What's my college personality

What's my college personality?
What is Your Level of School Enthusiasm?
- "you may enjoy some of the social features of school more than the actual classes, teachers, and classroom information. Additionally, you may not have found school to be a successful academic experience, and your struggle with school may affect your attitude toward it. Your school attitude may impact your feelings about planning for college, your willingness to enter a challenging college environment, the level of competitiveness you prefer, as well as your motivation to stay in school. Think carefully about your choice of going to college. Is the time right? Would I benefit from a year of travel, work or some other activity before entering college? Do I currently have the motivation to be successful in college? On the other hand, you may not have enjoyed high school because the particular characteristics of your school may not have been right for you. If that is the case, you have a chance to choose carefully the college you will attend. Your analysis of factors important in selecting a college will be particularly meaningful."

Are You A Participant Learner?
- "you want to take an active, rather than a passive, approach to learning. You are not comfortable merely taking notes and regurgitating the teacher's lectures. You want to get involved. You normally do the homework your teachers assign, not only because you have to, but because it helps you learn. You participate in class discussion, enjoy it, and learn from your peers. You read the textbooks and might even read an extra book about a topic in which you are interested. Learning and understanding are so important to you that you are assertive in asking questions of teachers and fellow students. High scorers will likely be most comfortable in colleges where professors are readily available and lecture classes of 500 are not the norm. High scorers will want opportunities for discussions and seminars as part of their college experiences. In other words, high scorers should seriously consider smaller colleges."

How Much Do You Love Knowledge?

- "the life of the mind is exciting to you. You likely read widely about a variety of topics; you enjoy learning for the sake of learning, not because you may get a good grade. You enjoy talking about ideas, philosophies and trading new perspectives. High scorers will look for academic challenges and colleges that will stimulate their minds. High scorers should be aware that big name colleges are not the only ones that provide intellectual stimulation. In fact, many colleges are more scholarly than Ivy League colleges. High scorers may even look for those non-traditional colleges that do not stress grades."

How Independent Are You?
-comfortable with such freedom. They are less apt to act in irresponsible ways while away from home and, further, are less in need of their friends' approval before making important decisions. They will have little difficulty at colleges where there is a great deal of freedom in choosing classes and in setting your own dormitory rules. Because of your self-sufficiency, you may not need the "excitement" of a college in a large city since you will be able to generate activities for yourself even at an isolated college locale.

How Career-Oriented Are You?
you are very open to the wide variety and extent of learning experiences that college may bring. You may see college as a time for experimenting with and testing a variety of ideas and career paths. The ambiguity of thinking about a range of career choices is not necessarily uncomfortable for you. You may want to explore traditional liberal arts colleges with many options in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.


How Socially Conscious Are You?

High scores suggest you care about the world and may not be satisfied with the "status quo." Your concern about the state of the world may influence your life and you may need to find outlets for your compassion and empathy. High scorers may want to look for colleges with political action committees, volunteer opportunities or other activities geared to reaching out beyond the bounds of the campus. Some colleges place an explicit value on recognizing one's responsibility to the world.
How Well Do You Understand Yourself?
Low or medium scorers may be just beginning to know themselves. Normally, teenagers' perceptions of themselves are heavily influenced by peers, but low scorers here may be overly responsive to the wishes and demands others have for them. You may be trying so hard to please, you don't know what you really want. A low scorer might find it easier to acquire self-understanding and confidence at a smaller, more supportive college than at an enormous university. Low scorers might look for schools where they'll be a big fish in a small pond.

What's Your Academic/Social Balance?
you place priority on both academics and extracurricular experiences and you will want to choose a college where you will have a balanced life; that is, where you will have time for both your academic pursuits as well as extracurricular activities and personal time. You should consider colleges within which you are very likely to be similar academically to the majority of other students. You should consider your college choices carefully-being certain you are not getting in "over your head." You will want to choose a college where you are as likely as anyone else to understand the material in your classes, to spend about the same amount of time studying and to be able to have a life outside of the classroom. In researching of colleges, look carefully at the characteristics of students who enroll-what were their grade point averages? test scores? Have they taken courses in high school fairly similar to the ones you have chosen?


How Eager Are You For College?
High scorers anticipate college in a favorable way and are looking forward to the collegiate experience. Adjustment will likely be easy as your enthusiasm will be a great asset in learning to master college life. While you may have some concerns about college, in general your attitude is positive. Because you played a primary role in deciding to attend college, you likely have specific goals regarding the appropriate use of your college years.

Newness

I feel like a makeover. Something new. I have never have anything to do except for going to work. My friends are so boring and inactive. Well not all of them, some. I need some new friends too. Some of mine suck. I need some new clothes too. I also want to buy a camera. ughhhhh I need to go shopping. I need some creativity in my life.

School's Out, A New Beginning

Finally school is out. Yes. Sophomore year is over! This summer hopefully I will do a lot. Caitlin and I have made a list of stuff to do. I have to read the Grapes of Wrath. bleh. Oh well. Hopefully I will "excel" in my academics. yeah AIGHT playa. I'll try hard. It's scary. I'm going to be a junior. I'm scared. Honestly. This means I have to lead by example or whatever that saying is. I will be going to band camp this summer. hahah oh hell. Also to Jamaica. I'm excited for everything. I'm sorry sophomore year. I guess we didn't have that chemistry life freshman year and I did. Ahh. Now I have to prepare for college. oh geez. I already have been since 8th grade. I just have a sucky GPA. blech. BAH

Sophomore year.

Ahh. Even though I'm ready for school to be over what can I say about sophomore year? It's been hard. A big disappointment. There's nothing great about it. I wish I could have made something more of it, but everything's gone. Hobgood left..AP Human sucks now. I hate most of my classes. Most of which I learn nothing in. There was no mock trial. Seniors are wacker than ever. So are students and teachers. I feel like school is pointless sometimes. I'll admit English class has gotten better, but we never have any class discussions our class is huge, which is a huge disappointment because I love to read. This year's gone by so fast and I can't remember half the things I've done. Band has been great for the most part. Science..is science. It hasn't been bad for science. It's pretty interesting. I've decided I like science better than math even though I hate them both. Hopefully I will have a small math and science class next year..but I know that won't happen. Math still sucks. It never makes sense and is extremely confusing, hard, and pointless. Yearbook is great. That's the only class I've liked all year. It's awesome. Hopefully I can study more about photography. French has been fun, I'll admit I love everyone in that class, but I wish we actually learn something once and a while. Sociology,, I have learned a lot, but my class is 100% moronic. God I miss Hobgood, I'm lost without that guy. Where are you dude? I just feel like I have missed out on something and by school being over I'm leaving something behind. Hopefully next year will be better.

Oh how I miss

All the time I think of the sport I fee l that I was meant for; volleyball. After quitting (something I rather not explain) I erased everything from me that was volleyball. I still want to spike and set. I think of it all the time. I admit I do love band but I wish I could do both. I felt great when I played volleyball, I felt healthy and in shape. Now I feel fat and lazy. I let myself go and a sport that I love. I probably won't ever play again.

Current

Now that I've gotten a job, I realize why people say that they want to kill their boss. School is getting better; the whole work and school thing was hard to do for me. I think I've gotten used to it. Math still sucks though, always will. I applied for my passport the other day. Hopefully I will go to Jamaica to visit my dad in June. He lives south of Kingston. I might even go toMontreal, Canada in July. Summer shall be full of adventures this year. hehe. I'm excited.

Car-ness

I think I want to learn how to drive now. Gosh! All this peer pressure! I don't care what kind of car I get, just as long as it gets from A to B.

life

The past couple of days have sucked. I miss my sister a lot. I'm sick I think I have a cold or flu. This is a time when health insurance would be useful..Work is wack. I guess. I mean it's alright. Everyone always asks "How's your job?" I don't know? This is my first job, how can I really judge it, I don't know. My second job might me worse than this one or better. I don't know. I have nothing to compare it to. I wish I could live isolated from society. I don't want to be apart of it anymore. I hate school. I realize how wasteful it is. I know some people may say, to get a good job you need a good education. What if I don't want a job. I mean why would I want to just get 16 years of schooling just to grow up and become a vegetable? Money isn't that important to me. I mean is our society really based on getting a job just you can have the luxuries in life? A house? a nice car? What kind of worth does that have? Go to college just so you can have to "American Dream" which used to be just having the opprotunity to achieve any goal you want. Today it just means to get rich and be "happy". Ok I'm done now.

Ipod

Well I'm between a rock and a hard place now. I've wanted an iPod for a while now. The thing is after my old computer crashed I have little music only like 297 songs on my new computer. No I didn't buy music, I got it illegally. Now I just rip it off of CDs. Anyways, I don't know if I should get the iPod classic or a Nano. I can estimate that on my old computer I had like 900 songs, but I was in the middle of getting more before my computer crashed. So what are my options??

iPod nano 4gb- 1,000 songs..ehh
iPod nano 8gb- 2,000 songs, I think I might aim for this one.
iPod Classic- 20,000 songs.. I don't think I'll need that much.

I guess I'll be thinking about this for a while and in the meantime I'll be finding more songs and ripping more Cds. Maybe even buying some. Suggestions or comments are welcome.

Last.fm

So basically Last.fm is the coolest music site ever. I've been on it for a while. The only thing you have to do is listen to music. Then the rest is done for you. It automatically sends you recommendations of artist and events. It displays people who listen to similar music as you. Just type in Last.fm. So anyways I'm going to show off my snazzy music charts on my blog, I think they are pretty cool.










I know pretty snazzy right?