Senioritis or Stress? (Blog 15)

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Normally, I wouldn't complain about my studies but for the beginning of the 4th quarter of my senior year, I have been under unusual amount of stress. I have only three AP Courses (Psychology, Literature, European-History), but they are making me go insane. Although, I will practically have nothing to do in these classes after the AP exams, they are cramming the work for the whole quarter in approximately two weeks. On top of all that, I have H-Precalculus. Math, only the sound of it can make me run a 100 miles away. I hate Math, for all of the people who love math and actually understands math, lucky for you. I have nothing against technology or sciences but I am never going to be a scientist or God forbids a math teacher. Maybe, the reason why I hate it so much is because I haven't been exposed to it for a long period of time like most of the students at the school. But anyhow, I don't understand the need to know trigonometric equations or anything out of the ordinary. Ask anyone that is working and not a math person, they will never remember the stuff they learned in their trigonometry class but they might still be successful in life. Here is the thing; Math explores some real life problems, but the problems they explore are mostly out of the ordinary. No one in mind is going to wonder how high the bird is from the ground when it's on a tree. If a bird is on a tree, it's on a tree; it's a very simple logic. But for some bizarre reasons you wonder how high the bird is from the ground then trig functions and such will be very useful to you. I believe in simple and very basic math such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. I believe in those because I use it in my everyday life, such as spending and making money. Money is a luxury that we all work to have, because without it, we will never be able to live. So I ask myself, why did I take this unnecessary math class in my senior year? And I now know the answer. Some colleges that I was applying to recommended that I take pre-calculus in high school. But now, I have committed to Wheaton College and I don't want to have to worry about that class but I am scared and afraid that if I fail that class, the college will have to review my case and in some extreme situations, can rescind their offer. So this time of a high school senior that is in a situation like me, is no time for senioritis but only stress.

The Reasons Why I Am Alive (Blog#14)

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There are only a few reasons why I am alive. One, I am alive so I can be a messenger, a witness to the cold and cruel world. Two, I am alive to help others using my specific skill set. Three, I live to protect the ones that I love. And four, I live to achieve what I want out of life. Life's pleasures along the way are just the bonuses I earned. Ask anyone you know, and ask them how long they can live without their cell phones or iPods. The answer will probably be not even a minute. In the developed countries, most of the people have not realized the harsh truth and think that the technological inventions are part of their lives and they won't be wrong but nature has a way of ripping a soul away from body no matter what technological inventions can do. There's no one way to simplify the matter of harshness and the cruelty of the other half of the world. Most people in this part of the world, fortunately, did not have to go through the harsh reality of starvation, execution, ethnic cleansing, and doing the most extreme things to survive. I, personally do not expect everybody to understand what goes on around the world but at least I desire people to understand that this is not the whole world, and be mindful of the things happening in the other countries because we live in the same world. If we are not mindful or aware of half the things that goes on around the world, our general intelligence will dramatically decline. Some people think that they know everything, walking around the hallways trying to preach to people what they think you need to and what is expected of you. I generally do not agree with anything they say because all they know is Lowell. They were born in Lowell, they went to schools in Lowell, and they work in Lowell. Therefore all they know is Lowell and everything that they say is all influenced by Lowell. Please don't get me wrong, I am not saying that I know everything, and I definitely do not have any problems with people telling me about what I need to do and such but there's always a limit for everything. Once they step out the limit, I break down. And of course I have to be quite because I live in a bureaucracy. The bottom line here is none of us know everything, and we are going to disagree on matters and that is perfectly normal but sometimes we have to be respectful of each other’s opinions. I live to tell the tales that some never got the chance to and these are the reasons why I am alive.