Anyway, things are moving at a whirlwind pace. I had a trig exam this morning, and it was quite like the last one--that is, the last one was an Algebra exam, so the content was nothing like. But the nights before both exams were both very similar: moaning and worrying and generally convincing myself that there's no way I understand these concepts nor am I able to apply them. When I got there and saw the eight relatively simple problems (one of those being a bonus), I felt as though my life has been written one anticlimax after another. She didn't even make us actually sketch a graph of sine or cosine; we just identified some major components in graphing. Inverse trig identities were not to be found.
Truly, I think studying only serves to bother up one's mind. I do not mean that studying itself is worthless, but rather that one has to know how to study and one rarely ever does.
The rest of my life is ridden with exams and dance performances with an occasional event outside of school or dance thrown in here or there. My biology exam is next Monday, a day after the youth retreat. I have the ACT on the morning of April 12 and a dance performance which I have to run that same afternoon. The week right before finals, I have two extra dance practices and a large, laborious performance--the Saturday after Finals I am taking the SAT. I have Orientation somewhere in there. On the desk next to me, there's a Psychology textbook which I got for a dollar on ABEbooks. I'm going to study that and CLEP out of the miserable subject. The Sociology text is on its way and I'm going for Freshman Comp I & II as well. I do not know how many hours I'll be allowed to test out of, but I may be studying some PolySci and American History too. And in a month or so, people tell me I'll be graduating high school...
I'm going to an informal interview later this evening for a summer job and hopefully one that will continue on throughout the school year. I'm really excited/nervous about it. It's an amazing opportunity--it just seems like a total God-send--and I really want it to work out! So tonight I'm going to meet the woman I'll potentially be working for... I expect it to go well, I am determined that it should go well, but I'm not the one who decides these things. Pray that God would bless this venture--or rather, that I would be able to rest in his will in contentment. It's easier to ask for prayer for blessing, but honestly I probably need the other one more.
I've got to get to some work. Be sure to leave a comment if you like; two if you don't.
Love,
Inky
So that means I'll just leave one comment. :o)
I will be praying for you and hope you get the job. Highschool is hard--people talk about getting out into the "real world" and how kids in school have no idea how difficult the real world is, but sometimes I think that highschoolers are way more busy than anyone else on the planet. But then, of course, you're one of those overachiever types.... *grin*
It does sound rather busy for you.
I'll be praying for this job opportunity. What kind of a job would it be? Or is that information to be saved for later?
I hope the CLEP exams go well. I tend to look forward to exams such as these, it's like a challenge to see if I can indeed pass it.
It's good to hear what you're up to. I'll be praying for you.
I;m hoping to CLEP out of Psychology, too, at least---it really is a most miserable, horrible subject.