Arithma-Ticked

I've always been lacking in the math department, actually that doesn't do it justice the truth is I've been dreadful at anything math related as far back as i can remember. Occasionally there has been spots that I have grasped better then others, geometry was on of them, but over all its been getting worse with each passing year. Part of this is due to the math advancing and I'm simply not but where the core of it is the fact that, despite my best efforts, I have been unable to retain most of the information that I've been taught and while in previous math classes I could just focus on the formula and plug each equation in, now In Algebra 3 you need to fully understand each type of formula because the equasions don't always match up to the formulas. If by this point you are thinking that I'm just not trying hard enough, please don't. My current teacher often talks to the whole class about coming to him after school and going over areas that we have trouble in and I have been for a few weeks now. In fact what scares me the most is that when i go to look at the grade sheet I'm doing worse then those who aren't seeking any help and are content with the losiy grades they have. I don't uderstand how someone who isn't really trying can have a passing grade and someone who is fighting wiht everything he's got is still failling. It really bothers me to see that even more then it bothers the teachers, infact it bothers me so much that I end up baering grudes agaist those who are getting by without trying and thats the last thing I want to do because those people are often there to help me whenever the can and I owe it to them to show them more respect than this.

P.S I'm sorry about the strang highlight I'm unable to get rid of it for some reason. 

mind candy

I dont remember exactaly who first inroduced the concept of mind candy, probibly my mom but it might have been someone else, but the basic idea is that while its great to read the most modern and criticaly aprovde books on the market, such as "Harry Potter" for example it is still nessesary to read the classics of litterature in order to keep a healthy, well educated mind  . The reasoning behind this is some what similar to the reasoning behind a balanced diet. Even thought they're really sweet, you can't eat donuts all day you have to eat some veggies as well. in the same respect one also needs to balance out there reading material to include both the wholesome and nutrious classics as well as the more sweet and savory new stuff. When I first heard this I thought it was kinda week argument designed to get me to read more boring stories, infact I'd still prefer Harry Potter to Charles Dickens any day but the problem is that reading the simple stuff doesn't expand your mind any. If you don't think that expanding your mind is really all that important then consider the following. J.K Rolling would never have thought of Harry Potter if she hadn't read King Author or lord of the rings. So you see the reason behind reading the classics is so you can come up with better stuff, I guess a better way to look at this is the classic are the ingredients to creating your own magnum opus.

cut short

 This pask week I,ve been writing a story that I think is probibly one of the best works I,ve come up with so far, only problem is that the assainment that I was writing it for demands that it be fifteen sentences, no more, no less. This wouldn't be a problem but the assainment also calls for a lot of deatial, in particular deatail that illistrats this as a conflict between goon and evil. All of these things I have done before, but unlike most writers, whom are either quality or quantity writers; I am both. I can't acheive one without the other or at least I can't create a master peice without this freedom. I pride my self on the amout of detail in my work, esspesaly the detial given to the plot and what is goning on in the character's heads. The way I like to do that is to create a situation in which the reader will feel the same way as the characters. I find that this is much better that just saying it.

raised expectations

over the past week i have been pretty surprised at how every member of English 101 has preformed. I knew that since this was a collage level course the students who would be there would be the kind that had worked for there good status in the subject, what i wasn't expecting was how even the students who really didn't give an impression of English appreciation ended up being just as involved in the class as anyone else. Heck, just the notion of an involved class is being redefined here,where as in my old classes only had half the kids paying attention and only one four is actually contributing anything to it in this class its like you have to do a silly song  and dance routine in order to get anyone's attention because everyone has some incredibly sophisticated point they want to bring up, even the jocks are arm wrestling each other in order to get a word in. I know this sounds like it could get really annoying but for me it's been really nice to let someone else carry on the conversation for once. A good example of all this would be when we were given our first group project and i was stuck with what i was sure was going to be a group that shoved all their writing work on me because none of them had read the book, but low and behold not only had everyone there read the book but each person had notes on things that even i had failed to pick up. So there you are, everyone's been a real asset in a great working environment, who'd have thought.

raised expectations

over the past week i have been pretty surprised at how every member of English 101 has preformed. I knew that since this was a collage level course the students who would be there would be the kind that had worked for there good status in the subject, what i wasn't expecting was how even the students who really didn't give an impression of English appreciation ended up being just as involved in the class as anyone else. Heck, just the notion of an involved class is being redefined here,where as in my old classes only had half the kids paying attention and only one four is actually contributing anything to it in this class its like you have to do a silly song  and dance routine in order to get anyone's attention because everyone has some incredibly sophisticated point they want to bring up, even the jocks are arm wrestling each other in order to get a word in. I know this sounds like it could get really annoying but for me it's been really nice to let someone else carry on the conversation for once. A good example of all this would be when we were given our first group project and i was stuck with what i was sure was going to be a group that shoved all their writing work on me because none of them had read the book, but low and behold not only had everyone there read the book but each person had notes on things that even i had failed to pick up. So there you are, everyone's been a real asset in a great working environment, who'd have thought.

raised expectations

over the past week i have been pretty surprised at how every member of English 101 has preformed. I knew that since this was a collage level course the students who would be there would be the kind that had worked for there good status in the subject, what i wasn't expecting was how even the students who really didn't give an impression of English appreciation ended up being just as involved in the class as anyone else. Heck, just the notion of an involved class is being redefined here, unlike