University Tips

Again, my GP teacher shared this with us, and I found it really helpful. Not to mention his English is bloody good. XD

Enjoy!

What I Wish I Knew Earlier When I First Stepped Into University

May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

That phrase it the new 'it' phrase. So many people are using it. @_@
And it's kinda annoying, when NOBODY gets it right. It is always either 'May the odds ever be in your favor' or 'may all the odds be in your favor'. =_=

Correct: May the odds be ever in your favor

Alright? Memorized? Awesome. :3

I'm here to talk about (aka complain) how the odds are ever against my favor so far this week.. Which is only 2 days. Worst 2 days of 2012. Let's start from the beginning.

Monday:

1. For the first time in JC, I was late. LATE. Why? Because Father dearest couldn't leave the bathroom mirror. =_=
I was supposed to reach school at 7.30am, told him to leave by 7.05am, woke him up at 6.40am. Guess what? He went straight back to sleep and only woke up at 6.50 am. Then, he just CAMPED inside the bathroom until 7.20am. We left the house at 7.25 am. OF COURSE I WAS LATE.
Shld've just gone to school myself. D':

2. My dear friend (vomit) old veggie (sec 2 story), borrowed my GP notes on Friday. I thought she only took my GP notes, but no, turns out, she took my ENTIRE FREAKING FOOLSCAP. My foolscap is my life k! ALL OF MY HW and some of my notes are in there. And she didn't tell me until Sunday night.
Then on Monday, she forgot to bring it. =_=

As a result, I didn't have ANY HW, and was targeted by the teachers. And I had to redo my chemistry cause the teacher as adamant about it. Guess what?
She was talking and laughing away BESIDE me as I was rushing through my work. Um, hello? No offer of help? No apologies? No guilty conscience?

Oh yeah, this still continues. I was MAD because, well, who wouldn't be at that point? So I confronted her. Still in a gentle'r' tone because I'm a nice girl. And do you know what she said?

She said, "WHY YOU YESTERDAY NEVER REMIND ME?"

WHAT THE FREAKKKK?? I HATE this kind of people the most. HATE. Not only did you cause me unnecessary trouble, you don't offer your help, you don't feel guilty at all, and then you still go ahead and blame me. Blame ME. Like it's MY fault YOU didn't bring something I kindly lent to you??

HUHHHH?? I mean, who does that? *#%@#$%^&!!!!!

AND THEN!
In Maths tutorial, I was SITTING BESIDE HER (unlucky. Told 'ya before, worst 2 days ever) FRANTICALLY trying to find my maths notes and tutorial questions, and she didn't even bother telling me THAT SHE HAD MY NOTES.

Is it FUNNY to see me searching like that? HUHHHH???????

And when I asked her she went all calmly and naturally, "Yeah."

I HATE HER. HATE.

You should know how big an honor this is. I am generally against using 'hate' because, according to the bible, 'hate' is equivalent to 'murder'.
But I'm sure allowances can be made for that kind of person.

To summarize all her wrong-doings (just against me):
A backstabbing B***H
"Hoe before bro"
Extremely self-centered
Cunning (likes to make use of people)

The list will never end if I included what she did to other ppl.


The post is alrd super long and I'm kinda tired, so I'll just summarize.
TUESDAY (today)


Had my NAFTA test, FAILED.
By JC standards, pass is a silver.

Inclined ull-ups: A
Sit & Reach: C
Sit-ups: A
Shutter Run: D (just nice pass)
Standing Board Jump: E

I FREAKING FAILED STANDING BROAD JUMP BY 3 CM CAN.
WHY THE PE TEACHERS IN MY SCHL SO HARD CORE ONE. DD<


Ok bye. GTG have dinner. (At 8.40pm T_T)

Me 17th Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME~~

I feel so old hahahaha. Sadly, my birthday is not all that happy.

Happy part:
- My classmates sang happy birthday song to me during chemistry lab hahahaha~
- I got a lot of well wishes on facebook and through sms
- Major bonding session with guitar members today

Sad:
- No present, no cake (reached home 1 hr ago =_=)
- Got a lot of well wishes on facebook and sms
- Wasted 7 hours watching the J2 guitar OUTDOOR mini concert today


Social Media Networks Damage Relationships
Like I said, while I'm happy that I got so many birthday blessings, they were mostly on facebook and through sms. Call me old-fashioned, but I really appreciate just the simple effort of CALLING me to wish me happy birthday or say it to me straight to my face. I don't even need letters.
The whole feel is different, and so is the impact.

Honestly, I didn't think much about this problem before today either.. It's just that I felt so sad the whole day even despite the many birthday wishes.. Sighh... I'm petty lol.

What's even worse, my WHOLE ENTIRE CLASS, only 3 people personally wished me happy birthday. The rest just sang the song and forgot about it.
LIKE WTH????
I'm right smack in front of your faces for the WHOLE ENTIRE DAY! What is happening to sincerity?
Do you all really hate me so much??

Therefore! I am setting myself a goal to personally CALL all of my closer friends to wish them a happy birthday. I hope you will do so too and bring sincerity back into this selfish generation. :)

- First wisdom of a 17-year-old
LOL JKJK~

What Do We Study For?

I saw this in my GP teacher's blog.. I really liked it. So here comes the copy and pasting!

The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010

Here I stand

There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen? The Master thought about this, then replied, “Ten years . .” ?The student then said, “But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast — How long then?” Replied the Master, “Well, twenty years.” “But, if I really, really work at it, how long then?” asked the student. “Thirty years,” replied the Master. “But, I do not understand,” said the disappointed student. “At each time that I say I will work harder, you say it will take me longer. Why do you say that?” ?Replied the Master, “When you have one eye on the goal, you only have one eye on the path.”

This is the dilemma I’ve faced within the American education system. We are so focused on a goal, whether it be passing a test, or graduating as first in the class. However, in this way, we do not really learn. We do whatever it takes to achieve our original objective.

Some of you may be thinking, “Well, if you pass a test, or become valedictorian, didn’t you learn something? Well, yes, you learned something, but not all that you could have. Perhaps, you only learned how to memorize names, places, and dates to later on forget in order to clear your mind for the next test. School is not all that it can be. Right now, it is a place for most people to determine that their goal is to get out as soon as possible.

I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class without their homework done because they were reading about an interest of theirs, I never missed an assignment. While others were creating music and writing lyrics, I decided to do extra credit, even though I never needed it. So, I wonder, why did I even want this position? Sure, I earned it, but what will come of it? When I leave educational institutionalism, will I be successful or forever lost? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I’m scared.

John Taylor Gatto, a retired school teacher and activist critical of compulsory schooling, asserts, “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness – curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don’t do that.” Between these cinderblock walls, we are all expected to be the same. We are trained to ace every standardized test, and those who deviate and see light through a different lens are worthless to the scheme of public education, and therefore viewed with contempt.

H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not “to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. … Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim … is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States.”

Easter Special

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Hyperactive

I haven't posted in a week or so, I know. I had nothing to write abt anyway. ):

Hyperactivity is a syndrome of mine that kind of flashes 'YOU ARE DEAD TIRED' warning signs...
And lately I've reached that point a lot. A LOT.
Almost all of my smses are in caps now. XD
And I spam crap all the time too. Hahahaha~

This is what JC life does to a perfectly healthy (seemingly), young, virile youth.. It turns us into crazy people ALL THE TIME.

Like in class, I can't sit still. I keep thinking of other stuff and whatever to keep myself AWAKE, and in the end, NOTHING went into my brain.
FREAKING NOTHING.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh then what's the point of even going to school at all? I'm just going there to waste my time anyway. And my sleep. OH GOODNESS, MY SLEEP.

Where did it go? Come back, I miss you. T_T

Project Work has officially started (they gave us our question 2 weeks or so ago) and I have slowly- scratch that- I have IMMEDIATELY started to HATE it. HATE IT. HATEEEEEEEE IT.

It is THE WORST THING EVER designed by the government to SCR*W US ALL to the pits of hell.
Wow complex sentence. 8D

My PI (Preliminary Idea) is due in what, 3 weeks? AND I HAVEN'T EVEN DECIDED ON ME TOPIC YET HAHAHAHA.
'Cause every single one of my ideas were REDUNDANT.
GO AND DIE, PW. DIEEEEEEE.

SEE SEE SEE WHAT I MEANT ABOUT THE CAPS THING. AND THE SLEEP THING. AND THE PW THING.
I AM HYPERACTIVE YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~~~~~~~~~

Alright, me gotta go crappy in the potty. LOLOLOLOLOL. Ignore that. XD

Oh yeah! PEOPLE! HUMANITARIANS! EARTHLINGS! MUGGLES! NON-TRIBUTES!

Tomorrow is EASTER! <33
Where the Lord has risen 3000 years (or so) ago.

Grab your eggs, grab your baskets, AND GRAB YOUR BUNNIES cause EASTER'S HERE!!
WHOOTS!!!!!!!!!! \(^O^)/

Sayonara.