Last Week of High School

So I've finished my last week of high school education (not that I've learned anything for the past 2 weeks as its all been review)

I would like to say that this week has been one of the best in my life so far, one that is by far the most positive experiences ever.
But I can't because it has been a disgusting week, packed to the brim with all kinds of stress inducing situations.

I'm absolutely positive that all my teacher's meet in an underground cult layer, chanting incantations to bring about the downfall of my grades because they plotted to make my last week the worst one ever.

I had 3 midterms, 2 tests, 1 mock exam, 1 presentation, 1 lab in this week and then next week its 4 exams in 3 days and then the week after that, its the english provincial.

Can't imagine how those people with 20 spares in their timetable managed this week.
Everyone is saying how fast it came and how they're not ready or it came too soon but they also couldn't wait.
This week has been one of the most agonizingly slow weeks ever, I could feel myself growing old everytime I touched my notes.
These past few months, it feels like I'm trading a piece of my personality for a good score on tests but that might just be me wearing out after straight academics from grade 11 until now.

So I've studied like mad this entire week and I like to think I destroyed most of it

Towards the end of the week, I guess I burned myself out? Never happened before but I just lost the momentum I built up and all that was running through my head was this:

Thanks to Graeme for getting that mantra stuck in my head.

Don't get me wrong,
this week was definitely memorable, from the giant waterfight to the last jazz band practice where we played some songs that we haven't played since Mr. K was teaching (nostalgia is a beautiful thing, no?) to all the people who signed my yearbook to the countdown to the last Key Club meeting.

High school has been a great experience to me
I'll do an in-depth post of my entire high school career after the grad ceremony


EDIT: well the debacle with the Grad song was cute too but you know, nothing like a good argument to get the brain thinking and to keep you on your toes

UVIC...I choose YOU!!!

So as the title suggests, I've selected UVIC as my university for undergraduate studies for Physics and Astronomy.

This was a gigantic and colossal decision that I made.

If you read my earlier blog post about the trouble I had deciding, you'd know that it was the logical side vs. emotional side. The logical side picked UVIC from the outset and set it's uhh mind i guess on it whereas the emotional side clung to UBC.

Evidently, the logical side repressed the emotional side (as usual) but this time, the emotional side went down with a fight or flail I guess.

Even though I know I made a good decision based on my future, I feel like I forget that I live in the present.
I know I will miss new experiences and feelings because I'm going to UVIC instead of UBC and I feel sad because I'm missing out.

"Stop moping!" shouts the logical side of my brain, "It's not like you go out and party your brains out! What could you possibly be missing out on that you would enjoy??"
"Well I'd be missing out on residence, parties (not that I'd really have that much fun there), the feeling you get when you're alone without supervision, living in a new city etc." quips the emotional side as it is dragged kicking and screaming back to its box

A few things helped propel me into UVIC's arms:
-One of my friends quoted an article that resonated inside my mind.
"When something is new we have the tendency to want it because some part of our brain is activated, but it wears off over time when we just end up remembering we wanted it and therefore still want it, but when we get it we don't feel the satsifaction we were expecting because that part of the brain has already calmed back down."
-I talked to one of my teachers who suggested that I go back to UBC to see if I still felt the vibe I felt when I first visited and make sure it just wasn't what the quote above says. Well I certainly felt something but I had no idea what I felt
-I emailed my cousin and a friend who went to both UBC and UVIC and see what they had to say.
Ironically enough, the one who left UBC sounds like they promote UBC and the one who left UVIC sounds like they promote UVIC more. But both left solid impressions
-I thoroughly explored the astronomy buildings of UBC and UVIC (well not UVIC so much, but I did look around, but they do have swively chairs)