Testing our Knowledge

We had a test in physics this Friday and i was kind of worried about it. My teacher was telling me not to worry because the test was one of the easier ones and that i would ace it. So i felt good when he said that. But then the period came. I went into the classroom and opened the test and knew what all the answers were for the multiple choice and i felt good. Then i went on to the short answer problems and they were pretty easy except for maybe one of them that i skipped. 

I moved onto the math part of the test and it was the hardest thing on earth! i thought that i had a lot of time left in the period to finish all of the problems, but i was wrong because our teacher announced that we had 10 minutes left and i was worrying. The math part of the test was nothing like what we did on the review sheet and i was so mad. I had studied my notes and the review sheets and the math part of the test was so different from all of what i studied. I was pretty mad. 

Then the bell rang and i wasn't even done with two of the math problems! I had to turn in my test unfinished. Don't you think that teachers should like do something to like test how long it would take an average student to take the test so that they would have enough time to finish it? I think that teachers should make their tests shorter so that the students can actually finish the tests and get a good grade on it too. When i left the classroom there was still like half of the class there trying to finish the test. 

Do teachers make tests too long?

Welcome or Not Welcome?

This weekend was Freshman initiation for gymnastics. We weren't really supposed to call it "initiation" so we called it "welcoming". We all met up at our captains house at midnight and played games 'till around like 3:00am. Then we got all of out toilet paper and forks together and got into three cars. We drove around the area to each of the freshman's houses and put toilet paper all over the trees and forked their yards. This was fun, but cold. After we finished doing that to every freshman's yard, we went back around and went into the freshman's house and turned on the light in their room and yelled at them to get up. We blindfolded each freshman and put them into the cars. We were yelling at them in the cars to sing to the music that was playing and bossing them around. (This is what they do every year.) Then we made them dress up in funny clothes without seeing what they were and take pictures with them blindfolded. 

The only thing was that someone said that we couldn't post the pictures on facebook or some other blog like that because it is considered hazing. I wasn't that surprised when they said that it could look like hazing, but it was really just a fun thing to do and there was no harm in any of it. We made sure to talk to all the parents before just in case they didn't like the idea or didn't want us to fork their yards. Would this be considered hazing if we didn't hurt the freshman and asked their parents for permission to wake them up early in the morning? I didn't know what to think when they said that we cant post the pictures because it is considered hazing. 

What do you think about doing "Freshman Welcoming" for a sport?

The Day the World Turned 'Round

"The 44Th president of the United States is Barack Obama." I'm sure that when i grow up, there will be people asking me, "Where were you when they announced the first black president?" I could tell them that i was in my bedroom watching TV.

 

When i was watching this, i got the weirdest feeling throughout my body. It was something that i couldn't really explain but I'm going to try. They announced that Barack Obama was president and it felt like my stomach dropped as if i was on a roller coaster. This was one of the biggest elections ever, and my heart was racing to find out who won. As soon as they announced the winner, i didn't know what to do. my heart felt like it stopped and it was the weirdest feeling. it kind of felt like the earth stopped its rotation and spun the other way, like the whole world was

 going to start new. i know it may sound crazy, but it was the weirdest feeling. its hard to explain and hard to understand, but i felt like the world turned around and we are going to be in good hands now. I felt like before they announced this, that everyone had a 100 pound weight on their shoulders and as soon as they announced the winner, the weight was just taken off. It was the weirdest feeling and i didn't know what to think or how to explain it.

Did any of you have this kind of feeling when they announced that Barack Obama was now our 44Th president?

Check Marks

the Spot

Today is election day and everyone is talking about who they want to vote for. I was talking to my mom this morning about the candidates and she was telling me that she was undecided with who she wanted to vote for. I don't know much about politics and everything, but if a lot of people are undecided with who they want to vote for, then what if other people in the states are undecided too. This could end up with a result that the people didn't really want.


What if half of the people in the United States had an undecided vote? Then this would mean that when these people go to the election booths, they might just mark either Obama or McCain without really knowing who exactly they want.

This could cause trouble in the United States because if someone else becomes president, and this is the person that they didn't want but voted for, there is nothing that they can do about it now because the elections would be over and done with.


What do you think about people just checking the box that they don't know if they want or don't want because they have an undecided opinion?