Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

College+Love=Mind Blown

I have no idea where to start. I have so many thoughts floating around in my head. 

But, as I've mentioned many times before, this IS MY BLOG and I can say whatever I'd like. 
And thank goodness it's not going to be graded! 

My English class is kicking my buttocks. 
My science/weather class has confused me beyond measure. 
My math class is actually going pretty well.. despite how much I hate math. 
My history class is.. well, it's going. 

There are sometimes ( like today when my work in my Eng class was ripped apart and basically scrutinized to poop.) when I feel like dropping out of school. 
But then a little silver lining appears (like when I make B's on my math work) that I feel like I can keep on trucking. 
Today I made a mantra of saying "I hate college." After a little while of that I realized that I don't really hate college, I hate general ed. Classes you have to take because the man says you have to take. When I can take a whole slew of classes I want to take, I think I might be happier.. and then again I could hate those as well. Hopefully we'll find out. You know, if I don't join the circus before then. 

Ok, so that's like 55% of the floating thoughts, the other 45% is my personal, romantic life. 
(which is going pretty good, thanks for asking:) 

Our relationship (me and my boyfriend, that is) is special. And I'm not just saying that because I'm blinded by love. I'm saying that because we have what is classified as a "inter-religious" relationship. 
It's complicated and then again, it's not. 
I'm a christian/Pentecostal and he's a Jehovah's Witness.  
At first it was weird.. and we weren't even sure it was a good idea.. and this is a long and complicated story.. sorta.. anyway, not really the point. 
The point:  Things have gotten really serious in the short amount of time we've know each other/been together. 
We've been playing "the what if and when" game. 
Over the past few days I've also had a lot of those "wow, never thought I'd be here" moments. And with the big, obvious reason it's really been mind blowing. 




Wednesday, August 29, 2012

I've learned..

I have learned over the past several years ( because I'm so old and wise, I "know things" now) that life is constantly changing. Even if you live in the same dead beat town your whole life, you're always moving to a different stage of life. Sometimes it feels like you've leveled up, and sometimes it feels like you been sent to jail, not passing go, not collecting two hundred dollars. Sometimes you can't even collect two dollars. 

I have also recently learned that you can want something so much you can taste it. And then you get it and it leaves a bitter taste in you mouth. You want to give it back and ask the waitress to bring you tea instead of coke. Well in life, a lot of times there is not waitress to change your order, so you have to sneak back to the kitchen and do it yourself. And then sometimes you get caught by the bus-boy and you have to choke down the coke for the time being. 

Right now I'm at a stage in life where I'm trying to teach myself that sometimes you have to choke down the coke because you might like the taste eventually. Or it could be like beer and no matter how much you try to choke it down your stomach turns and you want to puke. 

If you're wondering where all this is coming from... 
I feel like school is kicking me in the butt right now... more like giving me a swirly in the boys bathroom.
 My first big assignment in my English class was to write a paragraph. Just one paragraph. We worked on them in class, in the lab, and got help from the teacher. I had three drafts of this one stupid paragraph and I got a freaking C. I know it wasn't perfect, but  I felt like my grade could've been a little better. 
Not to mention the first quiz I got a D on. And how bad I'm doing in my math class... 
I hate school. 
I said I wanted to be a English teacher... Umm... Needless to say, I'm rethinking that.     
I feel like giving up on school altogether. 
But I've learned that that just makes it worse.
 I'm choking down bad grades, a rough teacher, this semester, in hope that it will get better.