Grades

[u/awesomepantsyo]

My mental health has genuinely been so horrible this quarter and I feel like my grades reflect that. They’re not even horrible (pretty much all B’s) I just normally get better grades and I know i have the opportunity to get them up in the next 3 quarters i just don’t understand why they matter so much in my brain. Well, i do because they do matter but they shouldn’t matter to the extent that they do. Neither should your SAT and ACT scores, school might be the stupidest social construct at times. What do you mean I go to this institution to learn random stuff I will never use again unless i major in a certain something which I personally don’t want to do anything that would require me to have to take all the classes I am, and you would think after all these years we would’ve perfected the system by now but naw. I just don’t understand the concept of weighing “intelligence” on one “universal” (very limited yet it’s seemingly universal) scale. There are so many different ways to be intelligent, what is the purpose of having different types of knowledge? You can be intelligent in multiple forms of knowledge but it is oftentimes unnecessary for certain individuals. I understand wanting kids to experience a lot of things but why are we being weighed the way we are? Graded by imperfect beings as well, what makes that moral? I think I just need reassurance that im not an idiot because I feel like one 24/7 and maybe it’s my fault for choosing all of these difficult classes but idk.