Christina

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Relationship Status

Single

Highschool

Siegel High School

College

The Ohio State University

Interests

linguistics, pretty dresses, frozen lakes, late night conversations, jazz music, fog, comfortable silences, attractive people, the color yellow, laughing at nothing, swings, warm weather, Les Miserables, idealism, tomato soup, British accents, love

Favorite Music

Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Regina Spektor, Sara Gazarek, Brett Dennen, The Ditty Bops, Ella Fitzgerald, Madeleine Peyroux, The Shins, The Postal Service, Bright Eyes, Psapp, Relient K, Billy Joel, Simon and Garfunkel. All choral and classical music, and definitely all Broadway.

Favorite Movies

Pride and Prejudice, Crash, Moulin Rouge, Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amadeus

Favorite Books

The Bible, The Lord of the Rings, Gilead, Brave New World, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Sound and the Fury, Til We Have Faces

Frustration rears its ugly head

January 05 2006


So some of the classes I may want to take next year aren't strictly academic...as in, four out of seven of them...but if they're classes that are really important to me, shouldn't I be allowed to take them, even if they aren't ap calc and physics and may not look golden on my transcript?


I'm sick of always having to do everything for the future.  Why can't we just go to school and learn and grow like we should be doing?  Why do we have to worry so much about that oh-so-elusive "getting into collge" that we aren't allowed to make any mistakes?  I want to go to Belmont, probably, or MTSU as a backup.  I think, with my GPA and ACT and activities, I can achieve that, and even get a few scholarships to boot.  Heck, I could go to mtsu for free and get a check in the mail each month.  So why do the powers that be push me to the point of ridiculousness?  No, I do not want to drive everyday to mtsu to take a class I'm not interested in when I could take one that's important to me at Siegel.


I also dislike how music classes are so frowned upon...like, you can't be intelligent and still take two music classes - it just wouldn't look good.  To that, I say poo poo.



Ugh.


That's it, I'm going back to third grade.


See you on the playground.

Carla Simpson

January 05 2006
hey - music classes ARE for smart people!! :)

Amy

January 05 2006
Yeah, definitely don't listen to the teachers and guidance counselors that tell you that you have to take a million academic electives to get accepted to college because it's a lie. I mean, Belmont and MTSU are good schools, but they're not Harvard and they're not going to not accept you if you take choir and journalism instead of calculus and physics. Do what you love and don't worry about it!

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