Knowing Yourself (and IB Diploma Candidates)

Let me say that knowing myself, and getting to know you has been the most awesome part of this entire tri. I absolutely love knowing people's backgrounds, and this unit has gotten me extremely happy, and curious. I love bonding with people over random things, and being comfortable enough to say what i want around people, claiming them as my friends. I would love to claim all of you as my friends, and hear each and every personal story you have to tell. I wish to say that I don't want this unit and this class to end. I fear we won't be as close without this class, and I wish deeply that we could spend time together again. Perhaps we could have an IB get together? What do you candidates think of our mini group? How have our connections deepened/how could we connect better? Do you think there are sub cliques, even in our own mini group?

Being Yourself

Is it better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not (or what you want to be)?

interesting twist to life and how you live it, i think.

Loneliness

Why were we created to need company of others? Why couldn't we be happy with either side, being alone and having company?

How RUDE.

So today, while waiting in line for the women's bathroom, there was a girl in front of me that was in a wheelchair, and a girl in front of her. The next stall to open up was the handicap one. If it had been me in front of the girl in the wheelchair, i would have offered her that stall because there are four other smaller stalls for me to go in, and she can only use the one. Statistically, this makes sense. But no, the girl in front of her went into the handicap stall, which just pissed me off. When the next stall opened up, which was obviously a small stall, she obviously could not use this one, and had to wait longer while the people behind her got to skip into that little stall. it just made me so mad that i wanted to yell at that girl. My question is do you think this would be treating the handicap girl in a "special" way if i had allowed her to go before me into the handicap stall, or is it just an efficient way to get everyone through the line quicker? What are your thoughts on this issue?

Knowing Yourself

I think the question i'm going to pick for my portfolio will be that from the personal narrative; how do we know ourselves? How can we ethically describe ourselves ethically and accurately without giving the impression that we mean something and someone else takes it differently? I feel like I'm going to explore this question well simply because of who i am as a person ^^

WHYY

Why is it when things go bad, you relate to all the songs on the radio?

Would you continue ...?

If the tri ends, would anyone continue? I have this feeling that every once in a while, when i find a post that i can relate to, i will comment. Or perhaps i will start putting more in-depth stuff on FB for everyone else to comment on. If i have the time is my own key, but i must say i do almost enjoy reading everyone else's problems and commenting. I find it ... normal, and relaxing, especially to know that people are having the same problems as you.