Elle Francis

Lucy Medina

Dylan Shawhan 

                                                           Everyone has challenges 

No one on earth is perfect, everyone has challenges. No matter who you are, what you do or where you live, we all have problems in our lives.  Some people have different problems and some have bigger and smaller problems and some in different subjects. If this world judged everyone on how smart they are in school or in the IQ score, we would have problems. If we all judged on how people throw a football, this world would be in chaos! Everybody is different in there own ways such as writing or math, some are different in other subjects. Everyone will always have there own problems in life. I don't know about other people having their own problems. Being smart doesn't affect anyone's friendship. People can be smart in many different ways. They just don't have to be school smart. Everyone has challenges. The really smart people might not have the answers to everything. Some might be smart in sports, art, school or mechanics. It doesn't matter if the IQ says that you are dumb when you actually are smart. Their might be physical, emotional problems. Some are born with these challenges. Not everyone will be able to kick a soccer ball correctly, or throw a football correctly. No one is perfect. We all have problems. Also I do believe that smart people have friends. We all will never be perfect. That is why we call this a un-perfect world. In the end, we are all human and everyone has imperfections.

Dumb or Dumber

By: Dylan Pinkney, Molly Hanrahan and Ben Butcher

I'm just going to say off the bat that we have added a new word to the dictionary in this blog: smartness.  It's now a real word in our minds, so don't worry. It's not grammically incorrect (and yes, 'grammically' was on purpose. It was a joke. Laugh for my sake, please?).

We don't think that the smartness of a person affects how many friends they have.  Based on Dylan's personal experience, being smart does not at all affect how many friends he has. Molly believes that it doesn't matter how smart you are academically because everyone is smart in some way. Our differences and the different ways that we are smart set us apart, and that's what makes it hard to make friends, not the actual smartness. Charlie is very different because of his mental disability, so it's harder for him to make friends. Ben believes that everyone is smart in their own way, and if everyone is smart in their own way, then eventually everyone will have friends. Friends will be created because of the things/smartness that people have in common, not the smartness itself. It's those things that people have in common that creates friends, not necessarily IQ smartness.  Charlie, with his mental disability, doesn't have much in common with other people, so he doesn't have as many friends.

"Smart" people have challenges just like anybody. It may not be with school and finding a job, but they can still have challenges with their health and other stuff. For example, someone with a mental illness like Charlie could get cancer, and someone who is as smart as Albert Einstein could also get cancer. Something like being in a car crash or breaking a bone while skiing could also affect both "dumb" and "smart" people.  Everyone will always have to face challenges.  Whether they are very complicated or very easy, everyone will face them and everyone will have to conquer them.  It doesn't matter if they "dumb" and it doesn't matter if the "smart", everyone will face challenges. Also, there are different challenges that come with being smart. If you're smart, you might have more pressure on you, while if you're dumb you might have to work harder. And the opposite can also be true. Everyone has challenges, and every person's differences, whether good or bad, come with different challenges. We all just have to accept that everyone is going through hardships, and when we have it bad, we aren't alone, because others have it bad too.

Are People "Smart"?

                                                                    Are people “Smart”?

People feel the need to be around “smart” people because they want to be with the person who knows more, so that they don’t feel dumb themselves. Intelligence doesn’t really matter because that person could know everything about one thing, but could be know as intelligent in another. Charlie has to deal with learning to read, write, and try to learn new things in the world. Charlie wants to be smart, because he thinks that if he can be like everyone else, he could have friends when really, he has as much smarts as anyone else. People feel they need to learn everything, just to fit in with others. Smart people always have a false name about being “too smart” or “knowing everything”. Students who are smart at one subject are always called on, or are compared to someone who is less smart. If people had the choice to rather be dumb, or smart, there would be half and half of people who want to be smart and dumb. People who would choose to be dumb, want to because they don’t want to really try their best. People who want to be smart, want to because there would be less work, and wouldn’t have to work as hard. Everyone has the same amount of challenges, it could just be in different subjects. People could fail at one thing, because they never really understood that. When people don’t understand things, people get a false sensation of that person being “dumb” when really, that person just needs help.

Jack Langley, James Bullock, Denisse Garcia

Being Smart or Being Dumb

Would you rather be smart or dumb?

SMART! :)

Being smart is good for your life, while being dumb (Henry) would have a hard life, not knowing anything.  When your dumb you wouldn't do any school and you would just do what you want. You will be low-lives if you choose to be dumb. If you choose to be dumb, it depends on what kind of dumb. If you don't know anything, and wouldn't worry, that's laziness, Henry and Tucker. If you choose not to do anything, because you are dumb, you would get help obviously. If you also choose to not get help. YOLO people live in boxes because they won't have education, meaning no college and no money, and the smart people would know more, meaning higher education, and more money. Meaning smart people will live in mansions while people who choose to be dumb meaning don't care about anything, don't know anything, no education, no job, but in my mind I call it laziness. While Henry and Tucker call a "chill" life.  I think that being dumb, is like having a mental disability.

 DUMB ;}

DUMB ;}

Being dumb will be more fun, you won't be as stressed. When your "dumb" (laziness) you wouldn't care about anything. Although you wouldn't be as advanced as the"smart" people. If you don't know anything, people call it an sweet life. While technically, you would have less education, like I have said less money, therefore living in boxes while having a "sweet" life. It really depends on who you are, and what kind of path you choose, either "smart" meaning jobs, money, and a real life, or "dumb."

"Intelligence" By: Chance Denison & Michael Macaalay

Written by: Chance Denison
philosophized by: Michael Macaalay
Online Rorschach Test

When people think of intelligence, they think of I.Q. and how good a person is at math or something. But intelligence isn't just that, yes math is a good thing to be intelligent at but there are many places that intelligence is important and helps with the activity or job. Intelligence cannot be determined by an I.Q. test,  it is measured on what you do best and worst, and how well you do with the said activities. People tend to think that intelligent people are a "nerd". Adding to this people tend to think intelligent people don't have friends, but this isn't true in most cases because it depends on how they act around people and if they are a little over intelligent for the person or an average person. But the few times when a intelligent person doesn't have any friends they are often referred to as a "nerd". The non intelligent people might not be good in math but has a better understanding in Science and may be misread by people and left out of groups or things like that. Like I said before some people may be good at something like art but not good at math and could be considered "dumb" because they aren't good at important subjects in I.Q. tests. But people who judge someone because they aren't good at a subject(s) because they jealous is just plain terrible. Doing this is often making fun of yourself because everyone has a hard subject(s) that they aren't exceptional at but have one amazing class they do well in. But in todays society "dumb" people are most accepted in the world because they experience more hardships than smart people according to "Normal people". But contrary to this even if you are a perfect student you will always face a few extremely hard things like bullies, huge projects, stuff like that that "normal people" only think they encounter. Overall "smart" people have a hard time like "normal" people, and always have a subject(s) that they aren't as good at as others just like "normal" people.

Smart or Dumb?

Would you rather be smart or dumb? If you were smart, you would have so much more benefits. You'll get a good paying job, and you would be able to do more things. Everyone is smart in their own ways. For example Sasha and Madi are smart in Theatre. Giovanna is smart in fixing things. Everyone has their own ways to shine. The Rorschach Test is a way to test intelligence, but doesn't show everyone's intelligence. Is this a way to determine popularity? If you are smart you can become what you wanted to be, with effort. Effort is key. You can't become smart without trying. There are lots of popular smart kids in our grade, and there are a lot of unnoticed kids in our grade who are equally as smart. Intelligence doesn't determine popularity. But it can determine who you hang out with and your likes and dislikes. Charlie wants to be smart so he can have more friends, but is that really what's going to happen?

By: Sasha Yaworsky, Giovanna Jaurrieta, Madison Carr

Smart vs. Dumb

In real life, is there really a definition of smart? What is considered "smart"? Trinity gets straight A's, but could never survive in the wilderness. There are other people who we know that do not get great grades, but could easily maneuver around in the real world. This is the same for IQ scores, is an 85 through 114 really considered average? There's is a kid in my school that is probably the smartest in our grade that is not in our "Gifted and Talented" program. It's because he is a really bad test taker. If you look at his grades he has 100% on every worksheet, every homework assignment, but he doesn't test well. There are a lot of people like that where their IQ score doesn't represent their intellectual capabilities. They might be the best painter of all time, but they get C's in math. I mean, I hear people say all the time that Leonardo De Vinci's work was a master piece or that Shakespeare developed the greatest theatre pieces of our generation. Albert Einstein was told by one of his teachers that he would never amount to anything, but look what he did amount to. Aren't they considered smart? Aren't they considered geniuses in their field?

When talking about friendships being smart or dumb does play a factor. If you take a look at the cliché movies, there are always groups that people avoid. Some say that they avoid the "nerds". Aren't they considered "smart"? So that means that smart people may not have a lot of friends. I think that you hit a point in your childhood where you realize that being a nerd isn't a bad thing. Being smart is kind of cool. I don't think that makes smart people and dumb people not be able to become friends. It's our actions and thoughts that define us, not our intellect.

By:Trinity Smithers, Carmen Cuevas, Christian Labertew.