Dating, superficiality, and teenagers

I feel like a lot of teenagers, including my friend, go into a relationship based on passion alone. But once the passion wears out, they are left with no intimacy or commitment. And so I believe this is why many teenaged relationships end, because teenagers are more concerned about the passion. But if people also looked for intimacy and connection, then their relationships would go a lot further.

Being single

I have noticed lately that society puts a lot of emphasis on a person to date someone. Being single is shown as a sign of loneliness and something bad. People also look down upon unmarried couples who have children. We don't know everything about people and so why should we judge them. And yet society has told people how to think and what is right and what is not. Maybe one day these stereotypes will disappear and single people won't be judged for their situation.

DNA photographed for the first time

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/02/dna-photo-double-helix_n_2219803.html

A DNA strand has just been photographed for the first time in history. This will surely lead to new discovers about genes and human traits. And it certainly will help us in understand how humans develop.

Babies and facial emotions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3350364/Babies-can-recognise-emotion-in-faces.html

Recently I read an article that said that babies can recognise emotions in other people's faces as early as four months old.

Student Stress

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-05-13/dogs-stress-relief-on-campus/54921444/1

I recently found an interesting concerning the issue of stress and how some colleges are helping that stress, with the use of Dog therapy. Maybe that will come to UA one day haha.

On Gay Marriage

I had to recently debate with another student in English class on a subject. The subject that I chose was the issue of gay marriage. And so I partnered up with someone who held the opposite view of mine (she was against the idea of gay marriage) and have a Rogerian argument. During the argument, she made the claim that children raised by a gay couple, will be harmed in thinking that it's ok and their lifestyle will be worse. I, however, showed her with my research that children raised under gays turned out no different than any other children. Reading it again in class reassures my argument and proves that I am right.

Experience

Recently I was talking to my friend about northerners. He told me how they were unfriendly, intolerant and such. I asked him why he thought this way. He said that that most of the ones that he has met were like that. I tried to explain to him that he couldn't generalize an entire people. But he kept on with "There are some exceptions, but I've rarely met a nice northerner." I see this fallacy all the time. People basing their evidence on their narrow experience. But it isn't the way to win arguments, only lose them.

The Dunning-Kruger effect

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201006/when-ignorance-begets-confidence-the-classic-dunning-kruger-effect

Recently, I got into a debate with someone whose arguments I've shot down. And yet they still held the conviction that they were still right. I could not understand how someone could still claim to be right, and have their arguments exposed as flawed. But I read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect, and now it all makes sense.

More teens attending college and tuition rates

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57517032/why-college-tuition-keeps-rising/

In the textbook it said that more kids are going to college. However, with tuition rates rising and student debt climbing, perhaps this isn't the best idea at the moment for sum.

Rites of passage

I know that myself personally, I am still transitioning to adulthood. I'm not yet financially independent, but I am becoming more independent with time. I see students on campus taking part in rites such as a drinking game or something else, to prove themselves. Like if one wants to be a part of a fraternity house, they might have to pass a rite as well.