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=== Hello! It's Mrs. Lakly. I'm having some trouble getting your journals to download. Could you either bring in paper copies or upload them as text, not files. Also, the one that I could get to download had no prompt attached. I really need the prompt in order to give you feedback about the essay. Thanks! === = = =Where I Stand=

I am a student and a teacher; an athlete and a reader; a son and a brother. I am a perfectionist, a masochist and, at times, a narcissist. I spent a lot of my life feeling like an army of one, but, heading into senior year, I know the army consists of a comitatus: me, myself, and Irene (sorry, had to drop the movie reference). All jokes aside, the most important thing I know about myself is that I am both my own worst enemy and strongest ally.

I like running off from my house in a pair of running shoes and absorbing as much of the Peachtree City golf cart paths as my tight schedule will allow me to. I like cruising on my golf cart and living life through the perspective of an esthete. I like music. More specifically, I am something of a millennial mixtaper: I like making playlists, as you can probably tell from the addition of a Spotify playlist to this wiki (If your can't pick, "Nine in the Afternoon" and "LA Story" are my current favorites). Despite how much I've change over the past 3 years, sometimes I still wish I could put the world away for a few hours, curl up in a chair, and actually delve into // The Wealth of Nations // or // The Communist Manifesto // with Kanye West blaring through my headphones for the sheer joy of expanding my knowledge base, rather than for a scholarly obligation.

I am tired of pointless assignments (not this one, this one is right up my alley) that are themselves "tired." The level of ineptitude seen our current methods of educational assessment while determining content mastery disgusts me. The need for educational reform and progress is imperative. Students such as my peers and I no longer strive for knowledge of esoteric heights in fields they are passionate about. Students now are only concerned about the grades.

I am in favor of reaching for what seems to be unattainable; it just makes the euphoria so much stronger when I accomplish what I set out to do. I want to be king of the world. At least, of my world. I want to be the master of my own fate. I want to fulfill the ultimate goal of the capitalist and obtain all of the capital (yes, I mean all of it. Every last penny) and then make it rain from the heavens. Or use it to give others the circumstances I had. Or just burn it, just to say I made the world stand so still that no one was sure if it would go round again. I don't really know. I'm hard to read sometimes.

I do not care for parochial minds, senseless violence, instant gratification. For the sake of brevity, I will say that I do not care for American culture as we know it today. A culture in which instruments such as the television and the personal computer are manipulated to pollute the minds of the masses, rather than bestow them with overwhelming currents of knowledge. A culture in which the morally strong are labeled as weak. A culture where the intellectual are ostracized.

I am a humanist, meaning I believe in the infinite potential of mankind to perform one outstanding feat after another and keep changing the meaning of the word "unprecedented." However, I am also very cynical of humanity because, from what I've seen, read and heard, humans normally use their potential in counterproductive and even self-destructive ways.

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