This isn't Hogwarts!

"This is a concrete box! The pictures on the wall are never gonna talk! And the teachers don't care, and the kids don't try, and the most magical thing we have is fluorescent lights!"

~Hank Green: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Gt9m64LBg

This song has been in my head alllll day. I think it pretty much sums up my attitude towards education at the moment

...which makes a terrible monster of entitlement and ingratitude, I know.

At the same time, I'm not among those who are already saying "I'm ready to go to college." College will not be like Hogwarts...it'll be even more competitive and stressful and grade-centric than high school. Let's face it, my dream college would actually be more like a Montessori preschool than anything else. A Montessori preschool with a molecular bio major!(Arrested Development reference: "We don't have grades here. A student either learns and gets an "L" or they...fluctuate in their learning.")

I would probably get an alligator in French.

(yeah, ok, nobody knows what I'm talking about.)

So...speaking of French, the reason for my horrible attitude towards life today is most likely caused by a surfeit of Rosetta Stone. I've probably spent about five of the last twenty-four hours screaming "un facteur" ("a mailperson") at my computer. It refuses to understand me. Yeah, this isn't Hogwarts.

Observation of the day: Ellipses....are just as...addicting...as colons: resistance is useless.

(Stolen from the AP Physics Edline page.)