now? what is now? [jun 20 2007, 18:31]
let's keep people who wish to remain anonymous that way and just say that someone in my guestbook hoped that i would stop fucking around and finally go to college... yeah, it sounded a lot nicer there but you get the gist.
yeah, you know... i probably won't.
during the last three years of school, i learned a couple of things:
yeah, that's about it, i reckon. and while i'm hearing you cry that school's not at all like college and that you're going to like it there, i see two kinds of students all around me: the ones with too much spare time on their hands and the ones with none. and you know what? although i've only got a one-year contract right now, although i'm not, whatever happens, going to work here for the rest of my life, although this job can be tedious, fucking awful and stupid at times... i wouldn't change with either of them.
charon
yeah, you know... i probably won't.
during the last three years of school, i learned a couple of things:
- you know these opinions you hear about on tv? the crazy ones you'd never think anybody truly believed in? well, there are people who do voice these opinions and are completely and utterly convinced of them, how strange and far-fetched the opinion might sound.
- learning at school isn't really productive. i realized that at the end of my days at school, i had learned enough to pass the social/economic sciences part of my final exams but nothing whatsoever to help me in either the technical parts of said exams or in real life. considering that i'm unlikely to ever need anything of that social/economic stuff ever ever ever again, you could say that the three years of school were completely wasted.
- three years is a lot of time to waste.
- i learn a lot quicker and a lot more if i do things by myself. while that would qualify me for university life, i really think it's pretty pointless (at least for me) to learn stuff that people think i should learn. i want to learn the stuff i need to get on in daily business and the stuff i like to learn.
- tests suck. no, i don't suck at tests, i think the concept of tests is highly overrated. as are oral tests. really, any kind of test is pointless, in my opinion. and i'm sick and tired of having to prove over and over again that i'm adept at something in such a pointless way. i want to prove that i'm capable by doing something productive, not by writing or saying what people want to read or hear.
yeah, that's about it, i reckon. and while i'm hearing you cry that school's not at all like college and that you're going to like it there, i see two kinds of students all around me: the ones with too much spare time on their hands and the ones with none. and you know what? although i've only got a one-year contract right now, although i'm not, whatever happens, going to work here for the rest of my life, although this job can be tedious, fucking awful and stupid at times... i wouldn't change with either of them.
charon