I tend to forget how easily I can conflict with the learning systems at schools.
First, and formost in my mind, I always forget, no matter how short my break is, how much I despise the seating size. I am not a small fellow, being 6′5″ and 265lbs. I tend to kindly refer to myself as an Ogre and, as I sit in these tiny chairs, I think it must be almost comic to see people of my stature showing in great fashion the reason why I refer to myself as an Ogre.
It actually reminds me of when I took my SAT’s. Aside from the fact that I was very sick, it was also extremely uncomfortable. I took the SAT’s at UCI (University of California, Irvine) and… wow. I had to sit at a slight angle, because I did not quite fit in the chair. Also, I had to write at an angle, because the desktop did not fold down all of the way with the fact of me knee being in the way. So I was all contorted and twisted and just having a dreadful time.
Second, while this teacher is knowledgeable and when she is talking about the subject I am completely intent, she is driving me crazy. She tells us how she teaches many lower division english classes and college prep classes. And now she’s trying to tell me how to take notes. And what to write down.
I hate that. Nay, young lads and lasses, I despise that. Not because I don’t think that it needs to be taught, but more because I really don’t need to be taught it. Not only do I have my system well down (to think, this is only the begining of my sixth year going to a college… with nothing to show but a LOT of units… yaaaay!), but I also have a very unique learning system. And when she continually stops to go “Oh, and now let’s talk about taking notes again” it, at best, drives me crazy and, at worst, sends me off to another world where I stop listening to everything and focus on, say, the name for my upcoming radio show. Or the outline for my book. Or how god damned uncomfortable the bloody chair is.
I’m not saying that the school systems needs to be catered to me.. in fact, I don’t really know where my point is, but I do know this:
The learning institutions definitely make it hard for me to learn what I want to learn… and I can learn fairly easily and, for all my dissedents to rear, I AM a patient person… if it’s this much of a pain for me, what about everyone else as well?