Sunday, October 30, 2011

Homework

Homework is usually required now for each class to have. How much hw that class gives is the teachers decision. I do not think that i recieve to much hw. I have not really seen any change in how much hw you can get in a class like i said before it is the teachers decision. Some classs like health though just give out hw because they need to put things in the grade book. Like my health class we have a current event do once a week. If i had to consider what class i got the most hw in it would be pre-calc. We get hw about 3 to 4 nights of hw a week. Four nights of hw might seem like a lot, but the amount of problems we get are ot a lot. My other classes do not give out that much hw.
My time management skills i can cleary say our just straight up pathetic. If do not do my hw in school then it will take me awhile to complete it. I have so many distractions at my house so it takes awhile for m to gt things done. A simple hw assignment can take me up to a little more thn a hour. If i have to do a project or write an essay it will take me much longer. I would say i average about 3 to 5 hours when doing either or those assignment. It is really a bad habit that I really need to get rid of. When I am in school doing hw that mans the hw I am doing is due some time that day. It will usually take about an entire period for me to finish that hw. If i could take that amount of time to do my hw at home it would help me so much.I do usually recieve hw on the weekends but it is usually only my blogs for this class and my writing class with Dr. Muller. Depending on what the topics are it could take me along time to do the blogs. Mostly because it is very easy to get distracted while working on a computer. 
I do not think to much hw is being handed out, i just think that students are just to lazy to do their hw or they just wait till 9pm to start doing all of it. Another factor could be because they have jobs and do sports and do not get home until late to start it. Although hw may be the most annoying things students have to do I find it vry helpful. Not in every class oly in certain classes. Mostly math because the more times you do a problem the easier it will become for you. I do not really consider myself a students who waits till the last minute. I try to do as early as possible but being extremely lazy and facing my time management skills make it hard for me to finish my hw on time

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Being Alone

When i was a kid being home alone was the scariest thing my parents ever did to me. Once i reached the first grade my parents let me be home by myself. During the day i had no problem being alone, but once night time came i could not do it. I would stay in my room watching tv trying to keep my mind pre-occupied. It didn't really work that well though. I would always be constantly being looking out my window checking if anyone was there, always had to have my dog in my room to protect me incase someone were to come in my house. I would get so scared that i also kept my house phone with me at all times just in case something bad were to happen. I would imagine that if someone were to come in my house that i would have traps ready for them throughout my house even though i did not. I would pretend i was the kid from "Home Alone"
 and that I would be able to out smart anyone who dared to enter my household. I was always really parnoid and this just made me feel so much safer.
However once i got older i was able to deal with being alone and i started to enjoy it. I started to think being home alone was cool and prefered being home alone then home with my family. I just reall started to like being by myself and not having anyone bothering me. Although i was really scared for a long time. It probaly took me until middle school to get used to being home alone.It was a daily rutine for me and i did not just enjoy that alone time i craved that alone time. I was not, or still am not sure why i love being alone so much, it just makes me feel so good that i just have to worry about myself instead of my friends or family.
Now I am trying to cut down on my alone time and just try to hang with my friends more since it is my last year with them before we go to college. So i try to hang out with them for a majority of the week and have some days where its a me day. Like the weekends Friday and Saturaday I am find with hanging out with my friends for the entire day, but Sunday i do not like hanging out with anyone. I take it as a personal day. I really enjoy having Sundays to myself.
In the futur i do not want to have a wife and kids. I do not think i will be able to spend with a family and having a full time job. It would be hard to have my alone time which i despertley need. Having a job and a family would put so much stress on me that I feel I would need to be by myself for atleast three days. I cannot really see how people hate being alone. I love it so much and it completes some of my days.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Music

Music is everywhere and everyone loves it. Not everyone listens to the same type of music, but everyone in the world shares the same passion for music. You cannot hide from music because it is everywhere, on tv, on radios, in stores and so on. Music is very important to many people in the world and it helps them or inspires them in some type of way. I like to think that music is what makes the world goes round. It makes many people in the world very happy. Music helps bring cultures closer together and other cultures to understand one another. For majority of the cases the people who have deeper passion for music are the ones that play instruments.
I myself used to play an instrument. From 2nd to 5th grade i played the drums. I enjoyed playing them, but i did not really have an extreme passion for playing the drums. I was not bad but i was not good at the drums so that is why i felt i gave up on playing them. I had a lot of fun playing the drums but i did not have the passion that other musician had.
So now i just listen to the music that the professional musician make and enjoy that. I listen to pretty much all types of music besides folk music. I think it is better to listen to more types of music just so you can except the types of music others listen to. When i was younger i really only listened to rock music. Then as i grew older i started to listen to rap and hip hop, then country and pop music. Now that i listen to more types of music i feel i have more respect towards other cultures and just other people in general.
Music is important to me because i feel it helps me concentrate and calms me down. It is hard for me now in days to do anything without listening to music. When ever i do my hw i cannot stay concentrated without listening to music. A couple of years ago i always had trouble going to sleep every night then i started  to listen to music when i went to bed and it helped me out a lot. Now i am always listening to music before i go to sleep. Also listening to music is an easy way to get me pumped before a big game or something. Music makes me feel good and i really could not enjoy life without having music and just having music makes everything in the world so much easier to handle.
I also feel music helps the world connect with each other more. I also feel music helps other generations connect with each other. I feel the older you get the less appreciated of other types of music. But when you are younger yo appreciate more types of music old or new. Without music the world would completely suck and it would be harder to have people connect with one another. 

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Cell Phones

Cell phones are now one of the biggest things that technology has to offer and has been on the rise in the past decade. So many kids are in love with their cell phone and are always on them. They rely on their own cell phones then many things in the world like their friends or their families. The kids in today's society are always texting one another or talking to one another in some other ways. Also there are apps now on cell phones, so there are so many kids that playing games on their cell phones just to past time. Kids now in days say that their cell phones are their most valuable possession and can function or would no be able to live without their cell phones. When the question if you were on a deserted island and you could bring one item what would that item be, so many kids would say they would pick their cell phone over anything else.
There are rarely any kids that do not use or have their own cell phones. I do not think that parents do not let their kids have their own cells phone that are in high school or junior high. I am pretty sure every kid in high school has a cell phone because now I see kids that are in second or third grade that have their own cell phones because their parents let them have them because it is part of the fads now in days. I think that the amount of time a kids spend on their phone really depends on how strict their parents are or how much money they have. If a kid gets a phone when they are young they will be on their phone a lot when they are older. If someone has strict parents they might be able to use their cell phones a lot.  Also the type of phone they have really rely on how much a kid will use their cell phone. If they have a very nice touch phone they would use it a lot more then a crappy little flip phone. If you have a more updated phone you would be able to do much more things on it.
I consider myself one of those kids who rarely uses their cell phone. I rarely use my cell phone because i do not really need it and i kind of hate having one. I keep telling my i do not need a cell phone and it is just a waste of money for me to have one. When i am on my own in college i do not plan on having my own phone. Majority of the time the reason i do not use my cell phone is because i rarely have my cell phone on me. My friends know that so they do not even text me any more they just come straight to my House to hang out. I also do not use my cell phone because i feel that technology will one day be the reason why the world will end so i try not to participate in using it so much.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Driving

The number of times i have been in a auto mobile, i can not say. The number is to high for me to possibly know. The number of times i actually pay attention to other drivers I don't think I can say either. When I am in a car not driving, I'm always looking outside the window. Always see the passing cars and the passengers in the car, but i never really see the passengers in the car. I am never really giving my full attention to the other people in the cars. I more of zoning my out when I am a passenger in the car and for me to notice something it has to be something interesting.
I don't have my own car so i rarely drive, and when I do drive its at like 11 o'clock at night when I am taking my dad to work. When i drive though that it when i notice most of the things that other drivers are doing. That is only because i have my friends drive me around all the time so I notice the things that they do that other drivers do. Most teenagers do the same things while they are driving. Texting, changing the cd or song on the ipod, talking on their cell phones and eating. The teenage drivers and adult drivers i notice have a big difference. Most teenagers are texting while adult drivers talk more on their cell phones. Also i see a lot of parents in their cars turning in the back seat to deal with their kids.
I do know the people with the nicer cars are the ones who are more reackless drivers. They drive faster then the speed limits and try to pass cars and cut people off. Also people from different states always drive in different ways because they have different driving rules from where they are from. New Yorkers for some reason tend to be the most agressive drivers. Also I notice that in some cases the bad drivers are the ones who tend to be the ones who have road rage. Honking the horn, flipping people off even though it is usaully there fault in the first place.
I do think that the way some people drive relfect the pesons personality. For most cases the agressive drivers are the ones who are jerks and complete tools. I know that my friends that don' follow the driving rules are the ones aren't the greastest people in real life. The friends i have that follow the rules are usally kind and good people. I also think the type of car the person has can reflect their personality to. I think that when i drive my driving style reflects my personality. I myself have never been in an accident and hopefuly I never will. The kind of driver i want to be is, just a normal good driver that won't ever get a ticket or get an accident.