Sunday, 28 June 2015

Dodgy Job, Dodgy Maths

Hey,
So its been a really long time since I wrote anything on here and looking back at my previous post, I sort of scared myself! That post was really deep and I don't know what was wrong with me but that was really weird.
 
So I apologise for my weirdness.
 
Anyway, a lot has happened and a lot has not happened. Job wise, I was really excited because one morning in my history class, I had a major breakthrough because I realised I would really love to be a journalist. I researched a bit and found out what I needed to do and how I was going to get there and it seemed really achievable. I fell in love with the idea of writing a regular column in a popular magazine. My dream job would be to travel around the world attending different fashion weeks and events then write and critique on the fashion and share the photos I'd taken. I loved the idea so much! But then I found a site that said that the average annual pay for a journalist is 50,000-70,000 and I nearly cried. I don't know if its selfish or not but I wouldn't be a good person to live on only that much money. So that sucked. Now I have to find a job that's similar but different (if you get what I mean). *sigh*
 
Thinking now, I can't really remember what else has happened to be honest, just life.
 
Oh yeah! Well more like, oh yeah :(
 
I had a maths investigation last week and I was really pleased with myself because I understood everything really well and I had a tutor that explained everything and I was teaching my friends and I couldn't be more prepared. So I thought. I found the test really hard, but then so did everyone, but when I got the marks back my jaw dropped and I honestly thought I was going to cry or scream or meltdown. I got 10/45 marks. That's 22%. That's crap if I want to do good in maths next year. I didn't understand how I could do so badly! It was the first test I'd ever failed and by far the worst mark I'd ever had. When I saw the paper I realised that I got nearly every single question wrong and those that I got right were only half-mark questions or something. I know I shouldn't be blaming my failure on anyone but it was really annoying because the test was on trigonometry and we had to graph sin, cos and tan graphs but they didn't give us any values. None. I'm sorry, but how do you expect the graphs to be done well if you don't give us the values? What went through your mind to think that we'd all just gone and memorised the values? I understood the work, I didn't memorise it. There's a difference. I'm pretty sure I got the second worst mark in my class, if not the worst and I still don't think I've recovered. Well, obviously not considering I just wrote that much ranting about it haha.
 
Oh well, maybe I'll do better next time.
 
xx Teen Blog