Sheeple Magazine April Archive

How Can I Stay Fit Without It?

By Jamin Greensbury at 04/02/08 15:37

These graduation project presentations have really been hurting me, even though I had already given mine. These presentatins have gone on for all last week and this week as well. Throughout the whole time period, I haven't been able to play my favorite sport of dodgeball. You see, we need a teacher to go down to our school's wrestling room to play. The teachers have the keys to the door and to the the locker with the balls in them. Without the teachers, we can't play, and they're all busy with the presentations. So for the past week, I haven't gotten to play at all.

But I shouldn't be complaining using the tool known as the blog. We have to call our daily dodgeball time "Fitness Club", just so we can keep it a secret from the evil school officials. Its already banned from gym class, but isn't dodgeball almost the definition of gym class? Instead of playing dodgeball in gym class now, we have to play a game called "Spherical Avoidance." But that was quickly outlawed too.

All I know is many of the things my friends and I do quickly die out. I can't let Fitness Club be one of them!

My Practice Presentation

Today after school, I had to give my graduation project practice presentation. I had been dreading it because I thought that mine wouldn't be long enough (you need at least 8 minutes to pass). Turned out my fears didn't have anything to back them up. Mine was well over 8 minutes and I still needed to add more to my presentation. Stupid me forgot to introduce myself, even though the two teachers I gave my presentation to I talk to everyday. Anyways, I did pretty well.

But what bothers me is the weight these projects carry. If you fail the project, you don't pass, simple as that. You shouldn't fail the project, but there is always that unknown factor. The project requires you to write a 5 page reasearch paper and work 15 hours on a project of your choice. The two have to be somehow related, so you have to choose what you do carefully. There are certain checkpoints throughout the school year, so you really have to keep on task. Plus the higher up school officials say that this project will really help you in life. From my experience, it hasn't.

The only thing I can see helping you is the actual presentation, the one worth all the marbles. You have to get up on front of a panel of judges and show what you've done. The only thing I can see that tied to in the real world is giving presentations in the work world. At least you've had some experience doing that.