Unequal Treatment

     If I was in the workplace and I noticed inconsistencies in the way my boss or supervisor was treating me, I would try and discover the reason. Many people I feel go the wrong way about handling unfairness in the work place. There are many times reasons for this unequal treatment. I see it all the time in school where certain students will be graded harder or easier simply based off the bias of the teacher. Whether it be because the teacher doesn't like the student, or vice versa, or even that the teacher holds a student more accountable than others because they expect more, there is always a reason for different treatment. If my boss was treating me differently i would seek to have a conversation with them to figure out their reasons. For all I know there may be a very good reason that I am being treated differently, however if I realize that it is immoral, then I can take the appropriate measures to solve the issue.

Week 4: The Last Choice on the List

The other day I was shopping and while I was checking my items out I saw that a woman had left her wallet on the counter. At this point I had three options. I could keep the wallet for myself and what was in it, I could give it to the cashier, or I could chase after the woman (who had left a couple of minutes ago). I decided that I should do the latter, simply because it would make the woman's life easier. In my opinion this is the motivation of being moral. To make other people's life easier and more enjoyable should be a goal of all humanity. Not only because it creates more happiness for others, but because it reciprocates happiness back to you. A life of morality is a never ending spiral of positive feelings. Who wouldn't want to live like that?  

Post #3 My Future Career Interests

My Future Career Interests

                “What are you planning on doing in life?” Since sixth grade I have been regularly asked this question. Whether it was from a teacher, an aunt, or one of my parent’s friends, I could not seem to go long without having to answer it. When I was younger I would always struggle to come up with something appropriate to say. However, it really annoyed me when they would ask me specific questions about the line of work I responded to. How was I supposed to know as a twelve year old what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? I wasn’t even sure what high school I was going to. Eventually by my sophomore year, I began sticking with a reliable response that would give me the least amount of explaining to do. I settled on either saying a physical therapist, or a chemist. Physical therapist was easy to explain, because I liked sports, and because I enjoyed learning about the human body. A chemist was simple, because I could just say I enjoyed chemistry and have always thought it would be cool to mix chemicals and create new things. Well I am headed off to college now, and I still have no idea what I am going to do with my life. I am not worried, because I am sure that whatever career I will go into, will be one that I enjoy. Once I am older and have everything figured out, I will make sure and not be the person who badgers young kids about making decisions about their future.

Writing as a Teen

                As a teenager, I have done more writing than I had done in my entire adolescence combined. In fact, I find that every week I end up doing more writing than any other task. Whether it is practice for an SAT test, or the English AP test I am constantly writing. While somewhat tedious and boring, I realize that all this practice is for the best. I know that once in college, the amount of writing will only increase. So I try and make the most out of my writing assignments, understanding that they will improve my skills for the future. One of my main struggles, has been to find a mature voice. I still have far from perfected it, but I have improved it due to an increase in vocabulary, and a more complex sentence structure. Writing will no doubt be a part of my life, and I will strive to use tedious assignments as a practice for the future.

Blog Post #1: Communicating in High School

Soren Kringel

CommTech Period 2

April 1, 2015

Communicating in High School

It seems like high school is the time in every person’s life where they have the most trouble making themselves understood. As a high school student I can totally relate the age old problem that teenagers encounter of not being taken seriously, then expected to perform adult tasks.Maybe this inconsistency in expectations is the reason why kids age 14-18 can’t properly express themselves. High school is the only time in a person’s life where they are constantly being asked about their plans for the future while at the same time still having to ask to go to the bathroom. In my opinion, that is unfair. I have experienced trouble making myself heard countless times in high school by different adults who see me not as a capable free thinking young adult, but as a simple minded kid, simply because I haven’t lived for a certain amount of years. Luckily, I have begun to notice a change in my treatment, and while I would like to think it is because I have earned it through some act of maturity, I realize that it probably solely due to the fact that I won’t have to continue to wake up at 8 in the morning any more and go to high school.