Journal Assignment # 2

Joseph Wei

Journal Assignment # 2

Some examples of scarcity at PAS are: time, money, and materials. Teachers have to give up time in order to earn wages. Students must give time, money, and materials in order to receive education, and possibly parent approval. Personally, I would like to have more time and money to do the things that I like. However, the reality only allows me 24 hours a day and the fact that I can't be in two places at one time, on top of the pressure from my parents; each of these stop me from achieving my wants. I've had to trade time to do homework and go to school. In the time that I used doing homework and school, I could have been playing games or traveling or earning money. I have had to trade one class for another because of the restrictions on the class times as well as the restrictions on my class schedule, which only allows for certain classes on certain days during certain periods, and there are only 4 periods in a day (on average). However, the most important trade off would have to be the tradeoff among people. These tradeoffs can be grouped into 2 categories, appearance and friends. In the past, I have made trade offs to become the person that I am today. For example, I traded sports for playing an instrument. The friends that you choose to associate yourself with also define who you are. Each social circle involves a certain set of tradeoffs. For example, you must invest time, you won't be able to be in other circles as well, or get a job to earn money. You also tradeoff who you are; for example, not everyone fits into a social circle perfectly, so they have to compromise and possibly hide some aspects of themselves and pretend to be something that their not, either by just faking it or emphasizing another part of them that's not so prominent.