Kitalpha Hart wrote:I was terrible at doing homework in school uwu
Thankfully I'm long past having homework ahahaha
Same here. If I couldn't do my schoolwork at school, it didn't get done. "Homework" was strictly for work that involved my home, not my school; boundaries are important.
My teachers weren't fans of this stance.
But I kept acing the tests, so it was clear I learned the material.
And I didn't see why they should get any of my time after I'd already learned the material.
Most of the classes, it just averaged out. Assignments I could complete in class and the quizzes and tests balanced against the longer assignments there wasn't time for. Honestly most of the time I still got As.
Some of the teachers caved entirely and just graded off the tests; I did VERY well there.
Some of them deliberately changed their beginning-of-the-year stated grading methods so they could add more weight to homework, and flunked me. Like it was some kind of principle for them that students should have to do homework or something (maybe a power play? Dunno).
I didn't care by that point.
I'd lost all faith in the system by then, lol, so I had no investment in my school records, and the "consequence" of failing just rolled off my back.
Since I didn't react, when they tried to make a big deal out of it, they just got weird looks; I was known as a nerdy bookworm who could tutor anyone in any subject, so the fact that some (okay only two) teachers flunked me despite the fact that I could teach anyone enough to ace the tests they gave... well it just made them look petty.
My GPA suffered from that, but I scored high enough on the pre-college tests to get into my top university pick anyhow. Although I still regret wasting my time at University after I'd already clearly abandoned the academic route of life. Should've just started in working towards my actual life plans. But it was so EXPECTED in the family, I just went.
Probably would've been invaluable to someone with a different life trajectory.
Frustrating.
Waste of opportunity for everyone involved.
Oh, well, hindsight and all that.
And, to be fair, the University library was INCREDIBLE. And I made some good contacts. So it wasn't actually a complete waste of time, it's just that the opportunity cost was well higher than what I typically use as my decision-making point, and it was even then, I knew it before I ever applied. I just wasn't as used to being independent, so I let the family overrule my good sense.
Mistakes are how we learn, I guess.
Wow long rambling tangent that helps no one.
Clearly, I should go sleep so my filters start working again.
G'night and good luck to those of you still tossing water balloons!