{"id":449,"date":"2011-06-08T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chineseeinstein.wordpress.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2011-06-08T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:04:38","slug":"graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jason-fu.com\/blog\/graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t think of anything that has happened to me that is more bittersweet than graduation. On one hand, I&#8217;m leaving free education, the Junior class (which is full of energy and promise), familiar schedules and happy teachers that don&#8217;t necessarily like me. On the other hand&#8230; uh&#8230; I can&#8217;t really think of any pros that go with graduating.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I just need to grow up and accept changes. I haven&#8217;t been too good at that thus far. \u00a0Seriously. I just don&#8217;t want to go. Orchestra will be gone. Mr. Steves will be gone. Carefree teachers will be gone. Instead I&#8217;ll be thrown in a room with a bunch of strangers, forced to stare at a guy while he talks about how computers work.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no music program at UW:B. I&#8217;m really pissed. I hate collegeboard.<\/p>\n<p>If it comes to the situation where you&#8217;re short PE credits, use BYU only as a last resort and finish it as quickly as you can. I&#8217;m in a tight spot right now because of BYU.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I&#8217;m going to regret not going to any school dances. I wonder if I&#8217;ll work up the courage to ask someone next year.<\/p>\n<p>A summer goal: spend fewer than 800 hours in front of my computer. It looks like a high number but I&#8217;ve broken it easily each previous year.<\/p>\n<p>This is kind of like graduating OV&#8230; except I actually wanted to leave OV because I didn&#8217;t like any of the teachers and only liked a few of the students. Now that I think about it, a majority of my friends in high school went to HP or Explorer, and when I look at some people in the senior class who went to OV with me, \u00a0a great feeling of disappointment washes over me.<\/p>\n<p>I regret not making music a bigger part of my life.<\/p>\n<p>I regret not prioritizing my friends over my nerd life.<\/p>\n<p>I regret many, many things. However, a very good friend of mine has taught me to live without regrets. I no longer think about the past in a sorrowful manner. But I do the future.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what will become of me; only that I&#8217;ll be sad for a long while over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>By the way. I&#8217;ll pay $10 to anybody who can make me cry through emotional stimuli. I haven&#8217;t cried in years.<\/p>\n<p>To wrap up: something beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I&amp;w=425&amp;h=349]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t think of anything that has happened to me that is more bittersweet than graduation. On one hand, I&#8217;m leaving free education, the Junior class (which is full of energy and promise), familiar schedules and happy teachers that don&#8217;t necessarily like me. 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