Shooting and ice skating? (SSR)

This Saturday there was a shooting at Bryant Park. A boy named Cory Dunton,16 years old, has been flagged as the gun man. People were trying to get a few more minutes with a late night skate when shortly before 11 pm Dunton approach Javier Contreras,20 years old, demanding his coat. The coat was believed to be a Marmot Mammoth, which is also known as a Biggie, which is a known object for robberies within the city during the winter. Contreras refused and Dunton walked away. Minutes later Dunton returned with a gun and opened fire on Contreras. Shoots were fired and about 300 scrambled around for cover. Javier Contreras was struck in the abdomen, leg and hands. On Sunday morning the traces of the shooting had been scrubbed away from the ice.
This is disturbing to hear being that friends and I skate at Bryant Park. What if we just so happened to be there that day? Its sad because people came to skate on an innocent Saturday to have fun. And it seems as if people just cant have nice things with out someone trying to rob them for something that they or their parents paid for. It's just appalling.

BMI & MHR in Gym Class (ID)

Currently in gym class we are learning bout Body Mass Index (BMI) and Maximum Heart Rate (MHR). In gym not health. I think we should be running around doing a sport, but no. We are learning how to calculate these things. It seems easy when we are doing this work with a calculator. Apparently we can't even use them. Why have calculator then? Everything we do now a days we use the calculator but for gym we have to do the long division and multiplication on paper. This seemed to be the problem when everyone failed his class. We got to used to using calculators.
Half the stuff we learn in school is not required on the outside in everyday life. When are we gonna find the BMI and MHR without a calculator later on in life? I bet most adults don't even know what that is. I'm done ranting. This is what we are doing in gym class currently. ( Watch my class fail) -_-

Being College Ready (FC)

Currently being a senior, I always hear 'College Ready, College Ready, College Ready'. Being college and career ready basically consists of getting a score of an 80 and above on your math and reading regents. It means having skills and wanting to pursuit a 4 year college. As a senior this term is always coming up constantly. Supposedly I'm currently a college and career ready person.
College is finally hitting me in a way. We are finally seniors. College applications need to be done. College essays need to be done. Recommendations and more. I keep putting them off in a way. When I have conversations with adults and they find out I'm a senior it never fails that I get asked 'What College are you going to?'. We're gonna graduate and might not even see most ever again. We have to go out into the real world. Student loans, getting a job, paying bills.
They say I'm college ready on paper but am I ready mental. Class of 2014 are you ready?