Reading this article was deeply upsetting to me. I remember my senior year of high school and the stupid, moronic, pointless pressure (peer and otherwise). Of my friends, I was the underachiever - I ran Latin club, helped out in tech support, and spent most of my spare time on the internet or being sick. The salutatorian of my class was one of these girls, and ended up being publicly humiliated after she'd told everyone in our class that she was valedictorian and then, well, wasn't. She was the best diver in the state all four years of high school.
What's the point of all this? Sure, it's great to challenge yourself. But it's only now that my course of study is directed by interest rather than "Is this class weighted? will it positively impact my GPA?" that I find myself actually learning and growing, finding all of those little corners of myself that I had to shut off to attend to the goal apparent.
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Date: 2007-04-01 06:08 am (UTC)What's the point of all this? Sure, it's great to challenge yourself. But it's only now that my course of study is directed by interest rather than "Is this class weighted? will it positively impact my GPA?" that I find myself actually learning and growing, finding all of those little corners of myself that I had to shut off to attend to the goal apparent.