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title: "School..."
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description: "I'm starting a new challenge where I'll write a blog post every day."
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author: Amolith
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cover: /assets/pngs/calendar.png
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tags:
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- Personal
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- School
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- 100 Days To Offload
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date: 2020-04-25T22:12:40-04:00
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---
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A friend of mine, [Kev Quirk,](https://kevq.uk/) issued [a
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challenge](https://fosstodon.org/@kev/104053977554016690) yesterday and
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I decided to take him up on it. In the time between then and now, he's
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actually set up a website for participants to submit their posts; it's
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called (quite fittingly) *[100 Days To
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Offload.](https://100daystooffload.com/)* I'm going to attempt to keep
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up with it for the next 100 days and see where it takes me. Because I'll
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be using this blog every day, expect a lot of changes and improvements.
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With that out of the way, here goes!
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Part of this challenge is "offloading" and one of the ways that word can
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be meant is to lay out everything that's on your mind. Today, that's
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school. I'm generally an *incredibly* laid-back person; I don't really
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ever get stressed about anything. That is simultaneously a good thing
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and a very bad thing. Because I don't really get stressed, I don't feel
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the urgency of getting homework done, communicating with professors
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about late assignments, studying, the works. In the past, I've enjoyed
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the content I was learning so the fear of making a bad grade was never a
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motivator---it was interest in the subject and a natural curiosity.
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Right now, I'm not interested in any of my subjects except for German.
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It's very unlikely that I will be dealing with Java in the workforce,
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Discrete Math is boring, and Calculus II is *killing* me.[^1] I don't
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even know if I'll pass it this semester.
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And yet...I'm still not stressed. My university implemented an optional
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pass-fail grading system in light of the pandemic and the physical
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campus shutting down. If a student is making an A, they will definitely
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opt out. If a student is making a C, the minimum required to move on,
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they will opt in. This mean the C will remain on their transcript *but*
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it won't affect their GPA. For those wanting to get into grad school
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(me), it is a god send. I have been so lax this semester about doing
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*anything* for my classes that I will very likely end up opting in for
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all of courses except German. As I said above, I don't even know if I'll
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make a C in Calculus though that isn't just because I haven't done all
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of the work; I have one of the most difficult professors in the math
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department.I am worried but I'm *very* good at keeping that in the back
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of my mind under many many layers of keeping myself busy. It's a bit
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like that meme of the dog saying "this is fine" while the house burns
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around him except I'm not looking at the fire. My head is craned towards
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my monitor, my fingers on the keyboard, and my mind is somewhere in a
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server in Germany ignoring every bit of it.
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This is very much a badly-written ramble and I'm not even going to read
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through it before posting. I don't like talking about this kind of thing
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but it feels good to get it off my chest, even if it is garbled and
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likely hard to read. I will try to only have a single "downer" post like
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this in the series; I have a few ideas for much better content.
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This is published as part of *100 Days To Offload* and is not indicative
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of the rest of the content there; most of it is much more positive. To
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join in, simply write a post, submit it
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[here,](https://100daystooffload.com/) and use `#100DaysToOffload`
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somewhere on your social media.
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[^1]: I actually took the course last semester and ended up dropping it
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because my grade was so bad right out of the gate.
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