Resonding to " A Vision of Students Today "

                                      “I am one of the lucky ones”


In todays school life, most of the students that go into collage are expected to pay for themselves. To find work and balance it with school. A school is expected to provide a learning environment as best as they can, but to do that a university or a collage has to stay up to speed with the latest technology and research, and that requires the school to pay a lot of money, and in our world the more money you pay the better results you get. From there the schools will charge their students for huge amounts to compensate what they have payed and a bit more to get revenue for themselves. This causes two major problems, student debt and greedy people on top of these institutions.

“I am one of the lucky ones”, because my parents are paying for my school, and they don’t want or expect me to pay them back, but others are not so fortunate. When a student leaves high school with no experience that allows him to get a good paying job, and they were not of the ones that got scholar ships, then they have to take loans from banks, which by itself is hassle and a problem because of high interest rates that will cumulate over the years. Then you have in class requirements like books or software that a student must buy, and honestly most of the times the students will only use about 20% of the book or software and then never use it again in their lives. That will not only cause a student money loss, but also depression and anger, and that will affect the learning process, not to mention that knowing how much debt one will be in is very stressful, and all that will result in a not very healthy college life, and then after a student graduates they will be in debt until they die. So why would anyone go through that process ?
Then if you want to try and solve this problem, they have to go through the school officials and release a bill to lower the tuition fees, yet what you will find are people that want money and only money. And when people like that are on the top there is no hope of changing the system, since most of them were once students, and have debts that they cant dream to pay, unless they suck that money out of others.

So truly the only way to end this cycle is to start changing bit by bit, so that the next generation of office holders don’t have these debts to worry about, and they can focus more on advancing the system to get better results.

Reflections on "How To Blog" by Rob Beschizza

                                                                      How to blog

This article talked mostly about the way a blogger should act in his blog, it dwelled on the things that a blogger should do and should not do, using the writer’s experience and point of view they showed the reader a plan of some sort that would help them to blog the right way.

After reading this article I obtained a clearer idea of what blogging is. When Rob first asked what is blogging it was after him talking about different other ways for someone to express themselves by writing about it, he also talked about how most bloggers get employed by magazines if they have a big reader base, or if the magazine liked the way they write. By saying that he gave blogging a flavor of importance, since it is an opportunity to find a job even in this age where people post constant updates of their lives, which he describes as what blogging really is. From there we go to the difficulties that a blogger could face, weather it is from not finding sponsors to their blogs or if the sponsor wants a blog that talks primarily about their products or ------, in the latter it would mean that the readers are going to be tricked by this and might feel betrayed by the righter, since a blog is mostly something from the blogger himself, reading their blog would give a person an idea of who the blogger is.

But there are other mistakes that a blogger could fall into and one of them is mostly pretending, as in talking about yourself or your opinion in a blog while it doesn’t represent you, trying too hard to be funny, because your readers will notice that. “Don’t blog about yourself, unless you’re doing what you blog about”. But all that does not mean that a blog is you talking about yourself, as Rob said that your reader will get board of you and you will get board of yourself. And most importantly for me was the “Don’t be an Arsehole” where he explained that critiquing someone on the internet should be well thought, and no personal attacks should be made, because that will back lash at you.

So now you have what to write about and how to do it, but a blog is a public space where anyone can come, read, then give their opinion, meaning that mean people will say mean things. But Rob points out that this blog is yours, so if you don’t like comments feel free to disable comment, but never change your style because of critics, just  “don’t stop doing whatever it is that brought them to you”, those dedicated readers that keep coming back.

All in all, this article showed me what blogging is, since I never really knew what is was about, and mostly gave some good ideas on how to handle my own blog space in the future.

Hello and welcome to The Life Is Cheese blog

As cheesy as it sounds, i came up with this about two years ago and here is the explanation:

Life is like cheese,
                               the longer it exists,
                                                              the better it gets.