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.

Poetry

The more i think about expressing emotion, the more i think of writing in general, especially poetry. Three people that i know like to express their emotions through poetry, and it made me wonder why we feel this need to express emotion through writing, and why it has to be in this style?

Strut VS Swagger

What's the difference between a strut and a swagger?

Procrastination: Why?

Why is it we procrastinate, if simply to stare at the ceiling or listen to music for an hour, suddenly realizing we have almost no time left for things we should do?

Halloween Candy and Traditions

When did it ever become a tradition for little children to go door to door getting candy? (Reminds of cars driving by offering candy, not to be creepy . . .) Why do we come up with such weird traditions? What's its purpose in everyday life?

Multi-tasking

When does it become "too much"? How many things can you handle, before it is inevitable that you forget about one, or give up on another?

Being Proud

I realize i have not written in a long time, and i feel ashamed. But that is not the purpose of this topic. There are two different connotations to being proud - the bad kind and the good kind. One is where you're too proud, considered to be where you don't allow change kind of proud (like in spanish that movie about honor vs love?): i can't explain it right. The other type is when you finish something magnificent and feel super proud of yourself (guess who finished their EE? this chick!) why does it, in essence have the same feeling, but two different outcomes? Just a thought.

PeerMark FAIL

I guess we can't do peer reviews cuz the only time we could have submitted that is if we were awake at 12:42 am and submitted it quickly because it was only open for that exact minute. Haha i have a feeling she'll forget about the turnitin folder for our ethnographies too xD im guessing it'll actually be due monday night. yay.

interesting thing, intuition. I think it stems from habits we see in others.

Revision

After today in Kronzer's class, i have found that i am surreptitiously scrutinizing my work all the time. I find myself going back to my sentences and asking myself if i have said something wrong, or could do something differently. Perhaps it is because i was gone the day of the most important power point with all of the important words that we need to know and every time that i propose an outline it is somehow wrong (making myself feel stupid, hence constant revision). BUT ... Could this not mean that i am looking for a greater meaning, as well?

After class today in TOK i find that the importance of my sentences is greater, and i do not type as quickly as i once did because of my constant revision.

I feel it is less callous, and more genuine.

What do you feel about your own writing abilities?

Relationships and "Love" 2

When a fight is resolved, why do the feelings of despair drift away? Why do humans forget about the bad and look towards the good? Is there a reason why we want to forget about the past, or can we look at the past, not ignore it, and actually put it to good use?

When is it time to forgive? Why do you forgive? What propels someone to continue on?

However I look at it, I find myself lost in a sea of questions - i realize that when i post about this it's not because i haven't found answers, i do know that i have found at least some answers, but what i wish to talk about are all the questions. The more i get some answered, the more I find new questions.

What causes "love"? What balance is there in the equation of love? When does personality outweigh attraction, and when does an overwhelming personality cause someone to look at an unattractive person, and find they are now attractive?

Work Time

Is it ethical to work on something else in a class when the teacher asks you to work on something else specific? OR, like Darda says, if you know what is more pressing, is it okay to work on that instead? I realize that in class is a different story, but during worktime, what's considered right?

Searching for EE stuff

Why is it so hard for people to write about math in simple terms? Those of us who are trying to learn it, simply can't because we have to go through every step before we can understand it - i bet there is an easier way to do so. Math people just don't know how to dumb it down, or write it out fully.

Deaf Driving

I saw a lady driving yesterday that was signing to a girl in the seat next to her - how do you deal with things like being deaf in circumstances that don't particularly allow it? And is it right to drive while signing, because it is rather dangerous, but it's not as if one is going to sit there and say (sign) nothing to the other person because there is no music to fill that space. Is this right or wrong? I found it rather debateable myself :D

Christianity and Atheism

Biggest knowledge issue ever - how did the Earth begin? Many will say God, and many will say science and big bang theory (or something along the lines of calculating how our planet came to rest in the perfect spot). I gotta say, it can be a heated discussion :D