cheating

How much cheating goes on at Alameda High? And what are your thoughts about it?


well, i know there are a lot of cheating going on. Almost everyone in this school cheats. the homeworks, their tests, classworks, its all over the place. there are some kids who wont cheat, like, even if it is available. But there are pleanty of kids that are willing to if its available. & it really is available almost everywhere. On book works, there are the back of the book where they give most of the answer. You can ask your friends. Instead of doing it yourself, you can ask a friend that has already done it, and copy it down. This isn't exactly surprising, though. The 'fill-in-the-blank' type work, cheating would be more common, mostly because it's the easiest to copy. For every work being assigned, there are about half or maybe more copying it down from someone else. I dont know what my thoughts are about this though. I mean, I cheat too. countless times. So I'm not really against this.

Alot of people cheat just because they are too lazy to do the work themselves, or if they didn't have time to finish it. Alot of teacher try to catch it, but they get dumped with more works than they can handle to do anything. THey dont have the time to grade each and everyone of their students' papers. Many teachers also make it really easy for us to cheat too. Like they give you work to do and leave you alone for a long time. I'm really not complaining but sitting near a friend thats really smart helps a lot too.

My math teacher assigns us hws, and then the next day, even if we do about two or three problems, she stamps our homeworks, then basically gives us the answers befor telling us to turn it in. it makes it really easy to cheat or just bullshit the homework because as long as we get a stamp, she gives us credit for the assignment.

Are other teachers aware of it? I think they probably are. There are consequences as to what happens when or if you do get caught. Like you will probably get an F on that perticular assignment, and if you copied from someone, they would probably get the same. Or get an F if we get caught cheating in tests. Well in PE, if you get caught cheating in ONE test, you will get Fs in every single test in that semester or quarter.

There are some other ways to figure out if the kid is cheating or not besides geting caught. Sometimes, you can tell by their test grades and their homeowrk grade. What if they do a really really good job on their assignmenst but really crappy on their tests? That can sometimes mean that they werent really paying attention to their homework, or that they copied from someone else. OR it could mean that their teacher is like my math teacher, where she gives you full credit if you do SOME of it. So it wouldn't be accurate.

There isnt much benifit from cheating, I mean, yeah you get credit for it, & you dont have to work on it yourself, but think about it, you wont learn a lot. I mean I guess you arent learning NOTHING, because sometime, you memorize the work you copied, & they might stick to your brain. But cheating can only go so far. You cant go your whole life cheating.

best friend.

A bestfriend is someone who is there for you. They are one of the very special people in your life. They are the ones you go to when you have problems, the first person you think of when you make any plans. Call them just to talk about nothing at all. If the best thing in your life happens, or the worst thing, you can talk to them about it. When either of you are sad, you both try your hardest to cheer the other up. You can look like a huge mess but they wont look at you differently. you love their hugs. Whenever you need someone's shoulder to cry on, they will be there for you. You can trust them with anything. They know your worst habbits or something about you that no one else knows. You can be around that person for the longest period of time and not get sick of them. Have inside jokes with.

A lot of people have lots of bestfriends or different bestfriends throughout their lives. one of my best friends is this girl I met when I was in sixth grade. Her name is Dikshya Dhungana. She is nepali, too. I met her at my cousin's birthday party and it turned out that her mom knew my mom. After some time, her mom invited us over to their house. The first few times we hung out were awkward because we didnt know what to talk about or what to say to each other. But then after a while i found out that she and I had things in common.

I can talk to her about anything. she knows about and seen all my stupidity-ness, yet she still chooses to be seen with me in public. haha. She moved about a year or two ago to San Ramon. She used to live in oakland where it was a short distance and i could visit her whenever i wanted. but its harder now. but its okay. we're still in touch. I think she is staying over at our house for a few days over spring break. i cant wait! (:

weekend

There four day weekend began this morning. Its Friday today, and we don't have school till Tuesday. Tuesday, we gotta go back to school. I am going to be lost completely at school when we get back, i just know it. i wont know what is going on, I think we are gonna have normal schedule. which means that we are gonna have block days Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. then a normal 1-6 days on Friday. I wont have English or history on Tuesday. we have quite a few homework over the break. In history, I have lots of homework to make up. plus i have two tests next Friday, and a quiz on Tuesday. I will have to actually study.

yesterday, after school, i went to the library with Brianna. i was threading her arm when my brother met up with us. he had lots of valentines candies with him from his classmates. we were hungry so we ate all his candies. haha. he ate a few too. he dropped one of his candy and then started tripping about it. Brianna told him to let it go. afterwards, she started listening to my ipod so i played on her games ipod touch. after a while, we went on the computer. the computer downstairs were hella slow so we went upstairs.

today, i woke up around 9 AM. i went downstairs to get something to eat. i saw my brother playing his video game just like always. around 10 my dad called me to tell me to make food. i made dumplings for my brother and me since we were the only ones home. then i went on the computer for a while. Around 2 PM, my dad came home went to sleep. he woke up around 4 PM. after my mom got home, They all left to go to my brother's karate practice. Day one of my four days break is finished. :/

random.

I hate how everyone seems to think that their point wont be made if they aren't the loudest of them all. And I hate it when people think others will listen to you if your being really rude and loud. I especially think its immature when people yell. I don't think anyone would want to listen to you if you yell. It just makes you wanna yell back and then there would be a whole argument going on. I think violent is stupid. I mean, I know everyone says it but they don't do anything about it.

I hate how people think the best way to solve violence is more violence. That wouldn't work at all because that would just cause even more violence than it already is and then the other person would wanna do the same and then there would be a massive destruction and every one's head would get blown off.

This week hasn't been the best week. There has been ups and downs. I finally got my works permit and I was really excited to tell my mom & tell her to go give it to her boss since i would be working there. But instead of being happy for me that I would finally have a chance to prove that i can actually be a responsible person, she starts telling me about how much I need to focus on my school & how much she doesn't think I can do this. She thinks I'm going to quit or I'm going to mess something up. I mean, yeah I know I need to focus on school too. I thought she would actually be happy with me working. I found out that she doesn't really think I can handle this. well, guess what? I am going to prove her wrong. I am going to try to the best I can. & hopefully I'm actually capable of remembering other people's names & all that.