#hellastoopthoughts

A lot has changed…. but if you strip things away. What is left for yourself? Those things make you who you are and it’s safe to say I’m the same me… just maybe wiser with the many additional years of experience to this point in time.

In order to believe in myself more, I need to know who I am. Everything starts within and everything we do is a product of us. If my work is going to be a reflection of myself it makes sense to better myself. Which is what we all should be doing anyway in the first place right?

During our youth we're pumped up with useless information which we will probably have no use for the rest of our lives. Within the first 2 years of college, if one decides to go, we learn the same useless things in high school but at a higher level/rate. Assuming the major you have chosen is the career path you would want to be in, your upper division classes are the most needed. For me, the best things I've learned in high school came from electives. It gave me a chance to actually choose something that I was interested in rather than force fed things that I didn't want to learn. Isn't that the reason for choosing a major? To let the college/institution know which classes that I want to take? This is why I'm confused with "General Education". In life I will only use basic math so why do I need to take a calculus class? Even if I do learn these things how will it even apply to me when I'm an ART major. I could understand about English classes but the rest are pretty unnecessary. If I ran the education system my ideal high school schedule would look something like this: 1) Health, 2) Critical Thinking, 3) Creativity, 4) Entrepreneurship, 5) Personal Finance, 6) Writing/Speaking, 7) Personal Development. Then for college it would be the same but applied to your upper division classes for your major. Our general education is really not that general at all. It is something the general public should know, but not essentially needed.

Computer coding consists of zeros and ones. I think the same goes for life. It's either you're something or nothing.