These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Bad Decisions

Teenagers make bad decisions with or without their friends. Their friends presence means nothing. When a teen thinks about a bad decision their first thought it what will happen and their second is how their peers will view them afterwards. Peer pressure is everywhere and is unescapable. Now based on the study done in the article, the peers being present didnt place any effect on the subjects driving skills. Whether they sped through the yellow light and risked getting into a crash only had to do with age. The younger kids were the ones getting into more crashes! Dr. Steinberg states that the brain after puberty is the cause of young teens doing more stupid things with their friends. They are constantly more aware oof what others view them. Thats most important at that age. But as they grow with be more mature young adults they realize that how others see them means nothing. Its about being who you are!

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CANT WAIT FOR SOME SNOW. AWWWYEAH

Is your computer making you stupid? Yes.

Zimmerman is correct in saying that the digital age has taken over our generation. At the beginning of this school year my parents blocked facebook from me because they knew i go on it NON-STOP. My grades for the first marking period were AWESOME; all As and one B. So that was good. Then my friend told me a way around the proxy block on my computer so i could get on facebook at home. That day was probably the happiest day in my senior year! hahaa. (then i obviously got my acceptance letter to COASTAL CAROLINA) So facebook was finally available to me and my grades began to decline dramatically because all i was doing was FACEBOOK. At this point its really hard to go on in my day without checking everyso often. If im doing homework on the computer it probably takes me twice as long because im multitasking between that and facebook. Facebook = Life for pretty much every teenager in America. To a certain extent the computer makes us stupid. I get the whole multitasking thing Zimmerman brought up and that comprehension of important content is lost when on the computer and having the urge to do other things. BUT i dont really think that we are stupid because of it. REading an article online is pretty easy to do. Im not really distracted by other things when reading an article.

Cat vs. Printer

Watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSK1D3bZhRs

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.

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.