The best thing about being a senior was being able to say that you’re a senior. It carries weight, and you get to say stuff like, two more weeks and I’m done with High School forever…

I would go back in time and tell my freshman self to stay motivated, because you’ve got a long way to go..

The occupy movement definitely has had a huge impact on me as a person, citizen and activist forever.

Loose Lips- by Kimya Dawson reminds me of this year. :)

I’ve learned that while I’m not motivated that easily by outside things, I have the ability to self motivate really well, and I can use that to prioritize and get things done that really matter. 

I’m really proud of how well my rugby team did this year, we made it to playoffs :))

this is the first piece I did for my concentration. 

My motto would be: Live by the foma that make you kind and healthy and happy.

Junior year was really difficult for me, I had some pretty bad motivation problems. It was hard to have been in highschool long enough to feel like I could be close to done, but then realizing that I still had to finish out another year. 

The Tsunami in Japan was in junior year. 

The biggest surprise would probably be when my sister Sarah decided to move to Texas. 

I had US history with Ms.Erby and we learned where all of the states are, which I still remember. 

Last year was my first year as captain of the rugby team, which I’m really proud of.

My motto would have been JUST KEEP SWIMMING!

The biggest difference is I’ve been cut from the volleyball team and am now a rugger!

The earthquake in Haiti was sophomore year. 

I took anatomy sophomore year, so I remember learning about the different parts of the eye, and we disected a cow eye…I remember I was super surprised about how simple it looked inside…and juicy..

I am proud that I had the courage to leave the dark side and join rugby, a sport that was dramatically different than volleyball that I had become accustomed to, and that all my friends played.

In sophomore yr I took black and white photography, which was a real challenge for me, since it’s such an exact science and I’m not an exact person. But I powered through it, This is a portrait I took of my little sister. 

My motto sophomore year would’ve been TRY NEW THINGS!

The Fed- a 7 member board of governers that oversees the federal reserve banks.- Federal Reserve Board

created in 1913 to maintain stability of the economy, regulate banks, etc. 

The Fed headquarters is in Washington DC

The functions are to:

-oversee the federal reserve banks

-Establish monetary policy (interest rates, credit, etc.)

-Monitor the economic health of the country.

Critisisms include that it violated US constitutional rights and impedes national economic success.

I would say that the Fed is like the engineer of a train. It regulates the fuel that’s going into the engine, and all the little cars follow along behind them. 

-I personally never want credit cards, to me they’re just stressful, its just putting off your problems until later, and spending money you don’t have, and in the end, you end up spending even more money, when you didn’t have the money in the first place…It just doesn’t make sense to me. 

-from 2004 to 2009 the average debt students had went from $946 to $4100

That doesn’t really seem like that long of an amount of time, thats amazing it rose that much. I believe it though. 

-More than a third of students with credit cards had more than one card. 

-70% of students had credit cards

WOWWWW!!!!! That stresses me out… I don’t think it’s because we’re outrageous spenders either, I just think that it’s much too expensive to live and go to college in America. 

-The Fact that business majors in college weren’t informed on the basics of credit cards is a bigger problem then a bunch of college kids digging themselves into debt, its a terrifying example of how banks are controlling the lives of everyone in america and robbing us, and our future generations blind, right under our noses.

-“These results should serve as a wakeup call for both our college students and our college outreach efforts into the community to train people about the costs of credit. It is clear the status quo of financial literacy is a failure.”

1.

-almost 1 in 4 teens in America was unemployed in Febuary. 

This suprised me the most. I definetly thought it was higher than this…now i feel like a lazy teen for not having a job..

-National teen unemployment rate rose to over 20% by 2008.

-in the 90s the teen unemployment rate was at or below 15%

-The hispanic teen unemployment rate in Febuary was 27.5%

-The black teen unemployment rate in Febuary was 34.7%

2. 

- future workers wont learn job skills

-employment boosts future earnings

-shows overall health of economy now and for the future

3.

-keep minimum wage low

-make ALL employment rates go up so teens can work too. 

-pay them more, so they stimulate the economy because they’re big spenders.