Are You a Freak or a Geek?

After having discussed the meanings behind the Functional Theory, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism; there is a direct link to how it relates to me. By many of us being second seniors, and graduation approaching, we have a lot of conflict against school; school resting most of the power in their hands. In my case, I feel that going to such a competitive high school, we need to work twice as hard on order to achieve such high recognition. I find myself stressing over the little things, because by missing out on those 'minute' details can cost you. By being a teenager who will be facing the real world in such little time, I am overwhelmed by how much authority my parents have given me over the past several years. Just yesterday, I was speaking to my dad about how my AP psych teacher took off 6 points from my note packet, and how ridiculous I thought that was. But, by listening to his response of, "you're going to have professors like that who are nit-picky" made me realize that the power will almost always be in the hands of a teacher, or some sort of authority figure. The show Freaks and Geeks lets us know that there are bigger things out there than us- and we will have to deal with them on order to go through life. A lot of things will define us as individuals, but on order to be the best that we can, we need to conquer the bigger things that come our way.