[003] Shutdown
March 2nd, 2008 [003]
Sometimes when you have so many things to do or so many factors to consider,you experience a “shutdown” of the mind. Like how a computer might shut down when ordered to execute more programs than it can handle. In this way, people and computers are in common– after all, many modern psychologists compare our brains to computers.
In my 16 and a half years of life, I’ve never experienced such a severe “shutdown” than this very week. Overload created from subjects I neither like nor excel at, from SATs that I doubt can measure a student’s potential fully, from APs, from the upcoming Beijing MUN, and time spent due to the start of the Soccer season… By now I’m certain that, given the time available, it is physically impossible to complete all the tasks imposed on me by others and myself. That’s when the Shutdown happens; I stare blankly at my agenda and list of things to do, and I stare, and stare..,
Why must I use valuable time for a subject that I don’t give a …… about. I know I won’t think of the Conservation of Momentum when I get in a car crash, or try to find the Arcsine of a triangular sandwich.
Time is a non trade-able, scare resource. I intend to use it a efficiently as possibly can, but school won’t let me. Like a tax system that prevents the efficient distribution of resources in society. Obviously, there is a loss to this system.
So this is me, experiencing a severe SHUTDOWN.
on March 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I so agree with your simile about the tax system and the school curriculum. I know that physics and math are the subjects not worth studying for, at least for me they are. Let people who like math study math and let people who don’t like math study something else. It seems like you are thinking the same way.
on March 7th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Jenniferr// Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And I’m not arguing that the Math and Science subjects themselves are worthless. I’m saying that they are merely of less value to the wrong people such as myself. I DO appreciate my doctor being well educated in medicine and biology. and I AM thankful that the architect of my house was a decent math student.