+ Had a nice dinner in an Indian restaurant
- Watched 47 Ronin. My God was this movie cheesy as fuck. Seriously, if you are thinking this movie is anything exciting or adventurous, leave it alone. Cliches, boring fighting scenes, undeveloped characters, generic camera angles, stereotypical ideas of old Japan, lame speeches and a lack of emotion.
- Spend too much time worrying about the timer. I need to get used to it because right now everything my parents say comes across to me as a hint that I'm going to get caught.
+ Let's enjoy my first normal night in days.
Rulez said:
Keane said:
- Unfortunately school doesn't make me feel accomplished, it just leaves me exhausted after I finish all the work. On the other hand I do suppose it makes free time more valuable.
Really? I'd kinda disagree. It makes me feel really fucking exhausted, but I feel I'm actually doing something and going somewhere. Might just be because music school, though. Still, spending 9+ hours at school every day can get pretty tiring sometimes!
If school teached me things I value as important, yeah, I'd feel accomplished. Of course I do my work and don't let myself fail because I know it'll pay off eventually, but last year I'd keep having to stay up because of my Maths teacher whom would constantly assign homework and then either no take it up for a grade or say we actually get two more days to get it finished. It's discouraging as fuck when you know there's 50% chance the next day this effort you're putting into this is not even gonna matter.
Imo, one of the hardest things about school is remaining to feel encouraged by phrases like "Someday you'll be glad you did this!" or "This will help you in the future" when as soon as you finish something you never get any kind of sign that it actually did so and before you even have time to think about that a new project is shoved in your face. For me school is nothing but a ton of stress and frustration.
Dark Lum Lord said:
School is a mixed bag in my eyes, I usually have a very negative view of it though. It's both a plus and a minus, since school is an extreme emphasis on the expression "a waste of time". That being said though, even if I feel like I had just left prison after taking it up the ass in the showers all day after leaving school each day, I still have a feeling of fulfillment from it from time to time because I'd rather go there than rot at home all the time. At least when I go to school I'm doing something, that and without school I'd have very little access to the outside world, especially with young people around my age.
That's true. Having been nearly a half year out of school, I can tell you that I was in a strange way longing to go back. I'd wake up, get dressed, and then I'd proceed to sit behind my computer until 5 AM and repeat it all the next day.
But it's not something that I like as the thing that keeps me busy in life. At least if I just left the place and I'd be done then I'd maybe feel some accomplishment, but instead I leave with "Ah fuck, I need my father to help with Algebra. I'm gonna have to multitask while I get online. Should I study or not?". And then at 10 PM when I finally finish I just feel tired. Not to mention that with my new school times I will have to start doing homework while eating dinner if I don't want my evenings to be consumed by work as well.
It's not even that much, but I'm always struggling. I'm jealous of people who just do a test in 35 minutes and get done, while I spend every last second of the class on it while also worrying that I'm going to fail it.