just a life, just an ordinary life
*signs*
Did you get that? I thought so…good. My ASL class finally started. For those of you culturally deprived people (or you spend too much time in front of your computer) thats American Sign Language. Deaf people use it to communicate. Its a lot of fun and our teacher is really good. Things here are manageable as usual. I take the PSAT/NMSQT on October 19th. Oh boy am I looking forward to that. Everyone goes to the gym and takes it all at once. Woohoo, that just sounds like a party. The 20th I have…ok wait, why does college stuff have to start so damn early? I am already going to college mtgs and getting piles of info from colleges. Why why why? I hate the impression that is given to all of us (independent school students) that was so perfectly epitomized by a zits cartoon I read that was in the paper about a year and a half ago. Essentially the philosophy is as follows, and don’t lose me here: I have to get good grades and study hard so I have a high GPA, and I have to get near perfect SAT scores and do lots of extracurriculars in order to get into a good school. There is no way I can get in if I take less than seven classes a year, as many AP or advanced as possible. If I don’t get into a good college there is no hope for me getting into a good graduate school. And if I don’t get into a good graduate school, all is lost at getting a good job; I will be stuck working at Burger King asking “would you like fries with that?” for the rest of my life instead of stretching out in the back of my Maybach as my chauffeur drives me to my executive corner office at the top of a tall building somewhere in manhattan. If I don’t get a good job then my life will not be fufilling in the least and I will not be able to enjoy any of life’s greater pleasures. Also, if I don’t get a good job then I will have a weak 401(k) and end up working until I die of exhaustion. I won’t be able to properly raise my children or have a good family because I have to work three jobs and only get two hours of sleep a night and my children will all become delinquents and problems for society because I won’t be present enough in their lives. Ultimately, it comes down to this: if I don’t get good grades when I am 15, I might as well curl up in a ball and waste away because there is no way my life will amount to anything if I get a B+ instead of an A- in Physics.
Now, you must drum that into your head and then follow the rat race closely. The only way you can get out of this inevitable fate is if you are a recording artist or an actor, otherwise, its hopeless and we are all doomed to a miserable existence as simple bipeds propelling ourselves with primitive fuels to foul offensive objects resembling bulidings to toil away endlessly to no aim.
whatever.