Hey guys, it's Simone (like usual). I just figured out how to add my normal email onto the writers list so I don't have to log in and out of the admin email account every time I want to write something here. Maybe that will push me to write more? It's a chilly Monday night in September here in Chicago and I have oodles and poodles of homework to do. Like actually it's absurd how much homework we have. I can't even deal with this. I don't know what it is but I've been thinking recently how messed up our education system is. Like we're at school all day working and then we come home and have to do hours and hours more of work. I just don't think it's right and it just overwhelms me and makes me want to cry. I'm certainly not learning much this way. Already I have late assignments and stuff I've forgotten to turn in and it's just crazy. After working all day I can't focus when I get home and end up on the internet. Like tonight I've literally answered two questions out of the seventeen we have for Early World History and nothing else. I haven't done any other homework yet. It's just ridiculous. Even on the weekends. I missed going out to dinner with my grandma on Sunday because I still had loads of homework to do. I just think that it's wrong to give kids this much homework and stress on the freaking third week of school. Learning shouldn't be something that people dread and get so freaked out about so I don't understand why teachers make it that way. This Tumblr post explained a few aspects about how I'm feeling a bit more eloquently:
I don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. I want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. I want to learn as I go, gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on it. I don’t want to lose passion in the things I like because of the worry of exams. I want to fuelled by snippets of knowledge I gain from people and be inquisitive. School has stolen my passion for the things I’m interested in and I hate it for that.
I just want to add onto it that school shouldn't cause so much stress but the way the education system is set up (at least at Lab) it causes enormous stress for me.
I know I'm sort of rambling on here about my ~f e e l i n g s~ but no one really reads this blog (or writes on it for that matter!). I dunno, school just has me feeling really overwhelmed and sad for no particular reason. I just can't muster up the motivation to want to do well since I feel like it doesn't mean anything if that makes any sense?
Idk, I'll probably get over this back-to-school lack of motivation and whatnot soon I hope. I have to go film a Youtube video now for the channel my friends from camp and I started (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJaGlVJn14b0gYM9ZSuK0Kg?feature=g-subs-u). this week's theme is fandom and I'm struggling to think of something good to film about. I just feel sort of horrible and un-creative and I don't want to do anything. It's a great tone to start the year off with. Welcome to high school (Night Vale).
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Monday, September 23rd
7:48
