This is the first time I feel I have failed my life.
It's time to look for colleges, and I have nothing, completely nothing that's really good to put on colleges apps.
My GPA is killing me. For 9th to 10th grade, my GPA is 86%.
Mostly due to me not doing homework, because I don't see the reasoning. I have mastered a course, what's the point of doing homework? I should do something more productive, more useful to the economy and the tax money, like reading more advanced text.
That's one of the failure thoughts, like communism. A person should confine to the sociality, and do what he should do in order to be recognized.
If I had just used all the time I have on doing school work and do them well, and not going beyond what the school can offer. I might be able to get into great colleges. But now, since I haven't do what a student suppose to do, I have terrible GPA.
I will take up the responsibility, I'm the one forcing myself into a corner like this, I have to get myself out.
It's interesting that no matter what I can get on SAT or how many 5s I get on the APs, nothing can cover my GPA flaw. I had a talk with my mom, she told me it's better to copy homework from other people than not doing any. If it was a month ago, I would ROFLMAO. At that time, I didn't understand the people who copy other's homeworks. Why? Why do you want the hw credit so bad? Does it even matter?
Fate paints the best irony.
What will I do now? No, I will not copy homework for GPA(maybe for something else). My life ethics teaches me NOT to cheat.
I will put more effort into my formal academic life instead of my informal ones. I don't agree with the current education system. What can I do? I have no say until I have power. I can't change the world until I have the authority. Be the sociality's pet is the only way to gain authority.
And, if it come to the point where I absolutely can't show something nice for college.
I will take my chances and go to China and piss off the Chinese government by practicing FaLun Gong and spread info about Taianmen Square massacre in front of the People's Hall. So I will get beaten + detained until ambassador come to save me. Then I can write that in my college essay. I have to eat all the Chinese food I can and travel about the great views in China before I do that. If I get deported, I will never have a chance to go back to China again.
I have always wanted to do something against the Chinese government's censorship and policy, this might be a good chance to kill two birds with one stone.
Even if my plan fail. For example, ambassador forget about me, I got shot when I was giving out papers, or I died during detainment for w/e strange reason. I at least tried my best to make a difference in this world + trying to get into MIT, and I should have no regrets.
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I agree.
I agree on your thoughts about homework. If I understood the concepts, what's the point in proving myself to someone else that I know it? I actually took it a step further and never really tried on my tests either. Studying? What for? If I really needed to get an answer to a problem, and I understand the concepts enough, I'm not going to have a problem...
I got into a Community College (I knew I was going there first since I didn't know what I wanted to do quite yet) so I wasn't concerned with my GPA or SAT scores either. I then transferred to a different school for my Bachelors after getting my Associates Degree. All in all, I now have 2 degrees instead of just one (the Bachelors) and I think really all that matters is whether you have the piece of paper or not. Granted, going to a highly accredited school helps, but almost all of the universities on your list are in the "good enough" category.
yeah. But my future job have
yeah.
But my future job have a lot to do with what school I'm going into right now.
I want to be a college professor teaching CS or Math.
There are also pressure from my parents. My sister is doing pre-med, and she will eventually become a doctor or something and earn more money than me. My mom, are not happy about this, she think I can do better than my sister. Else it's a waste of time to raise me.
I really want to go to MIT. It's such a good school, I can meet people with my own hobby.
So I have to make some sacrifices. Like doing homework from today on.
Playing devil's advocate, I disagree
Speaking as a professor and as an ex-student, I whole-heartedly disagree with your and Brendon's homework concept.
Sure, there's a lot to be said against the tedium of plug-and-chug or drill assignments. However, the point of homeowrk is not just to master concepts, but also to reinforce said concepts and to force you to attempt to articulate them in some fashion. I cannot tell you how many times I get students who think they've mastered the concepts because they think they can do them -- of those, the vast majority in fact have little mastery at all, only unfounded confidence in their abilities to pick it up on the fly; of those who do have proficiency with the skill set involved, the remainder are almost completely incapable of EXPLAINING their process to someone else, which means that while they may be gifted at the topic at hand, their gift is worhtless, since they are complete incapable of communicatng anything about it to anyone else.
Beyond that, homework does such simple things like promoting passive learning (through the catual act of writing things out), organization skills (in how you present your work), and even a surprising portrait of your mind that you can lok back on with amusement (or horror) later on. (I cannot tell you how embarrassed I am of, say, my analysis homeowrk after looking back on it seven years later).
But that's just my two cents worth.
I know homework is
I know homework is important... when it can help me...
It's like I'm doing arithmetic worksheets in high school... those homework don't have much value.
Especially when those homework are humanities... I don't care about history, lecture.. I just want to get over with the material and never use them in my life again.
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