show in the ring). She is like me in the fact that we want to judge as little as humanly possible. During all this stalling we actually talked about school. She is older than me and would obviously know more about college beceause i was still in highschool at the time. She oddly enough goes to this college and had plenty to tell me about it. The things she told me were not what the flyers said, you could say and are how the college truely is.

She was extremely helpful in helping me figure out what school I should go to and if this one was right for me. She was not fearful in talking about money, which is shocking to me how many people are, and this was very helpful.

I still talk to her now but I never see her on campus even though she goes here. Without her help Im not sure if this would have been the college for me, but in some ways I am glad that it is.

A Perfect Place

This place is actually farther from home than I would like. If it were up to me I would have it only 10 minutes away, so I do not have to waste gas going there. Although getting to this place is not very difficult, I just get on a freeway and 2 cross overs and 1 exit ramp later I am there. Bright and early I park my car. The sun light is always at the height in the sky where it blinds my eyes and makes me wish I had remembered my sunglasses, which I rarely ever do. 

The walk way over to the building is actual not to bad to look at. It has beautiful trees that are geometrically place to where the placement is perfect and these tree block the terrible sun from blinding my eyes. When I get to the door I always hope someone has it open and is letting me grab it before i walk in, so I do not have to pull the heaviest door in the world.

Once inside I can always count on the fact that it is going to be comfortable and a relief from the outdoors. The floor is dark and looks rather expensive to me, but it goes with all the other things in the building. When I get past the walkway there is a giant wall full of windows that I always find myself gazing out as a place for my mind to be at ease for a brief moment before I get back to what i was doing. 

Then I was down a hallway to a room where many others will be shortly to talk and communicate all the things he/she knows to help me further what I know. This place is the CASL building. I spend so much of my time here,  I am here more than I am at home, during the week. The class I like to go to the most is math, my teacher makes my brain work and allows me to think without it being to hard that I will give up or to easy that I am done to early. It allows me time to fell accomplished and think that one day these story problems will be real and I will be fixing real situations. Besides my math class, I also like the math learning center. I am surprised that they do not know me by name in there. It is a ritual of mine and my friend, to go there after our math class and get help or do our homework. 

I do not feel judge here nor do I feel alone, even though most of the time its just my friend and I wondering about. There is always so many people there to help us that its hard to feel like we do not have support here. This place is helpful in more than people allow it to be and if they did there would be an overabundance of amazing people in this area. I feel like I am being pushed here to be a better me and this makes me feel like it is, in a non perfect world, a perfect place.  

Best Writer Ever

If someone gave me a magical note that made me the best writer ever I would honestly think they are crazy. I am not the worst writer out there, but I am most certainly not the best. If I actually ended up being the best writer though, I would use it to my full advantage. I would start writing movies, so I could make millions of dollars and be financially sound.

I would find my favorite books and make them into movies and not spare any cost to make sure the script is as close to the book as possible. I do not read books often except for the ones that my friends convince me to read or if I see a movie and like it so much I have to read the book it was based off of. Since I am the best writer in the world, i will not have to worry about the cost of any of these movies because so many people will watch them that I will over all make two times as much money as I put into it. 

After I run out of books i love i would take a break and start a family, maybe teach others how to write as well as I do. But over all it would be things I truly like to do and it would be a worry and stress free time in my life. 

Once I am ready to start making movie scripts again I will only write ones that my children what to see come to life. These will be more based off of children's books and bed time story my kids can not get enough of. 

When I am done and have all the money I will ever need I will become a teacher permanently for which ever grade I like. At times I may be a high school teacher because that is where many of the weird rule of writing become mandatory and I do not want some one to struggle like I did, but other times i may teach young children how to write the basics so they can be beyond ready for their next level in writing. Lastly I will teach my children how to write the best and tell them all my secrets, so they can be as successful as me. Then I will retire with my husband where ever we want to go.

Educational Difficulties

Sorry this is out of order I could not access the first blog I made, so I had to make another one in order to continue on with the course. This post was originally posted Tuesday September 10, 2013. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

When I think of something I struggle with if it comes to education it would be paying for it. I have a job teacher 4-5 years old karate, but its not like it pays even enough to consistently fill up my gas tank none the less pay for college. The only things that I can think of that help me begin to pay for my tuition is my mother paying me to work for her from time to time. The person that blindly helps me pay for college is my father, he is always trying to help me. He even got a job after he has been retired to help me pay for it. When it comes down to paying tuition in full, even with all these factors, I still need to take out a loan for $2750 a semester. These loan i get start gaining interest instantly and its not like the interest is a lot, but if i do not pay down the principle how an i ever going to expect even that silly interest payment to go away. 

The outcomes that worry me are being like many people out there that have debt. I never want to be in that positions, I have seen it tear families and people apart and I do not want to be a part of either of these. When I look around at the students I teacher and how much their parents pay to be there I can help but wonder why I do not get paid more, so I do not have debt. I fear living in a tiny apartment by myself in an unsafe community and broke. 

Another outcome that could happen is not even finding a job with my degree once I'm out of college. It would kill me if I was still mooching off my father after I got out of college. I would hate to be one of those people taking a food order or a livid costumer, even though i have a masters or doctorate degree. The real thing that would bother me is getting a job and then loosing it because of lack in experience or the fact that I simply could not handle the job. 

An outcome that i hope it achieve is paying my loans as I go. My mother is going to fire the lady that works for her now and hire my brother and I to take over the job for her. If this happens i will be able to make payments on my principle and hopefully get rid of this first loan before I even get my next one. 

What I want to ultimately happen is to obviously not have debt and to have a career i enjoy and want to be at. Plus I want a nice place to go home to so i can wind down from my day. The thing  i will do the most is forever repay my father for all he is doing for me, even though I know i probably never will fully repay him. 

Success

It is hard for me to imagine doing things very successful because I am only 18. When I think of success I ultimately see myself older and out of college but the one thing that I know for sure that I think is success for me is the fact that I just passed my 3rd degree black belt test. This happened back in August but it was a journey to get there.

This started back when I was 9 and my father put me in martial arts. He wanted to make sure I could defend myself and that I was a strong person so no one would take advantage of me. When I first got to the school I was apprehensive and wasn't sure of what to do and what was expected of me. The first instructor I had was Mr. Jim. He is one of the nicest people I know and without his kind heart I am not sure if I would still even be in karate

When I was 13 I tested for my first degree and this was the hardest test I have ever done. I had no idea what to expect and everyone was telling me terrible things that have happened at the tests before and it scared me. In the end I did fairly well and looking back at it I am pleased with how I did.The 2nd degree test isn't that eventful to me it was a stepping stone but was not a large one.

In August I tested for my 3rd degree and this test was very hard. I was the only one testing for 3rd degree that day and this has never happened to me. Before the test i worried about who my partner would be and what i would do during sparring. In the end they just put me with the people going for masters degree. That alone was intimidating because they are so much higher than me. But in the end I didnt have to retest on anything and I am going to be promoted in October.