What you want? Baby I got it ;)

Enrichment	Jan 3rd, 2008 8:56:21 pm - Subscribe
Ah, academia. The bringer of stress, stubborness, and sleepy eyes. What does one need to battle this seasoned demon? Caffeine and Red Bull. Alright alright, enough with the drama and on to point. Enrichment. A level of study above academic. One must feel special to be placed in an enriched course. Mind over matter; a superiority over the average students. Pause. Rewind. ~~Erase~~. Nope, I don't feel superior at all. I actually, I feel the total opposite. That's right, I don't feel special being in an enriched course! No way, all I feel is extra pressure. What is needed to be accomplished in these courses requires a little more effort. And you already know that I'm as lazy as lazy can get. So question... do I belong in enriched? This is easy. Let's evaluate: I've been getting pretty good marks, averages considered enriched material. I'm good in class and I always finish my homework. I'm punctual with assignments and work hard in group projects. I also tend to get really bored in academic classes, which is a sign that I need to be challenged. So alright, I belong in enriched. But the real question is, do I want* to be in enriched?* Alright, second evaluation. No not really, I don't like being challenged, because being challenged means that I have to put extra effort to make things right, and considering that I'm one of the laziest people you'll ever meet... well, you get the picture. You're probably asking why I'm making such a big deal of enriched. For the nth time, my laziness is talking. I've finished 3/4ths of the homework that I need to complete before we go back to school. So I actually feel pretty good that I got those done. And then I think about that last 1/4 that I need to finish. Eh, it's just one more assignment right? Wrong. It's an assignment that requires massive research (since the assignment involves such a broad range of information) and hours figuring out the proper wording to get the right information across. Yes, everyone in my English enriched class would agree: Die, American Civil War essay assignment, DIE! I haven't gone to the library to get books yet, I haven't googled anything about the subject, I don't know a single bit of information about the stupid war... All I know is that I'm probably going to end up leaving this essay 'til the last day of the break. That's not good at all. So maybe I shouldn't jinx it by saying I will! Oops, too late... That's not the only thing. When we get back to school, we have exams. So even if i finish this assignment, us enriched kids have to study extra hard for those midterm exams. Hello, late nights and study sheets. It's been a while. And it doesn't end there. We have that thing, yes it's an English enriched thing... a seminar about the book "To Kill a Mockingbird". So, we spend hours and hours working on the study guide questions he gave us to do, and so the feeling of freedom from literary hell isn't present, because we still have to do this stupid seminar thing. Which by the way, we're only given a few weeks to finish. So I ask myself, do I enjoy being in enriched? Ironically, yes, I do. I love the open-mindedness, my classmates, my teachers. What I don't like is being challenged. So there, I went crazy over this whole homework-over-the-break thing. If only I put as much effort into my school work as I do with these blogs... Boy am I going to hate university!
mood: Tired	(0) comments