Posted by Matches on October 31, 1999 at 18:06:32:
In Reply to: Matches - reprise. posted by Tiggy. on October 31, 1999 at 15:15:12:
: Not sure what 3rd grade is, but I reached my peak in the 3rd year of senior school, age 14. I came top in all three English exams, History, Religous Studies, Chemistry and Physics. After that I went downhill, so I know the feeling.
Kids are usually about 9 years old when they're in third grade...just to give you some perspective on how long its been since I've been any good at school.
: BUT, doing an essay is not just so you can have it marked, it's a practice to get you used to doing essays, researching, structuring, refining etc., and to increase your confidence in these things. I know it's very Fourish to want to concentrate on the subject matter and learning about ideas, facts, theories, but the essay thing is as much a way of learning about a process. I know you don't see the point of it, but how many of the things do you have to do in the end? Not that many. Surely you can do something pointless a few times, in order to get a ticket to more interesting opportunities. And while you're there doing these few pointless things, you get to go to lectures which may be interesting, you get access to resources, you get access to people and social events and societies, you don't have to do the boring 9-5, you can do your own thing for a large part of the week and then rush off the essays just before the deadline, you get a roof over your head which is presumably already paid for(unless you're going in from home, I can't remember).
You can say that all you want, but I really don't beleive that in my heart. I've never had to write an essay outside of school. I have only vague interest in lectures. "Access to people and social events and societies"? That means nothing to me. I don't live on campus anymore. I show up, go to class, and go home. Every day.
: What will you do if you leave? Will it mean staying with your parents for years, not getting a very good job, doing something dull for a few years and being too tired at the end of the day to do any of your own stuff.
If/When I leave? Stay at home for a little while, find another job, make some money. Who knows? Who knows? I can always go back.
: How long have you got to go? Even three years is a short time, and you must have already done part of that. You've got the rest of your life to go to work and not do essays.
I'm in my second year in what is ideally a 4-year school. But I have no declared major, and the major I'm thinking of is so vague and next to worthless when it comes to getting a job out of college that it doesn't even matter. I'm trying to face facts: I just don't have the desire to wrok hard....and in this world, you can't be a success if you don't.
: I can't believe you've never heard of Richard Branson; I guess he's our equivalent of Bill Gates, but he's known in the States too. You must have heard of Virgin Airlines.
Only vaguely..
: I thought the hair might be lightish brown, going fairer in the sun, but you didn't say if it was curly at all.
My hair in reality is fairly straight, though I'm thinking of growing it longer in the back, and its beginning to curl up back there. I feel like a hockey player.. :-)
Matches