Now this made me laugh too:
"My three-year old daughter Carolyn picked an apple from the bowl on her Nana's table, took a bite, and murmured, "I feel strange." She fell to the floor, the apple rolling dramatically from her hand. My mom was horrified, and jumped up from her chair. I continued to drink my coffee. I had witnessed this a hundred of times. Carolyn was Snow White, and had reenacted the famous poisoned apple scene."
Reading about this story, I read more about how drama ran in Lauren Andreano's family but not always in a good way. After reading this story I learned that there are so many options I could choose from. And hopefully I choose one I love.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
LIFE LESSONS FROM A DOG
This part of Erika Hoffman's story really made me laugh before I read more about it:
"After she clicked the mouse and sent the common application zooming the cyber air waves, she let me read her essay. Yikes! The title of her essay was "Life lessons from a Bitch!" I froze in my tracks. "What the blankety blank were you thinking?" I blaster at her! Then, I blamed myself for not being a "helicopter mom" and insisting on reading her essay before she curiously submitted it."
And then when she read more into her essay, her essay described what she had learned from raising her puppy. It was funny because she thought her daughter was talking about her. It made me crack up.
"After she clicked the mouse and sent the common application zooming the cyber air waves, she let me read her essay. Yikes! The title of her essay was "Life lessons from a Bitch!" I froze in my tracks. "What the blankety blank were you thinking?" I blaster at her! Then, I blamed myself for not being a "helicopter mom" and insisting on reading her essay before she curiously submitted it."
And then when she read more into her essay, her essay described what she had learned from raising her puppy. It was funny because she thought her daughter was talking about her. It made me crack up.
I WISH I TOOK MORE TIME TO DECIDE
"My advice to anyone thinking about attending college is to think about it very seriously and explore all of your options well ahead of time. Even though your senior year might be packed, squeeze in those college tours and take the time to make a good decision."
My senior year is so packed with my senior project, my classes, SAT's and college applications. I've never had so many things to do in my life. It felt like my freshman year was just yesterday. I can't believe it's really my senior year and it's finally going to be over. Honestly, I am not ready for all of this I am not ready to grow up. I wish I could go back and re-do all the mistakes. I wish I could of been college ready. But I guess I have to work with what I have and do my best right? This story of Kristin Abrams helped me think more about college and how to manage my time and make good decisions.
My senior year is so packed with my senior project, my classes, SAT's and college applications. I've never had so many things to do in my life. It felt like my freshman year was just yesterday. I can't believe it's really my senior year and it's finally going to be over. Honestly, I am not ready for all of this I am not ready to grow up. I wish I could go back and re-do all the mistakes. I wish I could of been college ready. But I guess I have to work with what I have and do my best right? This story of Kristin Abrams helped me think more about college and how to manage my time and make good decisions.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A BLACK MARK
I liked this part of this story:
"All I regret is allowing something so small to corrode my insides for so long, when the future is determined not by mistakes that we all make at some time, but how we move on after they've been made."
It is so true. There are things in life that are so smallest problem but yet the biggest problem to us. I have been in situations where I thought the biggest situations was going to tear me apart but it was the smallest problem ever after realizing how it wouldn't mess me up at all. But it's funny how sometimes problems start so small and turn out to be big and then big problems become the smallest problems. I don't know why it is like that but I guess it helps us learn from being scared of things. Like this story, Joan Hyun Lee tells his story of how he got a C for AP Biology and it scared him so much he thought that he wouldn't get into college because of that one grade. It's funny how people worry about the smallest things, including me. Reading about his story made me realize that a small problem couldn't mess up my life. I'll always remember that change begins with me.
"All I regret is allowing something so small to corrode my insides for so long, when the future is determined not by mistakes that we all make at some time, but how we move on after they've been made."
It is so true. There are things in life that are so smallest problem but yet the biggest problem to us. I have been in situations where I thought the biggest situations was going to tear me apart but it was the smallest problem ever after realizing how it wouldn't mess me up at all. But it's funny how sometimes problems start so small and turn out to be big and then big problems become the smallest problems. I don't know why it is like that but I guess it helps us learn from being scared of things. Like this story, Joan Hyun Lee tells his story of how he got a C for AP Biology and it scared him so much he thought that he wouldn't get into college because of that one grade. It's funny how people worry about the smallest things, including me. Reading about his story made me realize that a small problem couldn't mess up my life. I'll always remember that change begins with me.
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