Meyer Article

The article we annotated for homework was a little disturbing to me. Before reading, I had never realized exactly how obedient we all are. I started to pay attention to the little things that I had felt were completely normal until now. Actions from the way we automatically date our papers and write our names in the upper write hand corner to raising our hands when a teacher asks a question would be completely out of the normal if we had not been taught from day 1 to do as we are told. I feel like the way our society is structured the majority of Americans would have participated in the study and "electricuted" someone purely out of the habit of obedience. I'm not positive on how far I would go in the study. I would hope it would only be until the other person breathes one word of pain.

Who am I?

Hi! I'm Kelsey and I'm one of the four juniors in Sal's first period. I decided to take sociology this year because i guess i didn't have the time to take it next year. I'm on cheer at our school. As weird as it sounds its been a big part of who I am today. You could say it made me more "school spirited" than i already was (all cheerleaders are not born with an obsession for their school). It has also helped me to be more outgoing than I was when i was younger. The reason I became a cheerleader was out of inspiration of my brother, Mitch. He played football at our school and currently does in college. Being at all of his games made me fall in love with the sport, so decided to cheer for it.
My brother and I have recently (since he went away to college) become very close. I guess we depend on each other for a lot because we have no other siblings. I miss him all the time when he's away, but when he comes back we get back to the whole sibling rivelry thing pretty quick.
With the majority of this class being seniors its been making me nervous for the college process thats starting really quick. Everyone I've talked to seems very excited and sure of what they're going to do. I really don't think that's going to be me. I'm positive I'm going to college right after high school, the problem is what school I'll be at. I'm planning on going into pre-med or nursing school so hopefully I'll find a good program.
Silence is kind of a funny thing. I feel like I'm never around it unless its forced upon myself and the others around me. At state cheer competition last year our coach got very mad at us for some reason I'm still not sure of. She made us have a silent bus ride from the movies back to the hotel to get ready for competition. It's a pretty hard thing to stay completely quiet when you're in close quarters with thirty other girls that are basically family. When we had the silent moment in class last week, it made me remember this. I have to say it was easier to be quiet because i didn't know half of the class.