answer:People have often told me I am brave, but I have trouble believing it sometimes. 1) The dichotomy of “sissy/brave” is not a very fair one. I deal with difficult and complex situations all the time, because I have to. Some people would think I am a sissy because I let them affect me at all, but I go through with them just the same. 2) I’m sure I have done this for tests in throw-away classes like Health and Psychology (it can be a difficult class, but the survey classes are generally a joke). But doing this for important classes is not brave; it is foolhardy. 3) I would not do that. For one thing, I thing skydiving is very wasteful. I am not interested in extreme sports because I am not an adventuresome person. Growing up with a chronic illness that could kill you any day can do that to you. That being said, simply doing things that others can take for granted, like traveling alone in a foreign country, or letting loose at a party, is adventuresome for a type 1 diabetic. 4) I have done so, yes. 5) I am not on track for a well paying 9 to 5. I need job security, health insurance, intellectual stimulation, and a sense of social contribution. So I am brave enough to take a difficult course of studies that will allow me to have a job that fulfills these conditions, rather than taking the easy way out and working a high paying job that might not agree with my values. 6) No, I did not, because the administrators backed the bullies up. Just going to school every day was brave.