Jealousy
I have to admit I am a bit jealous. But of what? The successful rich overprivileged students. What is it I'm jealous of exactly? They can't appreciate their own success. They always want more and can never have enough. I walked by the wall today, it lists the people who are going to college. It's worse that they list the college each student will be attending.
One person was attending a notoriously expensive school in the city. I'll be lucky if I even make it into a community college. One person of whom I've had the misfortune of meeting always complains about grades. What's this? You say you got one B out of all of those A's? Can't you ever be happy Mr. Perfect?
You have so much money, oh so much money. Yet you always find something to complain about. Sir, you never hear me complain about how I can barely do algebra, or how I actually have a learning impediment. I have all of your success shoved in my face and you say you're "...so retarded.", surely no one person could possibly be more learning impaired than you (sarcasm).
Whereas someone like me must work very hard just to scrape by lowest passing grade. This person has the mental capacity and great grades (not to mention extracurriculars) but is for some reason never satisfied. It dumbfounds me honestly. But then again I am the one who barely possesses an intellect, so I really wouldn't know.
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Huh?
You may not be a whiz at math... dunno.
But, there are many colleges that welcome with open arms high school students who even come close to your facility with language...
Well, to be fair...
Often why rich kids are so much smarter is because their parents went to college and got good jobs, which they try and pass onto their kids. They teach their kids things when they're young, which helps them get an early start.
But you don't need money to get straight A's. You just need to care about what you're doing enough to study hard and ask for help when you need it.
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Amazingly offensive <3
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become an art student, they don't care about math. truly.
however, i am totally one of those people who want great grades, all the time. anything under an 85% is somewhat bad, under 80% is ghastly. this, however, is more due to the fact that i am actually interested in what i'm studying - even my language courses are geared towards my personal preferences/interests.
on the other hand, i can be VERY lazy at times. in film studies, for instance, i simply decided not to do/hand in an assignment that was worth 10%. (though this is me cheating the online system - i've figured out that some teachers, like my film studies teacher, don't enter the grade as a 0 for an assignment but they just don't enter a grade at all. the computer system, at the end of term, averages out your grade not including the unmarked assignment as there is no number associated to it, which can bring your average WAY up. i did this in french last term and got an 85 instead of 65. i'm rambling here.)
what pisses me off, though, is people who do NO effort and expect amazing grades and complain about how difficult the class is. especially in REALLY easy courses. whining about your 52% when you didn't study/pay attention/attend class? really?
that, and team projects. i'm never satisfied with anyone's work so i do everything on my own. :p
Yeah
Sometimes I almost feel guilty, because I can pay like no attention and get grades you wouldn't shake a stick at.
But getting good grades is really not a matter of intelligence, I do it by doing as little work as possible and finding all possible ways to game the system and taking calculated risks, and really not actually learning anything.
People who focus on and obsess over colleges annoy me, if you can relax and just enjoy the life you have, you will still win over them in the end, even if they have more money or something, because in the end, what is money?
No one escapes from life alive
Curious...
Which of life's objectives would you advise taking seriously?
actually, money is the most
actually, money is the most common medium of exchange and functions as legal tender. EVEN IN THE END
Clarification, please
"...you will still win over them in the end"
The antecedent to "them" is...?
hehe
sorry to break into this serious conversation with soemthing stupid, but really chad, better grades then you can shake a stick at? XD the only person ive ever heard use that expression is my dad, and hes nearly 66 now
"A loving man and woman in a committed relationship can marry. Dogs, no matter what their relationship, are not allowed to marry. How should society treat gays and lesbians in committed relationships? As dogs or as humans?"
Not stupid...
But... I am smiling!
Well
There's this one guy at my school, I know him, he as a perfect 4.0, and he's in like Pre Calculus as a freshman, which is weird. I mean over people like him, I know a few, that have been focusing on what college they want for years, whereas I still have no clue, nor do I know what job I want.
I just mean over people who annoy me with how they work extremely hard, without ever questioning why, but just because someone told them to.
No one escapes from life alive
Yea...
See I am one of them people who does work really hard, and I want good grades. But to be honest it's not fun. I think I would much rather be someone who didn't do extra work and spend hours worring about making the grades.
You're probably now thinking, why don't you just stop working and worring then. But I think that's harder than it sounds. When you have spent all your life being one of the top of the class and you have so much expectation from teachers and from your family even though they don't liturally say it, you know they would be disapointed if you didn't make the grades. So it's hard to just stop caring and suddenly sink to average level.
I often wish I had not set myself such high expectations because once you start achieveing people pressure you to do so much more. And that's hard.