Are aliens real?

Are aliens real? This is a question that everyone has thought about and even considered. Hundreds of shows and television programs are made every year dealing with aliens or beings that exist somewhere throughout space other then earth.
Some are documentaries on UFOs or alien abductions, however, many of these videos are flawed in many ways. The supposedly alien traveling crafts or commonly known UFOs are usually a photoshoped image, a bird, a plane or a camera lens malfunction. Also, most of the alien abduction programs are of people who are mentally insane, unstable or just feel the need to get attention. For example, such cases like "Couple Claims Aliens Abducted, Probed Them" are obviously flawed in their arguments.
Another flaw is that, if aliens did exist, and they abducted people, and placed anal probes in people, wouldn't this be a concern to the nations and the worlds national security. Such places like area 51, which is said the have highly classified information and supposed preserved bodies of outside beings stored away somewhere. I don't think that the world would hide this information from us. Given that the government and secret organizations do keep classified information from the public for the most part, but if an "alien invasion" happened in the world the government would have definitely told the public.
I do believe that it is possible for another world to exist and that life outside the earth on another planet could exist. But, the odds of these so called "aliens" having the technology to come to earth and travel at speeds faster then light is absurd.

2012 The Undead

The date of 12/21/12 is derived from the end of a 5,125 year cycle for the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, most notably used by the Maya civilization. The calendar completes its 13th cycle from its starting point. Correlating the Mayan date to our Gregorian calendar yields several different dates ranging from the 21st through the 23rd, but the 21st seems likely, as it coincides with the winter solstice, and though astrology has little to do with our daily affairs, astronomically the Earth is said to be aligned facing the center of the Milky Way behind the Sun on the 21st. This interesting termination of the calendar in our lifetimes makes many people believe that the date will bring about great global change.
Current scientific research into disease, reanimation and cellular re-genesis is progressing as rapidly as other scientific disciplines. Particularly terrifying is the reanimation of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus, responsible for a pandemic that killed an estimated 20 million people. Scientists have gathered important new clues to why the virus spread quickly and killed efficiently. And the virus is being harvested from corpses, notably the body of a women buried in Alaska.
Diseases may break out that cause zombie like qualities. Weakened immune systems will make humans more susceptible to the likes diseases such as Trypanosoma brucei, a parasite that carries nightmarish qualities, reducing many of its victims to a zombie like state before they slip into a coma and die. Toxoplasma gondii can alter brain functions in rats, leading them to the jaws of cats – and in humans can change brain patterns to induce neuroses, paranoia and schizophrenia. Left with a rotting brain and primitive instincts, an entire population can be reduced to weakened stumbling shadows of humans, looking for food. Even though these people are not undead, their bodies are a heap of rotting, infectious and highly contagious flesh.
However, the threat of the actual invasion of brain dead zombies is a real possibility. Restoring a human from a cryogenic stasis and reanimating their dying brain tissue creates the possibility that a human may not be the same as they were when they died. This leaves a lot of speculation to a reanimated form of a human being.

Does facebook quibble students?

Does facebook quibble students? Millions of people have facebook accounts around the world and use this website to communicate with other people, meet people, creep people and many more things. However, is facebook actually harmful to students.
4 years ago it was rare to see a 7th grader using facebook, however now an estimated 60 - 70% of all 7th graders have a facebook account, and the percentage is higher for 8th graders. Kids are obtaining accounts at lower and lower ages. At a camp I worked at over the summer, I looked after 3rd graders and half of them had facebook accounts. I was amazed.
Because so many kids and students use facebook, the effect it has on students lives are huge. Facebook helps people find people they know or find friends but it does not help you socially interact with people outside the Internet world. Many people who are avid facebook users are socially awkward and do not know how to interact with other people unless its behind a computer screen. Studies and procedures have been done that prove this valid.
I have even noticed in school that some of the most intense facebook users, such as the students who do all of the facebook surveys, quizs, and all of the other apps tend to be the ones who socially awkward.
People need to realize that facebook needs to be balanced between you day to day activities and that talking to people and being social is a lot more important. I have seen people who have asked people out online and it always ends in disaster.

Are all these crazy courses and school work putting too much stress on students?

Are all these crazy courses and school work putting too much stress on students?
Many students at Harvard Medical School say yes. In a New York Times article, Carey Goldberg wrote about how more and more students are committing suicide from the work load at Harvard. One person said that students at a graduate school having to deal with "apprenticeship-slash-employment-slash-academic financial pressures, significant research pressures, significant teaching obligations... familial issues'' which cause extreme amounts of stress on a student.
There are many stresses that one student goes through especially in college. The most strenuous stress is Academic Stress, which is since college work load is greatly more involved and time cumbersome then in High School. Scheduling issues, difficult tests and other academic obstacles, along with the more independent nature of the college learning structure, create an atmosphere of studying long, hard hours and thus stress. One of the most commonly felt consequences of college stress is a feeling of being overwhelmed. While trying to find a balance of hard work and play. Many college students struggle with perfectionism or unhealthy habits like heavy drinking. I am a high school student and feel like the work load is extremely ridiculous, especially in 11th grade. I have around 4 to 6 hours of homework and studying a night which I think is very stressful. I am also on a sport and in drama which takes up a majority of my free time to do homework. So I know what its like to be under a lot of stress. However instead of doing drugs, drinking or thinking of suicide, I relieve my stress by working out a lot.
School related suicide is becoming a very bad problem in the United States. However, many programs such as suicide hot lines, counseling and relief centers are being set up in colleges and around the communities to prevent these suicides from happening. Maby if schools also cut some of the work loads required, college suicide rates will decrease.