Creativity

I think that the guy in the ted clip that we watched in class was pretty funny and he had a lot of good views and ideas on the current education system. I think that school and education in general should be more creative and less boring. There should be more time where you devoted to things that you like to do whether it be dancing, playing video games, or playing sports. I also liked the idea how he said that if all of the insects died on earth all of the humans would disappear in 50 years but if all of the humans died that all of the creatures on earth would flourish in 50 years. I agree with that because i believe a lot of the things that humans do hurt the environment and the creatures in the environment. If we weren't here they would most likely flourish and there would probably be a lot more creatures.

When he was talking about Gillian i thought it was funny that she had a problem because she always liked to be moving around. There are a lot of people out there that learn by doing something rather by just listenening to someone talk about how your suppose to do it. I am actually one of those people i learn by actually doing rather than listening to someone give directions on how to do it. I hope in the future that kids will get a better chance to have a more diverse learning environment rather than the one that we have where its all about math, science, and history. It will be interesting to see what the job market is in 10 to 20 years because of how he said that even if you ahev a college degree it still doesn't guarantee you a job because of the technology that we have now.

ballin!!

One of the things i miss about high school was playing on the boys basketball team it was one of the best things i did throughout highschool. Our team wasn't that great but i still had a lot of fun playing. Basketball is my favorite sport to watch on television and play. My favorite professional team is the San Antonio Spurs and my favorite college team is obviously the Wisconsin Badgers. I wasn't always into basketball i actually really sucked at basketball and only did it because all of my friends went out for it.

In jr high I was pretty much just a bench warmer and one of the shortest kids on the team. I barely played at all and when i was in eight grade my coach asked me if i would be all right with playing on the 7th grade team so i would get more playing time and i was like no. Once high school started i still went out for basketball and i really don't know why. Freshman year of high school i played c team and still pretty much sat on the bench all season. I only played if we were up by a lot which didn't happen a lot or if we were down by a lot which did happen on occasions. Once my sophmore year started i started to play basketball in the morning at our school with some other people at 6 and i slowly started to get better. I saw a lot of my friends in my grade play junior varsity. Here i was still on the c team but i actually played more than two minutes in a game.

After my sophmore year i knew that i wanted to get better and i saw older people that were seniors and played varsity but my coach would never play them because they sucked and i didn't want to be one of them. I got my drivers license and every morning i would go to the gym and play basketball and try and get better. I also finally started to grow at the beginning of my sophmore year of high school i was 5 ft 7 in and now im almost 6 ft 4 in. After my sophmore season i continually practice and got better and my jr year i finally made the jv team and started all of the jv games.

During my junior season i screwed up pretty mad and my coach got all in my face and started screaming at me and telling me how i keep making the same mistakes. This drove me to keep getting better and by the end of my junior season i was on the varsity squad. Over the summer before my senior year i practice harder than ever and i knew that i wanted to start varsity.I was now the tallest kid on our team instead of one of the shortest. The First game of the season my hard work paid off and i started and scored 14 points. The next day at practice my coach said that he could not believe how far i have come since freshman year and from junior year to senior year and it felt really good. I had people coming up to me saying that they remember when they saw me on c team and didn't think i would ever be a good basketball player. It was nice to see my hard work pay off and i believe if you put practice in you will get the results you want.

Wishes

My first wish would do be lower the tuition of all colleges everywhere. I think the price of going to college is outrageous. It shouldn't be anywhere near how high it is and i think that it is riduculus. People like you and me that want to get a better education so they can make a decent living have to pay thousands of dollars just to go to school to do that. I also think that the lowering of college prices would get more people to think about going to college because it would not be as much. I don't know why the price of going to college is so high but it should be cheaper.

My second wish is to cure world hunger which is a pretty big task to handle. I think that everyone in the world should have food to eat and not die from starvation. We are fortunate that we can just go down to mcdonalds and buy a double cheeseburger for a dollar. Other countries don't have that fortune. Not only would it be nice to cure world hunger but also get clean water everywhere in the water. A lot of the places in the world have water but it is contaminated with pesticides or other things that can kill you.

My third wish doesn't really have anything to do with the rest of the world just college football. I wish that they would get rid of the stupid BCS system. It is stupid to have the most popular teams from the best conferences play for the national championship. I think they should have a playoff system like basketball does. It would be a lot more entertaining and a lot more teams would get a shot and the championship. I think every champion from each conference in division one should be put into a tournament field and seeded according to coaches ranking and record then just play the games. I think schools would make more money and it would be a lot more fair for teams like utah and boise state and other non big six conferences to get a shot and the title.