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end of year exams and other crap
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fishpit
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end of year exams and other crap
I want to leave school for good (well, I've always wanted to leave school but today I'm especially pissed off). All my exams are next week and I haven't started real studying. Nor do I see any point in doing so.
Also I have pointless projects due soon like recording a history song (I don't like to sing nor do I want to) and filming an health connected advertisement (i have to be the main character) for the integrated health and technology 'literacy' classes- I wonder who came with the dumb idea of integrating health and tech.
So my history exam is a semester's worth of dates, places, people that I will forget the day after the exam. My english exam is a IB style commentary to test how efficiently you can 'analyze' weird literature in a short amount of time as well as showing how well you conform to academic writing standards.
I have a biology test this week and a biology semester final next week. you know, if I have to take a science exam, I want to pick the science course I want to go to (physics) and not waste my own time studying for a exam that has nothing to do with my future. Math..I sort of like math but I think the curriculum is all over the place and the concepts are not well connected- studying for the math final will be like trying to cram together puzzle pieces that belong to different puzzles- Essentially, this will involve pointless memorization.
Maybe I could refuse to study and not care if I get bad exam grades but I don't want to attend summer school or get killed by parents, who think unschooling, no school, alternative learning are bad ideas. ugh. Summer vacation is coming up but I'm already dreading the next year of school.
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Linkin Park
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I don't want to sound pro-school here, but....
You should finish this school year out, I know you don't want to. But is it worth going to summer school? No. And you should think about getting a GED, if you're old enough.
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Dont let your emotions decide your actions, think logically, not with your heart.
Logic is not the end of wisdom, merely the beginning.
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thewake
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Didn't take a single final. My school let's you skip them if you don't get into deep trouble and all your absences/tardies are excused.
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S. Wrote:Dont let your emotions decide your actions, think logically, not with your heart.
Logic is not the end of wisdom, merely the beginning.
Sorry for just randomly blurting this out, but
"If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head." - Osho Rajneesh
But yeah, anyways I would take the exam and get this shit overwith 
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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