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I could have done better at school.
By Ricardo Marques April 16, 2012 17:56
The first time someone asked me what I liked to be when I grew up I said: I wanna be a veterinarian. I must have been around 8. I liked playing with animals so the prospect of being around them for a living seemed like a nice idea.
In the mean time I had to finish my education. Primary school (4 years, 6-10) was easy, middle school (5 years, 10-15) was boring and high school (3 years, 15-18) was... well... lets say "interesting".
Don't know when but my plans for being a veterinarian got lost, and I tried to figure something out. It was a hard time since I didn't have a clue of what I wanted to do any more, but I decided Computer Engineering.
I finished high school with average grades, just high enough for me to get into the University/College I chose. I could have done a lot better in high school, even considering I didn't do my best even while in middle school. But my laziness took over and I only did as much as I needed to get into University.
Well I did get into the University I wanted, but in the end the course was a bit different from what I was thinking, as I realised it would most likely involve a life of me sitting in a desk looking at a computer screen. So as this happened wondered If I would have problems changing courses because of my crappy high school grades...
Guess what?!? I was right...
The plan I had for college was in the trash and I was having trouble getting into the course I did like then, Biology.
In the end my laziness kind of screwed me and kind of ruined my higher education.
To be fair, my parents did warn me to have good grades to get into the course I wanted. Which I did, problem was I then changed my mind.
Lesson learned: You might have a life planned that doesn't need perfect grades, but what happens if you change your mind later on? Always give your best in school.
Comments
April 17, 2012 08:52 By Adriano Santos
After reading that deep and introspective view (=P) i recognize it kinda happened the same to me too, but with a small diference, when i was at high school i already knew my lazyness had done its damage and i started thinking what should i do with my life, what should i need to learn to be someone kinda self-suficient or (using a better word) autonomous, so i started doing (jobs and tasks) almost anything i could get (no people, prostitution is not the way to go xD) and i realized something my parents told me years ago, life's hard and you gotta work through it, im not dumb (i think LOL) just very very veeery lazy and learning by books sometimes its needed and i highly agree on that, but i hate it a lot. In the end, i know i shoulda tried harder, i had everything i needed for that, but in the end i feel kinda disapointed with school, u learn a lot of many subjects but in the end you don't know a bit how its gonna be in the real world, and i know first handed, it can be a bit disapointing.
April 17, 2012 16:56 By PedroFM
A BANANA!? Really? All those years in the making.. and your website's symbole is a banana!?!?! (Tu nunca me enganaste!!!) On top of that.. its in shades of green!? Ridiculous! =\
All 8 year old kids want to be veterinarians!! All!! Well.. except the ones who prefer to set cats on fire instead of cuddling them.. =s Anyway.. i wanted to be a veterinarie as well.. that is.. untill i discovered that i have somewhat of a problem with.. blood and guts and.. ah.. hanging by a thread members.. =s
After that I wanted to be a pensionary like my grandfather! That kind of didnt work out.. for some reason the state wasnt convinced =S
Yeah.. kids.. you should study and get good grades to be someone in life.. bla bla bla...
I thought the idia of this website was to tell funny things that happen to us. Not a "tell us your tragic useless childhood" diary =s
Anyway.. whatever you do.. AVOID math at any cost!!!
Damn my english is rusty!! I probably wrote many words wrong.. but you now what?.. I dont care.. im not gonna go search for errors and correct them.. You want to know why?.. Because im as lazzy as you are! ..maybe more.. most certenly more.. (e esta mer... [ah pera nao queres palavroes] esta coisa devia ser em português!!! Tamos em Portugal! [besta!])
Farewell..
April 17, 2012 16:57 By PedroFM
Esta coisa não mete parágrafos!? como diria o Adriano.. "que fail.." =s
April 17, 2012 17:01 By PedroFM
By the Way.. there should be a button saiyng.. "sort of happened to me!"
April 17, 2012 17:18 By Adriano Santos
From the beggining:
Symbol
Veterinary
Idea
Certainly
Not that lazy after all :P
Btw, awesome answer xD not dramatic at all, "tell us your tragic useless childhood" like a cherry on top of a cake LULZ xD
May 03, 2012 00:30 By ruben almeida
For kids of our generation that's a problem we all had. But to kids of the present generation that wont be a problem because theydont want to go to college. They dont care about school and want to work behind a balcony serving the ones of our generation who decided to work, even for a little, to be someone in life.
May 23, 2012 20:06 By Brunosm
Rúben got a point, but YOU and you too Pedro, should GO back to school! (porque é que isto está em inglês?! Quando escrevo no iPad isto quer por tudo em português, onde eu escrevi school nao parava de mudar pra sachola!)
May 29, 2012 21:09 By Adriano Santos
Theres nothing more gratifying than teaching higher degrees about their work, people don't understand that having a paper doesn't prove your intelligence, just proves that society (im talking about the portuguese one, the one i know) is ruled by titles instead of good usefull well applied knowledge as well as good working people.
An example "Hello Dr Vitor (fictional name), need some help with that? There's no problem in not knowing about it, ill teach you, im a coleague of your's but i will insist in treating you as Dr, cause your degree states that, but still im teaching you, theres nothing like good old respect don't you agree Dr Vitor?"
Well i think you got the point, if not at least i tried :P
July 07, 2012 17:37 By Zak
Word to the wise: if you're planning a career that doesn't require good grades, you reap what you sowed.
There is no career field that does not require good grades & related competency. Even in construction, you will never do more than break your back if you don't have the thinking competencies.
March 09, 2013 11:51 By Adriano Santos
Maybe i wasn't clear enough, and i am very sorry to say this, but thats completely stereotipical, so what you are saying and correct me if i am wrong is you are judged by your grades, your competence is proportional to your grades? i can agree with you if we are talking about engineering, health care, i got your point, i just don't agree that having good grades can mesure how good you are doing what you do, regardless what you'r planning to do... Thats just a way society invented to separate social classes, im going to give you a personal example, i have a friend, a very smart friend, he was that guy that at math our teachers were still writing up the problem and by head he already solved it, good right? Nop, wrong, he has more than enough competency but since he was "poor" he had no chance to go to college so he could "be recognized", like him there's a ton of people struggling to be recognized and eagaring to be "someone". Let me put it this way, that sometimes happens to me, so i buy something made to satisfy any need i have and when i have it many times i wonder, "who the hell made this? can't they see this is completly wrong?"
Hp, Hewlett packard is the best example, ill sum this up, i have a laptop known by its heat dissipation problems, so i dissassembled it, and i found a copper plate with a fan (nothing exceptional till now), with an aluminium piece GLUED to it, (cause u can't solder diferent metal alloys), hell they are engeeniers, how can an engeenier come up with that solution? Im thinking about incompetence and you?