EGGS

A picture is worth a thousand words.

So I leave you with this drawing that I have taken much time to create:

But since the professor would not like it if I just ended my blog with this, I will explain it to you.

This is a reference to the Egg Drop project we will be doing soon. The person on the top refers to you dropping the egg out of a window and the person below looking completely horrified is me, running to catch the egg with my handy frying pan.

We have five groups, each has three tries with three eggs. That totals fifteen, if we're not counting separate trials and errors that each group does on their own. FIFTEEN EGGS.

Eggs are only seventy calories each, but they are a great source of protein, vitamins and minerals! It is one of the few foods that contain choline, which if you don't get enough of, can cause liver disease and other disorders that mess up your body. Choline helps regulate your brain which, correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm sure I'm not), is necessary for learning and most of all ENGINEERING. Don't argue with me on this, I have done an entire speech and essays on why eggs are important.

You might be staring at this post like I'm crazy, but just because we have lots of eggs in the grocery stores and in your fridges, doesn't mean that everybody else in this world has it. Ever heard the saying, "THERE ARE STARVING KIDS IN AFRICA"? Sure, egg isn't good for their diet, but it's the thought that counts. You should never waste food. Not even if it's uncooked eggs. They are still going to become delicious meals... UNLESS YOU DROP THEM AND THEY CRACK AND YOU LEAVE THEM TO ROT AWAY ON THE PAVEMENT. Waste of food. Seriously.

Yes, I am against this project. Unfortunately, this is also part of my grade for the class, which I need to pass. So I'll go along with it but I will still cry myself to sleep at night.

Professors

I've probably complained about this so much that others who know me are tired of it already, but I found it necessary to once again voice some of my annoyances about professors. Not about their ways of teaching or anything, but just their emails in particular.

I rarely email professors, but when I do, I try my best to avoid spelling and grammatical errors. I spend more time proofreading the email than typing it because I don't want to make myself sound unprofessional. So I'll waste time trying to perfect an email, no matter how simple it is, just so I won't come off as a half-wit to the person in charge of my grade for the class.

Now I understand that being a teacher must make your life very busy, what with tests, homework, and essays to look through, but DEAR PROFESSOR(S), I just wish that you would take your time to write out a decent reply. I'm not asking for a paragraph or anything in-depth, but I get so insecure when all I get the next day is a "Okay" or "fine". Not all students are satisfied with that answer. It makes things worse especially when I have other questions in my email that you have failed to answer and it makes me think that you don't care.

I've spoken to many other students about this and they agree with me. We can have an entire conversation about how great a professor is simply from the fact that they replied to our email with more than one word and how they capitalize the necessary words along with inserting periods IN WHICH MANY PROFESSORS FAIL TO DO.

I believe that if teachers want their students to stop with the chatspeak and improve their writing, then they themselves should try to be a proper example. Yes, it's the internet, but I fail to think of that as a decent excuse for not using correct spelling and grammar.

How does society affect you as a person?

Society is simply a social group of humans and that is all people think of when the word is mentioned. The only problem is that society is the very thing that makes us who we are and at the very same time, ruin our identity as individuals.

The people around us influences us whether we like it or not, and the term 'unique' is loosely thrown around when used to describe somebody. Everyone wants to be a part of the crowd and be noticed. To achieve that, we allow ourselves to change our behavior and the way we think in order to be recognized by others. When someone voices their opinion and it becomes acknowledged by a larger group of people, others start thinking the same way so they wouldn't be treated as outcasts for not agreeing with something that has become generally accepted. Everything from our choices in music to fashion and even our views on the world can be altered simply by the desire to fit in. We want other people to accept us and we believe for that to happen, we need to be just like them; just like everybody else.

As we grow up, we start changing into the people we see in our daily lives, be it in school or work, and most definitely in television. The way others act become an example for us to follow as we think that what they do is right. We start believing that we should try to adjust our lifestyles and behavior to transform ourselves into them so that people would acknowledge us like they do to those we idolize. We try to become what we think is 'normal' because we don't want to be anything different that will make use rejected by members of society. In the end, we are all affected the same way and we all start changing ourselves until our society becomes a whole with no such thing as individuality.