#21-23 30 Day Writing Challenge

I got lazy. I admit. I messed up for the second time on the writing challenge. Boo.

I blogged yesterday, outside of the writing challenge, so at least that is good!

Before I get started, I just want to say I updated my quotes page!

#21- How you Hope your Future will be like

I want to be a politician and go into education as well.

I've just been saying education and teacher for the past little bit... but I do want to get into politics. The other day someone in my class was going a presentation and then told us to write down the first thing that popped into our heads that would make us happy.

The first thing that popped into my head was to become an MPP and be the Minister of Education.

I hope I have a family. It isn't the end of the world if I don't get married, although I hope I do. I might have kids even if I don't get married. If I am not busy, career wise, and not married by 30 or in a relationship, I've thought I would have a kid, by myself.

I hope I have enough money and I am not in debt. Debt scares me so much.

#22- Your Academics

I get decent grades. I always have. I don't work overly hard, I did in grade 11, though. I wouldn't call myself smart or a genius. I just do the work with moderate effort and hand it in. Tests I have more issues with because that means that I have to memorize things, which I am not good at.

I get the best grades on essays. In fact, in almost all of my grade 12 courses, I have gotten 100% on one or more essays. I have in exercise science, peer tutoring, law, writer's craft, family studies and philosophy. I haven't in history or english.

This semester (my last semester of high school) I don't know all of my grades yet. At midterms I had a 94% in Law, 94% in Peer tutoring and a 92% in Writers Craft. I know my final grade in peer tutoring was a 96%, but I won't find out for a week or so what my other final grades are. I had a 94% going into my Law exam and a 90% going into my writer's craft exam.

My worst mark ever in high school was a 67%, which was in grade 11 math. My best grade was peer tutoring. My average in grade 12 is around 90%, but I won't know for sure until I get my other 2 grades.

#23 - Something that you Miss

Something that I miss... well high school I am going to miss. I miss my Dad. What should I talk about?

I am going to specifically miss 9 of the courses I took in high school. Especially 4 of them.
- Peer tutoring Careers + Civics (GPP30) which I took in grade 10
- Peer tutoring Foods (IDC4U) which I just finished
- Triology, which I took in grade 10
- Individuals and Families in a Diverse Society which I took in grade 11
- Grade 10 history
- Grade 11 history
- Grade 12 Canadian History
- Grade 12 Classical Civilizations
- Philosophy, which I took online

I am going to miss some of the people. But the people I am going to miss the most, are my friends, so of course we are going to keep in contact when we all move away from each other.

I am going to miss cross country. I only did it in grade 12, but I made a bunch of new friends there. Two of them I will be coming back to visit, if I do come back to visit the school, next year.

There are definitely a few teachers I will be coming back to harass if I visit the school.



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In other news, my prom is TOMORROW, Monday, June 24th! I might post some pics on Tuesday's blog post, or do a separate blog post just on that.

My blog should be "back to normal" in July, which is when I'll be writing more posts that aren't completely about myself, which is sort of what this writing challenge is.

I've been thinking a lot about politics lately. I might blog about Justin Trudeau, Why I want to go into politics, my stance on democracy... I am excited. My brain is bubbling. Is that an expression? Now it is.

#9 30 Day Writing Challenge- How important I think education is + Other Ramblings

I THINK EDUCATION IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!

I don't even specifically mean in school, but that too. Learning and educating is a life-long process. It is not something you do until grade 12, and then choose to go to university or college or not, it is a life-long process. You are always learning.

Public education can be very flawed with corrupt teachers and lesson requirements. But private education can also be flawed. I don't have a big stance here.

I think education in schools strictly relies on how many boundaries teachers are willing to push in their classrooms.

I'm sorry this is a serious post, but I should let you know I am currently typing and bouncing to "I found you" by the Wanted. I must be talented. I apologize for this interruption.

I want to be a teacher someday, because I am so fascinated with the idea of teaching and learning. I love to learn new things. I think I will always be in school. Or at least always learning.

I want to do something big in education. I'm not sure what, yet. But I am going to.

I don't want to be cliche, but I hate it when I say "I want" to do something. I should say "I am going to" do something. I just wrote on my twitter "I want to be a city councillor". I am going to be a city councillor.

I am actually really bad for getting hyped up about something and then not doing it. I do it all the time, it drives me nuts. I need to start saying yes and actually doing these things.

I hate putting these things out into the internet, too, because then if I don't do them, I'm a failure. I can think of so many things.
1. A long time ago in an old blog I used to talk about wanting to volunteer a lot, but then I never did.
2. Recently I made a blog post about how I keep trying to start writing a book but then I can't, so I am officially starting. Yeah, I got about 40 pages into that and I haven't looked at it in over a month. Maybe eventually... but it's just a lost cause now.

I don't know how to imprint this. Do I need to tattoo it onto my forehead?

Goodness. It's time to get back to homework. I've been internetting for the past 2 hours and I only got 15 minutes of homework done. Whoops.

I change so often because I have a fish brain- Why Philosophy?

I have the crappiest memory.

I do not want to talk about that, here, now. But just let the record show that I can't remember shit.

Recently I was like "Why am I studying philosophy?".

I honestly had no idea why. I didn't remember selecting to study philosophy at any point. I knew that I blogged a lot about my choices for university, so I was looking through. Nothing. I found stuff that talked about me possibly wanting to do phys ed, psychology, wanting to be a teacher, not wanting to do anything, etc., but nothing specifically about choosing philosophy.

But I was looking through my old blog posts from the summer, and I honestly don't remember most of that stuff. My memory of myself from that time was COMPLETELY different from what my blog lead off. I am not sure if I was just faking who I was there, or I am really bad at remembering things.

But here I am. Asking myself "Why am I studying philosophy?". I would be perfectly happy studying sociology, psychology or political science. Double majoring with two of those. I can better answer the questions "Why do I want to take sociology, psychology or political science?" more than philosophy. So now is time for some intensive thinking.

Reasons why I may possibly be taking philosophy:
- I liked philosophy in history
- I like philosophy over the summer, the course I took online
- I find philosophy interesting
- I got a good grade in my philosophy course
- I like to think a lot
- Philosophy relates to a lot of subjects I like, like education, history and politics
- I am trying to answer the questions of life, and thats what philosophy is
- I want to learn about others' ideas and thoughts

Okay I guess I have a pretty legitimate reason. But I still don't remember when I decided on philosophy. I think at some point I just decided on philosophy and political science and I just was tired of changing my mind, so I just rested there, and that's where I stayed when I applied to university.

I looked through my old philosophy notes recently, and reminded myself of why I like it. I like the debate of the topics. I like looking at things like ethics, epistemology, waves of thought. I don't know. I just get it. Philo/sophy, the love of ideas. That's what I love.