What gives us more pleasure and satisfaction: the pursuit of our desires or the attainment of them?

Attainment of goals gives brief pleasure and satisfaction but I think that the pursuit give more long lasting pleasure. Once it's attained, we may or may not have anything to strive for. Searching for something we desire gives us a sense of being and a sense of purpose. We attain them we start looking for that next big thing to accomplish. If we were actually happy with the attainment of the goal we would be able to stop right there. The brief moment of self accomplishment deriving from the achievement of our goal is just that: brief. We as humans are always looking for ways to improve our lives and finding the shortest route to happiness. And it is in our lives that we avoid pain by the pursuit of what we desire.

While you are pursuing a goal, you are imagining the pleasure of attainment. Once you achieve the goal, the pleasure may not be as great as you imagined.

Once it's attained, we may or may not have anything to strive for. Searching for something we desire gives us a sense of being and a sense of purpose. We attain them we start looking for that next big thing to accomplish. If we were actually happy with the attainment of the goal we would be able to stop right there. The brief moment of self accomplishment deriving from the achievement of our goal is just that: brief. We as humans are always looking for ways to improve our lives and finding the shortest route to happiness. And it is in our lives that we avoid pain by the pursuit of what we desire.

It depends on the goal. Some goals once attained are just the beginning. There is such a thing as a prerequisite. Until that is attained everything else is just a pipe dream. Then there are others in which the pursuit is the true goal. For example, climbing a mountain. Once you've been to the top of a mountain, all other mountain tops are the same. The object is not the summit but the climb and the return. These are the challenge.

The SAT

The SAT holds tremendous power in determining where you will go to college. To go to virtually any college or university in the United States, you need to have taken the Scholastic Aptitude Test, a standardized exam that assigns you a score that ranks your verbal and math abilities. The SAT is not an intelligence test; rather, it is a predictor of college success. College admissions committees use the SAT to get a general idea of your scholastic aptitude. Each section of the SAT is graded on a scale of 200 - 800, with 500 being the average score. Though many colleges require the SAT for admission because it is a standard way of measuring a student's ability to do college-level work, there are many problems with it.

Colleges and universities have been using the SAT to select their students who apply to them. According to College Board, the SAT is a test that measures students' abilities which they will use to be able to do well in universities or colleges. In addition, the SAT shows how well the students solve the problems and how well the education they have gotten. The SAT consists of ten sections which consist of one 25-minute essay section, two 25-minute and one 20-minute math problem sections, four 25-minute, one 20-minute, and one 10-minute English problem sections. Therefore, the total time to do all the sections is three hours and forty-five minutes.

No test can accurately predict with 100 percent certainty what your grades will be in college. This is because many factors, including personal motivation, influence your college grades. Colleges use SAT scores to help estimate how well students are likely to do at its school. Knowing your SAT helps the college make a decision about how likely it is that you'll do well at the school, but for many their first year of college grades are different from what their SAT scores had predicted for them. The oldest and most familiar accusation against standardized tests is that they are discriminatory. The prime evidence for this charge is the test results themselves.

Thanksgiving Break Weekend

During the thanksgiving break, I had a fun time while I’m sore. On Wednesday, I had to go to this mandatory practice for badminton in Golden Gate Badminton Club at Emeryville. My friends, sister, and I played badminton for a long time since in the morning. In the morning 10 am to 7 pm straight. During the practice, we were having fun playing it. After we left the GGBC, we all were really sore everywhere and were stretching because it hurts so much. After we all left and came back home, we were tired.

On Thursday, my family and I went to a friend’s house to have barbeque at their house. We had a lot of different fried food and we brought noodles to their house. Everyone likes the noodles because it was delicious. There were steaks, crabs, potatoes, yams, etc. After we finished eating, we went back home.

On Friday, it was Black Friday, my family and I went shopping at 4 am. When we went to the shopping mall, it wasn’t a lot of people like usual Monday to Friday. First, we went to Office Max because my dad wanted to get the Acer Notebook Laptop. On the paper, it said it was 150 dollars but when we went inside the Office Max. The people who worked there said it was a fake ad. We all were mad because they shouldn’t do that. But after that, we left and went to the mall in Fremont. There weren’t a lot of people at Great Mall. We spend so much time looking for clothes to buy. After we finished shopping at Great Mall, we went to Southland to shop for clothes too. Later when we finished with everything, we went back home and eat dinner. We were all tired of walking for a long time.

I was sore for four days in the row starting from Wednesday to Saturday. Finally on Sunday, I was all back to normal, no pain at all.