Success is it good or bad?

Is it better to always succeed or to fail at some point?

Meta-cognition

I've been questioning myself a lot about this and last year on why I became an IB diploma candidate. My reason for my thinking of this is caused by looking back at my course history. I noticed that I only took one honors class before I became a "Dip Can" and that class was in my freshman year. I did not take any IB prep courses, I only took normal classes in my sophomore year. This fact sort of sticks out because I went from some of the easiest classes and being able to have electives to the some of the hardest classes in the school and being forced to take my second foreign language and having no electives at all. I've asked my parents about why they want me to be IB even though I decided not to go to a four year college. My dad's answer caught me off guard because he stated that most of the things that one would learn in school are irrelevant after one would get out of school, and how the main idea of school is to learn how to learn. I really never thought about school that way, but not going to a regular college made me think about why I should try at all because it lead to myself asking myself when am I going to need to know how to write an ethnography, film critique, research paper, or personal narrative when I am planning on being a cobbler. All the things that I learned almost seem pointless.

Sport Classifications (bowling compared to golf mainly)

I always hear from people that bowling is not a sport in their opinion because it isn't physical or highly cardiovascular. Another thing that I hear is that they believe it's easy to be good at bowling because throwing a ball at some pins is nothing like football or golf when comparing the level of difficulty. I have attempted to teach and tell people about bowling and how it is a sport. The main reason why people don't understand why bowling is a sport is that their perception of what occurs while bowling is skewed because there is more to just throwing a ball down a lane and trying to hit pins. There are a couple things that people people don't realize that inside a bowling ball there is a shaped core or weight block that will increase the hook or rotation of a ball, the liquid or oil on the lane that is placed on the lane, and then realizing that it breaks downs which causes the bowler to adjust so they can the most margin for error. The style of a bowler is important because it's one of the larger differences between the amateurs and the skilled bowlers. The style is important because if the timing of the approach is off the bowling ball won't react how the person wants it to but on the flip-side if the timing is aligned the bowler is able to do what they would like to do with their ball. Golf is very similar to bowling by how the fundamentals can be slightly varied but the main key to both of these sports is that the ability to transfer energy efficiently and effectively  because the swing of a golf club can be perceived as a great swing but in reality the golfer could have forced it meaning the energy was falsified and causing the ball the ball to go short of the target. The same thing occurs in bowling if one forces the throw while bowling the bowler usually misses the target usually the target is missed to the right for right handers and the opposite for the left handers. The golf course is similar to the lane in bowling by the oil pattern is similar to the water hazards, and sand traps by how these areas are similar to the  no go zones on a lane for the oil pattern that was placed because if a bowler throws in the no go zone their ball either won't hook or it misses the desired target. The wind in golf is similar to the oil depletion on the lanes that as the wind changes the golfer must predict how and where to hit the ball to the hole, but in bowling the bowler has to analyze what each shot did because the location of the ball entering the pins and how the pins fell can tell the bowler what to do. An example of this is that when a bowler throws their ball and  it doesn't hook they must adjust to to better, or when the bowling ball hits the pins but leaves the ten pin or far right back pin off a good shot. When a bowler leaves the ten pin the most likely reason for leaving the pin is that the ball entered the pocket the head pin and the pin to the right of it for right handers and the opposite goes for the seven pin and the left handers, under the head pin this causes the three pin to hit the six pin on the back side which makes the pin go around the ten pin and this is what causes it to be standing. A difference between bowling and golf is the cash amount given to the winner in golf the winner can win up to a couple hundred thousand and in bowing the most given out in a tournament is around ten thousand for a normal tournament and for a major the average amount is fifty thousand. Bowling is very cardiovascular especially when a professional bowler must bowl approximately thirty games just to get to the finals, and if a bowler is an amateur they would have to bowl seventy or more games.   

Halloween

I was wondering why people on Halloween dislike older kids trick-or-treating. Is it wrong for older kids to continue the tradition that they learned as a little kid because that is what almost everyone has done at some point. I think that people don't like older kids trick-or-treating because they believe that they take advantage of being able to get free candy and sweets and do more tricks on others.

Stress

I understand that everyone has stress but recently I have felt overwhelmed and overloaded with my life which is adding alot of stress. I'm finding it difficult to release stress because if I take time to release stress I get more because I took time away from doing things that I need to do. I understand that time management is important but alot of the thing I do overlap with each other. I'm just wondering if anyone has any great ideas on how to deal with stress?

Procrasti....... I'll get to it later

Am I the only one who gets no sudden urge to do homework because procrastinating is really annoying and stressful. Why does the idea of " it will all work its self out in the end" come to mind when I procrastinate, but  overall does anyone else procrastinate or does everyone else do their homework right away?

Let's get this out of the way now

The thing that is annoying to me is that people almost always have a conversation on politics at least every four years. I don't understand why people make such an over exaggerated deal about the topic because my opinions have changed since I've been in IB. I have analyzed some of the aspects of the presidential candidates and notice how some of their ideas are supposed to solve the "recession" and unemployment issue. In IB History 11 Mr. Anderson showed the class a video on the economic issues in the U.S. over the last decade. The video pointed out how the major banks (J.P. Morgan) give out the sub-prime loans that they say are supposed to be really safe but are the exact opposite by that the loans have a high interest rate. It also pointed out how the economic adviser hasn't changed in the last 8-12 years. The adviser used to be a high ranking chairman or ceo of J.P. Morgan (ironic?), this makes sense in why the banking hasn't changed. My overall opinion or position on politics is that I'm not a democrat nor republican because in my opinion to fix the economy one must fix the banking system entirely to solve the issue, and another thing to keep in mind is that the U.S.'s debt has to be payed back sometime so adding to it digs the hole deeper sort of speak.

(To who ever reads this)

I was wondering what your opinion is on politics?