Exams over.....

So I finished my exams this week and just like that I'm done with another year of college.
The stress of it all has been shaken of, it's actually a very pleasant feeling that you get when you realize that you don't have to look at another academic book for another 3 odd months.
Most of my friends are going to intern pretty soon and then there's me, I've still not planned how I'm going to spend my 3 odd months.
But I do not want to be rushed into an internship soon after exams.
It's quite a hassle to be a student, I think our parents should give us more credit for being a student.
They are under the impression that being a student is such a simple task, having only to study and sit for exams but what they do not realize is the toll it has on us.
But I have one important question to ask, it's that does our grades or our degree carve out our destiny?  Just because we get low grades or a bad degree classification, does it mean it's the end of the road for a person?
What I've noticed is that the people who sometimes reach the top are often the people who has the least qualification. some of the modern day examples would be Bill Gates, Einstein etc. All of these people have humble backgrounds and they often didn't have a degree but yet their way of thinking brought the world into new eras. It's certainly thanks to them that we enjoy the world as it is today.
It is sometimes ridiculous that we have to go to school and learn things that we won't be even be needing in the future.
Don't get me wrong I do believe that we should learn things for normal day to day working knowledge but then, there are advanced subjects that we learn for no use in the future other than for exams like advanced physics for a student wanting to become a journalist. This does not sit well with logic, there is no need of advanced physics for a journalist, not unless you plan to build something whilst you are locked in some unknown place for reporting the truth.
Students do have different abilities an example would be where one student is great at practical work or physical work than theoretical work. Then it would appear to give other students an unfair advantage. Sometimes these abilities are not exploited by the education system.
Our strengths and weakness differ from each individual and I for one,  think that it's time we gave up the ludicrous idea of having standardized tests for all students.
True enough, that from one point it appears to be just and fair to test all individuals at the same level but on the other hand, there is a big flaw in the education system if we don't recognize different abilities of each individual.

The link below is nothing short of amazing, revealing the things we as teens/young adults have to go through when it comes to grades. Click on it and see for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y


   

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