never age again

Naw, ain't that the sweetest.

Anyway, in other news, I've been thinking about getting into the tutoring scene a lot - after the HSC, I mean. I probably wouldn't be that good a teacher for obvious reasons (y'know, seeing as how I actually kinda half fluked my way throughout the entire course), but to be able to provide what Ms Cunliffe gave (and still gives) to me for someone else would be pretty unreal.

Unrelated pictures that I feel like sharing to break up the walls of text.

Of course, like everything else I ever want to do, I'd want to make minimal profit from it. Whether it's giving Dannis shitty shortcut-oriented guitar lessons for $10 an hour, or getting those Shove It shirts done (poorly) last year and trying to sell them for $9, or trying to get the Infinitely Depressing Playlist CD's done and prettied up for $1 donations, I really like the idea of being able to provide something for almost nothing, if not nothing at all, because I know that if I was in the same position, being able to benefit from barely any input would be gold.

Anarchy in Athens.

There's also the pretty important factor of quality - I'm pretty sure those $10 lessons I gave Dannis were probably worth less, if not worthless. WACHOW.

Even more Anarchy in Athens.

There's also the fact that I am really not looking forward to leaving school - at least, not the basic structure and routine. It's a safe bet that I'm not gonna miss going to class, but I know I'm going to miss the idea of going to school every day and hanging with friends and having to cram for exams because that's how it's been for years, and while the vast freedom we get after the HSC is appealing, it's also terrifying. Ridiculous as it sounds, I know I'm going to miss writing essays and feedbacking others because it's what I'm good at. Y'know that feeling you get when you think of something you're really looking forward to? Like, that excited feeling you get all week when you know you're headed to a gig on Friday night? Well, that's me when I think about writing essays for upcoming exams. That's probably a bit of an exaggeration because half the time when I think about stuff like that I wanna die, but for the other half, I'm looking forward to the challenge, because for me, it's almost the same as doing a sudoku or something. I know that as long as I follow the basic structure and method, I'll be fine in the end, and I'll feel good when that happens. I think that's why people enjoy math - being able to rely on a defined structure. Everyone thinks of English as really inconsistent and wishy-washy and a subject where you can write up pages of bullshit and get paid because it's all down to the subjective personal views of the marker, but in reality, the marking criteria in English is almost as rigid as that in math. That's an exaggeration too - English marking, at our school at least, is fucked - but in most cases, if you treat English like Math and bang out the necessary and cut out everything you don't need, it comes out in the end. You don't provide extra working out in Math, so you wouldn't put anything unnecessary in your essays. All you need to do is figure out what is necessary. I'm completely off track at the moment. Basically, what I was saying was, doing English tutoring would allow me to kinda retain a small sense of school routine. Yeah.

derp

I'd probably really enjoy doing tutoring right now, even - if someone approached me and asked me to give them English tutoring once a week, like how Pearson tutors his neighbour, I'd probably be thrilled to do it for free. I'd be even more so if it was someone who actually needed tutoring, with a subpar rank and subpar writing skills, as opposed to someone coming tenth who wants to jack up their rank even further. People like that don't need tutoring - they've got all the skills they need. All they need to do is practice. This doesn't apply if you're Dannis. Sorry Dannis. Meanwhile, people who probably don't have basic essay-writing foundations down, and haven't got a proper grasp of what's happening in the module, are having a hard enough time trying to do just that. Being able to help those people is something I think I'd really feel good about and enjoy. Fuck competitiveness, and fuck darting around people's questions and avoiding them when they ask you for help (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, KONRAD). If someone asks you for help with a question in Math, you don't fucking tell them to 'just answer the question,' so don't do it with English either. I'm off track again.

Anarchy in Athens.

Jeez, calm down Genvin, it's just English.