Saturday, May 15, 2010

Chance of being admitted to Harvard?

Rank 1st in Year out of 150 students. Top Boys school in state.





Studies- 2 extension maths courses, 1 extension english course, 1 advanced english course, economics course, chemistry course.





Captain of martial arts team, gold medals from Taekwondo Tournament.


Assosciates Diploma in Trinity College of London at Piano. (High Distinction)


2 Years of Community Service on Saturdays-Teaching Mandarin to people for free.


1 year work experience at golf range


3 years work experience at Department Store.





SAT- Math 770, C.Reading 790, Writing 800.

Chance of being admitted to Harvard?
at least try


looks like u've got a good chance


you can always have a free year to extend you curriculum if u want
Reply:How bad do you want to go? If you want it to go then make it happen and step over the obstacles that might block your path. Good Luck - You can do it!
Reply:You sound like a very well qualified student, but honestly it's pretty random. Really, you're competing more with students from your school than from the nation because the colleges will only take a certain number of students from a certain area. You have to realize that the process is pretty ambiguous and their decision really doesn't say anything about you. I think you have a good shot, but really no one can ever be certain
Reply:garuntee? learn to spell


Adrenaline disorder?

this kid in my old high school has an adrenaline disorder. in this one fight 3 guys went to beat him and he beat the crap out of them. he doesnt work out much, hes only about 6'1" and skinny and he doesnt do martial arts but when he gets an adrenaline rush he gets super fast, strong and has insane reflexes. he does a shitloard of drugs but he wasnt on drugs when it happened, it happens whenever he gets an adrenaline rush. everyone says he has an adrenaline disorder and i was just wondering what it was called. thanks for reading

Adrenaline disorder?
Don't know of the medical name for it but it sounds like beserker. That's an actual condition and it seems to run in certain families, especially families of northern european heritage. I knew a guy like that, he went off on a pack of bullies with baseball bats. He took their bats away from them, broke the bats over his knee, and ran them all off with their tails between their legs. He was of celtic heritage.


Should it be illegal to encourage your children to fight back?

Several parents have been charged across America recently for encouraging their children to stand up to bullies.





One case involved a father who's son was being picked on by a group of boys in the park. The father told his son to fight them back. When this boy opened up a can of whoop-a at his father's bequest, the father was charged.





The same thing have has happened when parents tell their kids to buck up to the bullies at school. "My dad told me to fight him," results in an arrest warrant for the dad.





Do you agree that these parents should be charged with a crime, or is this just part of teaching your children to defend themselves? Will martial arts and self defense instructors be next?

Should it be illegal to encourage your children to fight back?
It's part of the emasculation of the male in American society. You can bet your last dollar that no DA prosecuting this case will let someone like me sit on the jury. Unless the parent was the one hitting the kid, I'd find "not guilty" for the defendant.





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The comments of ♥Megegie♥ could not be more incorrect. I found out growing up in Detroit that bullies want you to show fear. If you stand up to them, they leave you alone. I fought one bully 3 times and on the third time, I kicked his $$$. He (and the rest of the bullies) pretty much left me alone since they knew I'd fight back.
Reply:there is no crime here. this is riduculous
Reply:They shouldn't be arrested. More like warned. If someone is driven to fight, the motive should be looked at, and if the fault lies with someone else, there's a huge problem that needs to be resolved. By going after the parents they're not doing anything, and bullying will continue.
Reply:i have never heard of this. i have always told my kids to fight back. can you provide some links to this?
Reply:Illegal, no, discouraged, yes. Bullies WANT their victims to lash out. Parents need to teach their children to walk away and tell a grown up.
Reply:of course not this is what is called the feminizing of america where the men are afraid or prevented from being men and the wimpy women think they are men
Reply:No.
Reply:they shouldnt be charged unless they help like that lady on the school bus.
Reply:NO WAY should they have been charged, the fathers were only looking out for their sons what is wrong with that, I hope the kid put the bully in the hospital
Reply:As long as the parents are teaching their children self defense %26amp; not being a bully themselves then no, I don't think it should be illegal. Every bully should have the crap beat out of them!
Reply:No child should have to be afraid to stand up to bullying, and no parent should be guilty of anything for teaching them not too.
Reply:This is a joke. one needs to defend one's self.
Reply:No, the right to self defense should NEVER to abridged.
Reply:this is the HEIGHT of LIBERAL ignorance! why was nothing done about the kids beating on the father's son??? kids are also to blame with that no ratting CRAP. if we encourage kids to defend themselves we'd have less violence among kids and they'ed have better self esteem instead of being made to live in FEAR because LIBERAL FEMINAZIS can't make the distinction between violence and self defense. that father should sue the POLICE and the SCHOOL for allowing this gang of bullies to operate. bullies deserve ONLY a bat across the knees and to be charged as ADULTS. PERIOD. bullies are NOT victims!
Reply:It should be mandatory your kids learn to fight.


I've told all my son's the first punch they're hit with walk away. If it happens again, knock that punk to the ground





No wonder theres so many gays, good lord
Reply:What does your government teach you to do.


America is a violent country, and teaching kids to start young would be expected








(But I did advise my grandson, "one good punch to the face will end all your bully problems")
Reply:that's so freaking stupid. Teaching kids to stand up for themselves and not get beat up is NOT a crime. It SHOULD be a crime to let your children stand there and get beat up. It's not like we're teaching kids to go around beating people up, it's self defense. This is total crap. I am a 14 year old girl and have gotten into plenty of fights. My dad said it was fine to stand up for yourself, your siblings, or your friends. I did every time. My dad never got in trouble. I intend on teaching my kids to do the same. Wow, the world is just becoming one big breeding grund for idiots.
Reply:This is mere liberalism at it's finest. Children being indoctrinated by the liberal education system to be pushovers and targets, rather than defending themselves...
Reply:I mean it is wrong to fight back but teaching your kids self defense is a good thing since well kids are kids. so i hope parents aren't being charged with a crime why you ask?


because why should your children be scared of some bullies? they are the worst people in school making fun of others for their own enjoyment and their parents should get their *** beat.





Then again I would never say fight him as a parent because there are other ways to deal with problems most the time. so yeah it shouldnt be illegal to encourage your kids to fight back..
Reply:This is crazy, why aren't the parents of the bullies charged?


I taught my 2 sons to stand up for themselves, why because it builds self-confidence and when a boy grows up you want him to be a man, not a quizzling.





This country has gone to hell, you can't spank your kids and now you can't teach them to defend themselves, I don't think so.
Reply:I had not heard of those cases. I tell my kids if they get hit to defend themselves. They are never to hit first. I am not going to let them be punching bags for anyone.


It this is happening at school then the kid is to get an adult at the school involved. That I do know, but my kids have always said if they tell then they will just get picked on more for being a tattle tale. that I agree with, so I told them to have someone else tell for them and they will get called into the office anyway. But the parents should not get punished for a child defending them self.
Reply:NO, It is your obligation, to teach them to defend and protect them selves from bully





Self defense is an very important part of our life.





The Lord helps those, that defends themselves





I taught my kids how to shoot straight before they joined the Army, they got high reward's for marksmanship
Reply:This depends on the method of fighting being taught.


If your child is a pupil in any of the martial arts, then he should not be allowed to use same in fighting those not trained, other than that, go for it.


If our government can take our kids and teach them how to kill innocent civilians in illegal wars, then it should be alright to defend ones self in normal fights, with no weapons.


Standing up for your rights is normal.
Reply:Self defense all the way. Who wants to let thier child become a sheeple. You should march on to the court house and protest against those cops and prosecutor.
Reply:No it should be a crime to NOT teach your kids to fight back. As such if I am ever on a jury against a parent who told their kid to fight back at the very least they will get a hung jury.
Reply:No. I don't think the parents should be charged with a crime.





If we can suspend reality for a moment here; what SHOULD happen is that the parents of the bullying children should be charged with negligence. We should also figure out some law against "raising rotten children".





Also, the children who were bullying the other kid should be publicly embarrassed. If this happened in school, they should be forced to write an essay entitled "How I got my A*S*S* handed to me", and they should have to describe their repeated bullying, and how the other kid stood up for himself, and trounced them. The other kid should get to correct the essay, making sure none of the facts get left out, and then the bullying kid should have to stand up and read it in front of the whole school.





All of this would take place as soon as possible after the avenging incident, to insure that all cuts, scrapes and bruises are still visible- for maximum educational effect of course.
Reply:I have a six year old daughter and I have always told her that if kids at school bother or bully her, she is to tell the teacher. If the teacher does nothing, she is to tell the teacher that if the kids keep bothering her, she has a right to defend herself if she needs to. I don't encourage her to fight but I do encourage her to protect herself if need be. I would stand by her all the way and frankly don't know why the teachers or staff allow this to happen, they should be supervising the kids. But no the parents should not be arrested if it is put to the children where they are being told to protect themselves. not just to open up a can of whoop ~*ss. or beat the kid back. wording needs to be clarified.
Reply:The entire judicial system seems to be geared so as to protect the criminals in just that way anymore. I guess the law would be proud of a bunch of spineless wimps who whenever in any tight spots in life yell help, help! I personally feel that punishing those who care enough to fight back is way wrong and I will protect myself accordingly and go to jail if I must to stand upon this which I do feel strongly is wrong to the individual. Learning to be lame and let someone else fight your battles for you doesn't prove anything more than that the law is attempting to rule over us in areas best left to us to fight for ourselves. I just know that giving in to the bullies is something that goes harshly against my grain. I have taught my children to stand up for what they believe in at all times and I intend to do so as well! So take me to jail! Sentence me heavily! I will not budge with my feelings on this point!
Reply:Hell no! What's the matter with people these days? Kids are being turned into PU$$IES!!. This is Liberalism at its worst!!! Those fathers who taught their kids to fight back should be AWARDED not arrested!!


If my kid got a black eye but he managaed to stomped the kid who did it, I would be shedding tears of joy and my heart would be swolen with pride!
Reply:Well hopefully my son has the talent that I had, which is being able to psychologically tear down the bully and make him humiliate him/herself.





I will teach him that if someone swings at you, you have the right to swing back, as a matter of fact you should swing back until the other guy isn't moving. This is what makes it "self-defense" and legal.





What probably happened to that kid is that he was being picked on verbally and responded physically. I don't think that warrants arresting the father, I think kids should have to take responsibility for their OWN actions.





This is why martial artists teach self discipline and the art of knowing when it is the appropriate time to fight. Some kid getting all emotional and beating the crap out of someone because someone called him a fatty is NOT self defense.





I wouldn't worry to much. Teach your kids to kick a$$.
Reply:Yes, it should be illegal to encourage your child to fight back. I cant think of a time when walking away is not a better option.

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What are good colleges for a teen looking for a career in network security?

Hi, iv been doing alot of research but arent really coming up with anything too useful so heres my question:


Im a sophomore in high school and searching for a good college that will help me peruse a career in network security, im not terribly brilliant so MIT probably isn't an option but im no were near average either, heres my "academic" stats:





mostly b+ to as in all of my class's (class's like s.s. i have a near perfect average in)


the only class i really lag behind in is french, im taking 3 years + the new york state regents just because it looks good, then im dropping it.(an occasionly chemistry, but overall im a good science student)





as for extra extracurriculars, iev been in wrestling/martial arts for a while now(years), and iev been working full time summers since i was 11, and am a lifeguard during the year.





PREFERABLY a college in the state of newyork, or florida, new jersey is ok too if its close.





also if anyone has the average salary/ and other stats in this profession


MMA training?

So I've been training in several different martial art forms for several years and would like to start some formal MMA training. I live in upstate NY and have had no luck with internet searches for MMA training. Does anyone know of any MMA training schools near Malone, NY.

MMA training?
I don't know where Malone is, but here is a good link for training locations in NY.





http://www.fightresource.com/viewschools...





Good Luck
Reply:Apparently MMA is illegal in New York.


What counts as extracurricular activities? for UCs?

i am in a CCC and different advisors give me mixed answers


on lets say the UC application for extracurricular activities is it true that only activities that are associated to the school like clubs and student government count? - thats what one advisor told me


i thought that extracurricular activities were activities that you do other than class. i learnt music since 3 till now and have other hobbies like practicing karate all my life. it takes up quite a bit of my time and does that mean all of them don't count?


she said they are only hobbies and do not count. doesn't 17 years of dedication mean anything at all?





i thought extracurricular activities were supposed to tell the admin more about you thats more to your grades. i thought music and martial arts would show me as a more well rounded person. but if they don't count doesn't that put me in the category of... whats the technical term for it... screwed?

What counts as extracurricular activities? for UCs?
To some extent this is right. However many uni's want an overall picture of the student and want someone who is not one dimensional.





When you list yours, include all yours. Not just the ones associated with college.
Reply:Yes, you're right. Extracurricular Activities could mean being involved in clubs, sports, student body, etc, but it also includes things that take up your spare time outside of school as well!





Colleges like to see that you are dedicated and passionate about something. Since you've been learning music and karate your entire life, those are very good things to put that down under Extracurricular Activities. You get to put the hours and weeks you are involved with the activity, and colleges will like to see that even though you are actively involved with karate and music, that you were still able to maintain your GPA.





Same goes for if you've been babysitting or have been responsible for taking care of your younger sibling.... That's leadership, and that's what colleges like to see.


Lack of energy and stomach problems?

Hi, im 15 and im pretty active. I do martial arts twice a week as well as going to the gym twice a week and athletics club. Recently ive been very very low in energy, i tired increasing my calories, eating more complex carbs however this just lead to stomach problems and bloatedness and if carried on weight gain. Im always lacking in energy and my performance in school and at my sports is slipping, I feel bloated after every meal and very sluggish, my metabolism is either very active or very very sluggish. anyone been in the same position and know what the hell is wrong with me? I aapreciate any help! Id ask my docter but she kept thinking i was crazy and had an eating problem just because im a very light weight, i gurrentee im not anorexic and what im saying is true and genuine. thank you for taking the time to read this.

Lack of energy and stomach problems?
Do you get 8 hours of sleep every day? If so, it sounds like maybe you're doing too much....especially considering you have school too. If you don't have have a few hours of your day to just relax....that's why you have no energy.