So this is the toast and jam of the situation:
Ms. Aktinson is like, hey stephen, write a senior article for the Globe.
and all is good
then i'm like, sounds cool Ms. Aktinson, what should I write it about?
and all is good
and then she's like, you decide.
and stephen is confused.
you see, spending four years at Sig, the school of higher learning, has not really taught me how to be creative. I know that sig's creed is all about "excellence" in creativity, but here I am - a week or so from leaving - and I find myself coming up a little short in the excellence bit. I know that my gpa is nothing that should come out of sig, but it just seems lame that I have 2 weeks or so to write an article on a topic of my choosing, and I cop out and have to write an article about how "the most important thing I learned at sig is that it's okay to be a little retarded." I don't know. It just doesn't seem up to the pedigree of the students who took multiple years at both evsc and signature school.
I don't know, maybe i'm just trying to use sig as a partial scapegoat for my in competency. I mean, I most likely have the worst gpa coming out of sig which probably means that I'm not the model student... I don't know. Lately, I've just been thinking about how I went to sig in the first place because they were supposed to strive for excellence in the arts (instrumental music). Personally, I feel that they have failed in that aspect of their creed. It's just become exponentially annoying to me every time I see one of the 26 billion framed signature mission statements hung up on the walls all about signature setting this facade of hardcore education that is balanced across the different areas of knowledge in the standards they hold. The arts got the asshole of the deal. The music department does not even have instruments to loan out to students, nor do they even make the instrumental music class part of the normal day - it takes place one hour before school starts. There are many, many electric key boards, but not even one shitty school owned instrument - the kind evsc schools are just flowing all about with - is financed.
Every year that I have gone to Signature, our principal, who I do hold a great deal of respect for, gathers all of the students in the Victory theater and gives a speech usually inspired by her finding out the extent of the half-assing going on by the students. In this speech, each year, she has come to a point where she says, here is the signature creed - if you don't like it, leave. And, she is very intimidating when saying this; it's a very good tactic. However, where should the administration go when they do not hold up that same creed? It seems that in the midst of all the hustle to get Sig's charter up and about they prematurely ejaculated out this creed holding promises of high standards of academics and integrated technologies along with the arts. But, that's not the case. The arts are second step to academics by a long shot, with - in my opinion - standards far below those of evsc schools with the exception of Sig's choir with Mr. Becker directing.
I don't know.
I guess I'm just venting out my frustration, but sig seriously sucks with its instrumental music program. If they tried to enter into a contest, i don't think they'd even be allowed to enter. It's pathetic, yet some of the best instrumentalists are students there.
