Pet Peeves

My biggest pet peeve is when people do not use manners. I mean how hard is it to say please or thank you. Just saying those words makes whatever you did or are going to do better. And if you don't use your manners you just seem like an asshole to everyone else. I don't get why people don't use them i mean why would you want to look like an asshole? Another pet peeve i have that kind of fits in with manners is when people don't use their turn signals. I mean come on its a small flick of the wrist that can save you from and expensive or life threatening accident. Both of my pet peeves are just little things that take no work at all but somehow people still don't use them. I mean you have to be a pretty arrogant dick if you don't use manners and just a lazy person if you don't use your turn signals.

Education

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"(Skinner,B.F.). What i beleive that qoute means is that it doesn't matter if you forget dates that you learned in history or if you forgot the formula to a math problem. The point of it all is that you learn how to problem solve and that you know the general idea of what the class is trying to teach you. No one remembers everything they learned in school but what people take away from school is much more important. They learn how to become critical thinkers and how to use logic and common sence better. I also think that public schools are the best for kids because it lets them deal with their peers and lets the kids learn how to interact with them properly. School is much more than papers and dates and formulas its about growing up and knowing how to think clearly and inteligently.

What I expect for this semester

From this course I expect to gain a better understanding of how to summarize and how to write papers better. I hope that I learn better grammar so my papers can sound better. I expect the teacher to be helpful and just to teach the class to the best of his ability. I expect a lot more out of myself though. I want to get A's and B's this semester so that means I have to go to all of my classes and do the homework and readings. I also have to have fun though because these are supposed to be the best years of my life.

About Me

My name is Aaron Devine and I was born in the city of crystal. As I was growing up my parents kept me active in cub scouts and boys choir. As I got older I got sick of boys choir and quit but I stayed with cub scouts and moved up into boy scouts. I went to middle school at Sandburg where I was enrolled in the IB program. In middle school I had a couple girlfriends but nothing serious. Then after I was done with middle school I went to Armstrong high school. It was there that I met my high school sweet heart, Rachel. We dated for 3.5 years which is alot longer time than I had imagined we would. During high school I was able to obtain a pretty good GPA and I also achieved the highest rank in boy scouts, the eagle scout. Now I am going to Mankato state. Rachel and I broke up and I am still an active adult in my troop. I am enjoying the college experience and am looking foward to what the future has to bring.