Sorry, That Degree's Expired

I'm 20 years old, I've graduated high school. I want to go to college, and I will, but I have no idea what I want to do!
I know I'm not the only one, but I feel like such an idle loser for not already being in college when my friends are going into their third years while I haven't even applied. Is this normal? Why am I so scared to start school?
Right now, I want to go into Interior Design because it's fun, creative and I'm good at it. But I'm really good at putting together rooms on the Sims, but school requires me to draw everything, and I'm not a very practised artist. I feel like if I go to school before I heavily improve my drawing speed and quality, I'll just get run over by all these fantastic designers who have a one-up on me because they can draw.
Another weird reason why I'm putting off school; I'm scared of how much time out of my twenties it will take. I need at least 5 years to become a licenced Interior Designer, and by that time I want to start having a family. I feel like I'm gonna end up spending 4-7 years in school only to graduate, have kids and then stay at home. What's the point of getting a degree if you're not even sure if you want to start working until your kids are in school? Would it make my degree less relevant if I don't start my career until years and years after my graduation? It would, however, save time if I got my degree now, rather than waiting until later and having to spend more years not making money when there are kids at home. I'm just having a really hard time finding any information on whether or not there's an expiry date on an unused degree. I don't want to graduate and then be told by the time I'm ready to work that there have been a bunch of changes and my license to design is no longer eligible, and then I'll just have to go back to school anyways. I don't know whether or not I'll get any answer at all, but I'm just putting it out there. I'm sure there are others who are in the same situation as I am; there has to be! ...right?

Big is Dangerous

We all see the appeal of fast food; it’s fast, yummy and cheap. But what we don’t want (hopefully) is to get fat. Or so you’d think! Maybe I’m a little bias because I’ve never been overweight, but how can you let yourself get past the 300-pound mark without thinking, damn!? For most, being fat is a conscious decision, whether desired or not, and it’s usually their own fault, but for a lot it’s not, and there are a lot of cases where it is the parent over-feeding their child, who has no choice or say in the matter at all.

Apart from being teased because of your size, being fat has a lot more negatives that go with it. There’s the burden of being in constant pain because your body isn’t supposed to be lugging that much weight around all the time. You’re much more uncomfortable more often than others, and you begin to realize that you’re even getting too big to fit into the world around you. Now they have obese people who have to pay for two plane seats, because they can’t fit in one, and some airlines won’t let you fly at all if you’re too big. I have family members who are big enough to be considered obese, all the way to morbidly obese, so I know it’s much harder to get out of it than to get into it, but I really have a problem with people who defend being fat, and the way that people feel about addressing it.
Why is it that it’s far more acceptable to go up to a smoker and tell them smoking is bad for them and they should quit, but it’s not okay to go up to a fat person and say it’s bad for them, they should lose weight? I know it’s embarrassing to be called out on your size, sometimes downright hurtful, but in most cases you can’t deny that your concerned peers may have a point. The new Harry Potter theme park has a ride with a weight limit of just over 320 pounds, and they were getting complaints from people for not considering how this could hinder certain people’s experience. I’m sorry but, if you’re anything other than a sumo wrestler, you should NOT be over 320 pounds! Better yet, you shouldn’t be at theme parks going on rides if you’re fat enough to break it and put everyone else in danger. If you were that size, would you not be embarrassed? What the hell are they thinking, saying they should make things more morbidly obese friendly? Um, HELLO! It’s a lot less money and hardship for every normal sized person if you just lost weight. I mean, even a person considered fat would think being over 320 pounds is really pushing the limits of your health. Now, being overweight is the leading cause of deaths in North America, beating out smoking related deaths, and a scientific study concluded that being dangerously fat has the same health implications of smoking a pack a day.
I don’t have anything against fat people other than a disagreement with their choice of lifestyle, but I also know that a lot of fat people don’t want to be fat. What I can’t stand are the people that they allow to go on television saying, ‘big is beautiful.’ They wouldn’t allow people to go on talk shows saying smoking is cool in this day and age, so why can you promote being fat? And why aren’t these parents who are making their children fat getting in trouble? If you saw a mother buying her adolescent child a pack of cigarettes, would you not say something, or at least be utterly appalled? I truly believe it’s a form of child abuse and should be punishable by the law, however mild the penalty. Like, when you commit a crime due to anger and they make you go to anger management classes, you should have to go to an exercise and nutrition education class if you’re caught with an obese child. If I had the power to make it a law, I would have it so that children have to exercise at school enough for the fat kids to lose weight, and if the teacher notices that the child isn’t losing the weight they should be after a certain amount of time, they should be able to report the parents to the police. I mean, it’s the #1 killer in the continent! You are seriously killing your child, however slowly, but you are; there’s no other way to say it. You might as well blow a whole packs worth of cigarette smoke into the child’s room while they sleep. What is the point of having children if you’re going to negatively predetermine the rest of their lives? Shouldn’t you do everything in your power to make sure your child is happy, healthy and successful? Even employers don’t want to hire fat people because they assume they’re lazy. Is that fair to your child? I find it disgusting. You set them up so they have bad eating habits, and then they’re very distressed through their adulthood because they have to lose weight, and a lot of them can’t! Trust me, I’ve seen it, and it’s not fair. So, I think they should really address the dangers of being overweight a lot more, and if it takes making theme parks with weight limits to motivate people, than so be. Caving in and making things “fat-friendly” is just promoting the idea that it’s okay to be fat when it really isn’t.

Online Sperm

A hospital in Washington D.C. has set up a website where their users can search through the donor's information so they can pick out that perfect sperm. Not only can they skip past all the ugo's and fatties, they can scrutinize what he likes to do in his spare time, his religion and even which kind of pets he prefers. I loved how at the intro of the article it optimistically pointed out, "Woman may not need to bother finding a husband soon." Do you think it's weird that the computer in the new 'go-to' spot to make a baby?

When I first read this, it kind of blew my mind. It's like super fast speed dating, where you don't even have to find out whether or not he's an asshole if he's hot enough. But I kind of disagree with some of the factors these wannabe mommy's are taking into consideration. For one; Religion. Does it really matter what religion he is; as if that's gonna pass on to your child? I highly doubt your baby is gonna come out praising Allah and you're gonna go - Ah, shoulda made sure he was a Christian! Isn't religion PURELY nurture related? Kids are actually very smart and insightful before their parents and society alike start to dumb them down.
Another quality this website lists is whether or not they like to help people, or do charity work; whether or not they're a good person. I know you probably wouldn't purchase the sperm of a known murderer or racist, but, again, aren't all those traits totally dependent on your upbringing? I mean, if you're a Jewish couple and you buy the sperm of a white supremacist, you think every Hanukkah he'd be bashing you and chanting, "White Power!"? Obviously not.

I mean, really, these kind of traits in a guy are only relevant if you're dating and/or planning on raising the child together! And that's certainly not the case if you're buying his sperm online. You should only be worried about what he looks like and his family's medical history. If he's a Mormon, you're child won't have to be. If he's an avid skier, your child could still hate skiing. And if he's Chinese...well, then you're kid will be half-Chinese.

Crazy Kids

What's with these crazy kids lately? In the news there have been all these stories about 16 year olds killing each other over their differences. One kid got shot in the face when he went to answer the door, and another was stabbed during a fight and died in the hospital. I'm just wondering, when did it go from schoolyard bullying to committing murder?

Obviously, we all had issues when we were 16, and most of us can say we've been in a fist fight or two, but guns? Knives? Do you ever remember kids in Grade 10 who had guns to play with? Remember how small we were at 16? Seriously, go step into a highschool now that you've been out for a while and revel at how small they are! It's soo sad that a petty fight at that age could end a child's life, for they are still legally children! But the more serious concern is not that a young kid with raging hormones can commit murder, but that he can get very effective tools to do so.
I know that as humans, we are sometimes find ourselves very conflicted. We could get into the hugest fight of our life over who ate the last piece of pie, and alot of us can't deny that we've uttered a statement like, "I'm going to kill you!" at one time, but that doesn't mean we would actually do it! So, don't you think it's more likely that a young person actually WOULD do it because of their general lack of knowledge and understanding of life? Do you think they consider the victim's family, or their future? Do you think they pre-meditate whether this enemy could be the future Prime Minister? Or a scientist? Surgeon? Or even just a loving father? Do you think it's fair for a 16 year old to determine the outcome of another person's life? It must be much too easy to obtain a gun if a highschool student is killing the kids he has a disagreement with. And, why do you think it even came to this? Since when are kids able to do something so serious and adult over any 16 year old issue???
Just to put in my two-cents, I completely, and always will, blame the parents. Of course, I'm not saying the parents are telling their kids to go out and kill, but they are obviously not instilling serious morals in their children if they are mentally healthy and able to kill another human being. Both of these kids also lived in bad Toronto areas, and I know nobody lives there if they don't have to. Presumably, their parents are not so prominent in their lives because they have to work an average of two jobs in that area. So, do you think a parents lack of presence can have serious affects on a child's mental state? Hell yes!
I don't care what you say, if you're child commits murder at 16, as a parent, you have completely and utterly FAILED!