As a diligent student, I find that my peers often look for ways to bring me down. They may deride me with words like loud, obnoxious, maybe even arrogant, but I always take the positive complement to their derisions: I am communicative, energetic, and confident. I find that life is too short for negativity. If a person has time to find the negative side of every situation, he or she has just as much time to find the positive side....