Cardale Jones

College students who are playing a sport for their school are required to do a lot of extra work. They are still required to attend classes, and keep their grades up. They can complain but they do not need to make a fool of themselves like Ohio State back up quarter back Cardale Jones did who decided to make a tweet to all of his followers and the rest of twitter that stated “Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS” simply making a fool of himself. His tweet has made him look like a fool and he has been used as a teaching point at Ole Miss University and has been used in textbooks as well. There was a class created at Ole Miss called the "Ole Miss Experience" which is a class for freshman for their transition from high school to college. Basically it is a class to teach students to be smart on social media websites. In my opinion Cardale Jones is not the smartest football player out there, yes you can complain about classes but you simply do not have to share it on a social media website and make a fool of yourself. He is now being used as a joke to a whole college course at another school. Twitter is a very sensitive social media website and it can ruin peoples lives. Once you send something it doesn't get deleted it stays on the internet forever and can be accessed by the click of a button. The smartest thing to do to your twitter page if you were Cardale Jones would be to set your account on private, this still does not allow you to tweet incompetent or negative things it just allows you to have only your selection of followers see what you tweet. Therefore you do not have to have people you don't want scrolling through your tweets and your personal information. Still you should always be careful about what you tweet because again it does not get removed from the internet.

Traveling

To travel the world is in my future. I've wanted to travel to every country in the world since I was about six years old. When I used to watch TV all of the places movies were filmed at made me want to visit these locations. It made me so excited to grow up and made me lose track of what I actually wanted to do in life. My goal as of right now is when I graduate from high school to go back packing in Europe for a year or two. I want to meet new people and learn about foreign cultures and lifestyles. I think it would be a life changing experience because people in America tend to take too many things for granted and it would be interesting to see how much we do take things for granted. Also I would like to travel to other countries and do new things out of the ordinary. I want to try things like sky diving (not really out of the ordinary) or things like climbing a peak of a mountain with a tribe in the Himalayas. One movie that really inspired me was The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, it was about a worker for Time magazine and he travels to 14 different countries searching for one photographer and his life changes on his long journey around the world. This lifestyle would encourage my dream of being a photojournalist. Places like Fiji, Jamaica or Italy all have perfect characteristics for a photographer. I plan to continue in the dream of mine and I hope it comes true for I believe it will open my mind and change the way I live my life. 

Fiji Is just beautiful. 

When you go to school you have one reason, just to get a piece of paper after the long gruesome 12 years all you receive is a piece of paper. It should not come down to just getting a piece of paper and sending you into the real world. When you graduate from high school most of us don't have a clue as to what we want to be in life and we need help figuring it out. I think college is important, but why waste the time trying to find out things you want to do in college when you could just spend a little time exploring before college and try out different careers. When people finally make a decision on what they would like to be they would have a little bit more hands-on experience rather than just reading about it in a text book and doing assignments on it. When I go to college I plan on going to Central Michigan University and get a degree in communications. I've already practiced my career I would like to follow which is photojournalism, which would require me to travel the world while taking photographs and writing about what I feel and see. I've always enjoyed photography and I love to travel so it seems like the perfect job. After getting a degree (another piece of paper that takes me years to receive) I plan to join the Coast Guard and practice photography and maybe be a pilot. All of these plans require you to go to twelve years of school, and countless more after that which nobody enjoys doing but I do admit, it's for the best.  After I have been in the Coast Guard for a while then my hopes are to get a job with National Geographic and travel to every country in the world.

Since I was little my only dream that I still have to this day is traveling the world still to this day I have that same dream and I plan to do it after I graduate college. If only there was a degree for traveling the world and getting payed for it I would be one happy camper.

Social Networks

Social networking has taken control of our generation. Kids would rather check twitter than do their homework. It is causing our generation to be ignorant, judgmental and irresponsible. Everyone is snapchatting instead of calling or meeting up. Skyping instead of going on dates. Texting at the dinner table. It has gotten so bad that social media has even ruined peoples lives. People are hacking, just to hurt people, kids are being bullied by someone behind a computer screen or a cell phone. It makes you think that you don't want to be a part of this generation or you simply just want to change it. It is possible to change our generation by not just basing your day off how many likes you get on your instagram picture, or by actually having a conversation with someone instead of snapchatting someone in the same room as you. There is a guy named Richard Williams better known as Prince EA (his stage name) he is a rapper, director and rights activist from St. Louis Missouri and he has youtube videos that describe this topic perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRl8EIhrQjQ

Prince EA has the idea to change our generation from being social media addicts to regular common people who aren't going crazy over twitter followers, instagram likes and facebook friends. His idea simply includes getting rid of your social media accounts. It will make a difference. Also not just texting people all day, get out and meet up with them face to face. It's not to late to change our generation. Get out meet new people maybe try writing a letter to someone to keep your intelligence up instead of staring at a screen all day. It is said that the average person spends five hours a day watching television which is awful for you, losing braincells and simply being lazy. I challenge you to not use your phone for one week. It will be hard but it can be done. I have done it. It will make a difference and you will realize it as well. Your social media life is not as important as you think it is and you can live with out it. 

Summer

The month of June is often filled with excitement. It's the last couple weeks of school and everyone knows the best time of year is coming. For seniors we are done a month before which is one of the best benefits of being a senior. So, It's early May and we are ready to get out. We have our caps and gowns ready in our bedrooms, and we're ready for the graduation parties. Coming to school is pointless to us, we just sit there and enjoy our last couple days of high school. It's May 21st, barley any sleep at all we wake up ready to graduate. We come to school get our cap and gowns ready and we are basically done with high school forever. We attend the senior walk and enjoy the laughs, cries and the long heart-felt hugs with our dear underclassmen friends, it's sad but it is apart of life. We exit the school and we meet our parents and we cry our eyes out and hug our parents and of course thank them for getting you through twelve years of school. Then we leave this place for good, not ever having to come back on our own terms, free at last.
Half way into summer and the dorm room shopping is almost complete and we have our plans for our room-mates and we are ready to go. As we prepare we attend as many graduation parties as possible to get a chance to see our good friends for the last time in a long time. We do as many fun activities with our close friends as we can and we promise we are never going to split up but in the back of our minds we know that it will happen, for we will meet new people and gain new friends with the same similarities as you and you will become close with new people. Yet you come back to visit your old friends, it's not the same as it was. You both know and you miss how it used to be, you start to miss high school, you realize it's apart of life. This is growing up, you're in college now and living on your own with new people you don't know. Every chance you get you come home to visit your parents and you've never been more happy to come home to your own house with your parents and eat good food that isn't a cheap TV dinner tray. This is college and growing up, you're ready to take on the challenge and nothing will get in your way, at least I hope.

Hockey season

This year I am looking forward to hockey season. It is the best time of year for us hockey players. It makes the school year go by much faster and helps us enjoy the winter seasons as a team. Each day of the week we skate as a team and every couple days we have an important game that will dictate how good we do in the future as a team. Every day we skate we improve as a team and we also bond together more and more every day. We do everything together and it never fails to bore us. The night before every game we have a team dinner and we all bond extremely well together at one of our houses. Game days are the best, we get to wear our nicest suits and we look classy and fresh, it's a riot. After school it's straight to the rink and all business. No joking around, no giggles and no talking about anything except hockey. We get to the rink an hour and a half before puck drop and we get in our "zones" we stretch and warm up for almost an hour then mentally prepare ourselves before the game. If we play during the winter season well enough we get to play in the state championship game at Compuware arena, home of the Plymouth Whalers.  That was the greatest experience of my life, last year. It is a long and challenging journey to make it to that game. First it starts with playing 16 games of playoffs and winning each one. Every game gets harder and harder to win. Last year, our hardest game was against Novi. They were ranked 2nd in the state and were expected to beat us. We came to the rink more serious then ever and were more then ready to play. The game was intense, Novi scored first and had the lead majority of the game. But in the 3rd period, one of our players scored to tie the game. That moment was so surreal and exciting. The game went into two overtimes and we scored late in the second to win the regional championship and go to Compuware. The celebrations that moment were unforgettable, being apart of such an elite team with amazing brothers as teammates. I will never forget playing high school hockey, it will be one of my most missed parts of high school and will always hold a spot in my heart.