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The New Year...Here We Go Again!

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Welcome back to the new school year! I’m just as excited to be here as you are (hint: sarcasm exists). I guess I lied a little when I said I was signing off for the last time in my previous blog post. Talking about the past, having Mrs. Knudson yell “live in the present” as I walked out of my second hour was not how I imagined Friday was going to go. I have to give her credit though since the line haunted me enough to go back and watch Kung Fu Panda at 1 am on Saturday. By the time Master Oogway finally got around to saying his famous lines about the present being a gift, I was half asleep in a bowl of ice cream. The way I look at it, the present is an illusion of the past. The reason we have sayings like “the present is a gift” and “everyday is a new day” is because we as humans absolutely abhor the idea of being flawed. Sure, we write passages and poems about how flaws are beautiful, but at the end of the day, we still judge ourselves and others over everything. Its why we sometime
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The Final One

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This year has been such a wild ride – both in terms of my classes and my friends. I think the best way to describe it would be to say that there was some drama and there was some trauma. Honestly though, I’m really thankful for so many people for getting me through the school year. First off, my parents. I have no words to explain how grateful I am for you guys. I know I don’t ever really tell you this but thank you so much. Thank you for keeping me accountable with my classes and grades (cough calc cough). Thank you for making sure I ate whenever I forgot to because I was studying. Thank you for forcing me to get involved with things other than school, which led me to making new friends and experience things that I would normally not. You guys are such an inspiration for me and who I want to be. Of course, I can’t forget my friends. Angie: thank you for keeping me company in chem and just for being your regular spontaneous self. You’ve literally kept me grounded all year with your
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Troy High: Cheating Central

Cheating. What a complicated topic – so of course, our essay this week had to be on it. I really couldn’t come up with a better blog post to describe this week than a snippet from that same essay, so enjoy:   Troy High School is known for its tough academic courses and its history of producing brilliant and competitive students. Never once has it been revealed just how little of that is actually achieved through personal effort. In fact, one could describe Troy High as an academic gambling pit – filled to the brim with cheaters of all kinds. Which is more than ample reason to advocate for a second look at the honor code; a code that is desperately in need of rewriting to meet the needs of the newer generations of students.   At Troy High, cheating has become a rite of passage – a habit that is often times encouraged by fellow peers instead of dissuaded. The only warning that most of us ever issue the other is ‘don’t get caught’. Troy High is what Dirmeyer, Jennifer, and Alexand
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Tony Sucks (yes, I'm talking about Tony Stark)

No one is a worse example of having no restraint than Tony Stark. Yes. I am going to hyper analyze a dead man and all the ways he’s been a complete idiot. Let’s start with Age of Ultron. Tony just had to go and come up with an AI that would literally erase half of the planet. I though his job occupation was ‘billionaire playboy’ not tech genius. And let’s not forget that Bruce Banner is a theoretical physicist. He has zero relation to AI and yet Tony just could not restrain himself long enough to think about the implications. No restraint. At all. Moving on – Thanos and him literally dying. Ok, we get that you were the first superhero and all that jazz but come on. You’re the only one without superpowers. What made you think that you could save the universe? 0 restraint. Thor withheld the power of a star. I’m sure he could have done it, but noooooo. Mr. Tony Stark just had to step up and take responsibility. YOU HAVE A FAMILY DUDE…did you not once consider them? His biggest mista
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A Letter From My Mind: What is left for us?

For this post, I want to take a step away from the usual literature discussion and take a stance on the (not so) recent environmental debate occurring about what will happen to the Earth if we keep destroying it. Enjoy this little excerpt from the depths of my mind:   Hello. My name is Dr. Astra Maverick. It is April 5, 2074, and I am speaking from the remains of Greenland. I am currently situated in an underground bunker built for 20 people with enough resources to last 5 years. I have been here for the last 6 and a half years. I don’t have much time left. This device is my last hope that I can prevent the disaster that is about to occur before it does. People of the past, the world is ending. It started when Russia thawed from the high amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. The sudden rise in water levels flooded much of Asia and took out over 80% of the population. The government promised us that we would be safe, that the factories were being regulated. When they tell you the same, d
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Cancel Culture and Vigilante Justice

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Cancel culture is such a big part of online media these days. It seems that you can be cancelled for almost anything, even simple mistakes. With teens now having free access to a versatile set of social media, ‘canceling’ people who have offended them has become their pass time. The need for the children of this generation to post and publicize everything is something that I don’t think I will ever understand. Issues with each other should always be solved through proper communication between the people involved. There is no need to go straight to social media to vent in hopes of gaining more supporters for their respective causes. I think many people need to be reminded that there are global issues, such as climate change, that are much bigger than a teen being angry at their friend that needs the attention of the general public. In no way am I trying to imply that cancel culture has no purpose. The concept itself is something concocted in an attempt to maintain a semblance of contr
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My Enlightenment

It has been brought to my attention as a result of a recent reflection that I, quite literally, live under a rock. So, in my pursuit of greater knowledge, I have come to the conclusion that I must make a list of quotes. I have referred to a website in the system of the great god of knowledge itself – Google. The website is linked at the end.   1.         “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value” – Albert Einstein a.         Albert Einstein is clearly a materialistic man, for it must be money that he speaks of in this quote. Yes, money is the only thing of value these days and I fully believe that value leaves a deeper mark. 2.         “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost a.         I believe that Mr. Frost is warning us of the consequences that come with taking the path less know. Children, a word of advice: do not take the path less travelled. It is less travelled for a rea
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