1.Emotional problems can halt your performance, and today I told people I was in Model United Nations for my University, Chinese Debate Team in Secondary School, English and Putonghua in Debate Team.
I was in some Putonghua test underperforming, trying to get an easier class that would suit my time too. One of them discovered me saying that she saw me in MUN.
They say, “So usually your kind of people do really well academically?” They don’t know my GPA is now as low as 2.5.
Anyway, I was caught, couldn’t fake anyway, not that intentionally condescend then feel bad thing, it is just hard to fake. I was overdoing it, and people just fucking noticed.
2.Friends who do the same thing as I do usually are smart and get good grades, good jobs. Debaters all LLB or GLawers, Chess Players MBBS or some fab University doing Econ or Finance.
I am just doing some random politics in Baptist Uni. It doesn’t sound that bad though, but comparatively it is bad.
Yeah, yeah it has indeed something to do with randomly-got-bullied-when-young childhood, cynical+urge-to-prove-worth insecurity, sober+ self-prophet-defeating-then-defeated-self-confirmed-prophecy mechanism.
I derserved all my shitty stuffs since secondary school, but then primary school stuffs changed me a lot that is not so easy to change back. Still I did, now I think, if I don’t stop and change something right now, I will end up with all the shit I am in now all the time.
3.So I got to do something.
That internship made me realise not everybody wants heartless sacrifice, not no-money-learn-a-lot, just doesn’t-learn-much-average-pay. Don’t be so self-righteous, after all you still have to work/live with them. Not everybody can take that magnitude.
Fight Club, no normative stuffs.
Election gave me a clue that perhaps I should work on that, nobody ever studied election seriously. Everybody says “Pan-Dem failed to allocate their votes”, gave a list of bloody reasons why it can’t be done: Insufficient resources, No Coordinations, blah blah blah.
The fucking things are: There have never been serious attempts to allocate votes, how can they fail if they have not actually seriously tried? What is the use of giving a load of reasons why can’t it be done instead of how to do it?
When I study my stream, I notice this weakness, and I want to be an expert associated within this area.
4. Let go of what is not important, focus on what is.
Dear Prof,
Thanks for writing to me. I just feel that, I have to make up for the time I lost.
It’s like, been through some random bullying in my primary school, cynical and always felt urge to prove one’s worth in secondary, denial and punishing myself in University for the two years in University. Just don’t want to go back to the self-prophecy-fulfillment vicious circle.
Things seem to be difficult and especially in lessons planning, I lacked behind because didn’t plan carefully before. Living day to day. I know the more I push away it, the more I am prone to go back because I push myself hard. Just felt like before I hardly pushed myself, or just simply mispushed in some certain ways.
Don’t want to let my emotional problems get ahead in my academic performance, willing to go wasted and then, I have a reason to pity myself, again.
Am keeping up on some sports and body building lately. Any other ways you’d suggest?
Your student.
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