Posts by AlissaShear

So if you are a Senior like me you are finishing up your 1st semester of senior year and preparing for the last. And if anyone is like me it has probably just hit you that this will be your last semester of high school, at the end of this semester we graduate and continue on to college. I am scared, so scared. The new places, people and overall experience. I don't like change, gradual change is ok but this is a huge change and if you're a senior and say you're not scared then you must be lying. Everyone is a little scared about moving to college. It is the next step in our lives.

If you are like me or any other teenager in the nation there is a pretty good chance that you have a Facebook. Facebook has taken over social networking as we know it. You can post pics, statuses, music and pretty much anything you want people to know.

I like Facebook, it allows me to keep in touch with family and friends, and keep up to date on things. But lately I am noticing just how much time I am spending on it. Before Facebook I had to occupy myself with other things. Now when I am bored I automatically go to Facebook.

In religion class recently we have been discussing the controversial topics of Euthanasia and suicide.

While I am not going to go into whether I agree or disagree with morality of those actions I want to ask you a question my teacher asked our class. She gave us a paper called "3 months to live" and you had to write a list of ten things you wanted to do if you knew you only had three months more to live your life, money and the law not being a problem.

After we completed the sheet she asked "Would you want to know the exact time and day you were going to die?"

Do utopias actually exist? Or are they just something we have come up with to describe what we wish was a perfect world? Does perfection really exist? Recently lots of movies and books have been coming out about Utopias and dystopias like the movie In Time and the book Matched. In both of these stories though, the main character finds that life in their world isn't all that perfect as it seems. In Matched Cassia realizes that having the officials decide who you love, where you work,how you spend your time and when you die isn't all it's cracked up to be.