Monday, October 13, 2003

Black-eyed angels swam with me.

Mood: Okay.
Music: None.

I am in Computer Programming 1 right now...I should probably be doing my work, but what the hell, it's Monday.

Well, I would be doing my work, but we have a sub for a teacher today. Slack time for me.

I have been pretty out of it all day. My brain hasn't been able to function too well. Plus this cold.

Hm...I posted that Amorphis thread in the music lounge of OB and no one posted. Figures.

Today after school I need to get a note set up for this Derick Carsch person so I can interview them for my cookie story. First interview notes are due tomorrow. Bleh.

I either A)forgot my compact .mp3 cd player today or b)I have lost it. I went to get it during AP English class today and it wasn't there, only headphones. I am worried. If I have lost that then I am going to be so mad at myself for being so unresponsible.

What else...

We got our rewrites of our Frederick Douglass style formal essays back. I still only got a B+, since I refused to change anything. Yes, I'm stubborn, but I feel that I wrote it nicely the first time. The only thing I did was put comments in brackets for things--such as how I felt about writing in formal essay form, and other things.

The teacher had put "???" about some words and underlined them, such as commercialized, tainted, and "beautiful mess." I explained them all in my comments in brackets--and over those she just put, "I knew what this word meant."

Then why put question marks on it? You obviously didn't know what I meant, so I put it down, and then you just flatline me with, "I knew what this word meant." If you knew what it meant, then why put the "???"'s on it? Exactly. Unless she meant me to change them.

In my concluding comment, I told her that I found writing in formal essays like writing WITHOUT the reader in mind, and that I could write so much better just without writing in formal essay form.

She put, "...I don't know why you're in the class if you feel this way. Not that I don't enjoy you in class.." blah blah blah.

I took this class for a challenge.

School in general is way too easy I'd say. I pretty much slack all the time and am lazy and I still get A's and B's. I feel I could be challenged a lot more--especially with something like English, which I love.

So this is why I took AP.

She also said we are writing like this because this is how it will be on the AP test--which gives college credit--and also how it will be in college. I understand.

After class she asked me if I understood. I told her I would've said the same thing in her position.

And I would've.

We also always have to watch Channel One in AP Eng at the beginning of class. The question of the day was, "Do you think the SAT shows how well you will do in college?" and I decided to reply to this. So during Newspaper, which is a class I do mostly nothing in, I typed up a whole answer to it rather quickly. We'll see if they even use it.

I basically said that school is really easy for me. That I slack and still get A's and B's, and am very lazy and do things at the last minute. Then I said that all it takes to do this is to get used to what your teacher's teaching style is. Then it's as simple as doing that. And really, it is.

Then I said, how can college be much different? It shall certainly be more demanding and challenging, but really, I shall be done with my Generals pretty fast and in my career-specific classes, right?

So what's the point of colleges looking at scores on some stupid standardized test that looks at what you've gleaned from all you years working at school? And you know, really, most really smart people have such little common sense. And that's what I believe real intelligence is--being able to learn from experience, your surroundings, and adapt to it while still suiting yourself all at once. Really, that's what colleges should be worrying about. They shouldn't be looking at numbers. That's not what a student is. They are a living breathing person, not a number.

I say colleges should look at how enthusiastic students are at what they are planning to major in, or what their career path is. Because with that, you can accomplish a lot more than just with book smarts.

I'm not saying you don't need a basic understanding of all the subjects you learn at school--but really, you forget most of these things for your career-oriented information. So why do some stupid test?

Don't ask me.
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