Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Sleep

Wow. Sleep is crazy, it's hard to explain, but the there are 4 stages of sleep, stage 1,2,3,4 and REM sleep. Your brain is most active in REM sleep. You go through the whole sleep cycle every 90 minutes, every 90 minutes you wake up and then immediately fall back asleep. As the night progresses, you do not enter 3rd or 4th cycle, you'll go into REM sleep.
REM sleep (described as rapid eye movement) is when the brain consolidating all the material that it has seen and Experienced. Baby's sleep in REM about 2/3 of the day. So as you can see sleeping is good for you, it allows for the mind to refresh it self and store all the things you experienced throughout the day. Most of the mind is being used while sleeping, even more than being awake.your body does go into a state of paralysis that allows it to relax and let the mind refresh.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Graduating

Wow is school hard. But here's a secret to graduation: time management. There people working full time and going to school. They did it by managing their time. If you have all the time in the world and don't do anything, then your time is wasted. When it comes to school, you have to manage the time you have which would be about 18 hours, you have class and after class you have hw. If you don't have hw, then study your notes, yeah right as if you'll ever want to do that. But doing that helps you retain information better. The secret to graduation is making time to review, study,read the course material no matter what it is. It also helps to explain it to someone because if you can teach it then that usually means you know it.
Good luck.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

High school graduation

Kids work hard for four years waking up at 8 AM and leaving school at 3 pm about 7 hours in an institution. There under the confines of teachers , principals and campus security. High school is the closest thing to prison ,only with out the guns (at least some schools don't have guns) . Teens are taught to laugh, taunt, brag, interact socially ,ignore those that are not considered popular or weird. An institution where its the "smart" and "good looking" that get recognized. Where those who seek attention will get it although then do not deserve it. And institution where teachers don't necessarily teach but expect you to memorize words and be able to remember their meaning for a test. Where dates are simply just dates and have no other significant meaning for example September 11,2001 the day two massive structures were struck by planes and collapse killing almost 3 thousand people.
High school an institution where teachers hold the hands of children so they can pass and high school can keep their budget for next year whereas the child doesn't really learn anything but is only able to recite what he has memorized. Mist children are not taught critical thinking which is essential for higher education.

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

In my polysci class we were discussing this book. And my God is it interesting. It talked about how a ruler should be strong like  lion and smart like a fox. A ruler should be religious but to not practice it because being religious makes a ruler weak. A ruler should only kill when justified . How a ruler should have power over everything. A ruler should be feared and respected. If his people hate him then he won't have any power over them.
This all seems complicated but I think it makes sense. Don't you?