The nonexistent time machine

Let me start this post by saying, do you know how many things would be saved from getting lost if you could go back in time? How many people have heard themselves saying, oh I wish I could go back in time to find that ____ (insert whatever is needed to be found in this blank). Been there, done that. Wait, no. I've actually lived there. (no not really but you get what I'm trying to say here, right?)
I bet that everyone has been victim of uttering the words, "if only I had a time machine..."
Well to everyone who reads this blog and says that, I've got a harsh reality for you. No one has invented the time machine yet.Yes its unbelievable and completely unfair, I know.

So why do we still say it?

I'll tell you why. At those moments where we're completely out of it and not paying attention to our surroundings, we lose things. We put them down, and never pick them up. We throw out bags with things still in them. I mean the list goes on and on. And since we can never get them back most of the time, we need hope that in the future, we'll have that amazing time machine that we can use to pinpoint where in the world we left those pocketbooks nd jackets that we lost.
Well unfortunately for us, we don't have this amazing life saver called a time machine.
We just have ourselves.
So together, we should look back, and remember all of those things we never saw again because of that nonexistent time machine and remember them. And then realize it was because of our careless state of mind, not the nonexistent time machine, that we lost them in the first place.
Think about that as you wonder where it is your phone went, or what ever happened to that scarf you haven't seen since last month.

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The beginning

So I'm not an organized person. Not at all. Personally I think it's against human nature to be organized, because it's just so much easier to not have to be neat. Who wants to make their beds, or have a to do list, or have specific places for things?
Turns out I do.
I know what I said before, and a part of me still agrees with it. But I want to change that. I've realized losing things constantly and not knowing what day it is and procrastinating gets harder to deal with when you don't have parents to replace things and your only worry is school. What happens when I'm all grown up?
Here's a secret that I'll probably deny if someone asks me about: one of my greatest fears is that I won't be able to make it on my own. I'll be too dependent on the people who support me to support myself. I won't be able to get a job and will have to move in with my parents.
Because here are the facts: In TWO YEARS I'm going to college. That means I'm on my own for the rest of my life. Even though I can't wait to get out of my house, that's still one of the scariest things I can think of.
The thing is, I don't wanna lose things anymore, or have a huge folder that I have to look through to find everything. I don't wanna wake up late every morning to have to run out to catch the bus that I'll miss. Most of all, I don't wanna be doing these things at college, when I'm 27, or worse, for the rest of my life.
So I vow to change. I vow to make to do lists and never lose a phone again. I vow to stop blasting my music to surround sound while I'm outside and actually look where I'm going. I vow to stop putting crap in the pockets that I don't close and hope that it doesn't fall out. I vow to not wait till 9:30 at night to study for algebra on a Sunday when I had all weekend to do it. I vow to do my laundry without my mom nagging me about it and having to do it herself, and to take out the garbage every night. I vow to start writing in my agenda again and so I don't have to guess what the homework for the tonight is.

And I vow to record my entire journey of becoming a more responsible person right here on this blog.

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Can I get some Hindsight, Please?

Apparently while I was at home sick today, there was an incident in which people were suspended for vandalism. When I was informed that it was vandalism I expected the worst: graffiti on the building, writing in the bathroom stalls. So of course I was surprised when the vandalism was actually students carving into wet cement. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the sidewalk was property of the city, not UCHS.

Why are they being punished so severely then?

I understand that they shouldn't have done it. The real question is, should they have to miss three days of school to learn that?
Isn't that a tad excessive?

I was also informed of the fact that for one student, there was no proof that they were a part of the wet cement carving. Regardless, they were reprimanded as well. They were sentenced to three days of suspension.
For a person who merely hears about it, it feels like that; a sentencing. We see it as extreme and not understandable.
So for this post, I would love for the the teachers who read this to share their position on this issue. Do you think the punishment given was just? Is there something that I don't know about the incident that would justify the circumstances? Maybe if your opinions are disclosed, we would further understand the thinking behind the punishment. Because to be perfectly honest, these instances that we can't wrap our heads around are part of the reason why people decide to transfer schools. And even if this issue isn't that important for some of you, the fear of more people leaving us definitely is.

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This isn't Mean Girls

Now we all know stereotypical high school: you've got the nerds and the geeks, the loners, the kinda popular people, the wannabees, and the queens bees. Now I've seen my share of teen movies and I know how these popular people work, with theory too big ego and imaginary crown that gives them the invisible power to be the united rulers of the school. It was my assumption that UCHS wasn't cliche enough to have the same problem.
Well I guess I wrong.

It turns out our school is exactly the same.
Apparently there's a social ladder that establishes who you are as a person, and rules about where you should SIT because of it. Now did I miss something? Last I checked, anyone could sit ANYWHERE they wanted. Is it just me? Do certain people OWN tables now? Were they auctioned off in the last auction? Because maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, but I don't see ANYONE'S NAMES on tables. So why do people have the AUDACITY to tell ANYONE where they don't belong? Is that how it is now? We have specific tables that we must sit in at all times? Did I miss the memo? Is it in the student handbook:

Rule 3.1 Section SOCIAL HIERARCHY: STUDENTS MUST SIT IN THEIR TABLE AT ALL TIMES. Failure to adhere to this VERY SERIOUS RULE will result in an automatic SUSPENSION.

REALITY CHECK:
IT ISN'T.
And I'm tired of people who assume that it is, that they can rules the school as if this is the next teen movie.
News flash:
IT ISN'T.
I'm not going stand by and watch while some people attempt to order people around as if they were our dictator. This isn't The Soviet Union. Nobody dictates what we do and my friends and I will sit wherever I want. If anybody thinks that they can pretend that they are the kings and queens of the school they better come back to the real world.
Once again,
This is UCHS, NOT Mean Girls.

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