I think the video, “Passion: Secret Ingredient to
Success”, relates to passion because everyone shares a strong passion inside of
their hearts, we just don’t know how to get there yet. In order for us to get there, we need to
become somewhat self-aware of how we act in current situations and become
something of ourselves as we are now to do something and make a change, even if
it’s a small thing. Although that one
small thing could sometimes make a humongous difference in the entire world
that could either be negative or positive in the outcome of it. I think that if we want to become a single
nation where everyone is truly equal we need to show each and every one of us
that they are not entirely different to other races in comparison. I have this goal to become a completely
different type of person where people would say, “Dayum this kid worked his
butt off to get to where he’s at now.”
That’s the passion I see myself doing and that’s how these figures and
brands started out as. They started out as small timers and are now well-known
all around the globe. It’s their passion
that they carried along with them that made them whom they are today. The desire for something greater and making a
difference in people’s lives is what everyone in the entire world yearns
for. In the movie, Spiderman, Uncle Ben
said, “With great power comes great responsibility”. I believe in this quote because if you have a
good career and a family due to the passion you had, then it is your
responsibility to take care of those who stood up with you and supported you
through them all, especially your parents.
Now I believe that every parent is a key figure in a teenager’s
life. Parents are there for a reason,
they want what’s best for their children.
Even if it is to support their child on a path they don’t see them going
far on, they have to have to support their decision anyways. Therefore, the child gets to do what he/she
wants to do for majority of his/her life.
The way I see it, everyone already looks up to other people, from the
way they dress to the other persons’ career.
But in the book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Chris, the
person he looks up to is a woman called “mother nature”. Chris enjoys nature and connects to it and
tries to become one with it. Every sight
he see, it’s magnificent and truly outstanding how no one else had ever done
what Chris had done. “I want to become
like that one day.” I’m sure everyone
tells themselves that they want to become something greater in life, but how
much passion do they have to achieve it? Is it too big, too little or just
right? Is it too big of a passion where you lose sight of things, like turn
your back on your family that helped you get to where you are? Is it too small
where you had that spark but was only able to keep it on half way there? Or is
it just right, where you can make it to your passion without losing sight to
what matters the most to you or not being able to get there? Passion has become a major topic in todays’
society and having it “just right” is where everyone needs to be at.
In the movie, “The Passion Project,” it spoke of classes
and students’ reaction about their class. For example, people get up every
morning and have this urge to learn something new. Once they get there, it’s dull and it feels
like forever in the classroom. Every day
I find my classes boring, because it’s the same routine for each lesson. I sit down to what the teacher has to say,
then the next class starts, then the next, then it’s just one big circle until
the day ends. It’s technically just one
big “Blurr” is how I would describe it, however what exactly have you learned
inside the classroom? Do you just sit
there, listen, and all of a sudden you understood everything that the teacher
has come to say? No! That’s not how people work now-a-days. People need to study constantly on the
material they just learned in order for them to know the material thoroughly
without doubting themselves if they are doing it right or not. In the book, Into the Wild, it spoke
of a quote about Westerberg, “you could tell right away that Alex was
intelligent…He read a lot. Used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into
trouble was that he did too much thinking” (18). To me, Alex probably learned all those words
from just reading books, so technically he self-taught himself to learn those
words and learn how to use it in a sophisticated way. Most students in classrooms just wants to
learn the easiest and quickest way to learn things, not the complexity of how
things work and how to do it correctly step-by-step. Students wants the “easy way” as in just
teach how to do it the quickest way possible.
Especially in math…why do math instructors assume students wants to
learn the long way in doing things and go by the book? Current students are fond of the quickest way
in figuring out the answer and that’s what will make them pay attention and
study more.
I’m working on becoming an engineer and there are several
math courses I have to learn. The
teachers would only teach us the long way in doing things and I’m sitting there
in class thinking to myself, “Come on and show us the next thing already!” I’m sure every student in math has come to
this conclusion of just wanting the class to end because they are uninterested
with the material even though math is what they need to achieve the profession
they want. Similarly, in the book, Into the Wild, Chris found that every
day was the same and wanted to experience the outside world for him. He had the passion to take classes in college
that would benefit him in his journey to Alaska. The book, especially the movie, made me
realize that we shouldn’t take things for granted and we should continue on
with our lives. In the movie I heard a
phrase and it said, “I’ll be around to grow,” it spoke out to me, it felt as if
every days I grow older and more wiser, I’m becoming a better man and I think
that’s what everyone in the world is trying to become, “A better person.” Chris wants to be alone in the wilderness and
grow as aman of nature and not become the person his parents wants him to
become, one of the reasons why he started this adventure in the first
place.
The movie, “The Passion Project,” opened my minds to
various ideas I haven’t come to realize up until now. All teachers who has been teaching for more
than 10 years, has lost some of their passion they had before. I feel like if a
teacher wants to have that passion they had 10 years ago, then the students
must show them that they are important and not just another talking
textbook. The students sitting in those
chairs, especially those stubborn students who interrupt the class all the
time, they just want to be out of the classroom immediately, because they feel
like they are just sitting there listening to things that’s not important when
in this case it does. Whether you go to a four-year college or a community,
every class matters and you have to treat it as the career you are
pursuing. I also feel like teachers’
teaching in summer has more passion that those of others. All teachers want a break from all the
teaching, chaos, and grading they have to do.
I am currently taking summer classes and the teachers are great. They make it feel like it’s not even a class,
while I was learning new material critical to human society, I felt at
ease. Those teachers that are taking
their breaks are the lazy ones. It’s a
whole different story if teachers decided to teach summer classes,
Terri Guillemets said, “Chase your passion as if it is
the last bus of the night.” This quote
relates to what I did every day for the pass year. I have been catching up to the bus and
sometimes I would end up late but most of the time I would be there right on
schedule. Although I know that you can’t
always be late for the bus to catch up for class, you have to think ahead of
time. If you feel as if you are going to
be late for the bus judging on how you are moving in the morning, then get your
hear working and start moving a lot quicker than you normally do. The bus doesn’t wait for no one so why do you
think it would wait for you, especially?
If you keep chasing the bus time after time and end up being late for
it, then it’s not really a good image later in the future. It can show how lazy you are when something
is important and it has to be done immediately. In the movie, Romeo said, “It’s
hard for me sometimes because there’s something where they expect you to become
what they want to become. No one should tell me what to do but um my mom and my
dad is trying to do my business in the future and then force me to take it,” I
can see this relating to Chris in the book, Into the Wild, because
Chris’s parents wanted him to go in the direction of a successful man and a
good college where he can be someone.
Chris’s stood up to their expectations but soon after his graduation he
planned to go to Alaska and disappear.
Chris had the passion to go to Alaska and it turned out he actually
did. All you can do is chase down your
passion and make sure you grab a hold of it before it slips through your
fingers. If your passion manages to do
slip through your fingers then it would probably be gone forever, until you do
manage to find an opportunity to grab it once again. For all we know maybe that opportunity could
never come again and end up unhappy with your dead-end job. Once you see it just around the corner you
just can’t help but ignore it now because you notice that you let it slipped
through your fingers once and now you are discouraged to grab a hold of it once
again. You cannot let that happen. Even if you have a crappy life now and you
think you can’t get that passion for the job you dreamed of having, then forget
about it. However, if you have that
crappy life and you had one more shot at your dream then go for it because
there is nothing stopping you now.
You’re wiser and more confident more than ever because you know the ways
of the educational system now. So chase
it down and never let go of that passion because once it’s gone, it may never
return again.
When I first glanced at the video of Jeff Bliss, I didn’t
think much about the video until he started to rant on the teacher of her
laziness. I was flabbergasted on the way
he was talking to her. Like who talks
like that to a teacher? Hardly anyone
talks like that to a teacher because they are afraid of being shut up. When he first stood up and started speaking
and saying all those bad words, I thought to myself, “Dayuum! He got guts!” I
can’t imagine someone doing something like this in front of the class and
lecturing the teacher for being lazy at the same time. When he volunteered to exit the room not
because the teacher told him to but on his own free will he offered and said,
“Come find me when you want me to teach you on how to be a real teacher,” I was
in awe. I believe that the way he stood up against his teacher is the beginning
for greater education system all around the globe. With adjustments made to the teachers, we
need to do the same with the students as well.
Every student needs to start learning how to get out of
their comfort zone of beign scared in class.
If we continue to be scared in class, how would you expect to actually
learn things? We all know how to learn
things if we ask for help. We ask for
help outside of class and we are able to do it now without hesitation, so why
can’t we do the exact same thing inside the classroom? There’s no difference inside and outside of
class, you’re asking a person a question you don’t know. If people, especially students, don’t know
anything, don’t hesitate to ask someone who truly knows it because they can
help you with something that could benefit you later in your future. In the movie, Into the Wild, Chris
went to ask for help on how to skin a freshly hunted animal. Later, Chris used
that knowledge to good use and actually skinned an animal. Self-motivation is what everyone needs
nowadays because all we get is low self-esteem now. We all put each other down or ourselves
down. With more motivation, we could
make a difference in a person’s life and make them feel like they can actually
do something in the world they didn’t think was possible at the time. We are all capable of doing so much more than
we know. “There’s more to a person than
meets the eye,” is one of my favorite quotes.
We just take a sudden glance at a person and think to ourselves, “This
person isn’t going to be huge.” Or “This person is going to be nobody in the
near future.” Don’t deny it we all look at other people like that as if they
can’t carve out their life without everyone helping them. I also think Andrade is completely correct
about everything that goes on in our educational system and that it could use
some more changing in some ways that can support students to get out of their
comfort zone so that they could participate more. Schools have a lot of funding and why not use
that funding to make programs where students can get out of their comfort zones
and become what we all know as “students.”
Everyone knows what they want to be in the future, but as
they get further and further in education they start to fall off the train as
if they are wandering and exploring around.
After watching, “Focusing the Laser,” I do see some resemblances of me
in it. I kind of know which direction I
want to go but at the same time, I’m not quite sure if I want to go there or
not. To be honest, I have thoughts about
once again changing my major. I never
thought that being able to transfer to a 4-year college was going to be so
difficult. I am now on my second year
and I’m not even close into transferring, I’m starting to think that I’ll be
able to transfer in 4 years. So now that
I think about the video I am more like a wanderer and an explorer. I’m just taking classes that enables me to
transfer onto a 4-year and I’m doing what the video says, “I feel like I am
just paying for the classes, buying the books without knowing which direction I
am going.” That is exactly what I am
doing right now. So now that I look at
it I’m like a wanderer and explorer because I know what I want to have as a
full-time career, but at the same time I am just walking around biting my ails
and not taking the necessary classes needed ofr that major to transfer out to a
4-year college.
I feel like being a wanderer and explorer isn’t all that
great at all. I mean no one wants to
take random classes and not know what major they want to become. We all want to be set focused on one major
and stick to it, but in our current educational system it is very much
difficult to do so. It is hard to find
the right major for you because of all the clutter in your mind. With taking care of the family, while
managing your job and school both at the same time. It’s very difficult task to keep your mind
set and that burning passion for your major when you have all those responsibilities.
If I would be able to change categories I would most definitely try to become a
laser. They know what kind of career
they want to go to and what kind of classes they need to take. I mean who doesn’t want to be in the laser
category? I bet mostly everyone that are in the other categories wants to go in
the laser category, just to see how it is.
They would know which classes to take and what major they want to be in
without having to change it once in a while.
I am hoping to change my category while not changing my
major. I was set on going into
electrical engineering until later on in the semester. I spoke with my counselor and she explained
what electrical engineering is. Then she
asked me, “What kind of major do you have second in mind?” After I told her that I was a hands-on type
of person, she suggested mechanical engineering. Then it struck me, that’s the type of major I
want to take and be with as a full-time career.
We went through a lot of steps on what kind of classes I should be
taking in order for me to pursue mechanical engineering. Even though my
gradesfrom my pass classes weren’t so good, I told myself that this coming
semester was going to be different and I would be studying my butt off to get
an “A” or a “B” no matter what. So
overall, I think that once I do well this coming semester then I know for sure
that there is nothing stopping me from achieving my goal as a mechanical
engineer. If I am able to change m
category and become successful on the direction where I’m going then I will be
successful for the rest of my life as long as I live. But what is a successful person?
To me, success means having a family, achieving your
dreams, and having no financial worries.
Everyone knows that a family is the first step in a life full of
success. Family can help you through
your obstacles you are facing, and they can give you support and would always
be there for you no matter what their status is whether they are rich or poor. They would always be there for you. The next step is being able to achieve your
dreams like: having your dream job that you would be able to stick to for the
rest of your life, being able to help other family members when they are in
dire need for money, being able to provide for your children whey go to college
and paying for their expenses they may need to have for their dream job,
without financial worries. Everyone
worries about not being able to pay the bills, having their car repossessed,
and being evicted from their home.
What helps me succeed in my community so far is the
support I have from my family and friends.
My family helps me to become successful, more importantly my mom. She has been taking care of my financial aid
so that I wouldn’t have to worry about it.
However, I need to start taking care of my own financial aid and become
my own man. My friends help me through
my stuff as well because they help me with the classes I should be taking
instead of the other classes. They
informed me about my classes and I noticed that I have been taking unnecessary
classes. The only think that is truly preventing me from succeeding in my
community is the transportation and money.
I have to keep waking up an hour early before my class starts to take
the bus and I arrive only minutes away before class starts. It gets to me once in a while, but then I
notice that I could study while on the bus and I think it’s helping me. Money is a little of a concern because I have
to pay for my books alone, pay for my bus fair, and my food.
I think students able to critique education is a great
idea because everyone learns certain subjects in different ways and critiquing
it is a great idea when it comes to the way each person learns. A student is struggling on a certain subject
because he/she learned it differently from another country or state, then
shouldn’t we be able to adapt to that kind of strategy as well. The students probably had a 4.0 or greater
because of that certain type of strategy.
If he/she moved to a different place and then the students GPA probably
dropped to a 3.0 out of nowhere and their parents are wondering why, then we
should take that type of strategy and apply it to the current educational
learning strategy. Maybe it would
benefit other students as well as the foreign exchange students. Every student is able to find at least one or
two problems within the school they are learning at but is still not able to
speak up. Now if every student was able
to speak up without any consequences held for their actions then we would be
able to take in those critiques and make the education system work for every
single student trying to learn. It would
benefit us all not just the students but even the teachers and the educational
system everywhere. Critiquing is one of
the things that not everyone thinks of doing.
Some people think they are perfect in every way possible, but that’s the
problem if you think you’re problem free because you’re probably not a complete
person. When I mean “complete person,” I
mean you have a passion to become someone better than what you are now. Everyone has flaws that they wish they could
improve, but not everyone has enough passion to do it. If they do have enough passion and that
“change” keeps slipping through their fingers but is still willing to try to
become a better, then that is a “complete person” is to me. I for one want to become someone better than
what I am today. If I don’t have
something I would change about myself then I am not a “complete person.” Get where I am going with this? To be a “complete person,” you must have a
passion to change who you are and make yourself a better human being or person.
Everyone has a passion to become someone and become
something greater. The passion to become successful in life and make a difference
in the community all around you is what I too want to become. Education is just
the first step to push your passion and achieve your dream. Obstacles may come up such as a lazy teachers
and students standing up for what they believe a real education should be and
actually try to put a stop to the lazy teacher.
Students know how hard it is to transfer to a 4-year college we all want
to transfer to one, but achieving it is no easy task. No one knows what the world may become in the
future, but we all take it one step at a time to make it better. With each and every good step forward, is a
step towards a brighter future that can push the envelope to what we think it
can be. Each and every passion that is
achieved will make for a good future for our education , for each other, and
for our own desired future.
