- School
DISCLAIMER: This blog post might come off as slightly arrogant, which is NOT the tone of my general blog, but IS intended for this specific post. Apologies for the inconvenience.
(Please be empathetic.)
TheJaunt said the following about credentialists that are “above you” in business hierarchy:
[…] your life depends upon you dancing when he says dance, freezing when he says freeze – I [<bleep>]'ing hate it. I feel like it’s like having rats nibbling at your soul every day: doesn’t go away in one day, it takes time; and over the course of time, those rats, they go to work.
This is such a good description of school.
Just take me into a magnet school. Let me attend a university or something. But this sucks.
ALL of the classes I am in are very boring either because I’m good at the subject, or because the subject is too easy, or because it is absolutely useless to me.
(And don’t even start with the “Ackshualliey! No subject is useless…” – no, shush, I know better.)
I haven’t touched Chemistry for a year and I’m still slaying in my Chemistry class, because we are learning things I learned in the 7th/8th grade. Can you believe that?
Physics hasn’t been touched for a year too, but we’re learning things I learned in 9th and 10th grades, which I already forgot, because… who cares. Anyway, they’re not too difficult to learn either – I need to start working on it.
I’m not even going to mention English, lol. Peace of cake. It is so easy (our teacher is both an amazing teacher and an amazing person) that it’s beyond boredom–I already started trolling some of my classmates; I even started making whole presentations about… myself: I once made a whole presentation about myself, which was supposed to be a presentation to show our empirical research, without a thesis, researching, or any sources–I just talked about myself for about 40 minutes.
A few months ago we were supposed to present a topic on social medias, and it was supposed to be 2 minutes tops. I talked about social medias for 90 seconds, then spent EIGHT more minutes talking about myself–this is my record so far. I could barely hold my laugh, laughing 3 times during the presentation (and a whole lot after)!
My PE teacher thinks I’ve been cutting classes, which is hilarious because I sort of like swimming. It is relaxing.
Oh, and maths. I haven’t touched maths for about 14 months. And to be honest, I’ve been slacking a little–ever so slightly. Won’t be difficult to catch up.
Other than that… Nothing. I hope we’ll start getting extremely difficult topics in CS, so I can show what I’m capable of. (Am I seeking validation here? I don’t think so. Just a display of academic dominance.)
PS: I capitalized the names of subjects on purpose, to make them typographically more visible. No, I am not illiterate.
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- Nihad Badalov
2025-11-12