"What if they don't accept me?" -Senior
So recently a lot of people have been getting accepted into colleges, and finding out where they are going, and a lot of people have not. This quote was said by one of my friends while we were in International Relations obviously not focused on whatever we were supposed to be doing. Now this senior's top school is a reach school, a school that there is a good chance she will not get into.
I think this is what is going on in a lot of senior's minds right now. Even if your top school isn't a reach you're still anxious wondering whether you'll get in or not. Even if that school was a safety that you know you'll get in you still have anxiety.
I just wanted to address this quote today because it is so prevalent to right now. I hear discussions about college acceptances and applying to college every single day in almost all of my classes. Everyone is stressed about college, and you can't say you're not. (Unless you're not applying)
Just waiting for a letter telling you whether you have been accepted or rejected is probably one of the most stressful things that we have to go through this year. Seeing people post their acceptances on snapchat, Instagram, twitter, the cave wall, and outside guidance only adds that pressure to you that you need to get into somewhere. But I just wanted to say that you'll get in somewhere. It might not be your top pick, but it'll still be a good school, you'll still learn. But the best part of everything, and something I think people are too stressed to even really celebrate right now, we only have five months left. Not even that if you count the breaks and the snow days (that we'll hopefully get) WE'RE ALMOST DONE!!!!!
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
You Don't Actually Know Them
"I've heard of him, but I don't know him." - Some sixie or eight grader.
This really grabbed my attention because I have said this before as well. I know of some people, as in I've heard their name, I've heard what they look like, and I've heard the things they do, but I've never actually seen the person in real life.
I'm sure everyone feels like this about someone. Everyone tells rumors about everyone, there no point in denying it. And these rumors spread like wildfire, soon everyone knows. Through this we learn things about people we've never actually seen with our own eyes.
Now some people understand that everything they hear might not be true, but other believe everything they hear and so they have this idea of a person that they've never even met. They think they know who this person is even though they've never had a conversation with said person.
Even the people who understand everything they hear ins't true already have a preconceived idea of who other people are. We may never see that person in our whole lives, but we think we know who they are because of everything we've heard about them.
This quote stuck with me because it was someone saying, or admitting, that they know of a person (because of what they've heard) but they do not actually know anything about the person. Some people, when asked if they knew someone they had only ever heard about would just reply yes. But I think it is important to set this distinction, so we are not sharing false information about people who's we've never even seen.
This really grabbed my attention because I have said this before as well. I know of some people, as in I've heard their name, I've heard what they look like, and I've heard the things they do, but I've never actually seen the person in real life.
I'm sure everyone feels like this about someone. Everyone tells rumors about everyone, there no point in denying it. And these rumors spread like wildfire, soon everyone knows. Through this we learn things about people we've never actually seen with our own eyes.
Now some people understand that everything they hear might not be true, but other believe everything they hear and so they have this idea of a person that they've never even met. They think they know who this person is even though they've never had a conversation with said person.
Even the people who understand everything they hear ins't true already have a preconceived idea of who other people are. We may never see that person in our whole lives, but we think we know who they are because of everything we've heard about them.
This quote stuck with me because it was someone saying, or admitting, that they know of a person (because of what they've heard) but they do not actually know anything about the person. Some people, when asked if they knew someone they had only ever heard about would just reply yes. But I think it is important to set this distinction, so we are not sharing false information about people who's we've never even seen.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Is it Graduation Yet?
"Yo sign me out of high school already!!" -anonymous
I overheard this while in study the other day and I couldn't agree more. While high school does have some perks, like allowing us to spend time with friends and do sports and clubs, it also has its downsides. For example the work. Now senior year is probably the best year because you get to chose all of your classes, so if you hate a class you really have no one to blame but yourself. But, at least for me, I enjoy all of my classes (except calc) and do not mind the work that is given.
Even though all the above is true, I could not agree more with the senior that said the quote. After spirit day, i just can't deal with school anymore. Especially after receiving my first college acceptance, I just don't care anymore. I just want to be out, to be graduated.
Adults will say not to wish your high school career away because they are the best years of your life but sometimes you just can't help but wish it was all over so you can go someplace new, meet new people, try new things.
So, when I heard this quote I immediately thought SAME!!!!
JUST LET IT BE SIGN OUT ALREADY
I overheard this while in study the other day and I couldn't agree more. While high school does have some perks, like allowing us to spend time with friends and do sports and clubs, it also has its downsides. For example the work. Now senior year is probably the best year because you get to chose all of your classes, so if you hate a class you really have no one to blame but yourself. But, at least for me, I enjoy all of my classes (except calc) and do not mind the work that is given.
Even though all the above is true, I could not agree more with the senior that said the quote. After spirit day, i just can't deal with school anymore. Especially after receiving my first college acceptance, I just don't care anymore. I just want to be out, to be graduated.
Adults will say not to wish your high school career away because they are the best years of your life but sometimes you just can't help but wish it was all over so you can go someplace new, meet new people, try new things.
So, when I heard this quote I immediately thought SAME!!!!
JUST LET IT BE SIGN OUT ALREADY
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
NOW I'M MAD
"Seniors are retarded, they go way too hard" -anonymous
Okay so in honor of tomorrow being my last spirit day ever at this school I'd like to share something that I thought would be appropriate, and this is something I overheard today.
The above quote I heard when I was walking in the halls to my third period class. It was said by a junior whom I do know the name of but am not going to share. Let me give you a little bit of background in case you don't know......
the class of 2016 has always gone full out, we always have school spirit and rep our class (for the majority of people). And this Tuesday was the yearly color wars, the day when each class is assigned a color and you wear your color to rep your class. Now the seniors clearly won because we went the most full out (but that's beside the point). Do some of us look ridiculous? YES!! I'd say the majority of us look absolutely crazy! But the thing is WHO CARES???!!!
We are having pride for our class, we want to have fun, and feel united as a class. What is so "retarded" about that? We want to celebrate this being our last year ever being able to create memories with these people as well as within this school. We will never live through color wars, or spirit day with each other again, and you're saying it's a bad thing we want to come together to show that we are one class, and we are proud of it (no matter how much we say we aren't)
We go hard because we want to have fun, we want to make the most memories we can. When we look back on our final school spirit week we'll have memories of the cafe and hallways being flooded with red, the memories of teachers giving us strange expressions and laughing with us because of how crazy we look. We'll have memories that will stay with us forever, and what will the junior have that said the seniors "go way too hard", nothing. You won't have any pictures or memories. All you will know is that it was another day of school. I don't see the problem with wanting to have fun, and wanting to make memories. I don't see the problem of showing that we are seniors and we are more than happy that we made it to this point.
Sorry that your class doesn't have as much fun as ours, sorry you aren't as united, sorry that you don't feel as though you should make memories. That's your problem, not ours. So don't go calling our class retarded.
GO B16 OR GO HOME
Side-note : the things I said were not aimed at all underclassmen and juniors because I know some of you have a lot of class pride, and you do understand why the seniors are going full out. My rant was aimed at the junior who made the ignorant comment as well as those who agree with said junior.
Okay so in honor of tomorrow being my last spirit day ever at this school I'd like to share something that I thought would be appropriate, and this is something I overheard today.
The above quote I heard when I was walking in the halls to my third period class. It was said by a junior whom I do know the name of but am not going to share. Let me give you a little bit of background in case you don't know......
the class of 2016 has always gone full out, we always have school spirit and rep our class (for the majority of people). And this Tuesday was the yearly color wars, the day when each class is assigned a color and you wear your color to rep your class. Now the seniors clearly won because we went the most full out (but that's beside the point). Do some of us look ridiculous? YES!! I'd say the majority of us look absolutely crazy! But the thing is WHO CARES???!!!
We are having pride for our class, we want to have fun, and feel united as a class. What is so "retarded" about that? We want to celebrate this being our last year ever being able to create memories with these people as well as within this school. We will never live through color wars, or spirit day with each other again, and you're saying it's a bad thing we want to come together to show that we are one class, and we are proud of it (no matter how much we say we aren't)
We go hard because we want to have fun, we want to make the most memories we can. When we look back on our final school spirit week we'll have memories of the cafe and hallways being flooded with red, the memories of teachers giving us strange expressions and laughing with us because of how crazy we look. We'll have memories that will stay with us forever, and what will the junior have that said the seniors "go way too hard", nothing. You won't have any pictures or memories. All you will know is that it was another day of school. I don't see the problem with wanting to have fun, and wanting to make memories. I don't see the problem of showing that we are seniors and we are more than happy that we made it to this point.
Sorry that your class doesn't have as much fun as ours, sorry you aren't as united, sorry that you don't feel as though you should make memories. That's your problem, not ours. So don't go calling our class retarded.
GO B16 OR GO HOME
Side-note : the things I said were not aimed at all underclassmen and juniors because I know some of you have a lot of class pride, and you do understand why the seniors are going full out. My rant was aimed at the junior who made the ignorant comment as well as those who agree with said junior.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
"Not all those who wander are lost"
I'm going to start off with one of my favorite quotes. (mainly because I can't off the top of my head remember something that someone around me said recently... I'm going to have to start writing it down) Anyway one of my all time FAVORITE quotes is from a poem, "All that is Gold does not Glitter" that was written by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings.
Now full disclaimer I've never actually read The Lord of the Rings series or any books that have to do with the series. But I came upon this quote one day, I don't remember exactly where it was (probably twitter or something of the sort) and it really grabbed my attention. It really connected with me because after high school I plan on going off somewhere beside here to college, and then after that traveling the world, going wherever I want. Basically just wondering the world with no set destination. Normally when I tell people of my hope to do this they tell me it's not smart, or that I should have a set plan for what I'm doing. But I know exactly what I'm doing, I know what I want to do and just because I'm traveling around doesn't mean I'm lost. This quote can have many different interpretations, and people can have many different take a ways from it. This quote does not have to just be interpreted such a literal sense as my interpretation was. I could never even think of all the infinite possibilities of what this quote could mean to any single person who reads it.
Then, I am also taking this quote out of context from the rest of the poem. When put into context it opens the door to so many more interpretations. I'll share the link to the full poem below. But I just want you to think of what this quote means to you, how does it impact you?
"All that is Gold does not Glitter"
http://genius.com/J-r-r-tolkien-all-that-is-gold-does-not-glitter-annotated
I'm going to start off with one of my favorite quotes. (mainly because I can't off the top of my head remember something that someone around me said recently... I'm going to have to start writing it down) Anyway one of my all time FAVORITE quotes is from a poem, "All that is Gold does not Glitter" that was written by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings.
Now full disclaimer I've never actually read The Lord of the Rings series or any books that have to do with the series. But I came upon this quote one day, I don't remember exactly where it was (probably twitter or something of the sort) and it really grabbed my attention. It really connected with me because after high school I plan on going off somewhere beside here to college, and then after that traveling the world, going wherever I want. Basically just wondering the world with no set destination. Normally when I tell people of my hope to do this they tell me it's not smart, or that I should have a set plan for what I'm doing. But I know exactly what I'm doing, I know what I want to do and just because I'm traveling around doesn't mean I'm lost. This quote can have many different interpretations, and people can have many different take a ways from it. This quote does not have to just be interpreted such a literal sense as my interpretation was. I could never even think of all the infinite possibilities of what this quote could mean to any single person who reads it.
Then, I am also taking this quote out of context from the rest of the poem. When put into context it opens the door to so many more interpretations. I'll share the link to the full poem below. But I just want you to think of what this quote means to you, how does it impact you?
"All that is Gold does not Glitter"
http://genius.com/J-r-r-tolkien-all-that-is-gold-does-not-glitter-annotated
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