Problem Not Solved

Hello, and welcome back to the machine, the blog where the same guy from this blog goes on and on and on about the quirks and bad shit in his life. So what does he have to talk about this week? How the problem from last week wasn't solved! Third person narration ends now. Also this post will probably end up being much shorter than my actual first post, so if it does, well... sucks for you.

Well as you can probably tell from the short little body of text above, I have still not resolved the problem from last week, or at least not fully.

I have solved the issue regarding the question of 'co-op or no co-op?' by deciding to do it next year in grade 12 when I'll actually probably have some spare time to be able to do co-op, but the answer to what will fill my last course box is yet to be actually solved. While I have a hunch to what it will probably be in the end (World History to the End of the 15th Century), I still have my doubts on if it will actually be that way in the end and I can actually hand in my course selection sheet with no regrets.   I don't think I have anything else of actual intelligence to say that I can think of at the moment to keep this going any longer, so I'll have to end this entry now and see you later next Sunday.

The First Actual Post

Well folks, here it is, my first actual "entry" into this new online journal thing I've created only a few hours ago. At the moment I have a slight headache but am insisting on still doing this anyways, because  I want to have an actual post up for you guys to look at, but the fact I'm bored and have nothing else to do helps as motivation, along with the fact that I really don't want to study for the history quiz that I have tomorrow.

So...what should I talk about? Well...how about the surprising level of fear I'm having for course selection and grade 11 in general. Talk about a huge change in powers, I went from having two courses that I could pick of my own free will to having five that I could pick of my own free will; and there's a lot more choices this year too which really doesn't help my subside my fear. I mean, this is pretty overwhelming for me! So where to begin on this topic? How about the fact that I was kinda laughing about this at first.

Originally, when I got the course selection handout in my second period science class, I could already see what I was going to take for my five free choice courses in less than five seconds, and that set of course selections looked like this:

• Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology & Sociology
• Music Guitar
• Instrumental Music
• Chemistry University
• Physics University

When I presented it to my mother, she seemed pretty satisfied with my choices as well...until she said that I needed to take biology despite me having no interest in the subject, no interest in the things biology was primarily used for, and a tendency to be uncomfortable with dissection, but she insisted that I need to take the course anyway. Why? Well I forget the reason entirely. This clearly threw a monkey wrench into my little state of satisfaction with my course choices, and I began questioning everything on my course sheet, and became a lot more hesitant. That hesitation didn't last too long though, because that night, I decided to begin filling in my free choice course boxes. What I filled in those boxes with so far look like this:

• Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology & Sociology 
• Music Guitar
• Chemistry University
• Physics University

In that order as well, leaving me with one box left for either Biology or Instrumental. I began asking my friends about their opinions on my dilemma, some siding with what I wanted; which is Instrumental, and others siding with what my mother wanted; which is Biology. Clearly, I didn't get one clear opinion from my friends, so I needed to ask someone else, with that someone else being my father while we were waiting at the airport to pick up my grandmother, my aunt and my cousin after their trip home from the Philippines. He told me; that as I expected, Biology would only be really useful if I wanted to go into medicine and be a doctor or some other career relevant to that, which satisfied me. Yet for some reason, I still couldn't find myself putting down Instrumental Music in that last box I had left for my free choice courses, with the only reason for that that I could find being that I didn't know if I really had to take Grade 11 Instrumental Music to be able to take Grade 12 Guitar. It's a strange reason to me, but it's still a reason.

So is that the only reason why I'm so afraid of course selection and my inevitable future of being a student in grade 11 next year? ...actually no. In my science class on a day that didn't happen too long ago but that clearly happened after I got my course selection sheet, my old geography teacher from grade 9 came in and starting telling the class about co-op, and while I wasn't really that interested in co-op before hand, for some reason after that speech, I immediately started to think about it, despite not knowing where the hell I could end up if I took it along with the fact that it could mess up my other grades for that year. After it bugged me for at least 12 hours, I decided to ask my friend if he thought I should take it, to which he said I should go for it, and I began work on the application part of going into co-op, on occasion asking him for his help on what I should put down for it. I then started to ask people who had taken co-op, well, questions on co-op, and from what they described, it seemed pretty damn cool. Again though, there was also the fear of it screwing up my grades, and...yeah, you get the idea by now.

So I'm going to end my first actual blog post here, seeing as this concludes the major thoughts that are on my mind at the moment. If you like it, cool; keep track of this blog and see where it goes, if you don't, whatever; this is just a way for me to pass the time. So yeah...bye.

Standard Introduction

Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to witness the creation of a critics personal blog in contrast to his review blog.

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Carlo Tutor, and you might just be coming here from my other blog where I do album reviews, or you might just be stumbling on this post by accident. Either way, I invite you to stay here and follow along as this becomes my own sort of "online journal" for me to share my victories with you in, or my frustrations. Chances are I'll update this weekly; which means every Sunday if you didn't know, just like my review blog. Most posts on this blog are going to be on average things that a high school student deals with, like homework, teenage angst, people in general, and all that good stuff. So if you want to see life from my point of view, well you've obviously came to the right place.