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As far as Effective communication skills, I don't think anyone would dispute that I seem to say what I feel when I feel it. I've used a lot of media to, as anyone else has. As far as social expectations, there have been times in which I have failed to respect personal boundaries (right, Tucker?) But hey, sometimes that's fun. But I also take responsibility for my actions, when they don't get me in too much trouble with Chan. I have showed a variety of global awareness in my piece, whenever I saw fit. The thing I have trouble with is working independently. I'm not exactly sure if its my ADHD, or the fact that I seem to want to say everything that comes to my mind, but I find that I work a lot better when I have the input of as many people (that matter) around me. If you were wondering if you matter...feel free to ask.

I think the main reason we have a Mission Statement is because the collective faculty of High School wants to use a bunch of big, interesting words put together in a sentence that effectively stands in for much simpler terms, but essentially means the same thing. We have one because it is the foundation for just about everything we do during our time in this High School. Now, whether or not we pay attention to this statement and abide by it is entirely up to us, and lord knows that its difficult to achieve all these goals, but they are the goals that we all may, or may not, want to achieve. In a nut shell. And hey, I'm pretty sure accomplishing these goals can't hurt, but I don't think they're necessarily fundamental in our success in college. Some people can just straight-up wing it. Good for them.

These standards are upheld by, I'm estimating, roughly 30% of the school. This portion of the school really, really, really, tries way to hard, and in doing so they mostly hit every check mark on this little Mission Statement. Why, why you ask? Well, because during these years of puberty, people change, and people change according to how they feel about the changes around them. the more the world around them changes, they more they adapt with it, to not be left behind. This adapting sometimes causes people to lose sight of what they wanted in the years preceding. They simply do not have the determination to really meet any of these goals. But the thing of it is, that does not necessarily mean they will not do well in college, and furthermore in the real world. Some people come out of it just fine.

A smart man once said "we'll all float on okay." I think these words rang true this day, on this little man's blog.