Sunday, February 27, 2005
The education system is a joke......granted we learn some stuff, history for one thing is important...to quote 'to not learn the past is to repeat the past'........but....what else do we learn??? How is half the stuff crammed into our heads....like rock formations and pythagoras theorem and gooble la good supposed to help us with anything?
And exams..................have they never noticed that every examination only tests the ability of the individual in memorizing junk and spilling out everything? It doesn't test if the person understands, it doesn't test that the individual could think for themselves, it doesn't test any other ability that the individual has like creativity and ambition, emphathy, compassion, existential potential.........it just tests how well you can remember your one protein from another............
To some extent.....essay type subjects would be better than pure sciences, for they actually do ask for opinion and evaluation. It doesn't stop at 'what is this' and 'this is the definitive answer insert here'............it goes on to why, and what if, consideration, judgement and thinking.........................
Yet..............don't our studies already filled out all those questions so in effect we are again pouring out information. All the whys and hows, and pros and cons, situation and possibilities............drilled and redrilled through lessons and work and essays and tests........................
What a joke...............we are a slave of the system...........and all society gains is another generation of past generations.........no wonder we are in a depressive spiral of hatred and wars..............we are repeating the past.........
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 3:02 AM
Friday, February 25, 2005
It's not that bad, I'm not being kicked out of the house, although that moment would probably come again as my mother finds her irrationality surfacing.....
UCL has sent their accomodation package.......I know have to within three months with inclusion of post time, decide which type of accomodation I would like, write out and figure out the very weird application form, and wail over failing my exams......can do, no problem....
BUT WHERE WILL I LIVE???? The Halls of residences looked ok until I found out they have no ensuite baths *vital part*....but they do cater.....then there are student houses, which looks nicer, but I would have to cook.....*ugh*......intercollegiate halls is an option but I would probably have to share a room...........
Some of the accomodations are quite far from the UCL building too.........*sigh*
I don't know what to do....
And the possibility of me getting 3 Bs instead of 3 As for my final year exams have just occured to me............
*BREAKS DOWN AND CRIES*
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 1:41 AM
Monday, February 21, 2005
UCL, that is the prestigious university college london has finally deemed it right to reply to my silent plea and made an offer......*yippee*hah!*.....not such good news.
Their offer?
A......A.......A.......and a PASS in a fourth subject!!!!
The audacity of it all, to make me continue in all FOUR subjects when most people take three A levels, and yet..............
I'm miserable....and yet.....
It may work out in my advantage.............*sigh*.......the weirdness of it all........
UCL wants three As and a pass in a fourth subject which means i can just show up for one of them and I can still pass, leaving me free to concentrate on the other three, especially since the THREE HOUR long SOCIO paper is at the same time, same afternoon as the THREE HOUR long HISTORY paper, both of which are essays paper.......this year is really screwing me.........and both papers are held three days after my first Lit paper...........great, three days to study for a six hour long essay papers...........wunderbar..........not........
BUT...........if I instead concentrate on Lit and one of the exams on that ill fated day, I can maybe scrap a pass on either History or Sociology with three As to spare....................hmmm.............
That would work since Uni Melbourne, the one which Derek nichan and Rayner nichan attends and are enticing me with promises of dota and the company of their stacks of anime, wants Three As with one of them in an english based subject.......which is ridiculous because my education and all it's exams since twelve years have been conducted in english, yet they want PROOF!!!
So..............if i can get atleast three As, I get the choice of either attending world renowned UCL or Unimelb with my two beloved nichans......hmmm.........
Or I can study like crazy for socio and hist weeks before the exam, take a break four days before first lit exam and study for that, then go back to studying for hist and lit after that, and get four As...............that is if I don't fail business studies......................of which the paper layout has changed and become longer, based on a lousy case study and has one essay to write and numerous 'short' 15 mark questions to answer................
Riiight....................................
Can do.......................................................
Probably..........................................................
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 11:21 PM
Saturday, February 05, 2005
*moan*
Came back from THIMUN on sunday *hates flying*....and promptly fell sick on monday on through now.......I feel miserable......high fever, the dry cough, the flu, the chest pain, the stomach pains, headaches..............
How could my whole family not notice I was sick if on tuesday I had lain in bed moaning about with the whole bed soaked in sweat and I had been there the whole night and the whole DAY......until 6PM!!! They just came in occasionally, prod me and say 'it's late, get up', and then leave........
I feel so ugh.....
Enough of this.....anyway, THIMUN was great, and I'm going to do the updates soon, and for convenience sake, I'll save the posts in chronological order so the stuff would happen in the correct date..........so read from the bottom up........
Until then....I'm going to recuperate......
*cough, cough*
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 1:04 AM
