Thursday, 1 December 2011

Challenge 26

179. Should college students be required to take physical education courses? Why or why not?

Health is before studies, right? And physical education (if conducted properly) helps stay fit, right? Therefore college students should be required to take PE courses. In places like college, health and stamina are very fatal. If you don't have these, you won't be able to wake up early, go to school, work hard, do part-time jobs, sleep late, and still survive. You need health and stamina to study. And they can be achieved from exercising.
Health is like the basic of the basic, for a human being. We should stay fit, and therefore might as well be forced to get some exercise at least from PE. People who love sports will voluntarily do more anyways, but for people who are in unfit shapes or are not so close with being physically active will choose not to exercise unless have no choice but to. Who chooses to do something they don't like? If school wasn't mandatory, who will come to school? We are all forced to go to school everyday because education is an extremely important and necessary thing. In the same way, we should value our physical education as well. I mean since it's about health, we should consider it even more important.
After all, it is not that bad. I mean, for me it was (I don't have it anymore) the best class I have ever had in my all-time high school history. I loved PE classes. They are interesting, exciting, and active! You don't just sit there dull, staring blankly at your teacher and waiting for the boring lecture to end. You move around, try it with your own hands and legs (Yes, you do still have them even though you don't need it anymore in today's sit-still-and-study world), feel the energy; basically get some physical education! It is so much more fun than reading a book. Personally, I hate being still and uncreative. I can't sit without moving more than an hour. It hurts my butt, neck,and back. And as a teenager, I am hyper. I need to spend all that calories from candy bars!!!
College life is the most important (supposedly) time of a person's life. So we should have PE to keep fit, enjoy, stay apart from sitting in front of a laptop the whole time and getting body-aches and being all tired, grumpy, and energiless. Also, this is probably when your body is developed fully and the most strong. So use it!

Challenge 25

65. What qualities or unique characteristics do you possess that would allow you to contribute to the University community? (Florida State)

I think I'm one of the X-men. I have this perfect ability hardly anyone has.
I make the atmosphere absolutely awkward.
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You see what I mean? I can make everything so damn awkward. This is one very useful characteristic that people might not be aware of. It might not seem so obvious, but it can torture people, it can create great memories, become topics of a conversation, and can even transform into a funny video or joke. Have ever heard of the most popular joke starting with "That awkward moment when...?"
To be more specific with awkwardness's usefulness:
I can make the atmosphere awkward by randomly arguing with someone, acting cocky until someone gets mad, saying something really lame, etc. Then the person in the middle will feel awkward and don't know what to do. I can make this happen to a person I don't like and give him/her a bad time.
However, in most cases it is used as an advantage. That is even better because the University community would probably want a positive contribution from this awesome quality.
It provides memories.
If something went really awkward, you would probably remember the incident and have memories of it. But it won't be a bad memory because it's neither embarrassing or heart-breaking. It will just be a funny memory in the end. And funny memories are extremely useful when you are with the girl you like and you don't have anything to say. You can talk about the awkward moments! And that prevents another awkward moment that was about to spoil your relationship. You could prevent a more critical awkward moment with a less important one! How awesome is that?
And finally for the video/joke part, if you haven't been through 9gag or NigaHiga's video, you probably can't disagree with me. And you are missing out A LOT in life. For example, from NigaHiga's video on awkward moments, he says something like "That awkward moment when you say bye to someone and realize you go the same direction," and shows a video of it where he is about to walk alongside someone he just said bye to, and stops awkwardly and acts like he is checking something on the phone. It is actually very funny if you watch it.
So, I can contribute to the University community so usefully by being awkward!!!



Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Challenge 24

159. "The instructor said,/Go home and write/a page tonight./And let that page come out of you,/Then, it will be true." The second line of this poem by Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B," goes on to ask: "I wonder if it's that simple?" We ask you here to write a truthful page about yourself, beginning where Hughes begins: "I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem./I went to school there, then Durham, then here/to this college on the hill above Harlem./I am the only colored student in my class." That is to say, each of us is at a certain stage of life and has a history. Each of us has lived somewhere and gone to school. We each are what we feel and see and hear, as the poem goes on to say. Begin there and see what happens. (University of Chicago)


Yes. <---That is my answer. 
Oh, is my answer irrelevant to the question? That is the question's fault for being unbearably long and your problem because you are the one reading, not me. I'm the one that's writing. Not a tiny bit of conflict for myself for my answer not making any sense to the question. I don't care. I'm an old-enough, independent teenager. I'm tough enough to do what I want to do and stand up for my own rights. As a free human being, I would like to speak up bravely that this question is long and not straightforward and I refuse to answer it. Such sophistication is not acceptable in such an already sophisticated period of my lifetime. 
My girlfriend is bothering me now. I'm doing this blog on my laptop and she wants to check facebook on her laptop, but still she doesn't know her own password because I changed it and only I know it and she is insisting me to type it so she can log on. So I'll just enter the password and come back. But I don't really want to because she is one of the facebook addicts and it's exam time - she has to study, not go on facebook and waste her life. I'm so worried about her. If she fails this exam, she'll get kicked out of the school and will break my heart because I 'll miss her.
And guess what she wrote on facebook?? She wrote that I'm the "cockiest person on earth" after reading my awesome blog. Which is true by the way. I admit it. I'm not like one of those idiots who think themselves better than they actually are.
Right now there are a bunch of teachers talking so loudly and laughing their butts off in the library. If we did that, we would have been shouted at and kicked out already. That is just unfair. Phew. I'm over 300 so I'll stop now.


What I'm ultimately trying to say is, "Will you shut up!?" because this question is so funnily lengthy. (I unified the two vocabularies that were never combined before. It's a representation that I want North and South Korea to unify together just like these words. They might be very different but will still form something meaningful when they come together. And yeah, I don't know what I'm saying.)

Challenge 23

149. Once you have completed your education, would you return to your hometown to begin your adult life? Why or why not? (William and Mary)

My question to this question is, what if you were educated in your own hometown? Hmmm...
Well, I would probably not. I'm not sure if you mean my birthplace or where I lived the longest when you say "hometown," but I won't go back to those small places to begin my awesome-to-be adult life. I want to go to somewhere bigger, and start a whole new life.
I think I'll take a rest now.
I'm so tired. And I am not left with anything more to say about this question. My brain is now empty, as it used up all the contents during the past one week that was full of essays, presentations, and tests. I'm exhausted to the bottom. Winter break is coming up and I'm just so desperately waiting for it. I want to go home and rest. When I complete my education, I'll probably be in a big city, extremely busy, but for right now I just wanna go home. Sleep till twelve everyday, blankly sit on the sofa the whole day and relax. I need some recharge like my iPod that is keep annoying me with the "20% battery remaining" and eventually reduces to a white loading sign spinning in the middle of the dark background, and shuts down completely into a pitch dark emptiness. I'm so tired and hungry. I'm not even fed properly in school. I'll be eating so much at home, whenever I want, but here I'm foodless, and have to eat crappy food only during certain timings. Life sucks. I would have certainly fallen into depression if it wasn't for someone. Someone very special. Now I at least live for something. I come to school for that person.
Anyways, getting back to my answer - no I won't.

Challenge 21

162. If you could invent something, what would it be, and why? (University of Virginia)

Of course a time machine. Well, that's too much work - a time controller maybe? So that I can rewind whenever I want to, and fast forward the boring times. I would be too happy to have a time controller. I really wish I did. I'd make a mistake, rewind, and not not make that mistake yet will learn from the mistake. That's like ... perfect! And in exam times, I'll see the paper, rewind, and learn only the things that were in the paper. Or do something smarter that MY particular brain can't seem to think of right now. And the best is, no one will ever know except for the person using it that the person is so awesome because he can control time and correct his life. My life would be perfect. Literally perfect. I'd say everything I wanted to say (but I missed the chance), and take back everything that made my life worse by saying. I would have so much fun watching people not realize it and rewind like a bunch of silly <insert any insulting word here>.
I'll give a bit of a clue. Who knows if I actually have a time controller? Who knows if I'm controlling time? Who knows if one of us actually has that thing? Maybe.
I really want it badly, so if you have happened to read this and have invented time controller, will you share it with me please? Or just give it to me!!!
And I'm not commenting on whether I'm pretending to not be in possession of time controller for my own safety.

PS: I'm extremely exhausted from writing five of these in a row since the due date is imminent and I have nine more to go, so please excuse any display of insanity in my writings. ;) I appreciate and love you, 'reader.'

Challenge 20

164. Do you believe that your academic record accurately reflects your abilities? Explain.

No freaking way. Not even close. This question is just stupid.
Academics is something that rather blocks out your creativity and who you are, how will it even get close to reflecting our abilities? Because of academics, so many people are missing the chances to find out their true potentials. The educators only give them breathing space for studies, now how exactly are they supposed to bring out what they can do? We can't do sh*t because of this stupid thing.
Any of my friends that are impressed by my drawing can get there by practice. Who knows they might be better than me genetically. However, they are only and forcedly introduced to studies only. Now how will you freaking know what we can actually do if you gave us time and chances, and told us about more things, when you haven't?
For example, Superman is in school. Will academic record accurately reflect who he really is? Can academic record accurately reflect how awesome an actor Johnny Depp is, how awesome a dance Usher is, how awesome Messi is at soccer, how awesome Roger Federer is in tennis, and how awesome Chuck Norris is? Would you have liked Justin Bieber if you merely saw his academic record? Noway in hell you would. It is when you realize how great a person is/their abilities are that you like them. And no one would find that in academics unless academics is one of your skills. Therefore, this question is stupid, and my answer is "ridiculously no."

Challenge 19

163. What is your favorite word, and why? (University of Virginia)

"F**k."
That is my favorite word. It's got a nice ring to it. And It can be used for any situations. It can express almost all emotions such as anger, sadness, disappointment, happiness, excitement, etc. It sounds good and releases your stress, and also can be used for variety of causes. It would have been just perfect if it wasn't inappropriate.
Why do awesome words like this always fall under the category of "swear words?" And why would they make it in the first place if they are going to forbid us to use it? Humans are so f**ked up. Why do they f**king create words if they are not going to let people use it? And why create a f**king word and not use it? And why give f**king consequences when we use it? A human just like you and me made this f**king word, so why decide to make it bad and try to prevent its usage later? If humans only made it, why can't a human change it's meaning or something? I mean changing meaning will just make this word useless now, but we can just be more mature and not take it as badly as we do right now. Don't need to make a big deal out of it. We use it because we f**king need to!!! And whoever uses it for fun is immature and that's because it's not appropriate. Who uses appropriate words for fun? What's the fun in "You smart boy." It's more fun to say "You jackass," isn't it? Humans are so stupid. Yes, I'm an outsider, not a human. I don't f**king get this sh*t. So damn retarded. In our planet, we use whatever word we make because non-of them are really bad in the first place, and even if they are, we would use it for the right cause and be mature enough to tolerate its meaning and usage.
What's the difference between "It's very good," "It's damn good," and "It's fucking good?" The first one is extremely mild. the second one shows some expression that the speaker actually thinks it is good. The last one means it. There is such an important role this word has.
I proved this word's awesomeness and usefulness. This is my favorite word. If you've still got a problem then go f**k yourself. (You see what I did there?)