Middle School Should Have Macbooks

I’m the only person in my ENTIRE class without my own laptop. Having to deal with these annoying Acers with broken screens and horribly slow is really frustrating, especially since both the Lower and Upper school have Macbooks. For science, we go to Mr. Boyd in Upper school. There we use the Upper school Macbooks. I say “we” because other people in the class would rather use Macbooks then their bad computers, such as the mini-me sensation.

I think that middle school should definitely get Macbooks for many reasons. First of all, why would Lower school get them before we do? I only started using a computer in grade 4, and that was once a week for only 30-45 minutes. People at that age don’t know how to respect expensive things. So these indestructible clunkers for a computer are the perfect thing to help teach them to be nice to other people’s possessions. Second, the Acers are basically broken, so it would be a perfect time to get new ones. And lastly, no one likes these Acers, so it is encouraging people to waste their money on buying their own computers, even if they wouldn’t otherwise.

Discovery Channel isn't something I would personally watch on my free time. It isn’t the kind of tv show that I would watch because I find that it is too educational. I watch tv to relax, not to test my brain. After long days of school, coming home and watching something that makes me think.

However I think that there are lots of situations that discovery channel could be the best channel to watch. For example, discovery channel offers great images of beautiful nature and animals. At restaurants, there is usually news or sports playing. Discovery Channel would be better for restaurants that want to have a quieter, calmer feel to it.

All channels are targeted to a certain group. Tree house for toddlers, Family channel for kids, Discovery for people who are interested in science and the environment, there are so many different channels, and every one has a theme. I don’t have enough of an interest in science to watch discovery channel, but I'm sure there are people, (like tristan) that do.

Books to Movies

I have seen alot of disappointing movies that were made from books. The biggest problem is when people read books, they imagine characters differently. So choosing actors for movies can ruin the movie for me even before it starts. Last year, we started reading, The Lightning Theif as a class. I enjoyed reading this so much that I ended up buying the rest of the series. Since the books were so popular, they made a movie that is coming out soon. At first I was excited, but after watching the trailer, the image of the characters changed completely in my head.

After watching Twilight, I was surprised how good it was, never reading the book, but hearing about it. I never had the issue of the appearance of the characters because I never read the book. I thought the movie was very good, along with New Moon, and would more likely read the books after then before I watched the movies.

Did You Know

Did You Know 3.0 has amazingly surprising facts that you would never think would be possible or true. The video said that students are being prepared for jobs that don’t exist yet, involving technology that hasn’t been invented yet, to solve problems that aren’t problems yet. How would they do that? Prepare people for jobs that don't exist, but it's still mandatory because there wouldn't be any jobs for them if they weren't making new jobs constantly.

Apparently we are going to learn more in the next year then in the past 5,000 years!! How much will we know in 2020? When I imagined the future, I always thought of flying hovercrafts and see through touch screens and crazy technology like that, but I never thought it could actually happen in my lifetime. It’s amazing how advanced they make technology. We know about what happened millions and millions of years ago, and we can predict stuff thousands of years into the future.