Apparently I've Never Learned Anything (The Week in Review)

So I haven't posted in awhile because school started, whoop-de-doo. We haven't really done anything yet but there seems to be a common theme to most of my classes this year, all linked to the class that will probably be the reasoning for my unavoidable existential crisis, IB Theory of Knowledge, which is basically a class where you revert to your 6 year old self asking "Why this?" "Why that?" "Why is this that?" "Why can't that be this?" I have never been a quizzical person. Ever. I like listening and thinking. Questions have never been moy forte but now they kind of have to be. But between TOK, IB History and IB English, there seems to be a common them for my courses this year.

There is no such thing as historical fact.
The value of truth differs depending on where you see the world from.
Basically, everything I know is wrong or will be proven wrong.
Delightful, isn't it?

So when everyone else in the world is happily sitting in class "learning" about how the world works, IB kids are sitting in class thinking that we've spent 17 years of our lives "learning" things that may or may not actually be correct. My friend told me the other day that you've never actually touched anything in your life because there is always a space between particles of matter. How messed up would your head be if someone just casually told you that even the thought that you have ever made physical contact with anything is a lie? Knowledge we are taught is simply what we deem most correct for our worldview and place in history. But in 50 years, it could all be proven false. If that doesn't make you feel useless as an educated person, I don't know what will.

So on top of that I've got band 3 days a week, and we've "learned" all of the opener and ballad sets but my side of the field needs a little work because by some strike of unluckiness, I am the only officer within a 30 yard radius. I think that warrants another whoop-de-doo. I'm letting that out on my 3 views per post blog because I really need to stay positive and encouraging but it's been wearing on my nerves lately.

On top of that is a bunch of eminent IB assignments; the most daunting being my EE due by mid-December. That seems like a long time but it's not, and right now it looks like a long, grueling road to the final draft. Present topic - "A comparison of the origins and usages of Chinese, Greek and Mayan astrology" Let's check back in 4 weeks and see if that is still the case. I got some recent research done at the UNF library (and a delicious dinner of Starbucks Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappucchino and Chik-fil-a) so I'm pretty happy with it for right now.

So lots of stuff in a short amount of time. Colleen está cansada. I hope I've sufficiently befuddled your views of reality.

Have an excellent August 26th,
Colleen