Unofficial

Unofficial is a day where college students celebrate St. Patricks Day. It is a day to start drinking early in the morning and for some students this means going to class drunk. Most of the university is dressed in green showing Irish pride ready to have a day full of celebration. This year at the University of Illinois they decided that they had to start cracking down on the drinking, especially underage drinking. The university brought in tons of cops to check students backpacks for anything that they may be carrying alcohol in. In the dorms they brought in cops to walk around so that they students would be less likely to drink in the dorms. The RA's had to walk around all day, unable to celebrate the day.

The bars, which is open for anybody 19 and over can go in, was only open to those who were 21 this weekend. This was to try and cut down on any underage drinking at the bars.

I don't understand why they choose this one day to try and stop drinking at the school, I mean drinking goes on every week. One reason could be because many people start drinking early in the morning and are going to classes intoxicated, but if they are trying to stop this from happened it is going to take a lot more than that.

9 year old becomes pregnant

In Brazil, a nine year old was shunned by the Roman Catholic Church for having an abortion. After being raped by her stepfather, the nine year old became pregnant with twins. Since abortion is illegal in Brazil, the only way that the girl could have an abortion is if it was threatening to her life. Her vagina is too small to hold two babies, so the country was allowing her to have the abortion.

I personally think that it is up to the individual to decide whether or not a mother can have an abortion. I don't think that countries can determine that for you because it is such a personal choice.

The Bachelor

I know this may be random, but I have been watching the season of the Bachelor for weeks now and I could not believe how it ended. Jason, the man who is trying to find love, was down to his two final girls and had to choose one to propose to. The final two were Melissa and Molly. I had personally liked Melissa from the beginning, she was down to earth and you could tell that he had fallen for her. Molly on the otherhand seemed very fake and seemed to have an act on at all times. In the end he choose Melissa which made me extremely happy and at the time he seemed to be in love with her. Right after the season finale was another show to see how the couple was doing. As soon as Jason was talking to the host he stated that he did not feel that he was in love with Melissa anymore, something had changed, and was going to break up with her on national television. I was in shock that this man hadn't even talked to her about it and is now just breaking up with her for no real reason, except that he couldn't stop thinking about Molly. Melissa was of course furious with him when he said this but there was nothing that she could do about it. As soon as Melissa left Molly came out and talked with Jason. She decided to give him another try so that they could try and have a family together. This seemingly nice guy on the Bachelor, turned out to be a not so nice guy after all. As of right now I don't think that he will find his "true" love anytime soon.

Tallest Man

I was looking at the Guinness World Records, and found it amazing how tall the tallest man in the world is. He is 8 feet and 11 inches (as shown in the picture above). This man, Robert Pershing Wadlow, was born February 22, 1918 in Illinios. He died July 15, 1940 only a month after his last measuring. His shoe size was 18.5 inches long, he wore a 25 size ring, and his arm span was 9 ft 5¾ in. His daily calorie consumption was about 8000. I personally don't know how he handled being that tall, towering over everybody around him. Even towering a good 2 feet over your father.

I was looking at different quotes and this one seemed to catch my attention.

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 16. The world is changing. , 08-22-04

I believe that you need to be with people that challenge you, in good ways of course. That make you work to do things that you may not have done, or would not think to do. If the you hang out with people that don't agree with what you believe in then eventually you may change your point of view without realizing you are. I think that Hugh Macleod is also saying that more people should be open to the creative people, the freaks, and visionaries. Many times people just have an opinion of somebody before they even got to know these people, and don't get to see what they believe or have to say. What they believe could actually be the same as what you do or similar to it.

Invited 22 years late

There was this article in firstcoastnews.com that talked about how a lady, Theresa, just recieved the invitation to her nephew's high school graduations 22 years ago. Her family just thought she did not respond to the letter because she lived in Oregon and they were in New Jersey. The thing is that the letter was even opened before she ended up recieving it. I really wonder what had taken the letter so long to get to her house; they say that it may have been stuck in the machinery or misrouted. But how could the letter be stuck in a machine for that long, you would think it would be noticed. In the end though Theresa was just happy to get something, for the first time, that she had lost.

Man Wakes From Coma

This man in California just woke up from being in a coma for about 18 days. Moments before he woke up his family decided to take him off of life support because he would have had severe brain damage. This was because after having a heart attack he went without oxygen for 10 minutes. I thought this was amazing that he woke up from a coma, and that it was just before he would have been taken off life support and died. I wonder how this happening in his life will change how he lives it. I personally would change how I lived if my life was almost taken from me; spend more time with the people I love and do things that i actually enjoy to do. It's sad to think that people only have this change of mind when something like almost dying happens to them. Everybody should be living like its there last day everyday that you wake up in the morning because you never know what will happen that day. It's easy to say something like this and hard to act on. Many people get so caught up in doing the same routine that they forget to live everyday to its fullest.

13 year old becomes a father

I read an article in "The Sun" about how a 13-year old boy just became a father.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece

I was shocked when I found this out. How could a child take care of anoth er child? The mother of the child may be 15, but still at that age no child should be worrying about another life. I feel like children younger and younger are having sex, and there may be no way to prevent this to happen. Many of these children don't understand the outcomes that sex brings. Most of the time they won't get pregnant and have a child, but there are other things, like STD's, that could be transferred. The new generation has to be more aware of how their decisions may affect their lives or of those around them. For example, the teenagers that just had a baby, can't support the child, let alone take care of it. The baby will probably be put on the parents because the mother and father will be busy with school, and other activities they have. This means that the parents have to put more money into support this new life, it could be money that they don't even have. As a 15 and 13-year-old I wonder if they really understand how much effort is put into taking care of a child.

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