I've been swimming for most of my life, and for the past two years I worked over the summer at Westgate Cabana Club as a lifeguard and swim instructor. In a perfect world, I would be able to support myself entirely in the future on just this simple pair of jobs. But the world is not perfect: We find our values in how much we earn. We are told to get a degree that will pay well. Unfortunately, these fields that make a lot of money are, naturally, very competitive.
What I want is a line of study that I honestly enjoy - one that I can apply to the real world. People always say "Get a business degree!", but that does not interest me. What interests me is language. Communication is the basis of conscious; it is what makes humans so unique. I want to be able to communicate with as many people as possible, and to travel to foreign homelands just so that I may understand what it means to be a human, and not just the Californian Gringo I was raised as. I want to learn as many languages as possible. I've made a promise to myself: I want to be able to speak five more languages besides English by the time I'm 30. I've started on Spanish. This leads to the other Latin-based French and Italian. Additionally, I would love to hold a conversation in both Russian and German.
I have to go to a school that emphasizes communication. Without communication we are alone.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Sans Title
Swim season has begun, which has put quite a limit on my amount of free time. I come home from school at around 5:15 and am left with no inclination to do anything. Perhaps that is why I missed last blog cycle.
Regardless, this post is supposed to make up for it.
Last week, I was chosen to be the captain of the swim team, along with a fellow swimmer I've known and swam with for the greater majority of my life.
Looking at my history involved in endurance and performance sports, it only seems logical to do some thinking about sports in my future. Another subject I've taken an interest in is exercise physiology and kinesiology (that is, the study of motion in the body, as well as chemical processes that are necessary for motion.). I was lucky enough to visit San Jose State University's Exercise Physiology department with a number of other students from Westmont as part of our AP Biology class.
One of our students put on numerous sensors and ran as hard and as fast as she could in accordance to the protocol used for a VO2 Max test, or Volume of Oxygen gas in the lungs. Essentially, it is a precise way to measure lung capacity and to evaluate how efficient the body is at absorbing the oxygen.
I wish to develop a further understanding of how the body works from day to day. Because hey, that's what life is: motion.
Regardless, this post is supposed to make up for it.
Last week, I was chosen to be the captain of the swim team, along with a fellow swimmer I've known and swam with for the greater majority of my life.
Looking at my history involved in endurance and performance sports, it only seems logical to do some thinking about sports in my future. Another subject I've taken an interest in is exercise physiology and kinesiology (that is, the study of motion in the body, as well as chemical processes that are necessary for motion.). I was lucky enough to visit San Jose State University's Exercise Physiology department with a number of other students from Westmont as part of our AP Biology class.
One of our students put on numerous sensors and ran as hard and as fast as she could in accordance to the protocol used for a VO2 Max test, or Volume of Oxygen gas in the lungs. Essentially, it is a precise way to measure lung capacity and to evaluate how efficient the body is at absorbing the oxygen.
I wish to develop a further understanding of how the body works from day to day. Because hey, that's what life is: motion.
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