Re: What is Success by Andy Lau

So, what is success? Success cannot be defined with only a few words or that it has only one meaning. I looked upon Andy Lau's post and I thought that he defined success rather well. He wrote:

"Success means many things to people. To me success describes a positive result or wished-for ending through the achievement of goals. The key to success lies in hard work and perseverance. Ultimate success in life can only come from hard work." - Andy Lau

In his blog post, I agree with what he had said. Success can be a positive result in the end or success can a result in which you are happy with. To me, success is just getting the result that had met your goal. I have a lot of experience in which success is just meeting my goal.

In the past, I had thought that success was getting good grades. When I had ever received a bad grade in which it is probably a D or an F, I would push myself to become better to raise my grades. An example of this would be last year when I was almost failing at history when I learned that I had those grades during quarter grades. I didn't show my grades to my parents and decided to help myself by pushing myself. I began to do my history homework carefully and began to study for tests as much as I could possibly can. I ended that semester with a B in that class and I was happy that I was able to do so. To my, that would be the definition of success.

Now, I think of success as being just happy of doing something whether it was a project or an essay. As long as I believe that I did it well and that I had spent effort in it, I believe that it is success. After a hard day's work and that I am able to finish is considered success to me. These experiences of success guide me to strive to become better and not lose hope within myself.

Excerpt from Doing School by Denise Pope (summer reader assignment)

         The type of atmosphere among the students in Eve’s class  is both good and bad in different ways. In a good way, the competition between Eve’s classes pushes each other to work harder so that they can constantly become better to achieve their goal as number one in the classroom. Another good reason from the competition is the fact that students pay in class more overall in order to achieve the step of understanding what the lesson was about. The atmosphere of the competition is also bad because it can cause some students to cheat their way up the class because they are not able to take the pressure of losing in the completion. This makes them take risks of endangering their grade in order to achieve a higher grade.
         As mentioned earlier, students cheat because they want to become the best student in the class. Students also cheat because they want to impress their parents and please them. Sometimes, parents make promises to buy them something if they receive a good grade. The students believe that they cannot achieve such grade  on their own so they will cheat in order to get such a grade. This can also be called a lack in self confidence in students that are willing to cheat.
         The consequences vary in different types of schools. It ranges from getting an F on the assignment or a test to dropping out of school and having a cheating report on your permanent record. I don’t think cheating is worth it because each point from an assignment or test is very important towards your grade and you are risking all of those points. The students that are caught cheating should just get an F on the assignment rather than an F for a year or dropping out of school. The cheating report should still remain on the permanent record.

Quote that i found from another person and how it relates with the ASTI constitution

I found this quote from Vincent Liu's blog and I thought about how much it relates to one of the major rules of the ASTI constitution:

A time when I have been made harassed by a larger group was the time when I got a bad grade on a test while most of the people in my class got a good grade. The people that got a good grade went to me and start laughing at me because I got a bad grade while they did well.
                                                                                                            -Vincent Liu

This action of teasing a fellow classmate violates the rule of accepting others for who they are. Just because a person received one single bad grade on a test doesn't mean that the next test that he or she would fail again. Think about this: If the group of people that laughed at Vincent received terrible grades, would they would have wanted someone to laugh that them? Almost everyone would say no because it makes them feel bad. It is impolite to do such a thing. I said almost because some people don't care that they received it and let it fly bye. Instead I would sometimes say that someone laughing at someone else can inspire others and the victim to become better so that they are able to avoid the teasing next time. Accepting others for who they are is one of the rules in the ASTI Constitution as mentioned above but I think that accepting people for who they are should be followed everywhere. No one is ever the same in personality because everyone's culture is different. Especially in America, many immigrants come from all over the world. They have different religion, social class and even different manners. Just because people are different, doesn't mean that you are above the law so that you can tease them. Respect others and they will respect you.