Officially UCSD bound! Whooo GO TRITONS!

  • 1 month ago
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Finally healthy enough to ACTUALLY hit! :D

After a week being sick, I finally can play tennis again. I can’t wait to get on the courts tomorrow and finally be free from coughing up a storm or vomiting phlegm. Just a bit of sneezing, but that’s better than having to call it quits every other point and not going all out.

  • 3 months ago

Definitely collegebound!

I’m so glad about my recent responses from colleges. It feels good to be on a roll with college acceptance letters! No rejection letters and SEVEN acceptance letters. woot

1)SDSU

2)CSUF

3)CSULB

4)Cal Poly Pomona

5)Cal Poly Slo

6)University of the Pacific

7) UCR

Although six of them are back ups, it feels good to say I got into 7 schools so far. :D Twelve more responses to go!

  • 3 months ago
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kellyyphann: stelliemarie: Peruvian Food craving. -,- YUMMMMMY!  This reminds me so much about the when AJ and I went to El Rocoto. Those french fries were sooo good. :D

kellyyphann:

stelliemarie:

Peruvian Food craving. -,-

YUMMMMMY!

 This reminds me so much about the when AJ and I went to El Rocoto. Those french fries were sooo good. :D

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lolsone: Whoaaaa really! 

lolsone:

Whoaaaa really! 

  • 4 months ago
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Only CAMS senior with work tonight.

So I forgot ALL ABOUT the missing assignments that weren’t accounted for in schoolloop. So that just added about a BAJILLION more things. -____-

I WILL FINISH THESE DAMN MISSING assignments.

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High-res photo This applies to so many people at CAMS…

This applies to so many people at CAMS…

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High-res photo redsuspenders: “the car that always runs but never gets anywhere”  LOL

redsuspenders:

“the car that always runs but never gets anywhere”

 LOL

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High-res photo gracereekachu: hahahaha

gracereekachu:

hahahaha

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So close to finishing

half of my missing assignments. LOL -_____-

Plus I still have to do that IDP notebook. I got this.

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@Anonymous "Post it, reblog it, stick it in someone's ask. Just spread it.

"I Quit, I Think"

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history.... The whole blueprint of school procedure is Egyptian, not Greek or Roman. It grows from the theological idea that human value is a scarce thing, represented symbolically by the narrow peak of a pyramid.

That idea passed into American history through the Puritans. It found its "scientific" presentation in the bell curve, along which talent supposedly apportions itself by some Iron Law of Biology. It's a religious notion, School is its church. I offer rituals to keep heresy at bay. I provide documentation to justify the heavenly pyramid.

Socrates foresaw if teaching became a formal profession, something like this would happen. Professional interest is served by making what is easy to do seem hard; by subordinating the laity to the priesthood. School is too vital a jobs-project, contract giver and protector of the social order to allow itself to be "re-formed." It has political allies to guard its marches, that's why reforms come and go without changing much. Even reformers can't imagine school much different.

David learns to read at age four; Rachel, at age nine: In normal development, when both are 13, you can't tell which one learned first — the five-year spread means nothing at all. But in school I label Rachel "learning disabled" and slow David down a bit, too. For a paycheck, I adjust David to depend on me to tell him when to go and stop. He won't outgrow that dependency. I identify Rachel as discount merchandise, "special education" fodder. She'll be locked in her place forever.

In 30 years of teaching kids rich and poor I almost never met a learning disabled child; hardly ever met a gifted and talented one either. Like all school categories, these are sacred myths, created by human imagination. They derive from questionable values we never examine because they preserve the temple of schooling.

That's the secret behind short-answer tests, bells, uniform time blocks, age grading, standardization, and all the rest of the school religion punishing our nation. There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as fingerprints. We don't need state-certified teachers to make education happen — that probably guarantees it won't.

How much more evidence is necessary? Good schools don't need more money or a longer year; they need real free-market choices, variety that speaks to every need and runs risks. We don't need a national curriculum or national testing either. Both initiatives arise from ignorance of how people learn or deliberate indifference to it. I can't teach this way any longer. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. Come fall I'll be looking for work.

This piece was published in The Wall Street Journal by a former teacher of thirty years, John Taylor Gatto. 

And here is something more. 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gatto/gatto-uhae-pre.html"

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No, stop… I literally reject the idea of communism because it is a flawed ideology. Communism, even in theory, is entirely contrary to rational self-interest. Individuals strive to benefit themselves, and in turn, that benefits the collective community. This does not work the other way around. You cannot have an abstract of a community without the individuals involved in it. You cannot have an ideology that is supposed to govern human behavior that is fundamentally against human nature, and humanity, in itself. The problem with communism is the ideology, not human nature.

I am not a Christian. But as a Jew, I can tell when someone’s ideologically requires me to be put in a death camp. You cannot have an ideology that is supposed to work independent of human beings; you cannot discard humans being just to make your ideology work.

I’m not even a Christian, but your blasphemy knows no bounds.

Have you ever heard the common saying “everything works in theory, but in practice…”? The truth is, communism does not work in theory because it is contrary to human nature. Communism implemented, in practice, is a perfectly example of why communism is so flawed, as a theory.

I take whatever blame comes my way, but don’t blame me for you not understanding your own twisted ideology.

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I AM NOT JEWISH. I just very much agree with this post. LOL

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