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I am open minded to anything.

People don't know that I'm good at

i am pretty good at writing so i like to write and recite my writings as a form of rap or poetry. I'm not quite level at a level of comfort with my ability so I keep it private from my peers.

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• A comment on Talk: Tali Sharot: The optimism bias

  May 16 2012: women are cruel.
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  A comment on Talk: Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history

  May 16 2012: Great! I loved it. I have a thing for math myself, but i wouldn't have thought to use it as a weapon to decode our history. This was a great way to introduce a new perspective.

• A comment on Talk: Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds

  Mar 11 2012: extremely interesting

• A reply on Conversation: Do you think we still need school?

  Mar 11 2012: Thanks for giving me a heads up about auto-didacticism. I did a little research on it already just to see what it was about and I found some stuff I really liked. I didn't know ralph lauren was a college drop out until his name popped up under the reading I pulled up.

• A comment on Conversation: Do you think we still need school?

  Mar 9 2012: This has been one of my biggest questions. I ask myself this almost every chance I get. Now that i'm college, it is probably a waste of my time. Especially when everybody is encouraging you to keep going forward. I find it hard to believe college is as necessary as people make it seem when we have people who haven't gone and ended up perfectly fine. I would hate to be the person who spends all of their life in school and doesn't get the opportunity to really enjoy myself because the book has been stuck to my face. At the same time, it seems like such a risky move because one who doesn't go to school does what next?
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  A reply on Conversation: Do you think we still need school?

  Mar 9 2012: In no disrespectful manner do I intend to offend you nor am I trying to play a game of wits with you because you are a physics teacher, but my teachers haven't been the people I necessarily choose go to when i need help with becoming an "adult". Sometimes I do have teachers I feel are very good at what they do. I am a physics student taking a class for engineering drafting at the moment. He is probably one of the teachers I would go to say I admire, if I had to pick anybody on my college campus. Still, I wouldn't go so far as to say he is somebody that I would use to learn more about how to become an "adult". I think that is something that I have learned from myself. I learn by mistakes so trial and error will teach me how I should act as an adult. At the same time, I will come across people who I will probably gain advice from on mistakes they have made and when a mistake like their is presented to me I will know what not to do. I do not wish to know how to avoid every mistake because that is a part of my learning experience at the same time. Through the decisions I choose to make will mold me into the person I want to be. I do not want to live in someone's elses image either so instead of looking to the next person for guidance I enjoy doing what I think is best. I go to school because it is important for my future. I have to get a job so I'm going to school so I can make sure I can make a living for myself. That is what I use school for.
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  A comment on Talk: Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

  Mar 9 2012: I really did like the video. I feel like he is absolutely right. As I'm sure many people have been, we have all eventually come to the realization school can be very boring at times. I also feel like once you have a hold on the system, or you have learned how to work the educational system to get exactly what you are looking for, in my case good grades, then it no longer is of any pleasure to really continue too far into it because the game is over. That is not to discourage anybody from continuing their education, but I want to draw close attention to how educational systems are shaped and emphasize the impact it has served upon me. I honestly think my experience would have been entirely different had I gone to school and had fun doing it, versus doing it to simply earn grades. It makes me feel like I am only going to school for the benefit of obtaining a job in the future, and at this point in my life that almost makes me believe I am nothing more than a component in a well organized system society has created for their benefit. I wish things would be different so when I took the time out to watch this video I agreed because it made perfect sense to me.