Is this fair? + Birthday!
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My school has an on-going 'EDP' (Educational Development Plan) thing where each year you work on a different aspect of preparing you to go into the workforce/to college. For sophomores, this is a 'Life Timeline'... You have to plan out, starting Junior year and go ten years into the future. They gave us 3 lab days with a total of 10 days until it is due. We have to include what colleges we apply to, how much they cost, any jobs we have, how much we make, hobbies/activities, where we are living, how old we are, big ticket purchases, etc, etc.
Then we have to write a 3 paragraph paper detailing why we chose the career we did, what we would do in the occurance of an 'unexpected life event' (randomly handed out to each kid, things like 'get pregnant in 2014', company goes out of business, get divorced) then describe how we felt about the assignment (by picking one adjective).
I talked to the counselor who created this assignment for the majority of my physics hour on Thursday. Why do I have to do this assignment, I asked, and what's the point if it doesn't count for anything but 100 points in English class? She said it's to let her get to know the 800 students better; if she knows I play hockey, she can send me a hockey scholarship, that sort of thing. Which still doesn't make sense.
Then she told me that since I'm angry about the assignment, I must be afraid of something in the assignment or the future. I told her I can't possibly think of anything I'm afraid of in that context, but that I'm angry because I view this assignment as a waste of my time. I generally live in the present. I know what I'm doing tomorrow, or that I'm going to college, but I don't know where or exactly what for yet; so there's no point in making any of it up.
She basically said that's crap and that I really am afraid of something. So I'm still angry about it and my adjective will be something along the lines of 'not ideal'.
My 16th was on Tuesday, I got a balloon animal kit, a dancing penguin bookmark, a pound of Chessex multi-sided dice, Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone in German), a pair of Ink'd Skullcandy earbuds, a Puzzle Calendar (like legos + perpetual calendar), and an Imaginext Dragon (that was on clearance at Wal-Mart for $7 so I told my mom she needed to get it :razz: ). I also got $20 cash and two checks for $20. Plus I've yet to visit my grandparents for my birthday celebration; I'm pretty sure they're getting me some Toy Story LEGOs. Haven't gotten my license yet.
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