A memorable moment of the trip was when I was sitting in the back of the bus with two of my closest friends while we were on our way to get dinner. We were playing Headz Up on my friend’s iPad mini and we were laughing and having such a fun time with each other. It was a great genuine moment when we all had nothing stressing us on our minds and we could just focus on each other and the moment. Something that I remember one of the student guides telling us is that studying in natural light helps us retain information better than if we were to study under fluorescent lighting. This is something I’ve remembered because I have been doing a lot of studying lately and it’s nice to hear tips from other students about what helps them. My thoughts on a four-year university have always been the same. I want to go. I need to go. I don’t know why, maybe that’s just how I was raised but, my goal is to get to one and push all the way through it. Although sometimes I find myself wondering Do I want to go to university for me? or for my parents? On our trip we visited four different colleges. UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, CSU Monterey Bay, and Cal Poly SLO. If I had to rank these colleges in order of which I would like to attend from most to least my order would be #1 Cal Poly SLO because both of my parents went to school there, I lived in that town for the first part of my life, and I just love the town and the environment the people there give it. #2 CSU Monterey Bay because I really enjoyed the campus and the things they had to offer, it is located very close to the ocean which I love, and the living spaces there are nicer than a lot of the ones I’ve seen in the past. #3 UC Santa Cruz I really liked the views this campus had to offer as well as all the beautiful scenery but I just felt that the campus was way to spread apart and didn’t feel like a campus but more as a forest with some building scattered in random places throughout it.And finally #4 UC Berkeley I loved the campus and all the views and building but the people and environment in that area I didn’t enjoy.
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This past week in my biology class we have all made individual presentations about topics surrounding teen brain health and presented them to the whole class. I decided to create a presentation on the topic of drugs on the brain. I chose this because I’ve always thought it was interesting how different substances affect your brain and body in different ways and how constant use will affect you in the long term. When I was researching this topic I watched a documentary called The Truth About Drugs they make it in short ten minute segments one going over a different drug and people who used to be addicted to it would talk about what it did to them and how they got into that situation. Many of them said they were taught from a young age to say no to drugs but they were never taught why. One woman said that if they told her about the permanent record and the multiple times in rehab she wouldn’t have gotten herself into that situation in the first place. So that makes me wonder why we tell the youth say no to drugs without showing them the consequences. Isn’t that how we learn, from seeing what is wrong then going to make the right choice? Something else I learned while researching is that there are more rehab clinics than starbucks coffee joints in the U.S. and most people need to go to rehab more than once to get rid of their addiction. Then I learned that they consider addiction to be a chronic brain disease and that made a lot of sense to me because I have always thought that addiction had something to do with your own personality i.e. having an addictive personality. After reading this I felt that this made a lot more sense than what I thought before. Recently in my biology class my peers have been dissecting fetal pigs. I knew before the dissecting even started that I didn’t want to participate because I strongly dislike seeing dead animals. Whenever I see a dead animal on the side of the road it deeply saddens me to see that some people are so careless that they don’t mind taking the life of another living being that we share the earth with. When I’m driving I know I would do anything to avoid hitting and killing an animal, I know that I would feel so much guilt. So in biology when I found out that pigs get pregnant just for the purpose of us performing a C-Section before the pregnancy is over and taking the babies away from the mother and not even letting the fetal pigs get a chance to live, I was even more against doing the dissection than before. What if you were an expecting mother and they did that to you how would you feel? That’s what I think a lot of people don’t realize how bad the things are that we do to animals until someone will compare it to human life. Why are we willing to do such terrible things to animals? We are not the only living beings on this earth. We have to share the world we live in. Why don’t we act like it. So many people believe in things but they are all bark no bite. If you believe in something don’t hide it, show off what you believe in. |
AuthorMy name is Sofianna Sanchez and I'm a junior at High Tech High Chula Vista. I'm wrote these blog posts weekly to help me prepare for writing them daily during my month long internship. Archives
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