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Jun 20, 2005 01:34

so, my little brother reid graduated from high school this weekend, and besides being a weird experience in itself, it was also quite the learning experience for me to compare an OC graduation to an LF one. basically, the differences between the two could fill a 'war and peace'-sized book ( Read more... )

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the14thmonkey June 20 2005, 15:44:59 UTC

i hated my graduation. The only reason I even attended it was because I had enough foresight to tell myself I might regret it if I didn't go. It was boring! I would rather have gone to the beach with all my friends and non-friends high school style than sit in the football field amongst rows and rows of people. The fact that I put no effort whatsoever into high school made it even more meaningless for me. It's not like I fought tooth and nail to get that diploma.

Don't get me wrong, I loved high school. I'm just not one for uproarious ceremony over something so petty. Much ado about nothing. I'll be at the Steinhardt graduation in May and I'll be proud, but there isn't a whole lot of magic there either (although I did and will put 10x more effort in than high school). I'll use graduating as an excuse to get my parents to finally come to New York. Whatever it takes, huh?

the14thmonkey June 20 2005, 15:58:55 UTC

ooh, and the thing about ambition: I never said I know what I'm going to do and I'm going to do it one way or another. I've always sort of went with the flow of things, capitalizing on moments at every opportunity, but still letting the current take me where it will ( ... )

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Re: holy shit. this is a massive response. i'm sorry. the14thmonkey June 20 2005, 20:38:14 UTC

you're speaking down about someone taking a 5th year to finish college?

josiepagne June 21 2005, 14:14:15 UTC

I think that's a record for one of the longest entries. But it gave me something to read at work. Yay.

Firstly, just Jinu went to Harvard, yeah? Unless she had 6 invisible friends that I didn't know about. But I still see your point about the school thing. I remember back when we were getting to know each other, Alyssa paged through my booklet of where everyone went to school and she was like "Wow. We had a girl go to Duke. And my friend's at Georgetown. And um that's about it." And we're like oh, let's send 7 kids to Vanderbilt and another 7 to Northwestern. It's ridiculous.

Here's my philisophical question: Are we really ambitious on our own? Or are we just ambitious as a result of our parents expectations for us? And when did/does it make the change between the two and we start being ambitious for ourselves and not for others?

311 AT THE GROVE IN ANAHEIM JUNE 1. TICKETS ON SALE SOON. I WILL BE THERE TO GO WITH YOU IF ITS THE LAST THING I DO.

Love,
Hoolia

josiepagne June 21 2005, 14:14:45 UTC

And by June 1 I meant August 1, unless you have some special cool time machine thing that lets 311 play anytime you want them to in the past.