My Academics
Throughout this "article" or what have you I will talk about my experiences through my wack academic background. That being
- Middle School
- High School
- Running Start (Community College)
Middle School
It was not very eventful seeing as I was in middle school 90% of the time that COVID was taking place, thus most of my experience was spent sitting in a room staring at a screen till the class was over; that being said 8th-grade year was when I first learned that I had some potential to go places in my academic career however at the time I was still a die-hard wanna be marine. Believe it or not, I was so die-hard on this that I was about to transfer school districts to go do the Marine Corps JROTC program (in high school). But this year I started two high school classes, which for a lot isn't a big deal seeing as most kids had been doing classes a grade ahead the entire time they were in middle school. But for me, this was a big freaking deal, I was going to actually get to a: choose my classes for once rather than be told what classes I'm taking whether it is relevant or not, and b: actually learn some life skill that could maybe get me somewhere in the real world. But the one challenge with online school is when you fall off a treadmill and hit your head so hard you get a concussion, then proceed to ignore that and run three miles. Woke up the next morning ate breakfast and couldn't even remember what I had just eaten, my teacher told me it might be wise to go see a doctor. I did, and sure enough, I now was stuck getting behind in school, and only listening to books for a week straight, oh and playing chess.
High School
Everyone's favorite time of school, where everyone's voice cracks so much the squeaks could break a mirror or glass. My high school experience was more confusing than trying to read everything I wrote backward, in all honesty, it's not my cup of tea. The first year there when I was in NJROTC it wasn't too crappy, other than the competitions being so early you really question the point of the program, and doing events so late that you forget the concept of dinner or a social life. That being said the community within JROTC was strong in a way, as at that point most of the people in the community were kind to one another and would all love the drill practices, academics, etc. So there was a strong bond in that way that we were together constantly without fail. However, my actual academic experience there was rather uneventful, the best that happened was that I learned I was rather good at geometry and math, as well as most other subjects getting straight A's every year without fail. This taught me my passion for academics and learning, wanting to understand the ins and outs of the world and how it functioned from physics, and biology, to math I loved it all.
Running Start
The true test of one's knowledge, really "running" is the understatement of the century, it is more like sprinting start. Because your time here while worth it, is tough, you might not expect just how difficult it is (mainly for stem classes/majors). Cause I can tell you it was rather rough if you're doing chemistry (really just the first class cause of the professor). The rest is rather simple if you are in English, not that hard just use the resources provided by the library, history (the textbook is certainly required on this), and psych apparently you can get by without the textbook, Philosophy Mystery Girl did it with no textbook (not sure how she did that but she just special like that), calculus expect to be so brain dead by the end that if you see a number anywhere you will cry. Now I did highly exarate on that and most aren't to horrible, the only ones I have seen lost struggle in are chem one (the like introduction class), and calculus two which I mean its calculus two that's to be expected. But you'll be mostly safe if you have like any other major that isn't in a stem field; all are also really fascinating and so sometimes you can find yourself actually enjoying the work somehow. That or after enough work you become so delusional that you think that everything is fun/funny.
