"Can you pay me to roll for you" ?

"Can you pay me to roll for you" was something that i heard someone in my class ask to a rick person. Confused? We played monopoly in class and everyone had their own set of rules. One person was the richest of the rich, another person was the lowest of the low, and everyone else was in between. I was the second richest person so i was pretty well off. One of the boys on my team was running low on money so he asked the richest person, "Can you pay me to roll the dice for you?" It shows that people will really do anything for money. We learned that the richest people stay rich, and the poorer people stay poor. The ones in the middle have the most opportunity to move up, or down, on the social class ladder. It's not right that people can't just work as hard and not make the same amount of money. Social Mobility makes it easier for people to move up and down in their class in some ways, but very difficult, and almost impossible, in others. If your parents have money, it's most likely that you grew up being able to get whatever you wanted, but what happens when your parents aren't there to support you and give you all the money you want? You're screwed. You need money to make money.

Social Class = Happiness ?

You know what really bothers me? When you go to my school, everyone assumes that you are rich, smart, conceited and are going to a good school. That’s not always the case, especially about the going to a good school part. My family doesn’t have a lot of money so I had to pick in-state school. I picked the obvious, ISU, Northern, Eastern, Western, and Southern. Everyone said to apply to a school I know I won’t get into just to see, so I applied to UIC. So after I applied to all my schools on September 1st, not a day later, I waited for my letters. I got Eastern and Western first, then Southern and ISU. I got in to all of them besides ISU. I got in to UIC and no can’t choose where to go. I already sent in my money to Eastern when I got the UIC acceptance letter. I could do the SHS thing and go live in a dorm away from home, which I’d love. Or I can get a car, and commute to UIC. UIC is a better school, but I’d live at home. It’s a push and pull . Today, I visited Eastern again to make sure I loved it. I do. But UIC is such a good school. Stevenson puts so much pressure on you to go on and live in a dorm and be independent. I want to, but I also don’t want to be in debt for the next 30 years. Everyone focuses on how much money you’ll make in the future rather than if you’ll be happy. I have wanted to be a Psychiatrist for eleven years. But I’m not doing well in AP Psych. I was recently thinking about switching to Secondary Education with a concentration in Family and Consumer Studies. I told my family, and they flipped. The first thing they said was I’ll make no money. Does it matter how much money I’ll make if I’ll be happy? Social Class makes your believe that you must have money to be happy.

Deviance

It's actually very annoying how social deviance even exists. If there was no deviance, everyone would be okay with everyone else doing what they're doing. For an Act of Positive Deviance, i went to the mall and said "bless you" to everyone that sneezed that was walking past my store. I got numerous dirty looks for it too. I don't understand why because when you sneeze, don't you expect a "bless you"? I do. I was just confused as to why they thought it was so funny when someone says "bless you" to a stranger.