(the following passage is written by Kent, not me)
Might as well quit school

After finished the reading of the article about studying in college, it makes me think of what I really learn at school. Is that worth? Am i really learning or just doing works for my future?

I persoanlly thought this was an amazing article. Especially realiizing my university degree may not be as valuable as I would like it to be. I never really thought about if my 4 years in
university was worth all that investment. Though for Canadians the burden maybe much less thanAmericans when it comes to college tuition. Going to university has been so typical I would say. After waving good bye to high school, the next stop is always another 4 years of higher education. Though It is true nowdays, employers are looking for personnel with better work ethics and a positive attitude. Along with innovative ideas to help the company strive and make more profit. Education, being one of the most important concepts in traditional minds, is only a mere bonus. In a survey done by Forbes, less than 20% of the 100 richest people in the U.S have a MBA degree. After reading the article it really intrigues me if I should continue to progress after my bachelour’s or just drop out now and start establishing my own business. There is a saying about truly smart people hires people that are smarter than him. I think this applies perfectly in this situation. The bosses of top corporations hire smarter people to think of innocative ideas to help him to earn more profit and increase sales. Speaking in mind, graduates are working for non-graduates. And reality being as cruel as it is, speaks the truth.

(the following passage is written by Conan, not me)
Internet network as a medium for illegal activities

The internet social networking system such as Facebook or MySpace is so popular mostly, I supposed, due to its high accessibility and convenient inter-linking design. Everyone is able to have an account and create his or her own profile. It gives its users this feeling of being personal, since each profile represents a cyber entity that links the person who creates this profile to other people over the internet. However, this feeling of being personal and private seems lead to the consequence of forgetting such social-networking sites are actually public forums. Anything that people post on Facebook is potentially available to any other people. Further more, the user of these networks are mostly teenagers and university students. One common characteristics of these users is that they are all technological advanced but emotionally immature. Therefore they may end up using the high accessibility and advanced technology these sites endow for some illegal activities.

The news report shows how the illegal activities are tracked and prevented through the surveillance and investing over Facebook. But this only arises more anxiety to me. Facebook is one of the forerunners of social-networking sites, which means it is more popular and easy to target than other sites. The problem seems to me is that there are thousands of Facebook-like sites on internet that are far less popular and well-known than it that may be used for preparing illegal activities and are impossible for the police to target all of the the illegal activities on the internet simply because they are too many of them.

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