A healthy body is a healthy mind....

 

One of my favorite way to relieve stress is to swim it away.  Swimming is a great way to relieve stress after a long day of work and school. When your swimming your doing physical work and it gives your mind a break. The concentration you use while your swimming takes your mind off whatever was bothering you. Sometimes the best way to get rid of what is bothering you is to not think about it. Not only is swimming a good way to relieve stress it also is a really good way to get exercise the body. Exercise is another good way i like to relieve stress. Exercising, just like swimming, on a steady basis can increase the bodies health. A fit and healthy body has better flow of blood to the brain and allows you to think better. In conclusion, i like to relieve my stress by going for a swim and letting the water take my mind of my problems or by working out on a steady basis. 

Curve This!

I believe that grade inflation isn't as bad as people make it out to be. In today's economy it is a struggle to find jobs and therefore employer's are cautious on who they hire. In recent years the rising grades are coming from private universities such as Princeton, Harvard, and Dartmouth. I believe that a student who graduates from a school like Princeton, Harvard, or Dartmouth is more likely to get hired over a student from a school like Southern. Even with the students from the private universities getting the benefits of grade inflation they still are more likely to get hired because of their academic background. If a student from Southern and a student from Princeton both graduated with 4.0 GPA, who are you going to hire? Now what if we compared southern to schools that are not prominent Ivy league schools, grade inflation could play a bigger role on who gets the job because the employer is looking more towards the GPA. Grade inflation occurs almost everywhere. In a way it kinda equals out the effect of it if most students are getting some sort of grade inflation. Grade inflation doesn't necessarily have to be on overall grades either. Teachers sometimes give out "curves" on tests and quizzes.  A curve is when a teacher gives you a higher grade then what was actually received. Curves are usually given when a student is close to the next letter grade. For example, a teacher may curve a 88 to a 90 just so a student gets that A.