Blog #3

Today’s test was nothing I didn’t expect. I knew it would be a lot of writing and vocabulary. The essay questions were also nothing I didn’t see coming. I have to admit that I didn’t study very much, I never have been a studier. I probably should start studying. This exam wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be either. I was preparing myself not to know anything. I didn’t leave anything blank so I guess that means I knew something. The one part of the test that I still don’t understand and I’m sure I got wrong is the logical and illogical stuff that we did in the book. I don’t understand that at all. Other than that I thought the test was easy. In the beginning when I looked at the vocabulary I panicked a little but once I started to think about it the definitions and discussions we had in class came back to me. I guess getting picked on every day by Mr. Still helped me out. I think that the next test will be harder but that’s expected. I think I got by pretty good today but who knows. I definitely think that from here on out I’m going to take better notes and make sure I study. That exam showed me that there’s no way to guess my way through this class or any other college class. That worked in high school but not anymore. Time to change up my approach here. Over all I think the exam was everything that was promised it would be. I hope that everybody passed it and we can all move forward onto the next topic. Which I have a feeling is going to involve more vocabulary words that I thought I knew and apparently did not.

 

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blog #2

Words are all around us, we use them every day. Some words have the ability to make a moment that much better or that much worse. Words can hurt and words can heal. In my life, words have affected me numerous times. I have been hurt by them and I have been motivated. A time I was impacted by words was not too long ago, during the last few weeks of my high school days. I will admit I sailed through high school, I never studied, never took anything seriously and got into trouble a lot. I will never forget that morning I got called into the principal’s office, the words that she spoke to me changed my entire outlook on life. I was told that I was not going to graduate. I failed my economics class and didn’t have a high enough average. In that moment the words that were just spoken hit me like a truck. I could not believe that after all the times I managed to skate by without any consequences and now it was finally coming back to haunt me. So in that moment I made a decision. I went to my teacher and told him that I needed to do anything I could to graduate. The words “you will not be walking with your class” kept taunting me, they would not leave my mind. Eventually I got what I had to do taken care of it wasn’t easy but I managed. It felt so good to prove everybody that doubted me wrong. I am so lucky that I got to walk across the football field that night with my class.  But if my principle wouldn’t have told me that I was not going to I might not have. Words have an incredible way of getting to you. Words get inside your head and they bother you and they drive you crazy until you do something about it. So I did. I proved them wrong, I proved myself wrong. I let words bully me for a brief moment in that office. I remembered something that my grandfather had always told me, he said “no matter how hard it gets or how badly you want to give up, remember that you are stronger than that and you can do whatever it is that somebody else says you can’t.”  Words will hurt you, they will heal you and they will always be a part of life. You just have to learn from them and don’t let anybody’s words determine what you’re doing.

 

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Blog #1

My name is Taylor, I am 19 years old and I was born in Denver, Colorado. I have lived in Texas most of my life, we moved to Arizona for a few years when I was nine but that didn’t last long. I have been a competitive cheerleader since I was four years old, I competed with Texas Allstar Cheer and Dance, Arizona Heat Elite and Desert Storm Elite. I also cheered in high school. I am a member of the Burleson County 4H Goat Club, I have shown goats for the past six years. I served as the president, vice president, and council delegate of the 4H Goat Club.  I graduated from Caldwell High School in June of this year and plan to be a High School History Teacher. In my life I have been very fortunate to be able to travel all over the world. I have been on 3 cruises and several other destination trips. Some of my favorite places that I have been are, the Bahamas, Mexico, and Key West, Florida. It is my goal one day to go to Australia, I want to explore the country and learn more about it. Some other things about me are, I have two older sisters and one younger brother. I love animals, I have all kinds of animals on the ranch including goats, cows, pigs, horses, and some chickens. I recently got a new baby, my eight week old pitbull puppy named Buddy, and anybody who knows me knows about Simon, my cross-eyed orange cat. Everybody has a certain thing that they grew up with that is special to them, whether it’s a book, or a TV show, or a movie, mine is Harry Potter. I am the biggest Harry Potter fan ever, I have read all the books multiple times and could tell you every scene to all eight movies.

 

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