Last week, and two days of this week, 9 thru 11th grade was testing. So seniors had to stay in the auditorium. IT was so boring in there that i just can't say it in words. Anyways we had to stay in there for four hours, and they had guest speakers. But what i hated the most about the guest speakers was that they brought the stupidest ones. And they all had the same occupation. They were all in the entertainment business; actors, models, entertainment lawyers. Who cares about them why couldn't they bring people with better JOBS, such as people who own their own business or web page designers, doctors, nurses. etc. What they think just because we are a minority group all we can be is actors, models? It just made me sick to my stomach having to listen to them. them being there brought me nothing valuable, an nothing they said i would ever take in life with me. And i asked many of my peers if they cared about anything they said, and they said NO! only about three people actually in our whole senior class want to be in the entertainment business. So the rest of us got nothing out of this, and they wasted our valuable time to be actually learning something.
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Wow, that really surprises me! Usually schools are against the "dreamers" that are set on entertainment since it's nearly impossible to get into. I agree with you- that's a waiste of time. If nothing else, they could have made it into study time, or scholarship information time or something! It's time to move forward in your lives, and learn what the real world is all about... not MTV's Real World!
Were the actors anyone worth mentioning? Or just some no names?
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity--and I'm not so sure about the universe"
-Albert Einstein
I'm guessing that by a minority group, you're referring to being at a predominantly black school, correct?
If so, that's beyond excusable! I know so many black people who go to school at Georgia Tech, like I do, and they also talk about how so many black students concentrate solely on being in the entertainment business. I can understand how frustrating that must be--it would be like only offering homemakers, secretarial and nurse speakers at a predominately female school, because most women were only expected to do those kinds of jobs.
Just keep in mind that diversity has a place in every kind of business. The reason employers are more willing to hire people of different races and women in particular, is NOT because they want to avoid being brought up on Equal Opportunity charges; it's literally because different people need to be brought into a worplace in order to supply different solutions. For so long, white men have dominated most businesses and other white-collar jobs, and now they're running into problems that they can't solve because their problem solvers are excluded to one racial group. In order to bring new ideas in, employers are beginning to hire qualified people who are either female, of a minority group, or both because they want to find new solutions to old-school problems!
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Emily
Georgia Tech
School of Public Policy