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Are my thoughts about this school year acceptable or disrespectful/ inhumane?
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shroum Wrote:I got a girlfriend, became really popular, and learned a little bit.
I'd say you still have much to learn, Padawan.

Quote:Then again in my perspective you really don't learn anything new in middle school. Or at least not like how you learn important skills in high school or college. Honestly without trying to make my self seem like I think i'm the smartest person in the world i'd like to say that really the only thing i've ever learned from school is math. Everything else i've learned throughout experiencing life. I'm one of those kids who gets by in school with A's and B's without even trying. Its all common no-ledge(what?) in my opinion. Up until this afternoon I was loving it, It was a second life away from home.

Story of my young academic life. Everything was crazy easy until I took AP Calc BC senior year, which I completely bombed because I'd gotten into the habit of sleeping frequently in almost every class I'd taken since sophomore year. Don't do that. Stay interested, if you can. Suck it up and take it in as much as possible. If it feels like you aren't learning anything... well - you are and you aren't. If learning comes easy, good. Keep doing whatever you're doing. You're going to have to keep up with what you're learning now since most topics stack up information, especially math and science if you have any interest in those fields. When you start hitting high school, your freedom to tailor your classes to your tastes should expand, and even more in college. But you've got to learn stuff like Algebra first. I got fed a lot of crap about "Even if you don't need this math, it's good for you, like a brain pushup". But then I went into electrical engineering for my major, and I pull math from just about every math class I've ever taken. Maybe not the very obscure stuff, but if you really need to know something, you'll have learned it in so many different classes, you'll start seeing stuff like integrals in your sleep. The subject I use most frequently from Calculus 4- Laplace Transforms- really just boils down to having the right table in front of me and knowing what algebraic manipulations to make. I learned most of my algebra in 8th grade. It doesn't look important now, but you're learning a hell of a lot of useful stuff even in middle school. If not for job skills, for the real world. Knowing a thing or two about basic math, probability, history, and especially decent writing (Probably the most important job skill, ever.) will open the world to you, or at the very least, make the rest of your time in school substantially easier. Keep up the good work.

Quote:Friend and Facebook stuff
Times change, people grow older, mature at different rates, find new interests, and the list goes on. Not all of your friendships will last. Even if they all feel like bonds made of steel, people come and go. You live in the beautiful age of Facebook though. It's in your power to hang on to the relationships you really want to hang on to. It will take effort though, so choose wisely. I really don't see how you can have over 200 meaningful friendships, maybe that's just because I'm a more solitary person, but I'd say this might be the perfect chance to "spring clean" so to speak. And don't forget, if you're going to a new high school, you have that many more new connections waiting to be made. My friend circle seriously exploded in the 9th and 10th grade. My oldest friend, a guy I've hung out with since the 2nd grade heavily started hanging out with another guy in the 10th grade, and now we're like the 3 Musketeers. Some of the people I talked to every day, and had multiple classes with but never really hung out with except for at parties are people I've only seen once or twice in the two years since I've graduated. It's great talking to them, and I'll make the effort to see them when they're around, but I realize I really don't miss them to the point of distress. To boil it down to two points: don't panic, and seize the opportunities to make and strengthen friendships you're truly interested in.

Oh, and those snot-nosed 6th graders? I found most of them became remarkably tolerable by 10th and 11th grade. Hell, a few of them were quite awesome.

Quote:I've entered this mode of sort of depression sort of logics. My current thought on it is that I'm a fool. I shouldn't have treated school in an academic way instead of a social way. Heck I probably won't even meet those people ever again in my life. Is it ok for me to suddenly blow off 7 years of friendships to say this? I really don't know and thats why I'm asking you. Is it right for me to not even care about those memories anymore and to be looking at it in a more logical way? I think theres a small possibility i'm just doing this in shock but for some reason it makes sense to me but doesn't feel right.
You're not blowing them off, you're continuing to go where you take yourself and where life takes you. Not all of them can come for your ride. My family likes to say "balance in all things" and for school, a proper balance has academics at the top of the food chain. Your education is for you, it's the foundation of what you do in life, how well you do it, and what you're able to take from life. This isn't to say you should shove your face in a textbook all day- experiences with your peers are another way to educate yourself. but you'll always have peers surrounding you at school, at work, in your activities. But you don't have until you're fifty to be prepared for the world. Learn now, learn lots, never stop. Be prepared for all life can offer you and all you want of life. If you don't learn now, you'll be playing catch-up for your entire life. People come and go, but your knowledge base and experiences are eternal. You'll adapt. Because that's what humans do. The only other option is failure, and that's not an option, therefore you will win.

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Quote:But theres really nothing to learn in middle school. Especially since Arizona has such bad schools. Heck I learn more just by life experiances then we learn in school.
If you're truly into learning and really have no faith in your school, hit up a library and read.
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Are my thoughts about this school year acceptable or disrespectful/ inhumane? - by madanthony - 2010-06-04, 11:12 PM

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