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Of Students: Part 1 | 6.23.03 They wonder at why good students don’t seem so social, don’t seem so together, don’t seem so easy. They wonder, but they don’t think. It’s rather logical actually. If you had some guy yelling at you when there’s too little homework (because it was easy) or if you had some guy yelling at you when there’s too much homework (because all the teachers when “project due next week” and the guy next to you faints when he figures that’s six projects due next week) then you’ll understand. Unexceptance is normal for them. Their parents expect perfection. They (the students) want a life Here’s what mine wanted from me: -Wake up early -Eat -Go to school -Comeback -Practice piano -Practice flute -homework -study -read -go to sleep Every single day out of every single week of every single year. If you look closely at that schedule you can figure that there was no time for what people called a social life. Heck, there wasn’t even time to speak, oh except when you’re practicing the 5 min presentation for an hour or so. Ok, not to say that I’m an A+ student or anything. I was, but I didn’t like it. If I had time to enjoy my life then my dad would say I’m not putting forth the effort, and he would say that when I mess up on ONE assignment. Hey don’t get me wrong. The assignments were cake, no more like cake with milk. It was just that my dad didn’t think I could do it at the speed I did it. He would always ask why I didn’t have homework, but I did. I just do it fast. And when there is a project that’s when I slow down, and then he yells at me for doing it so late. He practically yells at me for anything. You get an A he yells at you, you get an A- he yells harder. You do you’re power point slides the day before they’re due, he yells for the 2 hours that you could have gotten it done. Then he yells at you wondering why you stayed up so late. And you bring home a perfect score (meaning the best, as in even if you worked on it all year, you’ll still get that score) he finds 2 words to say. He says it real quite too, like a whisper, “good job”. How do you live in an enviroment where perfection is expected? And you get A-‘s and B+’s because you’re teacher is incompetent? When everything is so easy that it’s busy work? Think about it, it’s like writing 1+1=2 for 6 hours of school and however long homework is. Ok this all might sound really weird to you. But here was what my dad wanted me to be: Oh wait, you already saw the list. Well, besides that he wanted me to be a robot. So when I grow up I can brag about how I earned it by sacraficing my life. Just like all those other idiots who became great and famous and half of them committed suicide. I’m still not sure what earning “it” is. Something like this: “So Mr. Kong tell us how you came to be what you are. All rich and famous and stuff like that.” And I would say: “Well it’s quite simple. You go do absolutely nothing but repetitive work on what the teachers tell you. Go read books that you don’t like. Go do something. The more you hate it the more successful you’re supposed to be” Well maybe that was just a bit warped. But here was how my life is and want to stay that way. -Wake Up -Eat -School -Come home -Relax -Watch some TV -Do homework -Play or something -Sleep I dare say that I can become successful that way. I dare say that I don’t have to go do something that I hate to become successful. I believe that you put you’re mind into it for how ever long it needs to be in it, then relax. Go date some hot person or something. ~ Wei |
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