Journal #6 Response to Reaching for the Stars Article

I think that a lot of people may change the lives of other people without even knowing it, whether it be a teacher teaching students, making a friends with someone, or helping someone with a simple task.  I am part of the Unified Sports program at Greenwich High School.  Unified sports gives students at Greenwich High with special needs the ability to learn to play a sport and stay active.  We encourage them.  We are there to make friends with the students, play with them, and instruct them on how to play the game.  With this program I have been able to connect and interact with many of these students.  I love cheering them on and seeing a huge smile on their faces after they have scored a goal (right now we are playing soccer).

The article talked about a decrease in the amount of doctoral and graduate students interested in the field of science and or technology.  "We want these intelligent, dedicated people to live in our cities, to make their discoveries at our universities and to raise their families- the next generation of bright minds."  (paragraph 7).  The reason for this decrease is the fact that no one is guaranteed success because they went to college.  Also, the scientific field is not a very high paying field. Jobs are not abundant either. (One of the reasons for Occupy Wall street). "There is a sense of fear among our leaders that we can't afford to invest in our future, just the kind of fear that endangers thoughtful debate about big-picture priorities." (paragraph 3)

The United States was the scientific leader of the world.  It still is.  If the decrease of graduate and doctoral students will cause the United States to lose its status as the scientific leader.  The amount and rate of technological devices will decrease very quickly.

"Though some of these jobs are of the hard-hat variety, this is not a bridge to nowhere; this is a bridge to the edge of the universe itself." (paragraph 11)