This I Have Learned
As the cessation of my secondary education rapidly approaches, I lean back in my cheap plastic chair and consider how I can be emotionally vulnerable enough to make this blog post compelling without exposing any actual psychological weaknesses. I am not bad at this skill due to writing dozens of essays in the college admissions cycle. I'll take away a quantity of knowledge from my secondary education that people a few centuries ago likely could not imagine. However, the practicality and applicability, as well as the permanence of this academic knowledge is dubious at best. As someone who is going into computer science, chemistry and human geography are probably never going to be applicable to my future career. I took 3 AP exams last year, but I have no doubt that I would get 1s or 2s on those exams if I were to take them today. It is generally accepted that social skills are more permanent than academic knowledge, but I repeatedly failed to exploit any opportunity I had to develop ...
