My Strong Medicine

More like.. I AM STUPID

Why is it when you want to further your education you have to revert your knowledge back to grade school lessons?

Has anyone watched the TV show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? If you ever want to feel small and uneducated. Take a gander at this show. This show is great preparation for advancing your education, because apparently everything you learned in grade school is what determines if you qualify for advanced formal education.

It seems that the scholars on their high mountains think that if you want to further your education you have to prove your worth by showing you can perform algebra and geometry from grade school.

I mean the last time I checked… I used these skills… err.. Uuhh… IN GRADE SCHOOL!

When is the last time you solved for X?

When is the last time you calculated the perimeter of a square? How about the circumference of a circle?

How about factorials? Did you know that this : 4! Does not mean I’m exclaiming the number 4.

And how about square roots? Do you remember how to divide and multiply them? Or better yet how about dividing and multiplying exponents?

Hell I had to remember how to simple fraction arithmetic!

Do you remember what this symbol is : ? ?

Oh OH… and how about the Pythagorean Theorem?

I bet you use that in your everyday life!

And why is it that when you want to further your education they decide your every day vocabulary is rudimentary and well…just doesn’t cut it.

Instead we want you to learn these words. You know…those words you not only have a hard time understanding, but you can’t even pronounce the damn word!!!!

Aagghhh!

I feel so dumb right now.

(SIGH)

Carpe Diem