Making All My Mistakes Now
My freshmen year in high school, I had the realization that, since it was better to have braces in middle school and then get them off in high school that it would be better for me to make as many mistakes as I can in high school to get them out of the way so I can have some smooth-rolling college years. As it turns out, I was highly successful. Presently, however, this was a highly unfortunate decision.
Our latest statistics project was to take a yes or no survey. I, acting like the want-to-be clever contrarian, decided to establish a fake, female facebook (I truly enjoy employing excessive amounts of consonance) profile in order that I could see whether males or females were more likely to add the fake profile. At the time this seemed brilliant. Nevertheless, I was told yesterday that the school could potentially have a law suit filed against it for my foolish actions. You see, in trying to figure out who was more susceptible, males or females, to accepting a strangers profile (the information from said survey could be valuable in determining who is more venerable to sexual predators acting as minors online), I, in turn, became the predator by compromising other peoples personal privacy. During the remainder of the statistics class, I made a list of mistakes I’ve made that I would enjoy avoiding in the future that I will reproduce below, starting with:
- avoid creating fake facebook profile and luring strangers to add you, regardless of how innocent the motive is
- avoid establishing a history of lateness
- avoid carrying a knife successfully onto a flight from Rome to London and then getting caught by Britain’s finest
- avoid falling asleep while writing a lab report
- avoid wandering off on school funcions
- avoid making edgy Spanish videos
- avoid admitting someone into residence while I am not present
- avoid idea-plagiarizing on a school paper
- avoid consistently forgetting deadlines
- avoid hitting someone else’s porsche on prom night while driving dad’s car
- avoid putting anything questionable in writing
- avoid listening to phone when other people butt-dial you
haha this is so true.
lol..this made me laugh. Loved it
Mistakes, while painful, when honest are excellent learning experiences. In fact, it’s the way most people learn most things. It’s how we got foam rubber. Great post.