Stress is Killing Me!!
I really don’t know how to start this, but I will do the best that I can to explain. Trust me, if what I put here makes no sense whatsoever, it makes a lot more sense in my head. Right now my life is really quite stressful. Yes I know what you are thinking, “Well, so is every other 8th grader’s”. But I do much more in the way of stressful activities then most others in my grade. I also know that high school is going to be a bitch compared to middle school, but we will get out at 1:45 compared to 3:50. By the time I get home from school right now, it is usually around 5:00. To bring this back to the main point, after a 6-7 hour day at school (which entitles usually a test, fixing multiple Windows computer problems, and dealing with getting in classwork and homework on time) I’m already stressed enough to get a few gray hairs, add in a sister who either never listens to you or talks (yells) back at you when you try to help them with something, and dealing with usually a server or network problem that is keeping me from getting my DNS lookups working properly, email server wiping out all of your gmail, the router miss-routing internet traffic (usually forwarding my VPN traffic to my proxy server, not my VPN server), or my virtual machine host going down for no apparent reason. Add that all together and that is enough stress to kill a 14 year old (not literally, just using a hyperbole to stress (no pun intended) the amount of stress that I’m under). What all this is doing is making my grades drop, and giving me almost daily headaches. You might say the easy solution is to either take away my technology, have me not do any work with technology, or both. Well yes, those would be easy immediate solutions, but not very good long term ones. After 2-3 days without an interactive device, I start to become steeply depressed as my entire life is basically on them. I am NOT however addicted to said devices or the internet. These devices are just the way I communicate with people and society. In 7 years everyone will be using such devices minutely to communicate rather than the old fashioned way of doing things. I’m on the verge of holding a part-time job as a YouTube partner and am a beta tester for multiple companies which I cannot disclose. So you see my reasoning? Back to the issue at hand, there are my reasons for being stressed. What a lot of adults don’t see is actually fragile a teenager actually is. It’s like balancing an elephant on a knife edge. We are raging with hormones and emotions. Most people see girls as the more fragile ones, but in reality both are equally fragile. Girls are just more upfront about it. Sure, everybody is different, but we all have one thing in common; our passion to understand.
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8th Grade
Wow! 8th grade already! It seem like just yesterday that I was starting 6th grade, knowing no one, and now, having an interconnected web of friends between the friends that went to my elementary school, and go to a different middle school then me, and all of my friends in my middle school. I’m friends with a lot of people, from a few of the most popular girls in school, to kids on the other end of the spectrum, and everything in between. I have learned a lot about everything. From learning physical science today, to learning how to ask a girl out. I came from a school that was extremely strict. I don’t think anyone officially asked anyone out in 5th grade, now you can watch down one hallway, and you can see at least 5 relationship beginning and ending. I have learned a lot. I came into the school in 6th grade wearing glasses, no hint of designer clothes, long socks as opposed to ankle socks. If you looked up “geek” or “nerd”, it would show a picture of me. When I heard a cuss word I flinched and almost told a teacher. I have changed quite abit in about 2 1/2 years. If you have known me for all three years, you will know. I now have a girlfriend and feel wanted, instead of a nobody and am not the biggest nerd in the world… well at least I don’t show it. I think that this year is going to be the most fun year of school yet! I mean, the way it has started has been great, and I am not going to let any boring Language Arts classes stop me from having fun. I love both my electives this year, first being Spanish, and the teacher is AMAZING, and second being Drama, with my most favoritest teacher ever (she taught my 6th grade geography class and she was amazing). So as you can see, I’m going to have an amazing year, with amazing friends, and (mostly) amazing teachers.
iPhone 3Gs Reveiw
Well, I got the iPhone 3Gs on Thursday morning after a week and a half of waiting. FedEx said that it would come Tuesday before 10:30 AM EDT but the customs in China held it up for a very long time. Let’s just say it shipped Thursday with priority direct shipping and didn’t get to the USA until late Tuesday evening. But enough with the griping, onto the actual phone. I would of done an unboxing video and speedtest comparison between the 3Gs and the 2G but I figured that there are enough of those already on the Internet that I don’t need to post those. If you really want to see them just goto YouTube and search for “iPhone 3GS Unboxing” and “iPhone 3GS vs. iPhone 2G or 3G”.
When I got the phone I was really excited and I opened the shipping box without scissors or a knife out of pure excitment. Inside was the iPhone 3Gs box, which looks a lot alike to the original iPhone and 3G’s boxes. I ripped the plastic wrap right off the box in no time at all. On the top was the 3Gs, never touched by uncovered human hands, then the Getting Started booklet and warentee information which also contained the “SIM removal tool” which is not a paper clip but a specialized tool for taking out the SIM card. Under that were the headphones, charging cable, and wall adapter. I was so glad to get a new pair of headphones and charging cable because my old charging cable was on it’s last wire and my old headphones were dieing.
I plugged the new phone right into my computer and called my Step-dad up so I could activate it. He gained control of my computer via LogMeIn. I then copyed over all of my music, apps and videos that I wanted on the phone. If I didn’t say so before, I got a black 16Gb iPhone. I still have 14Gb of free space. 
Already I had noticed it running a lot faster than my old iPhone. When the phone was syncing, the backup was made I’m guessing about 75% faster, and when it was done, I started up a game of Marble Blast Mobile, a very graphics intensive game that used to take at least 30 seconds to load the game on my old phone and takes about five to load on my new one. When I chose a level to start, the game loaded in about 2 seconds on my new phone. Once the game loaded I noticed how responsive and high frames per second it had. On my old phone it used to have about 15 fps and on my new phone it is about 30 fps. That is a 2x upgrade. That is all thanks to the 600mhz processor and 256Mb of RAM it has. To put it in perspective, it has the same power as a 8 year old IBM ThinkPad A21p laptop. Wow.
When I played a very CPU intensive game called TapDefence (a tower defence game), when I had all of the spots filled with arrow towers, the game was still very responsive. The GPS is another great feature of the 3Gs and 3G that the original iPhone didn’t have. Paired with the compass, it made a perfect pair. The compass isn’t actually an compass, but a magnometer, a digital compass. In maps, it can show you what direction you are facing and in the compass app it can give you your direction in degrees in true north and magnetic north.
The camera is an upgraded feature that was in both the original iPhone and the 3G but the 3Gs’s is a 3.0 Mpx autofocus camera that records 640×480 video at 30 fps. It also geotags your photos and video so you can remember where you took them. Here are a few example photos:
A lot of people dislike AT&T for what they say is crappy service, but I think otherwise. I get 5 bars 3G at my house which is outside of the city limits, it is a suburb with a lot of trees, and the city isn’t really that decent of a size. Also I’ve never had a dropped call anywhere and they have the most advanced GSM network in the US. They aren’t based on the outdated CDMA network that Verizon and Sprint run on.
Over all I’d give the iPhone 3Gs, the most advanced smartphone, an eleven apples out of ten; 11/10. 
Oh and I wrote this entire reveiw on the iPhone 3Gs. 
