Would you like to know what I did today? Okay, well then listen up. Today wasn't that great to start with. First off, I woke up at 9:03... work starts at 9:00 on tuesdays... do the math. On a related topic, the big math test that I was studying for last night was today... and I failed without a doubt. The up side though, is that one of my frat bro's, Chris, is going to tutor me, so don't worry mom... I'm going to pass. Soon after the failed test, I went to English and it was pretty good. I got to express some of my theories (which I have alot). We were talking about taking a 100 page book and putting it into a 100 word paragraph (basically, summarizing stories, like cliff notes). My argument was that we regretably live in a world today that only cares about results. Employers don't hire you to think, they just hire you to do what you are told. In short, If you think freely from that of which you were told to do, and you mess up, you are putting your job in jeapordy. This bad little seed is put in our brains from the earliest time of our education. Honestly, tell me what grade school was about. The only thing that was important was the test you took, and the grade you made on it. Do you remember those projects on the poster boards that we so often had to do? I always did mine the night before, and in a hurry. The next day for presentation, you would see the posters of those girls that you know spent alot of time on theirs, embroidering it in rhyne stones and making pretty bubble letters with different designs in each. When results came back, we got the same grades. That was the nature of the beast of education. I'm not saying that this specific example applies in the work force because obviously she will be able to increase her rate of pay with the kind of presentations she puts out, but my next example does apply to the real world. Book reports: those dreaded book reports. It wasn't untill I got "smart" that I got good grades on these babies. Now, I'm not a cheater, but I do pretty well when it comes to finding legal loop holes. You know those AP tests where the teacher always said "You can't pass this test unless you read every page!"? Well, I found ways around that. My greatest ally in high school was a websight called antistudy.com. It has every single kind of cliff note ever written for most every book. NO LIE! I think I only read two books during high school... both of which I enjoyed, but when it came down to it, the teachers just liked the results of the tests on the books that I did cliff note studies on. I think part of that is because public school teachers are controlled by the state, so grades are more important to them. Here in college, grades aren't as important, and the teachers can really teach without having to follow guidelines. I in no way condone this, but it's how I see it. Let's finish of the day, shall we? I found out ten minutes before computer class that I had a paper due... I THOUGHT it was due thursday, but no. You know what I did? I was so determined not to have a bad day (grade wise) that I raced back to my room and typed that paper (a darn good one too, WITH a bibliography) in twenty minutes. That's a dangerous thing to know you can do (quote by Matt). I agree, but I ran that paper back to class, twenty minutes late, and nobody was there but for one lady. She said that class was cancled because the professor was sick! I hope she feels better, but I just found that incredibly ironic. I had to laugh... then I had to eat dinner, go to Refuge, go to the store to get groceries, and come back and have tea time and go to bed... Now I would like to appologize for that sentence because it was horrible and I would also like to go to bed... Later!