Edited by Charles Mack, Sunday, 27 Mar 2016, 23:07
Just back from the Dingwall Academy spring fair, at which i had to sing solos and endure an ice cold dunk tank... I also got beaten by a 9 year old in a plank competition... He/she held it for 12 minutes apparently, how can anyone plank for more minutes than years they've spent on this earth?
Seems to be a general consensus that people just want to be free of the school by now. I can't say I don't share it but there will definitely be parts of the school that I'll miss. People mostly have all their offers now which leads to the question - why are the people with unconditionals still working at school?* We could just not turn up to our classes with pretty much no consequence, something I've considered doing on a few occasions, but we still do. People at this stage just don't want to be told in August that they've failed something so we're doing the absolute bare minimum we need to do to pass the courses. I doubt this is setting us up to be efficient, hard working uni students.
I have completed 2/3 of my New Years Resolutions now: Got a job (I think - they still need to put me on the regular rota) and also on Thursday the 17th of March I landed my first backflip so I can basically just die happy now. That's it, I've peaked. Think the third was something like 'be a better person' or something dumb like that, but who even cares?
Next week it's Taekwondo Grading, Strictly Come Dingwall (which will probably be a disaster for me as I don't even think I know the whole of my dance) and a maths nab which will also likely be a disaster... Thankful for the extra week for the assignment! I mean, uh, Easter Break, of course.
*Update - Simon Reed's comment on an earlier post which I only noticed after posting this (sorry again, keeping an eye out from now on!) has basically made everything I said about not needing to work redundant and I am very grateful for that. Thank you sir, I shall keep at it!
apathy is in the air
Just back from the Dingwall Academy spring fair, at which i had to sing solos and endure an ice cold dunk tank... I also got beaten by a 9 year old in a plank competition... He/she held it for 12 minutes apparently, how can anyone plank for more minutes than years they've spent on this earth?
Seems to be a general consensus that people just want to be free of the school by now. I can't say I don't share it but there will definitely be parts of the school that I'll miss. People mostly have all their offers now which leads to the question - why are the people with unconditionals still working at school?* We could just not turn up to our classes with pretty much no consequence, something I've considered doing on a few occasions, but we still do. People at this stage just don't want to be told in August that they've failed something so we're doing the absolute bare minimum we need to do to pass the courses. I doubt this is setting us up to be efficient, hard working uni students.
I have completed 2/3 of my New Years Resolutions now: Got a job (I think - they still need to put me on the regular rota) and also on Thursday the 17th of March I landed my first backflip so I can basically just die happy now. That's it, I've peaked. Think the third was something like 'be a better person' or something dumb like that, but who even cares?
Next week it's Taekwondo Grading, Strictly Come Dingwall (which will probably be a disaster for me as I don't even think I know the whole of my dance) and a maths nab which will also likely be a disaster... Thankful for the extra week for the assignment! I mean, uh, Easter Break, of course.
*Update - Simon Reed's comment on an earlier post which I only noticed after posting this (sorry again, keeping an eye out from now on!) has basically made everything I said about not needing to work redundant and I am very grateful for that. Thank you sir, I shall keep at it!