Future

I remember when I was around 6 years old. I would wake up at 7:00, exactly, every morning, run downstairs, and watch cartoons. I got a lot of crazy ideas from cartoons, but the one thing I remember most is that in every cartoon, the future had flying cars and tight chrome spandex suits. Movies also show 3-D TV screens and weird buildings with silver and gold everything. However, I think the future will be a little different than what the cartoons and movies show.

While everyone talks about the future, the “future” is almost impossible to describe. The future is 20 seconds from now, and 5 billion years from now. I don’t think that in the future everything will be chrome, or even metal. I think that the world is growing industrially, and if we don’t stop it, then it will lead to some issues. Global Warming and air pollution are problems that we need to pay attention to.

I think the physical world won’t look much different than it does today. I think that there will be new gadgets to make our lives easier, and technology will get more complex, but cities won’t become made out of chrome and gold. Just think of how things are today. Today was the future in the 1980s when those cartoons were made, and we don’t make buildings out of shiny gold now.

$40 million

If you’ve watched TV recently, you have seen the Lotto 69 commercials. One was about playing hide and go seek with helicopters and motorboats. Another was about his friends flying in hot air balloons. If I won $40 million or something ridiculous amount of money, I would definitely buy much better things then some hot air balloons.

Traveling is a very expensive thing that enriches people’s lives. I would tour Europe during the summer and ride in a helicopter over volcanoes in Hawaii for Christmas break. There are millions of different places to travel such as Antarctica to see the penguins and Africa to see the lions and other African animals.

I dislike long, boring car rides. Buying nice cars would solve both these negative things of transportation. If you had amazing vehicles like Aston martins and Lamborghinis would definitely make the car rides more enjoyable and much, much faster. Also, buying other vehicles like helicopters and tanks and weird things like that would make errands entertaining and something to look forward to.

If you haven’t seen iron man, you have to stop reading this blog (no matter how good it is) and watch it. For those of you who have seen it, you know that Tony Stark is a very intelligent man who builds makes various machines. 3-D computer touch screens, modified cars, and most importantly he has a metal suit that flies around and shoots lasers. If I had $40 million, I would hire hundreds of mechanics and engineers to design those computers and to make flying machines that shoot lasers. It sounds weird, but who wouldn’t want a machine to fly around in?

There are so many things to do with money. The limits are set on your imagination. I hope if I won $40 million, I would have a good enough imagination to spend it in a creative way so I would be happy the rest of my life.

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.

Use of ipods in School

There are very few teachers that allow ipods in their class. Most of the students in my class have that an ipod and enjoy listening to music when they work. Recently, one of the teachers usually let us use them said we couldn't, compelling me to write about this.

Perhaps the biggest distraction we have when we work is each other. We are always talking and socializing. I noticed that there is very little or no talking when we are allowed to use our ipods. Even if some people are slightly distracted by the music, it is only one person isn't focusing instead if he or she started a conversation with another person.

Another reason we were introduced to was that it was we wouldn't be able to hear an alarm. Many friends share an ipod or don't like to listen at all. Instead of completely getting rid of ipods, why wouldn't the teachers just tell the students if they are playing them too loud? I doubt that the ipod could make more noise then the fire alarm, let alone if it's quiet enough that the teacher can't hear it.

I believe we should be able to listen to ipods in very many more classes, because I think ipods help us focus more than distract us.