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SOME STUFF THAT I STARTED WRITIGN THE OTHER DAY BUT NEVER POSTED: [it's one of those days i wish i didn't have to do anything, so i could just sit in front of the mirror and admire myself. A long time ago, a lover of mine said that I (and all women) were the most beautiful just upon waking. Only much later did I begin to see that it was true.
Anyway, that was not at all what I meant to write about, just happened to look in the mirror before I started typing :)
What I did mean to write about was a sort of a survey for my friends who went to real college. Most of my friends did go to fancy private schools, 4-year colleges, universities, etc. and have since graduated from them (woop woop!). I sneaked a little different route, which has quite honestly worked out pretty nicely though I do regret it from time to time, because I feel like I am behind others. My first year at Evergreen was a mistake. If I had listened to my gut instead of trying to keep up with my peers I would have known that I wasn't meant to go to school right away. But that's alright because I learned from it (not to mention gained a few irreplaceable friendships...I'm looking at you Matthew, Timothy, and Zach!).
Now I am taking a 3-year (condensed into 18 months cos I'm hardcore like that) Interior Design degree at Clover Park Technical College. Not exactly a nationally or even regionally known school. However my instructors are incredible people, one of them holding the title of most awarded designer in the south puget sound area. ]
continued? I lost my train of thought (this was from like 6 days ago) so maybe not. I think the point was: people who went to real college, were your classmates fucking retarded??? Okay because my assumption (and I know it's wrong of me to assume this as I have learned so very many times) is that if you are in college then you have been through several years of school already, and in many cases several years after that of LIFE during which you had a job and presumably cared for yourself in some way. Therefore you are very likely to be educated in BASIC THINGS THAT A FUCKING 8 YEAR OLD WOULD KNOW.
I don't know if it's just because I'm at a craptacular "Junior College" that it seems like only a couple of the students are actually on the level. Every day that we have lecture is literally agonizing for me (because "lecture" is actually more of an open forum discussion and lesson that just someone talking at us for an hour or two). It pains me greatly that we had to spend TWO FULL LECTURE DAYS learning about Cartesian coordinates. It's not like it was planned that way, just that over half of my classmates took that long to grasp the concept. These are adults. People who have lived real lives, and yet somehow can't grasp the concept of a fucking intersection. WHAT.
Anyway, that is just one example. Everyday its something different, every day more and more stupid questions compound. I feel like so much time is wasted, because it is rude to work on my projects during lecture, so I am basically forced to listen for 2-2.5 hours of which maybe 3% is actually useful BEFORE I can work on my assignments. It's not my instructors' faults. In fact, I quite adore them and think they are all very capable and smart people who know wtf they are talking about. I also think they are some of the most patient people in the world. I could sense Julie cracking a little bit yesterday (because apparently there are numerous people in my class who can't even use google (or an internet browser period) with out having their hand held. IS THIS HOW STEPHEN HAWKING FEELS ALL THE TIME? maybe he gets to turn his computer ears off. That man is a fucking laptop.
LE SIGH. Despite all that, though, I am still learning a lot and enjoying myself. I've discovered that AutoCAD is the best software ever made and that I want to use it for ever. When I'm done at school if the only job I get is just sitting in an office drafting other people's stuff on CAD I will be a very happy lady.
I'm really sorry I think so many of my classmates are fucking stupid. I really think they are nice people and I like them, they just really waste my time a lot and that is some kind of pet peeve. DON'T TAKE IT PERSONAL GUYS IF YOU READ THIS.
Fuckin' whatever like I actually make friends in there. LOL. Yeaahhh...
Anyway, that was not at all what I meant to write about, just happened to look in the mirror before I started typing :)
What I did mean to write about was a sort of a survey for my friends who went to real college. Most of my friends did go to fancy private schools, 4-year colleges, universities, etc. and have since graduated from them (woop woop!). I sneaked a little different route, which has quite honestly worked out pretty nicely though I do regret it from time to time, because I feel like I am behind others. My first year at Evergreen was a mistake. If I had listened to my gut instead of trying to keep up with my peers I would have known that I wasn't meant to go to school right away. But that's alright because I learned from it (not to mention gained a few irreplaceable friendships...I'm looking at you Matthew, Timothy, and Zach!).
Now I am taking a 3-year (condensed into 18 months cos I'm hardcore like that) Interior Design degree at Clover Park Technical College. Not exactly a nationally or even regionally known school. However my instructors are incredible people, one of them holding the title of most awarded designer in the south puget sound area. ]
continued? I lost my train of thought (this was from like 6 days ago) so maybe not. I think the point was: people who went to real college, were your classmates fucking retarded??? Okay because my assumption (and I know it's wrong of me to assume this as I have learned so very many times) is that if you are in college then you have been through several years of school already, and in many cases several years after that of LIFE during which you had a job and presumably cared for yourself in some way. Therefore you are very likely to be educated in BASIC THINGS THAT A FUCKING 8 YEAR OLD WOULD KNOW.
I don't know if it's just because I'm at a craptacular "Junior College" that it seems like only a couple of the students are actually on the level. Every day that we have lecture is literally agonizing for me (because "lecture" is actually more of an open forum discussion and lesson that just someone talking at us for an hour or two). It pains me greatly that we had to spend TWO FULL LECTURE DAYS learning about Cartesian coordinates. It's not like it was planned that way, just that over half of my classmates took that long to grasp the concept. These are adults. People who have lived real lives, and yet somehow can't grasp the concept of a fucking intersection. WHAT.
Anyway, that is just one example. Everyday its something different, every day more and more stupid questions compound. I feel like so much time is wasted, because it is rude to work on my projects during lecture, so I am basically forced to listen for 2-2.5 hours of which maybe 3% is actually useful BEFORE I can work on my assignments. It's not my instructors' faults. In fact, I quite adore them and think they are all very capable and smart people who know wtf they are talking about. I also think they are some of the most patient people in the world. I could sense Julie cracking a little bit yesterday (because apparently there are numerous people in my class who can't even use google (or an internet browser period) with out having their hand held. IS THIS HOW STEPHEN HAWKING FEELS ALL THE TIME? maybe he gets to turn his computer ears off. That man is a fucking laptop.
LE SIGH. Despite all that, though, I am still learning a lot and enjoying myself. I've discovered that AutoCAD is the best software ever made and that I want to use it for ever. When I'm done at school if the only job I get is just sitting in an office drafting other people's stuff on CAD I will be a very happy lady.
I'm really sorry I think so many of my classmates are fucking stupid. I really think they are nice people and I like them, they just really waste my time a lot and that is some kind of pet peeve. DON'T TAKE IT PERSONAL GUYS IF YOU READ THIS.
Fuckin' whatever like I actually make friends in there. LOL. Yeaahhh...