One of my favorite teachers in high school, Mr Stimson, had all of his students make a page in his Our Book. Instead of a small picture inside the yearbook that said nothing about you, we had one page where we could write anything we wanted. I wrote this page and it is interesting to see how little I changed. How ADD I was back then, a king of quotes and run on sentences (and still am). Cocky yet nerdy and with a lot of ambition and smugness and the same insecurities that I carry today. You may change a lot after 18, but not as much as you think. (This is page is unedited, just as it appeared in the “Our Book”)
This is a San Dieguito Story from a Rushin Point of View
I want to say that San Dieguito men are very fortunate. We have some of the most beautiful and intelligent girls of all schools in the world. Men of other countries would kill to be in our seats, and what do we do, we waste that chance. San Dieguito girls are not that picky, I mean look at what they have to pick from, at San Dieguito a guy is considered to be hot if he’s better looking than a gorilla. Guys take a chance, ask them out, what do you have to loose?
TV is a Waste of Time, Read a Book and Get Rid of Your Ignorance
I did a lot during my senior year, sometimes I failed, but in the end I managed to do fairly well. However the main thing that I learned is that “whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” Its ok to try hard, its ok to fail, you are a failure if you do nothing. As long as you learn from failed attempts, and learn to succeed. As my short experience shows; being successful is not a one-time thing, it’s a habit.
I did a lot during my senior year, sometimes I failed, but in the end I managed to do fairly well. However the main thing that I learned is that “whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” Its ok to try hard, its ok to fail, you are a failure if you do nothing. As long as you learn from failed attempts, and learn to succeed. As my short experience shows; being successful is not a one-time thing, it’s a habit.
“In the Life of Garp we are all terminal cases.” (The World According to Garp, John Irving) That maybe so, and for some reason this belief causes everyone to either live in the fear of death, or constantly try to meet because after all “we all die sooner or later.” I believe that the secret to life is to know where you’re going and know how to make it worthwhile. Unfortunately, there’s to many of us that would rather sit in front of the TV rather than bother to think about the direction, and these misguided people end up rolling around in circles, never really getting anywhere and disappearing as if they never existed.
In my opinion life should be safe, eventful and always fun, the hardest part is to do so without wasting it.
In the words of Dale Carnegie, people want recognition; they want the feeling of being important and known for their deeds. When someone messes up on my name or gives the credit to someone else for my work, I become enraged. I am evolved in almost every aspect of school: from the nerdy NHS and Physics club to the famous jock sport that I helped create at this school, Wrestling. All because I want to be recognized, I want to have that feeling of achievement. However, making someone else feel important will raise you that much in their eyes and make them feel good about helping you because once a person has gained the feeling of self importance in someone else’s eyes, they don’t want to drop that feeling.
“Always Smile” Carnegie said. In some cases a smile is worth a million dollars because people don’t like to deal with angry people. In high school everything is about grades. At the same time everything is about the parties. Next time you receive a bad review or bad grade, come up to the supervisor with a smile, it might make them want to listen to you rather than tell you to leave, honestly, this works. Not only did it work in changing a teacher’s opinion about my grade, but also it changed an admission councilor’s decision at a college, trust me it works.
Academic Decathlon Vice President 3rd team all county
SDA Wrestling founder and 2x Captain 6th at CIFs
NHS, CSF, yadda, yadda, yadda.
This is all to make me feel better about myself, I think id did the trick,
I feel good. 5-21-2000
seven year degree 