Weekend blog post...

I know, the title is boring. Get over it. I have two assignments today, the first being to create a list of of pet peeves, and the second to respond to a couple things we did during class... so instead of doing two posts in the same day (which would be ridiculous) I'm just going to do both of them in this one blog.

I'm going to start with a list of pet peeves... Why? because it is easier and I am lazy.
1. People who can ace everything they do without trying at all. Example, the American guy in two million minutes who gets a full rid to Purdue for doing well on the PSAT... a test which he said he didn't study for, didn't try that hard on, and was pretty easy...
2. People who are impossible to argue with... Can't stand them
3. Country music... sorry, but the world would be better without another song about tractors.
4. Freakish athletes... they don't actually annoy me... i just get annoyed that I can't be one of them...
5. Museums... Another old thing? cool. I can learn all about it on the internet... now lets do something fun.
6. Viking fans. Vikings suck, just accept that the Packers are and forever will be much, much better.
7. When my projected 20 point WR has 0 points at half time.
I think that's good for now... so now on to responding to the stuff we did in class the last couple days...

First of all, in my opinion, the movie Two Million Minutes is one of the most biased movies ever created. It makes American students seem lazy, dumb, and that every student is living a dream life. I wish. Just because American students are expected to have at least minimal amounts of social skill does not mean we do not work. While Asian students spend a solid 168 hours a week buried in piles of the latest engineering textbooks, they are melting all social skills necessary to succeed in ACTUAL LIFE. Meanwhile, a American student has, in my opinion, a much more balanced schedule. Just for ease I'll share my schedule on an average day. I wake up at 6:30, go to school until 2:20, have football practice until 5:30, eat dinner, do home work until around midnight, then go to bed.
I am not saying the American educational system is perfect. I know first hand it has plenty of flaws. We have a surplus of bad teachers looking for jobs and not enough good teachers who would actually be able to stimulate the educational system.
However poor our educational system may be it angers me to watch such a blatant attack on American students. I think about how much I work and to think that the modern conception of the American student is a lazy, student who does not work hard is very frustrating.