College Stress

As my friends around me receive letters of acceptance, I'm regretting my decision not to apply for early decision or early action at any schools. I finally found my dream school, but I'm afraid it's too late. And having people close to me stressing me out about how i should have gotten my stuff together earlier and should be working on college things instead of enjoying my life isn't helping.

Also, with college letters coming out, I'm starting to worry if my essays and applications will be good enough. I wrote about a meaningful experience, but was it meaningful enough? How am i going to compare with kids who come from prep schools that have been preparing for college with rigorous academic schedules? And what if I wanted to do sports in college. Will I be good enough compared to the kids from the boonies who play sports all day in lieu of shucking corn?

I don't know what my future holds, but I feel that wherever I go, it will prepare me to live on my own and support myself during these stressful economic times.

al-Zedi's 15 minutes of fame

December 14, 2008, Iraq.
Bush visits Iraq for a news conference and while shaking hands with the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iraqi news journalist Muntadar al-Zedi got up from the third row and threw his size 10 shoe, one after another, at the Presidents head.

While this act is dangerous, it's also extreamly disrespectful. Showing the soles of your shoes to anyone is considered an insult in Arab culture. After Saddam Hussien was overthrown, people were seen throwing shoes at his statue.

I think that al-Zedi had some pent up anger and that he thought would be released if he threw his shoes at Bush for "all the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq" But i think was in the right to be angry, but he should have just wrote about it. Use words, not your hands... or shoes.....

Here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW_ahxIFAPQ

Rules at School

The tardy policy here is outrageous. In fact, all the rules at SOTA are starting to spiral out of control. All of the administrators are taking their jobs way to seriously, which is good for saftey reasons, but it becomes annoying after a while. Being yelled about being so late to school when you're only one minute late is just rude.

I feel that these policies are directly targeted for Seniors. All the underclassmen come in late and nothing happens, they pass by the scanning table without a care in the world and no one says anything to them. I feel that with college application deadlines quickly approaching, the staff here needs to stop nagging us about little things like hats, food and the tardy policy.

But, the few things the administration is doing right is allowing the upper class students to leave during lunch, having a senior lounge and having the excused periods. These things are all privligaes that, i feel, the Senior class has earned by demonstrating maturity.

Senior hoodies...

The senior hoodies look horrible. Even though we're an arts school and we should show it off, not all the majors are present, so it makes the hoodie feel incompleate.

I feel that we should have a re-vote, and more than 80/161 people should vote. If that happens, hopefully everyone will vote so that everyone can be content.