Open Night

Our school had its annual Open Night today- and like every other year, it was boring as fuck. I've been to it 3 times, the first time as a visitor, and the other 2 times as a guide. So for those of you who don't know, I take every hardcore Asian subject except for physics, and because I'm slowly turning into a good-at-nothing-white-kid (this is coming from my parents) I also took/take subjects like economics, psychology and philosophy. Basically it's maths, science and humanities.

Now, the people who came to our school today- I don't even know why, maybe they all came from Queanbeyan- but they wanted nothing to do with maths or science or English.

Me: Specialist maths is GREAT! We have sooooo much fun!
Parents/child: Nah, that's a bit too much work. I think general maths will be fine. Just enough to get by.

I did not just hear that.

See, in terms of maths, from high to low, it goes:

Specialist--->Methods--->Apps---------------------------------->General

Why would you even bother with general- such a waste of time. If you know how to use a calculator, you can skip general.  And  if you want to try maths without a calculator- well you already have too much of a brain for general maths. I reckon we could put monkeys in that class... and the monkeys would be better company. 

Anyway they weren't so interested in science either- even though we had all these cool reactions in chem and a magnet thingo in physics. And no one is ever enthusiastic about English... I guess that's just a given.

So what did they want to do? Psychology? Business? Politics? Nooooooooooooooooo.

They wanted art. Woodwork. Music. See, as much as I love my school, our reputation really doesn't come from those faculties. I'd say we were more academically focused- and by academically focused I mean we're all social recluses who are into maths, science, *some* humanities and--- okay, no one is into English, except for me. But that's not the point. The point is, art sucks shit. Yeah, that.

And the people I showed around were stone dead. This lady refused to smile or something. I was doing my best to pick conversation- "Yeah our school is great. Look there's the library. I take 5 subjects." But noooo, she preferred to keep her stern expression, surveying everything with boredom. FFS.

Overall I'd say the whole guiding experience was sorta shit. I guess I just don't like telling people I know shit all about art over and over again. I mean, I DO draw, but nobody cares. However, there was free tea, AND we got pizza for dinner. I guess they had to feed us so that we'd entertain those miserable visitors. 

Believe me, the feeling of boredom was mutual. 

I should've just loitered around the maths room...