Honors Biology is shitting on me.
Like, seriously.
And this isn't going to be another one of my whiny complaint posts. I mean, I don't have any solution, and it will be complaining, and I'm whiny but whatever.
This is partially inspired by the new Vlogbrothers video, about how curiosity is the greatest aspect of humanity. I've always been really curious to how things work, the substructure, the cause and effect. Simple explanations have never really satisfied me.
All of this to say, I've always been really curious about the world; it's fueled my love for science.
But I'm completely overwhelmed (temporarily).
I mean, I've had challenges before in school, but nothing like this course. They throw information at you at a rate that is completely ridiculous. And this isn't really anyone's fault, the topic we have to cover in a year is huge. But the overwhelming feeling makes me feel like giving up. The sheer amount there is to learn and how insurmountable it feels to ask all of the questions I have make me feel like giving up (this is what almost everyone thinks my philosophy about life is, but it's not (I'm planning on explaining that in a later blog post)).
I don't think I've explained this very well. When everything is shown to you in one moment, it sort of doesn't make you want to explore every aspect of it, it makes you feel dumb. And you accept that, and live with it. Imagine if in Kindergarten, your teacher decided to tell you "Hey kids these numbers that you're putting together will start to get bigger and then there's repeated addition called multiplication and subtraction and division and soon they'll turn into letters soon and then there'll be more letters and weird squiggly lines that you'll have to interpret and then dimensions and more dimensions and sarcastically unhelpful Honors Geometry teachers so you better fucking learn that 2+5=7, Abhishek"
I would've probably given up on math at that point.
So, yeah. I imagine that many of my classmates have hit this moment earlier in their life, and it sucks that this is the way we're taught. That the information is dumped on us en masse and it discourages curiosity. I guess that's why they teach us like a third of every topic before moving on and then reteaching that topic the next year with a bit more of it. To teach creativity, not because our curriculum sucks. I don't know, do either of my readers get what I'm saying?
Like, seriously.
And this isn't going to be another one of my whiny complaint posts. I mean, I don't have any solution, and it will be complaining, and I'm whiny but whatever.
This is partially inspired by the new Vlogbrothers video, about how curiosity is the greatest aspect of humanity. I've always been really curious to how things work, the substructure, the cause and effect. Simple explanations have never really satisfied me.
All of this to say, I've always been really curious about the world; it's fueled my love for science.
But I'm completely overwhelmed (temporarily).
I mean, I've had challenges before in school, but nothing like this course. They throw information at you at a rate that is completely ridiculous. And this isn't really anyone's fault, the topic we have to cover in a year is huge. But the overwhelming feeling makes me feel like giving up. The sheer amount there is to learn and how insurmountable it feels to ask all of the questions I have make me feel like giving up (this is what almost everyone thinks my philosophy about life is, but it's not (I'm planning on explaining that in a later blog post)).
I don't think I've explained this very well. When everything is shown to you in one moment, it sort of doesn't make you want to explore every aspect of it, it makes you feel dumb. And you accept that, and live with it. Imagine if in Kindergarten, your teacher decided to tell you "Hey kids these numbers that you're putting together will start to get bigger and then there's repeated addition called multiplication and subtraction and division and soon they'll turn into letters soon and then there'll be more letters and weird squiggly lines that you'll have to interpret and then dimensions and more dimensions and sarcastically unhelpful Honors Geometry teachers so you better fucking learn that 2+5=7, Abhishek"
I would've probably given up on math at that point.
So, yeah. I imagine that many of my classmates have hit this moment earlier in their life, and it sucks that this is the way we're taught. That the information is dumped on us en masse and it discourages curiosity. I guess that's why they teach us like a third of every topic before moving on and then reteaching that topic the next year with a bit more of it. To teach creativity, not because our curriculum sucks. I don't know, do either of my readers get what I'm saying?
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