Monday, December 13, 2010

Cat vs. Printer

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Atheists

I completely agree with Bob Ray Sanders on this bus ad issue. Its just a little rediculous to even have to read about this sort of stuff. I personally am not religious but if i were a bus ad about being non religious would not offend me. Theres no reason for people to get up in arms about freedom of speech and just stating what they believe. I hate it when people make a big fuss about something being published that is against what they believe but they can make posters and state their opinion as much as they want. Ive seen posters and ads hundreds of times about how "god is great" and to "come see the light." But GOD forbid there be something on the opposite end of the spectrum for the believers or all HELL brakes loose. I really cant stand people like that! People that preach their beliefs over someone elses and cant respect that different people have different thoughts and beliefs REALLY aggrevates me. I dont understand how they can care soooooo much about people that have different views to just shut them out completely. I may not be religious but i respect those who are, just like if i were id respect those who werent.

Monday, December 6, 2010

The Common App.

The Common App is widiely used, and hear about my friends using it all the time. Personally i didn't use it and found no need to because my first choice school i applied to didn't take it. But after seeing my friends go through it I think its a pretty good innovation. Its easy to keep track of your application and all the steps youre missing so that you can better see exactly what you need to do to be done with all the applications. Its also easier when you think about it. Lets say a prospective student wants to apply to six schools. Thats six different websites to log in to to check application status and just fill it out in general. It seems like such a hassel now-a-days. And now since there are more than 400 schools taking the Common Application its just easier to do it that way.
Theres no reason to stress over some many applications when the Common App pretty much organizes everything for you. I saw the lay out for the Common App website and its pretty simple. It has the list for all the colleges you are applying to and next to the name of the university are symbols to tell you whether or not your application is completed adn ready to be sent and if you are missing something. To me it seems so much nore organized. Im not organized at all and either are a lot of high school students i know, so tagging along a ton of paper applications is a burden. Im pretty sure eventually way more schools with be taking the Common Application.