#im just kinda...

u could keep Cosette and Leli both in ur description?

this is true but: i am very fond of the l sounds and lark is a very leli nickname also 

me: *literally goes to everyones ask if they need something tagged that i dont fully understand and has like an hour long debate with a friend over why and how she should tag her shounen ai posts*

I'm not sure why people throw hissy fits over school and talk about it like it doesn't do anything for you at all. Maybe I've just been exceedingly lucky, because apart from middle school my experience has been pretty fricken good. I mean, sure I dislike exams because generally they do test memory rather than intelligence, but the thing is, if you're going to ever have a job in a field - whether it relates to math or science or social sciences or whatever - you're going to have soem moment at some point where you're put on the spot and have to rely on your memory as well as your intelligence and practical understanding of the world. It's a conbination of all 3 that gets you where you want to be.

Even art and writing sometimes rely on memory - if you're not within access to internet, but you need to remember the name or definition of a plot device or some term in color theory or a specific name for a medium in art (media are the tools, like pencils, markers, etc), you're going to have to rely on whether you remember those things or not. I mean, memory's not as important to these fields nearly as much, but the basics that build our understanding of how to be a writer or an artist are learnt in school, and then practical learning is done on our own or with our parents' or siblings' advice. Sure I'd be way happier if classes geenrally had more of the practical stuff, but personally I learned quite a bit in Economics last year, even if i don't strictly remember it all, I can function well enoguh with a little prodding from a family member...

Just.... okay, better example. My sister is going into the nursing/medical assistant field. She's registered enough to work for a pediatric gastroenterology place as a medical assistant/nurse, and is still taking classes to be comeptlely certified for everything. Let me tell you, I helped her study for a test once, and it's a lot of memorizing/absorbing information. For a very good reason. She has to be able to, in a crisis, just react. Medical professionals don't have time ot hem and haw about not remembering, they have to be able to have immediate recall of any information they've learned an apply it practically.

I'm taking a Narrative class as well as a Drawing 1 class this semester (in addition to 2 other classes). Narrative has us reading something each week and then our professor quizzes us on our understanding of the material. It's not to test our memory, though of course it plays a part in it and he's not too harsh about that, but rather to test whether we understand the events that took place in the story, whether we read it fully, whether we picked up on key moments and interesting details of narrative that will help any of us who are Writers (or want to be). Remembering the difference between different points of view, remembering omniscient pov vs following/being a character's pov as well a third/second/first and what makes each what and all the plot devices and narrative specifics that make up that writer's voice in this novel compared to the other one by a different author - all of this is remembering, absorbing information and then learning to apply it by paying attention to more than the words that are taught.

Even highschool helped me - i can't say that personally i'll use math again.... except wow I find i am, for general nutrition, and if someone wants to go into that field, a nutritionist or whatever its called, they'll have to know at least something about math and percents and calculations and formulas for it, as well as all the amounts and numbers and what's healthy and what's not and it's learning and experience together. so math, even some of the pointless seeming stuff, has its place... and in fact in Drawing 1 my professor has us using geometry, though way way simplified and no real math, just using some of the info we've absorbed over time without realizing it, to draw objects that are more complicated shapes quickly and correctly.

Highschool... economics definitely was helpful, film studies - i'm taking the same sort of class this semester because i find it interesting and it does need some memorization of information, but if you want to do something like be a film critic or whatnot, this is important, an understanding of the history of film and media and cinematography from its start, who invented what and how it applies to the films and how narrative and stuff like that also relate to the films. It's all important, it all builds up in our minds even when we hate the homework or the exams or the having to leave the house bit because yeah we're naturally lazy people and that's perfectly alright.

I dunno, maybe I'm just laid back enough to appreciate school? Because hoenstly the only years that didn't help me at all were 6-8, anything before that or after that... i don't obsess over my grades but i like decent ones because they make me feel like all the work i've done is going somewhere, y'know? my parents don't push me for top marks but are lightly dissapointed when i don't try for straight A's - I;m too lazy to want that, and I don't have the overly ambitious drive. But I also read a lot and google things and think and think and listen and see and build my understanding of the world as i see it, and learn at my own pace to get where i want to go.

I am an artist and a writer. I also want to take as many liberal type classes as possible ,because i like to learn, i like ot know as much as possible about lief the universe and everything - psychology next semester, i think. asking questions to my dad about technology and watching him build a desk out of wood or solve an issue with anything from duct tape to nails and a drill, building tools to do specific jobs the rest of his tools don't do quite right, and coming up with innovative ways to do things as well. Listening ot my mom talk about teaching her students to be better readers, working with IEP's and learning difficulties in fun and unique ways that I'd never have thought of and i know a whole lot of schooling went into that job that she loves.

It's not about oh, school is horrible and doesn't teach you anything about the world. That's not exactly specifically it's job, per se, but if you pay attention to everything around you, you do end up taking away more from school than just facts and figures. Without knowing it you have the building blocks to learning the how tos of practical application of information. If you never learned how to read and write, would you be where you are now? If you didn't know how to add or subtract, where would you be now? Sure there aren't classe sfor how to talk on the phone or order food without stumbling over your words or how to know what reciepts are important and which aren't or any of that. I have trouble with these sorts of things. Then I look at my other sister and she doesn't, generally. Yet I also have a lot of information in my brain. I'm just not the best at applying it, which she is. It would be nice to have classes like that, optional of course, but the majority of people don't have trouble with it and they make the rules. but then you can find out on your own! google and family and outernet and internet friends and a billion other online sources as well as trial and error help you leanr how to apply your knowledge practically.

So school isn't really the problem. But it has a specific use which is giving you the facts and information you need and the basics/groundrules that add up. a part of the way the world works right now, for good or bad, is that you learn the theoretical stuff and building blocks of pracitcal stuff in school, and the application outside of school, on your own or with help.