Early Admissions

This week, many seniors hear back from a variety of colleges that they applied early for. A New York Times Blog called "The Choice" posted an interesting article about the increase of early application acceptants. I thought it was interesting to read that many schools increased their acceptance numbers early, meaning many more incoming students will be willing to pay tuition early. What happened to the bad economy? I also wondered what the pro's and con's are for early admission since all of us will be going through it next year. My sister applied early decision two years ago and got in. The rest of her senior year she was able to relax and have fun, but still maintain her grades. I really can't think of any con's besides the fact that some early decision schools make an acceptance that is binding. I know that it's kinda early to think about, but it is good to start looking at options! What do you think you will do next year? Do you think applying early is a good idea?

Who's Your Mommy?

I came across an interesting article today about a married couple who were unable to conceive a child. They used both an egg and sperm donor and also a surrogate mother. The strange thing was, she did all of this online. She picked the egg and sperm donors off one website, and the surrogate mother from another. Last July, the twins were born, but they only stayed with the couple who "purchased" them for one month. The police showed up at their Michigan home and took the babies away from them and returned them to the surrogate mother, the one who cared for them for the whole nine months. Turns out, the surrogate mother found out that the adoptive mother had a mental illness and she got a court order to retrieve the babies. The surrogate mom did not want anything bad to happen to the children over the years, so now she is their gaurdian. What about the adoptive mother and father, will they get their money back? I don't think that this is fair, I believe that having a mental illness is not enough to take children away from their mother. Her husband could take care of them if she ever had a relapse. What do you think?

Read the whole article here.

How do YOU Blog?

After reading Mr. O’Connor’s blog on creativity, I found myself thinking about my creative ability and others creativity. Actually, I did not know what to blog about so I am blogging about my lack of creativity this week. A lot of the time I find myself stuck on finding interesting blog topics. I search desperately on news websites and try to get a lead from an article. When I don’t find an interesting article, I try to search in my brain for clever blog topics. Usually it takes a while for it to come up. But other times I know exactly what I’m going to write about. Why? Do you ever seem creative at one point and unimaginative at other points? How do you find blogging topics?

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Procrastination Station

Last Saturday I shuttled myself off to the library in hopes of finishing all of my weekend homework early. I was very proud of myself because I felt very studious. But somehow, I ended up on Facebook. The whole point of my visit to the library was to not get distracted. So why did I log in??? That’s the one question I have been struggling with throughout high school. Don't get me wrong, Facebook is great, I’m on it everyday. It’s nice to have conversations with your friends and a site to post pictures. However, I think it is always a big time waster. I continue to stuggle with procrastinating and I just log on to Facebook to browse around. I got disappointed with myself because I did not finish all of my homework at the library. If I continue to spend all my precious free time on Facebook, I don't think I will ever learn self-discipline . Do all of you struggle with this too? Is facebook your friend or your foe? I hope to only log on every once in a while now!