Anadulterated arrogance
I am on a different plane than the so-called students of Lawrence High. So few of them are learning! They talk almost exclusively about their plans or they use readymade, shrink-wrapped topics: sports, Iraq, television, and other TV dinners of the intellect. Meanwhile, I am rapt, discovering the principles of our orderly universe. Lawrence High School is not conducive to discovery.
Perhaps it is a sweeping generalization, but at this juncture I can't imagine a life for myself that involves doing homework or studying for tests. Such things are frivolous. School is repetition over comprehension, method over knowledge, surface over substance, and such pointlessness is not for me. I am so desperate and eager to learn. I yearn to strip nature bare till I understand every last detail! I want to become cognizance. My mind has limits, though, and I cannot devote myself to both science and school. So I have made my decision.
I may be making a mistake. Or rather, I may be doing something that most will see as a lapse in judgement or an imbalance of priority. Critics say I am throwing away my future. I am not overly concerned by such objections. I see them as weightless, since I don't know what the future holds. Precious little can stay me from my goal. I will not shy away from the consequences; I will let the school do with me what it must. But as long as I have this awesome freedom, I will also have power. The only way to stop me now is to take away that freedom, and it doesn't seem likely for anyone to do that soon. For the foreseeable future, which for me is admittedly not very long, I shall do what I want to a degree I had never before dreamed possible.
Perhaps it is a sweeping generalization, but at this juncture I can't imagine a life for myself that involves doing homework or studying for tests. Such things are frivolous. School is repetition over comprehension, method over knowledge, surface over substance, and such pointlessness is not for me. I am so desperate and eager to learn. I yearn to strip nature bare till I understand every last detail! I want to become cognizance. My mind has limits, though, and I cannot devote myself to both science and school. So I have made my decision.
I may be making a mistake. Or rather, I may be doing something that most will see as a lapse in judgement or an imbalance of priority. Critics say I am throwing away my future. I am not overly concerned by such objections. I see them as weightless, since I don't know what the future holds. Precious little can stay me from my goal. I will not shy away from the consequences; I will let the school do with me what it must. But as long as I have this awesome freedom, I will also have power. The only way to stop me now is to take away that freedom, and it doesn't seem likely for anyone to do that soon. For the foreseeable future, which for me is admittedly not very long, I shall do what I want to a degree I had never before dreamed possible.