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gabriella · 04-20-2004, 05:15 PM

Any other teens out there who just wanna bitch and complain about how school just gets so blah somedays?

I'm in second term, when marks really count, and it's in this term that I choose to not do my homework. Ever since I got back from March Break I've been slacking off. Thing is, I need to get good marks because I can't fail anything. If I do, then I won't be able to go to Greece this summer and that would really be a bummer. Plus I want to be a non-geek chickie that's never failed a course in her life (with the exception of Italian school, but screw that.)

I have a huge geography presentation that I need to practice for and it's tomorrow. I also have a major french test, and I stink at french! I know jack. And with each new test, it's worth more and more of your mark. Second, on Friday I have to hand in a huge health summative that I haven't started - we need to record what we ate, what exercise we did, talk about friends and sleep and all. Haven't started that, so I'm going to have to make up a bunch of stuff. And I have a huge huge french project due that requires taping a commercial. =(

I'm a milimeter away from hyperventilation, here.... there's all that, and, on top of it, I have the sens game tonight. *sigh* I really need to take yoga or something.

Savien · 04-20-2004, 10:02 PM

Im here to answer your call for a teen to do a bitching duet with.

Yeah, ive found that after breaks, my marks (we call em grades here in the states) slack off. My mind process goes something along the lines of "I just spent 2 weeks happily lazing about, and I have to come back to this shit? no way". The monotony of the entire school system weighs me down almost as much as the fact that I know I cant do shit about it.

mmm, angst.

-Savien

Mouse · 04-21-2004, 06:17 AM

Get over it and learn. if you don't you"ll regret
it when you get older. Just ask Bea". That's why she's a nun..
She flunked school........
That's where you 2 will end up if you flunk school as well.
Sister Gabriella and sister Savien..lol.

gabriella · 04-21-2004, 07:01 AM

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I just spent 2 weeks happily lazing about, and I have to come back to this shit? no way.

Tell me about it. =] We still call them grades... but nowadays when you get to Junior High you get percentages. Usually we'll just say "What did you get?" Or marks.

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if you don't you"ll regret
it when you get older.

...I'm actually pretty smart, when I try. It's just that now I'm not trying very hard in class, which is what sucks. Plus we're getting a lot of halfdays and four day weekends (Easter) and doing something different in class... so as soon as I'm getting used to the I-can't-do-anything-so-why-bitch kind of phase, she slaps me with afourdayweekend and the next tuesday we have a half day because of the pep rally and parent teacher interviews. Now all I do is look forward to the next holiday...

I'm in academic everything, so the loads are harder, but not that hard, really. I've just gotten lazy.

Kat · 04-21-2004, 02:14 PM

Ha don't listen to Mouse. I dropped out of High School my sophmore year. Came back my junior year, pregnant no less, and still managed to graduate a year early with a 4.0. I've maintained at least a 3.5 through my 2 1/2 years of college.

Not that I am encouraging you to do any of that. It's just not as important as it seems. I think I didn't take any classes that taught me anything new from about 8th grade till 12th. My senior/junior year I took economics and marketing. Two very fun classes. I was the youngest in my econ class and got the highest grade.

If your not learning anything what's the point. High school is mostly busy work with little actual learning. They just expect you to read the book and answer the questions. I thought it was a complete waste of time and should have skipped the whole thing and went strait to college.

Savien · 04-21-2004, 11:00 PM

Figure this, if your aspiring to be a writer, your already leaving your life up to blind luck, so you might as well drop out all together and write full time. Of course, nobody follows their own suggestions, so im gonna slog through 8 more years of school and hope I make something of myself.

Fides Custos · 04-21-2004, 11:51 PM

I'm almost a Junior in high school. I recently pulled a fire-alarm and was suspended for 5 days.

I dropped out of Algebra 2 and have since declared that math is a subject not worth learning.
I intend to go to some kind of college primarily for the sheer reason of pleasing my parents and so forth. I am not an aspiring writer and my only dream for the future is to sit in the clouds and watch the world pass me by.

I was also officially labled as suffering from moderate insanity after several meetings with a psychologist. I would like to point out that insanity is a disease of opinion. As far as I'm concerned the world is suffering from extreme insanity, but I'm the one with a tag.

So your a bit confused on how my week went eh? My week was dandy, I went to school 4/5 days this week skipping out on one because it was a half-day and pointless. I scored a bunch of A's and B's and smiled when my teachers greeted me. I cleaned up the house and laughed alot. I pretended I wanted to be a forensic scientist for my guidance counselor when she asked what my future plans where.

I wrote a short story and watched a car bomb explode in Iraq. I sat in a classroom and watched some kids whisper about smoking weed on 4/20/04 and watched my teacher drone on about ignorance among people when it comes to nature while the class ignored him. I watched two kids get in a fight over an exchange of insults and a girl come to school wearing a shirt sized for a toddler. I watched some kids dressed in all black talk about death and sorrow. I laughed alot.

So here I am in front of my computer still lost and longing for some kind of purpose. Still dreaming that there is a cause for this effect of a world. However my week was dandy, I am going to be a CEO, drive a BMW and die with a fist full of cash. Smile for me, won't you?

Cheers.

Savien · 04-22-2004, 12:41 AM

Good times

a few things

1: You are truly crazy once you utter the phrase "im not crazy, you're all crazy"

2: Tell your counselor you want to be a porn star, it will catch them off guard and give you a chance to respond "what do you want to do with your life". Which will produce hilarious results.

3: Just beat the kids who talk about death, I mean, seriously, if u saw a girl who talked about nothing but cake, on a whim of indulgence, you could buy her a cake. Same goes for death wishers, give em what they ask for. or at least buy em a razor, I cant stand total fucking fools like that.

4: causality= the shroud of useless BS that scared humans try to hide behind when confronted with the staggering concept "what if we realy dont have a purpose"

5: dont pull fire alarms if you want to get kicked out of school, there are much more fun ways to do it.

a) pilfer books and laptops from your school and then sell them to kids, who you then turn around and report to the school.

b) call in a bomb threat, and then wear a shirt that simply says "BOMB"

c) request that your "future porn stars and starlettes of america club" be funded solely by the school, use pamphlets to spread the word.

SKHargan · 04-22-2004, 01:12 AM

Hrm.

*WARNING: Cynical, sarcastic, tactless, rather brutally honest material ahead. Skip if you want to wallow in self-pity.*

You have control over how much you slack. You have control over your laziness. You have control over your future because of this. The world's not going to hand you what you want on a silver plate with a little fork and knife to cut out just which piece you want. Get over it. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and take some responsibility for your life. I know I sound like a condescending old has-been who's forgotten what hell it is to be in school every single day, but I'm not (old) and I haven't. I'm still in school, I still hate it, I still want it to be over with, but I do my best not to whine about it. So buck the fuck up and get on with your lives.

-Shawn

Fides Custos · 04-22-2004, 01:23 AM

Hmmm, yes okay. I will direct these based on names.

Savien: I'm glad your able to amuse yourself with such creative ideas, not my style so your on your own with those, oh and uh... don't kill people or hand out razors, that's bad Karma.

SKHargan: Well your views are respectable but I'm not looking for any hand-outs nor am I "slacking" or being "Lazy" seeing as how I am getting roughly straight A's save for two B's. However, even if I was failing every subject I would like to point at that "Get On With Your Life" is a fairly pointless phrase to be used in any situation. You cannot stop your life so hence you can never get on with it. Some people choose to go about living a different way. Further more I'm interested in what your goals in life are, I would like to know your final goals. No I don't want to know what job you want, I want to know your absolute final goal in life.

I'm not trying to say your point was wrong or in-valid however I do feel that it cannot be applied entirely as your view of living ones life may and is entirely different from somone elses view of living a life. Hence your not really in a position to be telling people they are slacking or lazy.

SKHargan · 04-22-2004, 01:49 AM

Fides Custos - My post was not directed towards you in particular, more to the general bitchiness that this thread is glorifying. As for "get on with your life" being a pointless phrase, I disagree. Your life may not stop time-wise, but it certainly gets stalled with respect to your growth and your progress. People all choose to live their lives in different ways, and who am I to condemn one way or another as a driveling waste of oxygen? Well, I do. It's a driveling waste of oxygen (phrase borrowed from Meghan2007, by the way - thanks Meghan!) to live your life complaining about things that you, and only you, can change. You say that I'm not in a position to tell people that they're lazy or slacking, but I'm not. They are lazy or slacking by their own admission (Savien and Gabriella specifically). As for the rest of you who are getting 4.0's and 3.5's and all that, good for you. But that's not the point. The point is moving towards what you want. If you want to go to a prestigious college, you're going to have to work hard in high school. That's the way it is. If you want to do well in college, you damn well better get used to working hard. Sure, there are folks who skate through college just like they did high school, but often when they get into the real world they realize that they know nothing and that that piece of paper on their wall means very little. Sure, I'm wrong for certain people. But they're the exceptions, not the rule.

My absolute, final goal in life? To outlive you. And I intend to make sure that I do...

-Shawn

Meghan2007 · 04-22-2004, 02:02 AM

Hey! All you slothful, morbidly obese Americans! Yes, thats right, you. Suck it up! Far be it from me to criticize anyone for going off on a rant . . . but if youre going to, please let it be entertaining! *Intentionally* entertaining. Which leads me to comment on your remarkable talent. I think you must have broken a guinness record for the highest concentration of grammatical errors in a paragraph. If I'm completely off track, do correct me--my assumption is that was English?

hollyoake · 04-22-2004, 02:47 AM

Fides Custos, can i come and live your family? i need some cheering up!
i wish i was still in school just so that i could try that 'i want to be a porn star' thing

gabriella · 04-22-2004, 06:47 AM

My name was in your post - how could I NOT reply?

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You say that I'm not in a position to tell people that they're lazy or slacking, but I'm not. They are lazy or slacking by their own admission (Savien and Gabriella specifically).

I am a slacker. And I am lazy. I won't deny it. The projects I mentioned in my original post piled up because of me - the teacher's didn't toss them out to us like frisbees the day before the due date. The fact that I know so little about french is partly my fault, as, even though never in my life has a french teacher been strict with us and taught us stuff ('scept in grade 5, but she was a bitch, and I never realized how thankful I should have been to have her as a teacher) I could have maybe studied some verbs or whatever on my own.

I'm not going to bother to defend myself saying I was doing other stuff because I wasn't, I was busy waiting until the hour was over so I can go on the computer again. One minute turned into the next, and I zone out easily.

That's why I'm trying to do better this semester. I want to work harder, study harder. I presented my geography presentation and, although I spent most of it looked to our poster on the board, it wasn't as bad (and I volunteered to go first, too, so that released so much stress.) We had our french test, and I truly think that was the best test I ever wrote. Don't want to dwell on it too much, though, because I don't want to get disappointed. And the sens lost, so that's so much stress off of every second day in my life, even though the stress would have been worth it to see them win the cup.

And, actually, I'm the one that's always optimistic about school. And although I'll bitch and whine like any other teen, it doesn't go too deep. None of it does. Everything's going to turn out right, after all, and that's my everyday mentality. I said the same things to my friend when she was a gothic, moany and slacking bitch, though not so harshly and not in one go.

I'm making goals for this summer, and I'm making new friends - I'm tired of the old friends I have who never wanted to do anything except walk around, if I was lucky. I'm not that kind of person. I'm not the person to sit around and discuss things with people and talk about my life. If my life is good, I want to celebrate and have some fun. If it's bad, I don't want to talk about it, I want to forget about it. And the friends I used to surround myself with never wanted to do any of that. But gradually I'm starting to do all the shit that I had sworn I would do back in grade eight.

Fides Custos · 04-22-2004, 09:37 AM

You claim that your phrase "Get on with your life" is valid because it refers to ones growth and progress? Growth and progress cannot be measured nor can they be defined. There happens to be an infinite ammount of ways in which to grow as a person and progress in all aspects of life.

As for people declaring themselves lazy or slackers. Well that is their choice entirely and not for me to judge or decide. Nor will I judge this on anyone else here, you've all got your reasons and that's quite enough for me.

Next I'd like to address your talk on people working hard in high school for a prestigious college. I'd assume your refering to well known college schools like Notre Dame and Harvard and what not? Well that's fantastic, I hope you all get into Harvard or Yale or whatever pretty little sanctuary you want. Study something, learn it all, get a degree with a fancy type on it and the name of your Prestigious College. What have you achieved? Not much. You have earned an affirmation from a "Prestigious" college that will without doubt help you pull in far more Green Paper.

In all honesty prestige is worth a penny and a paper-clip. I don't give a damn how expensive or renowned your college is, I am not impressed by names or titles and if making money is your final goal than Harvard is for sure the place to go but I don't want to be rich and I don't need a new car, so unless Yale is offering a little truth and enlightenment tomorrow, I don't think I will be attending. Though truth and enlightenment are at best beyond my reach so I can really hope to do is argue with you until you find yours.

You want to outlive me? I pray that you do. I don't really have a religion so I can't say where we all go but if I could die tomorrow and ensure nobody else would have to suffer that fate. Please believe me, I would. Be it hell or simply darkness. So I'm glad you hope to outlive me, it's a goal I would hope for everyone.