Exams

Well its that wonderful time of the semester where about 30% of your grade comes from a single test that covers the entire semester. Doesn't make much sense to me but it never has. You would think that school would base your grade on application and effort and not on a single paper or test but that is the way it has always been. Maybe they do it to increase our performance in the clutch or maybe it is so they can laugh at the bewildered look on their students faces when they see the question from the 2nd class of the year about what the exact quote from the professor was about the sensitivity analysis of integer linear programming. But that is how it is set up. But its one of two times of year for students. Those that are upset because of how the system works or those that deal with it and rise to the occasion. Its funny to me that those that are in authority would use this defense in every situation that if "you didn't waste so much time complaining you could've aced the exam if you studied that much" As young people we are programmed to do as we are told and put forth the effort to get there. But how many breakthroughs or social movements or progress in thought would have been sparked without someone analyzing the system and realizing the need for a change. I hope that one day i will find some way to show people that they have to find what they are good at and that sometimes no matter how hard they try in their current situation you can't just move up and be where you want to be. Risk is involved. Go to school, learn about yourself, find people that you can take along the way, and don't settle. Change the world or it just might change you from being something special to something ordinary.