Shriya Nevatia
Fremenhi
June 20th 2010 12:58
hi i'm still alive,
sorry for no posts in a while
it's summer, so now i'll get back to it.
sorry for no posts in a while
it's summer, so now i'll get back to it.
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Balance vs. Prestige
April 20th 2010 22:43
In wake of finishing the book Overachievers (2006) by Alexandra Robbins, I was wondering...
what are your opinions on the thing that will make people lead more fulfilling, fruitful, pleasing lives?
is it
a) doing anything it takes, within moral reason, to get to the top--and then take full advantage of the opportunities given to you at the highest level to get even more opportunities, eventually obtaining a fairly large amount of power to do as you please with
b) live a very balanced life, working hard but also knowing when to relax and play, getting some opportunities by luck or chance, and others because of your passions, and eventually helping people and learning more about the world to gain friends and a caring environment to help you in your life.
is the second always the most beneficial?
when should we consider making a lot of sacrifices to achieve something great, rather than rolling with the punches and depending on fate?
would you choose a balanced life where you may regret not working harder or a prestigious but emotionally and physically greuling lifestyle where you achieve almost anything you have ever dreamed of?
what are your opinions on the thing that will make people lead more fulfilling, fruitful, pleasing lives?
is it
a) doing anything it takes, within moral reason, to get to the top--and then take full advantage of the opportunities given to you at the highest level to get even more opportunities, eventually obtaining a fairly large amount of power to do as you please with
b) live a very balanced life, working hard but also knowing when to relax and play, getting some opportunities by luck or chance, and others because of your passions, and eventually helping people and learning more about the world to gain friends and a caring environment to help you in your life.
is the second always the most beneficial?
when should we consider making a lot of sacrifices to achieve something great, rather than rolling with the punches and depending on fate?
would you choose a balanced life where you may regret not working harder or a prestigious but emotionally and physically greuling lifestyle where you achieve almost anything you have ever dreamed of?
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If
February 23rd 2010 01:07
If Sarah Palin becomes President, I'm moving to India.
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waait!!
January 12th 2010 00:33
i'll be back soon, there's so much to talk about!
i've just been so busy with college things.
i've just been so busy with college things.
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NON-THINKER OF THE CENTURY
November 12th 2009 03:19
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another poem
October 30th 2009 00:05
scratch the leaves because when you come home,
the fish will be waiting for you[ Click here to read more ]
the fish will be waiting for you
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a poem
October 30th 2009 00:03
all pens are overflowing,
i thought the ink would dribble down the sides of the table[ Click here to read more ]
i thought the ink would dribble down the sides of the table
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Teachers Deserve More Respect
September 26th 2009 01:00
In the USA, teachers are not at all well-respected by the general population outside the education community. The younger their students, the dumber the teachers are thought to be. This is insanely backwards, since education is the absolute most important factor that will lead a society towards progress and prosperity. Once all pressing health concerns of life and death are taken care of, only a challenging, secular, and diversified education can improve the welfare of all people in a society. In this way, teachers have a profound impact in shaping the citizens of tomorrow. It also seems that the teachers themselves have perpetuated this stereotype, as a certain chunk of them (from K-5, at least 30%) have chose to teach only because they didn't really know what else to do with their lives, regardless of whether of not they are ACTUALLY GOOD AT TEACHING...
I sincerely hope that in the next few years, President Barack Obama's emphasis on education helps more and more to make citizens of the USA wake up and recognize the importance of education for the future of our nation as a whole, and that whoever goes on to become the next president in 2012 (no! 2016!
) upholds this praise and significance that education is slowly being given in the minds of American people.
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I sincerely hope that in the next few years, President Barack Obama's emphasis on education helps more and more to make citizens of the USA wake up and recognize the importance of education for the future of our nation as a whole, and that whoever goes on to become the next president in 2012 (no! 2016!
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New Writer
July 30th 2009 21:40
Hi guys,
I'm Fremen, I've got a couple other blogs, and since I was into philosophy a while back (Vice President of my school's club), I thought I'd hop onto my cousin's blog and add some other material[ Click here to read more ]
I'm Fremen, I've got a couple other blogs, and since I was into philosophy a while back (Vice President of my school's club), I thought I'd hop onto my cousin's blog and add some other material
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Learn What Most Interests You
July 15th 2009 10:01
For the past two days, I have stayed up into the wee hours of the night (so much so that they blended into the morning!) going on Wikipedia and starting with about 4 articles that branched into well over 50. I opened them in tabs (thank god for firefox, really) and have subsequently been shuffling through them, reading and absorbing, when I realized--why can't we learn like this in school? Couldn't there be a way to learn all the basics that are necessary in each subject area while having sufficient extra space to investigate as we wish into any topic that interests us? Of course, this is what often happens in college, and arguably is the purpose of higher education forms that are separated from career-preparation, but in middle and high school only the most academically interested of students end up discovering things for themselves on their own, while others are left in the dark and funnel their interest and attention at other, "damaging" or "useless" areas of culture and knowledge (as in....celebrity gossip, memorizing fashion designers or famous athletes....while useful to a point of you are really interested in those fields, these are always regarded as very far from academic disciplines).
It would be so magnificent if we could take the ideas of open education and alternative education and blend them nicely with the rigid, standardized-testing-based system currently in place that dominates American Education (the only kind I can speak for, more specifically the NY State Regents) to create a flexible education system with defined minimums for learning at each progressive grade level, classes (as previously stated) divided by academic ability, potential, and ease of learning, where the lowest classes would finish all required minimums for their level in intensive, encouraging work while each step higher would have a greater and greater opportunity to learn beyond the minimums what they wished in an organized manner[ Click here to read more ]
It would be so magnificent if we could take the ideas of open education and alternative education and blend them nicely with the rigid, standardized-testing-based system currently in place that dominates American Education (the only kind I can speak for, more specifically the NY State Regents) to create a flexible education system with defined minimums for learning at each progressive grade level, classes (as previously stated) divided by academic ability, potential, and ease of learning, where the lowest classes would finish all required minimums for their level in intensive, encouraging work while each step higher would have a greater and greater opportunity to learn beyond the minimums what they wished in an organized manner
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