Quote:
"Why didn't they teach this to us in school?"
Question:
Why didn't they teach this to us in school?
Comment:
I liked this quote because the first time I was showed this method, all I could wonder was , "Why didn't they teach this to us in school?" I think there are a few answers to this question. It could have been that the right to left method is more linear, where you don't have to break the problem up to solve it, so it takes up less space on paper. It could be to encourage kids to use scratch paper, otherwise they might do everything in their head. It could be that the left to right method isn't quite as exact as the right to left. Or, it could have to do with the 10,000 hour rule. If it takes the average person almost two to three times longer to do the right to left method than the left to right, maybe they can achieve those 10,000 hours of practice without actually practicing as much. Otherwise, I really don't know why this far more efficient, (in my opinion) way of adding and multiplying etc. wasn't taught to us.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
QQC Fourteen
Quote:
"The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile."
Question:
Can we decide our own futures?
Comment:
I found this quote interesting because I can relate to it. When I applied to college, I applied to fourteen schools, (ironically the number QQC I'm on). Out of all of those schools, there was one more than any other that I wanted to go to, USC Film School. Not to brag, but this particular division of USC is statistically harder to get into than Harvard Law, so I obviously had my work cut out for me. When I got back my acceptance and rejection letters, I had been accepted to USC, and rejected from a few schools with much higher acceptance rates. Looking back on what I wrote on each individual application, my submitted essay(s), film(s) etc, I realized that I had purposely put all of my effort into my USC application. I realized that subconsciously, I was following exactly what this quote was talking about, I stretched myself as thin as possible working on that application because that was the one most worthwhile to me. So, I couldn't help but wonder, had the school I was rejected from been my dream school, or if I wanted to go to Harvard or a school of the like, could the same thing have happened? Could I have put so much effort into that application that I get in there instead?
"The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile."
Question:
Can we decide our own futures?
Comment:
I found this quote interesting because I can relate to it. When I applied to college, I applied to fourteen schools, (ironically the number QQC I'm on). Out of all of those schools, there was one more than any other that I wanted to go to, USC Film School. Not to brag, but this particular division of USC is statistically harder to get into than Harvard Law, so I obviously had my work cut out for me. When I got back my acceptance and rejection letters, I had been accepted to USC, and rejected from a few schools with much higher acceptance rates. Looking back on what I wrote on each individual application, my submitted essay(s), film(s) etc, I realized that I had purposely put all of my effort into my USC application. I realized that subconsciously, I was following exactly what this quote was talking about, I stretched myself as thin as possible working on that application because that was the one most worthwhile to me. So, I couldn't help but wonder, had the school I was rejected from been my dream school, or if I wanted to go to Harvard or a school of the like, could the same thing have happened? Could I have put so much effort into that application that I get in there instead?
Thursday, April 14, 2011
QQC Thirteen
Quote:
"Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life."
Question:
Will there be a day when effort no longer exists?
Comment:
My question is, as always, an odd one. But throughout my life I have always heard sayings like, "Back in my day we had to walk to school in the snow" and "technology makes people stagnant". I firmly believe that effort is a big part of what makes life interesting, but I do know a lot of people that would disagree with me, or at least have their own opinion of what effort means. So if this generation doesn't have as much drive as the last and so on, will there be a day when we no longer show any form of effort and the word is just cancelled from our vocabulary? Or will it be like an asymptote and effort will never quite die out?
"Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life."
Question:
Will there be a day when effort no longer exists?
Comment:
My question is, as always, an odd one. But throughout my life I have always heard sayings like, "Back in my day we had to walk to school in the snow" and "technology makes people stagnant". I firmly believe that effort is a big part of what makes life interesting, but I do know a lot of people that would disagree with me, or at least have their own opinion of what effort means. So if this generation doesn't have as much drive as the last and so on, will there be a day when we no longer show any form of effort and the word is just cancelled from our vocabulary? Or will it be like an asymptote and effort will never quite die out?
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