My New Years Resolution

My new years resolution is to not slack off in school as the year goes on. In past years, I have started the school year off extremely strong, but my grades seemed to slowly slip as the school year went on. I want to make a point to be aware of this and not let it happen this year. This is extremely important especially junior year with the college application process coming closer and closer. I need to find a way to stay motivated.

(indent) I have already visited a few schools, and the schools I am interested in require pretty good grades. I felt like visiting these colleges motivated me to keep working hard. My plan to succesfully accomplish my new years resolution is to continue to visit colleges, and hang their posters in my room. This way whenever I feel lazy I can look at one of the posters and know what my goal is. I will work hard throughout this school year and be accepted to the schools I am interested in.

My Connection With Nature

I enjoy being out in nature. I've connected to nature many times. Perhaps the most significant time was when I want scuba diving in Turks and Caicos. It was an amazing experience. I was 40 feet under the water swimming over a beautiful, colorful, coral reef. There were hundreds of different vibrant fish all around me. For a minute i just layed still floating in the crystal clear ocean and just took it all in. I felt connected to god, and in a different world at this time. Everything was so beautiful, and I definitely considered this a natrual high. Scuba diving is a lot of fun and I highly suggest it to everyone.

5 points from the reading

1. Railroads and canals had a major effect on the lives of people.

2. Plank roads proved to be useless

3. After a while canals proved to be profitless.

4. Utopias were created because people wanted to be a perfect community.

5. There now is only one utopian church, but it is a very proud group of people.

10 things that bring joy to my heart :]

1. The Giants winning

2. The Jets losing

3. Wrestling

4. Madden

5. Beach

6. Snowboarding

7. Italian food

8. Bro chilling

9. Big Sex Brandon Jacobs

10. winning things

what makes a novel a classic

sometimes i think really old people decide classic novels. They pick the most boring book they can find and decide it's a classic. They do this because they are jelous of highschool student's youth and  full head of hair. Their goal is to make us all pull our hair out from reading these BORING books.

Alright now that I'm done ranting on about how I hate most "classic" books we have to read, a novel needs to have been very popular at one time to be a classic. It also needs to depict something that people can relate to. It needs to make people think, whether it's with its descriptive adjectives, interesting plot, or the way its written (like iambic pentameter). Although they make me want to hurt myself on numerous occasions, I can't deny that classic novels definitely expand my vocabulary and make me an overall smarter person. 

comments to others on wuthering heights survey

to rachel:

 mikedcts said...

pretty dull post not gunna lie. I also have to disagree with the little input you had in this post. Although I usually dislike reading classic novels, it is definitely important to read them. It definitely expands your knowledge knowing classic novels.

to jennifer:

 mikedcts said...

i agree with this. Im actually surprised that a woman actually admitted that money is something that a girl will look for in a man. You made it clear that there are things more important than money, and money is only a little part in it. I think money is more a part of it than you are admitting, but i am still impressed that you didn't have too much self pride to admit that. 

PS did you take those characteristics u describe from robbie? haha jw. i hope you guys have many more crying romantic dates!!!!

to joris:

 mikedcts said...

Jor Jor i somewhat agree with you. I mean I know there are a lot of people who were born into rich familes and are snobby, but i's say there is just as much if not more people who are wealthy and not snobby. I know there are a good amount of people like this but I feel like I see more wealthy people that are good people, than wealthy people who are stingy. I think you may believe there is more greedy rich people because of the media doesn't really show the down to earth rich people.

Wuthering heights anticipation guide thing

A lot of topics in this worksheet really stood out to me. One of these topics was the one that says children are responsible for their parents mistakes. What?????? How is that even remotely close to being true? I think if anyone said that this statement is true they must have some partial retardation. How would a child have an impact on an adults mistakes? Maybe you can say that they have a slight impact, like if they distract the parent from making the right decision or something, but to say they are responsible for adult mistakes is outrageous

I agree that when it comes to marriage money has some impact on the man a woman chooses. I bet every single woman in the world will disagree with this and be like "money doesn't matter at all it's all about love." All of you that say that I'll bet you any money if your highschool love became a bum and was a janitor or something, you wouldn't think even for a second about being with him. Even if it's subconscious, a woman will always want a wealthier man. It's just the nature of humans, we're greedy.