Reflection On Students Two Point Oh

The blogs I read were "Should an 18 Year Old Really Know What They're Going to Do For the Rest of Their Life?" and "The Well of Inspiration." The reason why I chose to read them was that those are the kind of topics that are pretty close to we, the 11th graders.

The first blog talks about whether you should know what you want to major in or even do for the rest of your life. The author did not know what she wanted to do in her future. She then made a hypothesis that there is too many options for the students nowadays, which causes them to have hard time choosing what to do. However, I disagree with that point. I think the variety of choices we have today can allow us to be able to try out more different things before we enter college. That might be different for different people, though. So her point may still be correct in some ways.

The other one is about this girl that likes to write. She started writing in high school and she thought she had a unique talent because not a lot of people started writing novels when they were in high school. As she grew older, she met some other high school students that also write novels. It made her realized how big the world actually is, and how many other talented people are out there. When she decided that she wanted to continue writing in the future, she could see from some people that they don't believe she could do it. Eventually, she wanted to write more just to prove them wrong. I like her attitude. One should never listen when the others are trying to tell her or him, "You can't do it." The only reasons why people would tell one another that they can't achieve something is simply that they couldn't do it themselves, or no one had done it before.

4th Floor Mural

I am now working on painting the walls on 4th floor. Here are some of the ideas I have. Please feel free to give any comment because I have no idea what you guys think. Any suggestions, concerns, questions, or even complaints are welcome.
Since the 4th floor is all about science, so, I thought it would be appropriate to have things that are scientific related. The first idea is "evolution".

For some reason that picture did not show up well... Anyway, the idea is to have simple circles, squares, and rectangular shapes in the beginning, then they all slowly change into different creatures. The "hard" part is the end, because, believe it or not, evolution hasn't ended. So, Mr.Loken and I came up with two different "solutions" One is to have all(or the most. Of course, it's not possible for me to have "all", literally.) the species we have, today, to race at the final point. The other idea is to have the present time before reaching to the end of the wall, and have it transfers into a bunch of question marks to represent that "we don't know what is going to happen next." See example below.
The other idea is something very creative. It slightly relates to the theme, science, but not exactly ties into it like the evolution idea does. I call this idea "movie posters" What I am going to do is to create science related movies' posters. Getting confused? Well, have you ever seen those movie posters made AFTER the Oscar award? They not only have the pictures of the movies but also include what kind of award and comments they had got.
Trust me, this one is way cooler than evolution.

Thanks a lot for reading through all these.
Once again, feel free to say anything. I can see your name anyway.

Joking.

Warmed Up Clothing.

Another voice exercise. This is for the book, Cat's Cradle.

“Oh by the way, have I spoken about Father’s trip to the beach? I know this has nothing to do with the book you are working on but it’s pretty interesting. You might like to include this. Anyway, it wasn’t a family trip or anything like that. I was at the beach with my friends one afternoon and then I happened to found my dad there as well. He was lying under the Sun with a raincoat with the hood on. His feet were the only things that were exposed, however, I could tell it was him because that raincoat is mine; it has my name on. So I excused myself from my friends to see what he was doing. We were practicing beach volleyball there for the coming up sports day. Only a few of us had the experience of playing beach volleyball. As I went closed to him, I found a sheet of paper lied next to him, which said “Can you warm up someone’s body temperature by warming up that person’s clothing?”

Beginning of "Cat's Cradle"

Although the book, "Cat's Cradle", does not use any vocabulary that people don't often say in real life, or the words that high school students would refer as the "SAT words", it is still a difficult book. I have to admit that it is a great book in the sense that the author has a very special style in writing, however, that is what makes the book difficult to read.

The beginning of the book basically talked about Jonah's, or John, the narrator,
writing a book about the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima back in the 1945. He then sent some letters to the son, Newt, of the scientist, Felix, who made the atomic bomb, to gather information. Both John and Newt are very good at going off track. That is the main reason why it is a difficult book.

The most fascinating thing I found in the book is that the author always had something funny at the end of each chapter. Though, most of the jokes are not so easily to be understood. You might have to stop and think about it for a few seconds, then laugh. Another thing I like about the book is the character, Felix. Felix probably has one of the best personalities in all the stories I know so far. He is a very cool person, literally. All he thinks about is himself. He is not a selfish person, however, it's just that he doesn't seem to take too much account of what the others are doing. Without Felix, "Cat's Cradle" would likely be a boring book. I am guessing that he will come back more often as the story goes, because he seems like he is the cat's cradle man!

one Act of Random Kindness. (How to change the world??)

I have always thought of changing the world since I was very little. However, I have never thought of changing the world right now, when I am still in high school. It is not that I think I am still too young or anything like it specially after my experience of finding sponsors for the student lounge design plan. Before we started it, my thinking was just as naive as everyone else today at school except for Angus, Jack, and me. Whenever Angus, Jack, or I mention how hard it could be, the other people would absolutely tell us, "come on, it's not that hard. You just have to find the right person." I agree, but it's had to find the "right person" when you are a nobody. No one can truly understand both the fun and the pain of the precess. Base on that experience, I sometimes thought that is it all about who we know? So does it mean the older I get the easier it would be? I guess the answer would be "no", because no matter how old I am, as long as I haven't had a successful student lounge built out and show it to the world, I am still a nobody. I learned that it is not only about who you know, what kind of knowledge and skills you have, or even the money you own, you also have to be willing to do the things you wanted to achieve.

From the movie, "Evan Almighty", Evan once asked the God how is he supposed to change the world. The God answered him, "it starts with one act of random kindness." There is no short cut. I believe the most important thing for changing the world is to have faith in yourself and be willing to do anything. Sometimes people think too much before they even started a thing. Eventually they will have doubt in themselves after thinking too much ahead. There should be a lot of planning but no thinking. It all starts from something as small as one act of random kindness.

Who's talking??

After learning about the "voice" in writing, we had done a little exercise we had in class. It's a simple instruction of lifting the lid of a lap-top computer, turning its power on, and opening Safari. Yet, we need to try using somebody else's voice to describe the process.

Guess who's voice am I using here:

We use computers as a learning tool at school, particularly Mac Book. The main reason of this is computers are lighter than books. You can have a whole lot of documents in your lap top and they don’t add any weight to it. Right now I am just going to focus on the way to open Mac Book’s browser, Safari. First, you need to lift its lid up. I personally think it’s very logical. Then, once again, this is pretty much logical; you turn on the power. In order to turn it on, all you have to do is to press that round button on the right hand side top corner. As you push it, you would begin to realize that it is an incredibly fast machine. When you have it on, you will see two things. The desk top and the dashboard located on the bottom of the screen. In the dashboard, I believe Safari is the forth one counting from your left, except if you have already moved things around on your dashboard. Safari has an icon of a compass, it shouldn’t be hard to find. If you can’t find it, the other way is to clock onto the magnifying glass icon on the right hand top corner of your screen. It should give you a little blue area says “spotlight”, once you clicked on it, with a bar that you can type in. You can find and open Safari just by typing Safari there.

Answer:   nekol. rM