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 […] hate it. I feel like it’s like having rats nibbling at your soul every day: it 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.
Take me into a magnet school. Let me attend a university or something. But this is meh.
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. (Edit: Please, excuse my teenage complaints.)
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? (Edit: Excuse this too, please.)
Physics hasn’t been touched for a year too, but we’re learning things I learned in 9th and 10th grades, which I should brush up on.
I’m not even going to mention English. Peace of cake. It is so easy (our teacher is both an amazing teacher and an amazing person, for which I am infinitely thankful) that it’s beyond boredom–I already started joking with some of my classmates during class and making whole presentations about… please, excuse this blasphemous vanity… 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 think we do not get pressured enough; diamonds will not be formed — alas!
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…! you get the drill.
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. I do not think it will be too difficult to catch up. We have a great teacher—something worth mentioning.
Other than that… Nothing. I hope we’ll start getting extremely difficult topics in CS, so I can show myself what I’m capable of. (Am I seeking validation here? I don’t think so. I am seeking challenge, I dare say.)
PS: I capitalized the names of subjects on purpose, to make them typographically more visible. I am not illiterate.
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- Nihad Badalov