Michael Nakamoto
Hello, my name is Michael Nakamoto. I am in 8th grade and every day I wake up and question my reality and the meaning of life and usually come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter. Then I get out of bed, take a shower, get out, dry off, put on new clothes and go to school. I talk with a voice in my head that I made up to fill the hole of emptiness that family and friends would usually fill. Grabbed your attention? Great…
First thing to get out of the way, 8th grade doesn’t matter. Colleges don’t look very far back on student's history they only look at high school records. Let me get this straight. You can FAIL every class in the YEAR and still make it into a good college as long as your high school records are positive. If I were to reference 8th grade in a sports term it’s a throwaway game. But that’s not to say you shouldn’t take things seriously because your parents will get mad at you. But just relax. It’s not going to cripple you for the rest of your life if you get one bad grade.
Although this essay is so edgy it can cut steel I’m going to move on to advice. Rule one is the teacher is always right. I personally don’t follow this rule but my life would be a lot less torturous if I just did so. The teacher has the ability to fail you or refer you to an advanced class in high school and make your résumé much more appealing to colleges. So it’s pretty important to get on the teacher's good side. It’s really not that hard to have your teacher not hate you. Just say hello and bye.
Rule two is believe in a religion. I again never follow this rule. I have no religion. My religion is science but when one minute engaged in class and the next thinking about what happens after death is very distracting from learning. But believing in a religion will just let you think you have a purpose and that after death you have something to look forward to. Unless you’re Jewish in which case it’s kind of hard to tell because the Torah (The Holy Book for Jews) doesn’t really explain.
Rule three is get rid of all your hopes and aspirations, personality, and basically become a gray blob of flesh. This is the only one of the rules that I follow. Job markets are very saturated especially in an age of tremendous population growth. The job that you want is probably already taken by a couple thousands other people. Unless you want to become a McDonald's cashier then a couple million. You may think “Wow, life is so unfair” but if life is unfair to everyone then doesn’t that mean that life is fair to everyone. Think about that.
In the end, 8th grade is a mental endurance test. I’ve already died inside and lost what makes me, well, me and with all the hormones that fly through your brain, the new ideas you get, and the loss of innocence it just really sucks. The work is elementary at best. The things you can’t comprehend you will if you actually give time and effort to learning them unless it’s a purpose in life but if you’re trying to find that then you didn’t follow rule two. After going through education life gets even more complex, upsetting, and disappointing. I have a lot more to say but I’m already being sent to the counselor's office but Mrs.Garcia told me that I should write what I feel.