Case Study: Strange Choices
In this week's class we read the Case Study for Chapter 6, Strange Choices. The choices that the students made in each scenario might appear a little strange to someone else. For this week's blog, think about a choice you have made that appeared strange to someone else-perhaps your parents or your friends that didn't agree with or understand what you were choosing. Explain why you made this choice. What made you decide to make this choice that might seem strange to others? Don't forget to dive deep and explore what really caused your choice.
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Jen Franke
A choice that i made that someone else thought was wrong or not right had to do with baseball. Every summer our highschool varsity team would take a trip to new mexico for scouts and college sports representitives to veiw our team. Every year was the same thing. We would wake up super early and follow all these cocky coaches orders. It was in some way helpful for us to understand if we would make it to the college level. I would say about 50 % of the players that i played with could of made it to college but decided not to. There were only a few that took on the challenge and went to play on a higher level. I could have been one of those kids. I was being scouted as a younge soph to play college ball. I decided not to. Many of my teamates and their parents always questioned my judgment and my decision. I didnt care what they thought, I had been playing 4 sports my whole life. I wanted to get out and do something new, but to this day i look back on baseball and all the other sports and i miss it greatly.
one choice that i made that my family thought was strange and probably thought was a bad decision is when i dropped out of school with 2 weeks and 2.5 credits to graduate. i mad this choice based off of a few key things, one was the fact that i wasnt going to get credit and would not be graduating because i had one too man absence's (3 days) and they would not let me make them up, this alone would be enough for someone to want to drop out so they did not get f's on thier transcript but add on to that the way the teachers treated me and the simple fact that they threatened me with the only way i would be able to return the next year was if i stayed and got f's and then add the fact that 3 of my friends were leaving for california to move out there and we had planned it together. put all of this together and you have thbe key reason that i left, however i made the choice to leave because i was in a bad place in life going down the wrong path and it was as if life was pointing me away from trouble.
Ryan
A choice that I made that my friends thought was strange is when I decided to go to the united states to study. They couldn´t really understand why I am leaving them and didn´t wanted to let me go, but then I talked to them and told them how important that is for me and that I need to go away from home for a while they kind of understand it, but it´s still strange for them because they would never do it. But they still support me in what I do and so I think even if I make strange choices I always know that my family and my friends support me.
Elisabeth Mucke
Some people think it is strange that I leave on the weekends and drive three and a half hours away to go spend the weekends with my boyfriend but I don’t think its strange at all. I think it would be strange if I didn’t go see him, because we are together. Both my friends and family always ask why I go see him so much and I always tell them that I love spending time with him and I would drive to go spend time with them to if they lived three and a half hours away. To me it just seem natural to want to spend as much time as I can with him since we don’t live together any more .
I made the choice to attend CMC for the first year because I couldn't afford to go to a four year school. I thought it was a good idea because I got my first whole year free here with the scholarhip I had recieved. However, most of my friends thought It wasn't a good decision. They thought it was dumb to go to a community college for my first year. But then again, they only made that claim because they have rich parents to deal with money for them. Anyway, I feel that this was a good decision for me and I'm very happy that I made it. Although I really wanted to go to a four year school, getting the first year completely free is almost too good to pass up. I'm glad I did make this decision because Its one more year that I can use to make money and write to more scholarships in order to afford a 4 year school next year.
When I was in middle school, I never wanted to eat lunch. I was at a decently big middle school with about 700 students. I hated the wait in the lunch lines and did not want to sit with anyone. Sometimes it would piss me off when the teachers assigned me tables to sit at and how a lot of the time it was with people I didn't like.
So, there would be many days when I wouldn't have lunch. My social phobias kept me from socializing and eating with other kids. I often settled for a bottle of Coke and that was it. As you can imagine, I did not do as well with my afternoon classes or doing homework at night because I was not eating enough.
This, of course, seemed very odd to my parents and the few friends I did have. People have to socialize, you meet people everywhere you go. Everywhere you go, be it a crowded movie theater or a packed Starbucks, there will always be lots of peoples. What I needed to learn at the time, what I didn't learn till later is people gotta talk, people gotta eat.
The choice that i made that many did not understand in my family was not choosing to join the service... The list of family members of mine that have served include; mom, dad, step-dad, 3 uncles, 2 aunts, 2 cousins, and 2 grandfathers... So as the oldest male son/grandson/nephew i was looked at as the one to carry out that tradition. I went along with the family till sophomore year of high school when i dropped out of JROTC and civil air patrol. I grew my hair out, started riding 40-50 days a year, then started riding 120-140 days a year. My parents got over it when i very adamantly stated that i would not join as an airmen, i would only join as an officer. I still get some pressure from my dad and i still fell sometimes that my mother prefer i joined but for the most part i believe the expectation for me to join is gone.
Coming to study to the United States wasn't a strange choice for my family and friends. It is pretty common for people from to school and others schools back home to do it.
My strange choice was, studying culinary arts for more than a year, when I graduated. Figuring out that I wanted to spend all my life inside a kitchen, that's when people thought that I was crazy, which I think I'm not. Then, I started studying hotel management at a university back home, I didn't like that either, for a moment I thought that's what I really wanted, but I tend to go on different directions every time.
I just stopped going to my classes and my parents were thinking I was going to them. But instead, I arranged with my best friend that every time I had a class at the university we would go and play squash. There were days were we played twice and I was exercising for more than 4 hours a day, or even more. My dad figured I was at the country club all day and he got really mad at me for dropping the university at that time. He said that squash wasn't my life, but when he saw me playing really good against people that had been playing it for more than ten years he just flipped. Ever since then I have been playing it everyday. And ever since I came here I just miss playing it so much.
It's so hard to figure out what you want to do with your life when you are young. It's one of the most important decisions that you have to make. Figuring out all your choices and figuring out how you want your life to be, is just hard.
When I told my mom that I wanted to study photography she was so happy! but on the other side, my father didn't like the idea. He said that photography didn't pay that well and I it would be hard to find a job back home.
I had a deep talk with him, and explained him that this is what I wanted to do with my life. And that for the first time I was happy with the person that I wanted to be. And that not matter what I was going to work hard to be one of the best ones in my field. Things changed after that, He is now happy and comfortable with my decision and he doesn't think that it's strange anymore....
A time when I made a descion that others didn't fully agree with was when I quit working at quiznos. I had been working there for a little over 2 years and had I stayed there would have had a good chance to become an assistant manager and make more money. At the time 3 of my friends were working there and we'd all been there for quite some time, but we were no longer happy with how the place was running. We no longer had much say in what went on eventhough we knew more about the place than anyone else. In the end my parents were a little dissapointed, but having that work experience easily got me a job at beau jos restraunt and that is where I currently work at with Ian.
tony v.
I'm sorry my blogs are never on time but, coincidentaly that relates to the blog topic this week. Making choices that some may think are strange. A decision I make quite often that people may think is strange is the fact that I wait until Sunday to do my homework. Even my blogs which I know are due Fridays at noon but I still choose to do late. It's not like I want a lower grade or like the thrill of being a rebel but it's just how my life works. I'm a procrastinator, every aspect of my life is like that, and I don't know how to chage it. But I will do my best to get my blogs done on Fridays from now on.
A srange choice that i made was to quit softball my frechmen year of high school. i had been playing for eight years, ever since t-ball. but i went to tryouts a couple of girls i played with for years tryed out with me, and we all made the team but then i decided to quit. I didn't like many of the girls on the team becuase they were all snobs and i didn't think it was worth having to play with girls i didn't like. so then i decided to play lacrosse instead. my parents agreed to me playing lacrosse but they thought i was crazy to stop playing softball and not even give it a chance. even after four years of high school, i hated all the girls on the team.
Stephanie Ramstetter
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