Hm...Emily's right...
Well, I've altogether stopped hoping everyone's coming back together this summer, and I'm cool with that. It makes going to this blog easier, actually, since I don't have to deny this isn't the real thing anymore. Anyway, I'm awful at advice, but Rae...look, everyone has a bad marking period, maybe a bad year. A friend of mine is going through his. I went through mine in 6th Grade (nearly failed science...). There's the possibility of asking for extra credit, but...
The best way, from what I know, is just to do the work. All of it, and pay attention in class, but in a relaxed manner. Stress can block learning sometimes. Just by paying attention in class I stopped getting C's in Math. Maybe ask your friends to check your work when possible or help you study. That's what I had to do for my friend.
Everything will work out in the end. Major stress ruins learning. Grades are important, but this is 8th Grade, Rae, live it out. And as for this marking period...who knows. Stereotype Asian parents are horrible, but it's not as bad as it can seem. My friend showed his stereotype dad his C in Math, and his dad got mad, but helps him out. He's getting better. My parents offer help to me now. There's the stereotype who isn't as bad as you think...and, well, I think most people have it lucky. I feel sorry for my friend. His mom is horrible (he feels more pressure at home then if he got six F's in school).
If you're not happy about your grades, take pride in having the guts to show your parents. And do better next marking period, ask your friends to help, even your parents if possible. You just can recognize signs now.
On a lighter note, I'm confused on where to go in CTY. My mom wants me to do biology, my dad doesn't really care though I can tell he'd rather me do science or math, and I have no clue, except that I want to do another writing course (another thing I'm confused about; I sort of want to be a writer, an author, when I'm older. I don't like to show that many people my writing, though...). But which one...
And I can't pick a location. Loudonville, even though I know it's not going to be reliving glory, Lancaster, Saratoga...one of the three. And sometimes I don't want to go to CTY. Don't want this fun and fall cycle. Maybe I'll be too spoiled by the awesomeness of last year to enjoy this year.
I think there's only a few things I'm sure of, now: my friends, the music I like (I'm now addicted to the Red Hot Chili Peppers), and that I'm a boy. This is a fun but confusing year.
posted by Scott Zeng at 6:37 PM
7 Comments:
If you really want to do a writing course, than go with what your heart says. Otherwise your parents will be spending 3 grand for you to be unhappy. I personally really want to take the Critical Essay Pop Culture course becaue it sounds mroe fun. And on becomeing an author, I think you should take the advice of Meg Cabot:
"Don’t tell people you want to be a writer. Everyone will try to talk you out of choosing a job with so little security, so it is better just to keep it to yourself, and prove them all wrong later."
This is of course with the exception of your blog friends, who will always get you.
Oh and I forgot to say, sometimes I don't really want to go back to Siena either. Actually I probably won't because they don't offer Pop Culture there. I'm afraid it won't live up to last time, and I won't enjoy it as much and sour the memory or something like that. Or it will be too much the same or too different without you guys there and without sharing a room with Angie. I don't know. But I don't think I'll be going back to Loudonville.
Also, I wonder if Essie is going to be an RA next session and if Amanda or Christina plan to teach at CTY again.
i'm definitely not going back to loudonville i'll have so many memories it'll be too emotional. but i might go back to cty. anyway i hope some of us can at least be at the same site.
We can always hope some of us end up on the same site, of course. But even though it's kind of emotional both ways, going to Loudonville or somewhere else, it's probably better scattering to meet new people, even though some old friends never hurt.
I think I'll head to Saratoga or Lancaster, this time. Even though Lancaster rules out people from MA, like Kingston.
I'm going back to Loudenville, it's the closest place to MA where I can take some decent humanities courses. There's a campus in Rhode Island, but I'm pretty sure they specialize in like math and science.
i luvvv the rhcp... and the fact that u so strongly stated u are a male was... very... implying
and btw guys loudenville was amazing... ya no im glad i have such a louddenville image of cty!! and m.e. i miss having u as a roomie but feel free to mention to ur next roomate that ur old roomate angie had her wardrobe all over the room instead of the closet... u may also mention the 1000 miles incident... and u no nothing will ever live up to the frisbee incident
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