last week: are too many people going to college?

According to some research i was reading about in my reading class...we read a lot answers to this question. Are too many people going to college? I personally do not even know how many people go to college but i would assume it is a lot. I think if everyone in college is there for a reason and know what they want to do, then there is no problem with how many people are going to college. Some students go to college not knowing what they want to do at all. I think this is a waste of money because in a lot of cases, some students end up changing their minds about what they to do and end up wasting their money and time on classes they do not even need. I think if students do not know exactly what they want to do when they get out of high school, it would not be a bad idea to wait to go to college until you decide what you want to do with your time and money there. Also in this research, people said that college is not meant for all students. I agree with this. Some students do not need college if what they want to do does not invole college. For example like the army or if they want to do soemthing with television or a family buisness. Some students do not even have enough money to go college. I do not think this is a reason to stop anybody from going to college. I personally think college is way too expensive and the government could help out a little more with helping pay for college. But if it is a hard time paying, then starting off in a commuinty college is not a bad idea at all. Starting it off even if you are quite not sure with what you want to do then a community college would still be the best idea even if you do not want to wait to go to college. i just think people need to be smart about what they want and do not waste their money or time.

technolgy dependent

Technology these days is very much dependent. Everyone relies on on technolgy in the generation y. Phones for example, no one can leave their home without a phone. I know I can't. People need their phones in case someone calls them or texts them just to tell them something that is not even that important. Even when we are driving. When someone hears their phone go off and can not help but to look to see what they say. They can not wait for the car to stop for one second to look at what they said which is why there are so many car accidents these days due to texting. Also computers are very dependent. I know people who have to check their facebook just to see if someone commented on their status or to see if someone commented on their picture they just put up. I have so many friends who have to check their facebook when ever they get around a computer. They do not only check it but they stay on ir for a good hour or so just to look at other people and creep. We just have to do it because the computer is there and is given us a chance to do it. If computers where taken away from generation y, then most people would not be able to handle doing anything. Our gerenation y uses computer for communication, homework, games, profiles, to find information, etc. Without the computers our generatino y would actually have to not be so lazy and get up and actually do something because they can not depend on the technology. Yes technology has made a lot of things much easier for us, but it has made us lazy and depend on it to be succesful. If you look at classes these days, every teacher pretty much usesd the internet to give out homework or anything you need to turn in. It had made life a lot easier.

Week ?...The Studio

The other I went to the studio to revise my paper about the time when we wrote about something. I thought that they helped me a lot. They took everything that Stephanie commented on and helped in any way that they could. When Stephanie said that i needed to add dialogue, they did not just say oh i agree with that. They actually helped me write some dialogue and gave me some great idea that i actually wanted to use to revise my paper. Everyone there was super nice and they did not judge me on how i wrote stuff. They just helped me. Also not just the one person i had the meeting with helped me. Everyone around helped me if i needed something. We were trying to think of a word and me and the girl that was helping could not think of the word so we asked around and everyone helped out right away and went out of their way to help us out which i thought was really nice. Every question i had they answered the best way that they could. I wish i would have went there earlier to have them help out with my paper before. I think that the people there really know what they are talking about and really want to help you out so they will do anything they can to help you. I deffinetly recommened that you guys try out the studio if you need anything because i guaranteed your paper will be a better paper.

tipping servers

i work in a restaurant Chilis, i am a host there. it is probably one of the easiest jobs, but one of the most stressful jobs. It's stressful because customers always complain about where you seat them and servers always complain about what customers you give them because they want a good tip. A lot of people do not realize that the money servers make come from tips, not their hourly wage. Their tips cancel out the money they would make hourly. For example, if a server makde $5 an hour and worked 5 hours, that would $25. If they made $25 for their tips that day, that cancels out the hourly wage, so there for their check would $0. So all their money they make comes from tips not hourly. What i do not get is how people have the money to go out to eat and not have the money to tip people. I see it happen everyday. If you $70 on a meal but only have enough money to leave a $4 tip, then dont get $70 worth of food. That tip is hurting the server and they are not making any money. A lot of people think that servers make hourly wage plus tips so it is ok to tip low, but it is not true. It really frustrates me that people go out and spend all that money and do have enough money to tip. I use to do that when i was younger, but since i have worked in a restaurant i have learned how it works and tipping is a very important thing when it comes to going to eat. So next time you go out to eat, think bout that.

week 7?...writing in progress

I think so far that my writing has gotten better since I have been in this class. We focus on a lot in this class and how to make us better writers which is why I think I am getting better. Before this class I was having trouble working on focus. I like to talk a lot when I write papers and babble on and get side tracked which is not what you are suppose to do in papers. I realized that being focused on just what you are talking about helps the reader understand the reading better and the point that you are trying to get a crossed. When I wrote the rough draft at first, I confused the reader because I had about 3 different ideas that I was trying to point out to the reader and they did not understand what I was trying to say. After conferencing I realized what I needed to do and I fixed it and now understand how to focus on a topic in the future. Also I thought the conferencing helped me a lot. I thought talking through with Stephanie helped me understand exactly what she was looking for. I really like the process in the way we write papers. I like how we classmates helped each other out and got insights on what other people thought. When you write your own papers and fix it yourself, you are probably not going to fix much because you are the one who wrote and you think it is good. Having different opinions is very helpful.

week 6: texting and driving

Texting and driving is probably one of the things that is killing a lot of people these days. Teenagers and even adults do not get the fact the texting while driving is very dangerous. I am not going to lie I do it all the time. But I am going to try my hardest to stop because I know it is not good to do. My dad just told me the other day that they faceted that texting and driving is worse than drinking and driving. When I heard that, I made me really scared and want to be really cautious of texting in the car. It is very tempting to do. You will just be driving and then you hear your phone ring and you just wonder who is it and what they are saying. You are wondering if it is really important, so you just take a quick glance at it. That one decision could ruin the rest of your life and you might not realize that. My friend during the month of March this year was on my way to my house and she called me saying that she just got into a wreck because she was texting. Her car was totaled. I am just thankful that she did not get hurt. Sometimes you might catch yourself not driving good, and then you really need to realize that you probably should not be texting. So all I am saying is be careful while texting and driving because one second of looking at your phone could ruin your life.

week 5: Notes i wrote in middle school

So the other day I was cleaning my room (which took about 4 hours I should say) and I found a box of all my notes that I had lying under my bed from my middle school days. Of course I had to read them and just laugh about the stuff I use to write to my friends. The language I used when writing to them was so funny. I would try and shorten everything I write. Instead of writing the word Like, I would write it as Lyk. Why? I have no idea. I guess it was the cool thing to write back in the day. Half of the notes I read were not even about anything important. They would just say “hey whats up?” or in some letters I read my friends would say “hey whats poppin?” I do not even get why we would talk like that. Then the rest of the notes would say yea so I am in class right now bored out of my mind so I am writing to you to see whats up, and yea you should def write me back so I have something to read. Then you would see like picture at the bottom of your name in bubble letters or something. Then I kept cleaning my room and I found out this print out of a conversation I had online with my ex-boyfriend in 7th grade. I was talking about how we broke up and why and the stuff we said to each other was so middle school language, it just made me laugh so much. The stuff I said to him is not what I would say to people now. Some of the stuff it said was like, “I can’t be friends with you now since we broke up, it is just too hard.” Even thought we only dated for like a month, it was just too hard for me back then I guess. And other stuff said well he said and she said drama like that. I just really enjoyed reading my old letters to my friends and my e boyfriends.