Vestibular rants!
Updates! Yes... Well, I would update this LJ more often were my life busier than it actually is. School is killing me. What's left of it anyway. The Vestibular is going to be in Novermber 18th, and I really don't have any more patience to go to the same classes I've been going to for the last four years. It's been about a month or so that I've been watching about three or so classes per day (three out of five) and only going to those three per day already tires me quite a bit. Had I had the actual guts to do it, I'd throw a Molotov Cocktail at the god damn school and at the god damn college and at the god damn people that actually study there whereas I do not, even if I did study a whole lot more than them for the tests - tests which I've failed by only a bare minimum.
This year the test is going to be different. For the past... seven years or so, the test consisted in three days of tests, with 3 subjects each - the first day was always Essasy (Four of them), Portuguese and Foreign Language; the second was always Math, Biology and Geography and the third was always Physics, Chemistry and History, and you had 10 questions for each subject. Now, on November 18th, it's going to be only one day with 80 questions - about nine for each subject. After this first test, about 16,000 students will go to the next phase, on December 19th, which then will consists on the god damn Essasy (up to 5 now, although I did only three for the simulation test and barely had time to finish them all) and ten questions of Reading and Interpretation. Depending on the course you choose, you'll have yet naother test, on december 20th, which consists in up to two subjects chosen by the course. Luckily, the course I picked this year will not have the test on the 20th.
It's going to be tougher than in the previous years mainly because of the reduced time I'll have to complete all the tests. On the first day, I'll have about 2 minutes for each question - which is simply not enough if I really want to, you know, actually take the test. Then these bastards complain about the students that get into college not being able to think for themselves. Of course they don't. To get into their damn college the students have to alienate themselves from everything else in order to take the test otherwise they'll fail (like me, since I refused to let go of silly things like reading things that didn't have anything to do with the test, for example). They complain about the current students not being able to write more than a few pages for assginments, yet they require your Essay to have ten lines at most. They also complain about the current students wanting everything explained over and over to them instead of doing actual research, yet they ask the students to study for subjects that range from basic math to know everything about the animal groups, subgroups (including the difference between each, along with the usefulness of some and the criteria used to classify and diferetiante all known living beings - from a lowly bacterium to a god damn whale, and every little thing in between). That and we never know what is going to actually be on the test until we receive it.
Of course I refuse to learn this. If I want to know any of it, I go and look - I don't need to have everything in my head in order to take the course I chose. If I want to build bridges, for example, I don't need to know what is the difference between an insect and an arachnid. If I want to be a doctor, I don't exactly need to know how to calculate the lateral area of a cilinder. If I want to be a social worker, I don't need to know how to calculate the time a train, going at 60 Km/h, is going to take to reach a car that is going at 40 Km/h and is at 1 Km ahead. But yeah. I will never give up on this, even if I have to spend several years trying. The problem is tolerating the kids in my class and the same old boring teachers that do what they can for the stupid people going there to actually pay attention to the subject. It's tough, they know it, I know, but we all have to suck it up and study. Or pretend to in the best way possible. Like me.
In other news, I now have the complete discography is Jethro Tull, and I really don't know where to start listening to it. All I know is that Stand Up is a very nice album, even if a little bit out dated.
This year the test is going to be different. For the past... seven years or so, the test consisted in three days of tests, with 3 subjects each - the first day was always Essasy (Four of them), Portuguese and Foreign Language; the second was always Math, Biology and Geography and the third was always Physics, Chemistry and History, and you had 10 questions for each subject. Now, on November 18th, it's going to be only one day with 80 questions - about nine for each subject. After this first test, about 16,000 students will go to the next phase, on December 19th, which then will consists on the god damn Essasy (up to 5 now, although I did only three for the simulation test and barely had time to finish them all) and ten questions of Reading and Interpretation. Depending on the course you choose, you'll have yet naother test, on december 20th, which consists in up to two subjects chosen by the course. Luckily, the course I picked this year will not have the test on the 20th.
It's going to be tougher than in the previous years mainly because of the reduced time I'll have to complete all the tests. On the first day, I'll have about 2 minutes for each question - which is simply not enough if I really want to, you know, actually take the test. Then these bastards complain about the students that get into college not being able to think for themselves. Of course they don't. To get into their damn college the students have to alienate themselves from everything else in order to take the test otherwise they'll fail (like me, since I refused to let go of silly things like reading things that didn't have anything to do with the test, for example). They complain about the current students not being able to write more than a few pages for assginments, yet they require your Essay to have ten lines at most. They also complain about the current students wanting everything explained over and over to them instead of doing actual research, yet they ask the students to study for subjects that range from basic math to know everything about the animal groups, subgroups (including the difference between each, along with the usefulness of some and the criteria used to classify and diferetiante all known living beings - from a lowly bacterium to a god damn whale, and every little thing in between). That and we never know what is going to actually be on the test until we receive it.
Of course I refuse to learn this. If I want to know any of it, I go and look - I don't need to have everything in my head in order to take the course I chose. If I want to build bridges, for example, I don't need to know what is the difference between an insect and an arachnid. If I want to be a doctor, I don't exactly need to know how to calculate the lateral area of a cilinder. If I want to be a social worker, I don't need to know how to calculate the time a train, going at 60 Km/h, is going to take to reach a car that is going at 40 Km/h and is at 1 Km ahead. But yeah. I will never give up on this, even if I have to spend several years trying. The problem is tolerating the kids in my class and the same old boring teachers that do what they can for the stupid people going there to actually pay attention to the subject. It's tough, they know it, I know, but we all have to suck it up and study. Or pretend to in the best way possible. Like me.
In other news, I now have the complete discography is Jethro Tull, and I really don't know where to start listening to it. All I know is that Stand Up is a very nice album, even if a little bit out dated.