Just posting to announce the latest blog design. Once the newest version of Wordpress was released, it became immediately evident that I needed a blog design that would fully employ the latest features of Wordpress, and this is it. What do you think of it? Do you think it could be better? Let me know!
Four years ago, I was about 3 inches shorter and maybe 30 pounds lighter. My writing style was non-existent, and so was my work ethic. Freshman year of High School had just begun, and I was 14 years of age. Though I indeed was Moiz Khan, one could simply not consider the 2004 version of myself comparable to the current, 2008 version. An essential aspect of life is progress, and certainly, over the last four years, there has indeed been a great deal of progress. They say, when one part of your life ends, another begins (unless you die), and this is certainly the case.
I have finally finished my High School education, and it really feels like a whole portion of my life is over. From Kindergarten to Senior Year of school, there really wasn’t much of a difference. One could quite easily know what to expect as it would be largely the same people from the last year. The teachers would often assume a dual role of baby sitter and instructor, and a great percentage of the time would be wasted on trivial matters. As students, and also minors, we were given no freedom or respect from any elder, and though this was a necessary condition for the majority of my classmates, it certainly wasn’t for me. This resulted in a sizable portion of my time utterly wasted.
The previous thirteen years, and more importantly the previous four years thus could be considered one chapter in the book of life. It is indeed the preparation for the real world, but that is all. It is nothing more than a general rather vague period of time that does almost nothing to further knowledge. Real experiences aren’t experienced and life is entirely sheltered. But it all changes now, and it is due time. This is the beginning of the second chapter, the chapter that really begins the story, not just provide a mundane introduction.
Tags: 2008, graduation, highschool, Life
Well, my senior year is essentially over and now time has opened up for me to post blogs more frequently. This is great news for all you have been reading my blog since its beginning. This probably means a redesign of both mkdc and mkdcblog coming very soon, and by soon I mean mid-Julyish. I have a few experiences to share with you folks and some more things to argue against. I will write a blog later tonight and then a few more this week on all sorts of topics.
Thank you for continually reading this blog, and sticking with me through all my hiatuses.
-mk
Finally! I have reached the age of “maturity,” the age where you can sign up for the military…buy cigarettes, pornography magazines, lottery tickets…but more importantly, cell phone plans! They say, this is the age in which one is no longer a child and truly becomes an adult. Then again, I don’t listen to the majority anyway…so I won’t start now. Anyways, it is good to finally be 18 years old…mainly because this signals the end of High School in the very near future!
It’s a shame that all I have been looking forward to since the start of senior year has been the end of senior year…but my countdown tells me there is only about 30 actual school days left of High School. If I could, I would hibernate until June 27th, the day of Graduation rehearsal…since apparently you have to attend that in order to attend the graduation the next day on June 28th. Even though that’s such nonsense, I don’t mind…I can’t wait for this to be over and I can finally get on with college and real life.
After a rather long and hard process of narrowing a list down of colleges, I have finally arrived at my decision…SUNY Stony Brook!
I was undecided for quite awhile, choosing between SUNY Binghamton or SUNY Stony Brook, and location was the ultimate decider. I currently live about 4 hours away from BU, while I live about 20-25 mins away from SBU (depending on traffic). The academic system between the two schools is awfully similar as well, considering they both under the “SUNY” network of schools. Apparently this makes me a “SeaWolf” as supposed to a “Bearcat” if I went to BU.
I have already put my deposit down (which is a bit expensive if you ask me) so basically the decision is final, since the deposit is non-refundable :). I wanted a university that focused largely on academics, and everything else came secondary. That is what I found with SBU. Another determing factor was visiting the campus of SBU. A few days ago, I went to SBU for the entire day with my sister (she is already enrolled there as well), and sat in on a couple classes as well as walked around the campus. I really loved the atmosphere of the school, it was well designed architecture wise, the campus seemed relatively quiet and one of the major things I noticed was the freedom given to the students. This is obviously common knowledge, but the difference between the High School setting and a University setting is quite dramatic. In a High School, there is essentially no freedom, everyone must follow the rules, or face some sort of discipline. The teachers are paid to be more than simply educators, but baby-sitters as well. They walk students through every lesson, holding their hand, making sure they know certain miscellaneous unimportant facts that will show up on the extremely easy tests given out every couple weeks or so. There is no room for intellectuals in such a setting, rather a High School building is positively a harmful enviroment both physically and mentally for any intellectual. The work is often nothing more than time consuming nonsense that is redundant.
That all changes when it comes to the University. The students are no longer regarded as “children” but rather, adults. The professors don’t care if a student arrives late to class, doesn’t pay attention or don’t complete the work. Your performance just doesn’t matter to them. This removes that “baby-sitting” mentality of High School teachers, as those who put in the effort and get the work done will succeed, and it is entirely dependant on the particular student. I am aware that most reading this will say, “well obviously,” but, that runs the danger of underestimating the change.
Change is what most people want these days, from politics to social life, change has become a term of “cliche-esque proportion.” But, there is no better word to describe the leap from High School to the University, it is the change that any intellectual will welcome with open arms, and hopefully an open mind.
Tags: sbu, stony, stonybrook, suny, sunystonybrook
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