the day was april 17th...

... and the ap lit class, once again, ajoined in conversation about life... college, specifically... we went down the rows announcing our future... everyone is going to college except cheri... and i forgot who else.. maybe, josh. just kidding.. hopefully, college is not the answer to life all the time. remember that, class.. the answer to life is what you want it to be. so, get married, or advocate against government-control.. whatever it is, hopefully you'll be happy doing it. because you chose to do it. you choose your own happiness.

we talked about financial problems.. brittany can't pay off her car, apartment and college all in the same time.. i can't even get qualified for "work-study" at my school.. so, it's a pity that education is slowly being grasped out of our hands because of money.. actually, maybe that's what they want us to think.. those profit-making businesses.. college is a business, you know... we have the ability to learn whether we have money or not. we don't have to go to school to learn.. it's the degree that we have to buy. but, we can still learn.

so, what if we don't have the equipment to learn surgery or repair an airplane if we don't go to school.. we can still learn. we learn through books. ms. hillestead shared a very interesting scope on reading-- from when we were babies to adults of her age.. the process of it all... or.. was this last class? i don't remember.. anyway, it stuck to me. the thought of it all; how we learn to read until we read to learn... it's amazing, you know...

we ranted for along time, kind of like this, as dr johnson sat in the background witnessing the process of the way we learn.. or was that last class? dang, i can't remember. my days are all meshed into one.

we talked about the walkabout, and we were encouraged to have fun doing the last quarter goals.. like really push for it, you know.. it's our last quarter. have fun with it. About the walkabout, we should contact our mentors, and go over the five parts. We should have our chart sheet signed... soon, maybe. maybe, not by today. soon.

For homework, the quarter 4 goals are due, and we should have finished reading "a handmaid's tale"... Others may want to continue reading on to 1984... and we should be refreshed for another week of school, since we have a 3day weekend.