Why I Hate School but Love Education

I have always been the kind of person that want to learn new things. I really do enjoy learning, I however do not always agree with the education system. I feel like the system gets bogged down and doesn't do a good job recognizing everyone as a unique individual with something to offer.  Here is a spoken word video I found that expresses my thought on the education system perfectly. 

Want I want to do for the rest life requires an education. it's something I realized at a young age. I know that I want to be a veterinarian, and I know there is no way of getting there without doing well in school, and pretty much doing exactly what this video is speaking against, but it doesn't make this video any less true. This same kid does another video in fact I think it's the first one in this series. It makes a similar point I'll post it here as well. It's important to to realize no one is saying that you shouldn't educate yourself, just standardized testing doesn't accurately measure the diversity and different strengths we all possess. 

Assigned Entry #5 The Media and Me

When I think about the word media like most, I think of major media outlets. I always have to approach all mass media as a skeptic. I am a huge proponent of social media being used as a source of major news. the social site Reddit.com is a great example of media, and news being socially generated. sites like this make it possible for information to travel at alarming rates. as well as allows people to instantly discuss and debate any news story being presented on the web. With the recent Boston marathon tragedy, for example, I was amazed at just how much more information I had just by browsing the front page of Reddit then the majority of people I talked to. Basically, I don't believe in every crazy conspiracy theory I have heard, but at the same time I feel that I am intelligent enough to draw my own conclusion on any given topic. I enjoy educating myself on a topic before just believing what I heard on the news, or radio. Perfect example is again with the Boston Marathon explosions, the day after the event all of the major news outlets were all releasing incorrect information about suspects, ect. Just because they all wanted to be the first to release information, even if it was wrong. I'm just not o.k. with that. I prefer to research and form my own conclusion, hence browsing reddit.com/r/worldnews was a great way to stay up to date and not have to deal with "More on this developing story, @ 10:00pm"

Anyway...

Tl;dr: Don't believe everything the mass media tells you, use your brain, and think to draw your own conclusions. oh also if you don't already browse Reddit  and you like learning new things. it is worth looking into.

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My Robot is Better Than Your Robot!

So I found this video and I just wanted to share it, I wish that we had videos like this to help get kids motivated on science and math. I know when I was a kid, I was always the nerd, or the geek. When I was in  elementary school I was excited to be a part of the math club, my favorite subject throughout high school was always science. I remember taking aviation science / astronomy my sophomore year, so I could take physics my junior year. It just makes me happy to see videos like this because when people stop caring about science and math... Well I saw the movie "idiocracy "

"Not everybody's going to be a basketball player. So if there's a basketball court in every single elementary school, then there needs to be science programs." -will.i.am