Response to Michael's response to Violence

In response to Michael’s response post about violence I would have to say that I agree that we need to have diplomacy first. It is the first step to peace in my mind. Having and outright war right from the start isn’t the best idea. Who knows just how many people could have been saved if the enemies decided to talk things over first. Sure they may not like each other, but isn’t there any thought about the people of the land that could be hurt because of violence? I think that there isn’t enough consideration besides someone’s ego. War/violence is about proving one’s ego over another. For that I don’t believe that people give enough consideration for their people, especially leaders who start the wars. Those that later decide to join are different because they do look at the variables much more, but at least it more consideration (in my mind) than the leaders of the group that started the war/violence.

In this world there will never be a true balance. It is impossible and therefore there will always be war. Like Michael had said, there will always be violence everywhere but diplomacy should always be the first thing to happen before violence. Who knows, there might be something both agree upon to live in unison.

Response to Scott's Post

In response to Scott’s blog, I agree with his way of explaining just how freshmen tend to have fun. Everyone talks about how that last party was, how they hope to go to another again, or how they can’t remember what happened last night. Freshmen are also trying to do so much with their first year of college and it seems that they are moving too fast. When listing all the different things freshmen do that help them get into the college scene, there is one thing Scott does leave out. For the majority of college freshmen want to get into the craziest party and meet the best people, but there are those who do focus on school. If high school has taught us something it is that we need understand our consequences. I feel that some freshmen have not learned their lesson. They believe that they can hand in homework late, slack off, be late to class because they can accumulate many more tardies than they think, and party all night (that’s what college is right?). Then the students find themselves in trouble with low grades, low academic performance, and if they don’t change could be kicked from the school and all the money lost. What can the university ultimately do to help the students make the better choices? Well I believe there isn’t much. At this point in their life (when they are entering the university level) all that the students have learned in elementary, middle and high school and of course their parents will be revealed in the person they are. There isn’t much that can change of a person and if one person has these bad habits for the way that they conduct their daily routines and work habits, then it might be too late. I still see the university offering ways to help people become better planned and informed on what can happen if they don’t follow the minimum credits and GPA but I think that these classes aren’t as necessary. By now the student should have learned how to organize their time. Have all those four years in high school just been winged the whole time? If so, how did the university accept them? Clearly the students must have some desire to learn because they are in the next level of education. With this desire, I don’t see it too relevant for the university to be spending money to try to teach these kids what they should have learned in school or at home.
This is why I believe that although this scenario is for a few students from the whole, the incoming freshmen need to pace themselves. They are getting ahead of the game and trying to do way too much for just their first year. Pretty soon they might find that the school is boring because they have spent all their time partying and there is a loss of fun at the university, then they cause trouble because there isn’t anything else to do in their minds. If they pace the parties, focus on school, join a few clubs, they can ultimately have more fun and a better experience for their years at the university.
To answer a question Scott asked, “Should the university decide to offer more activities?” well I believe the answer is yes. If the university decided to do that, even with a little cost or like Scott mentioned using the ID card, then yes this might be a good idea. The students are going out of the grounds to waste money as it is, so why not do it at the university and hope to turn all these fun activities into more fund raising type of events. The best time to hold such events is obviously when most of the university students would be going off campus for their parties, late night.
Finally, I have come to agree with Scott that the university students are partying too much off campus and are trying to do too much in their first year. I just wanted to add that if the students were to pace themselves then things might be a lot better for them. In the topic of school activities, I say yes to add more as fundraisers because they to attribute to a decrease in students leaving the campus and the university in turn could be making more money, if these activities are possible to be held.

FML, MLIA, MLIG response to Garrett's post

In response to Garrett's post about (FML), (MLIA), and (MLIG) I will say that I do completely agree with what he is saying. I know of people who go to these websites and try to make fun of others, which is why I do slightly agree that we need to not be reading these FML things. Why would someone post something that is so embarrassing to their lives I will never know.
The websites like MLIA and MLIG are aimed to not make as much fun of one’s life but to “show off” one’s life to the world. We need to understand that doing this isn’t going to help your life any more. It might hurt someone’s self esteem because then they think that their life is not worth living. If we could remove something like this, then we might be able to decrease these low self esteem issues we see in schools all the time.
These websites are rather pointless in their aid to normal life. If people stopped reading these, then people would start to understand the real meaning in their own lives, not by reading how bad someone else is or how amazing another person's life may be. We as a person need to learn for ourselves how to live our life and how to enjoy it. Websites like these do not help us at all and we need to understand that. This is why I agree with Garrett on this topic. He is saying exactly what we need to learn.