enouragement....
u kno what today is for science kids at loo?? its registration day!! and we all get to try and log in to quest and register for the classes that we wanna take this fall. so here i am.....i have two courses that i hafta take, and three electives. i was thinking for the longest time bout what classes to take! like say at teh end of may..i was already thinking bout it. cuz to apply to optometry, there's so many different requirements, and since that's where i wanna go...i better make sure i have everything that they want! and of course, i dont want too heavy of a load, so i was having lots of hmmmm...should i take this or that? and so yups, now i got it all figured out. after 2 hours today...i'm finally registered into all that i need, and all that i think i can handle. and throughout this time of waiting for quest, i was icq-ing with a good friend...and i was telling him bout how i'm not sure what to take...and i dont think that i can handle taking 2 bio's in one term....along with orgo chem and cs, and another class. and i was getting kinda fustrated...cuz well.....being a student...marks are very very important! and optometry is so competitive! of course i wanna have really good marks! so he was kinda giving me suggestions to rs courses, or econ courses...just some non science stuff. and then i was telling him how i like taking classes where i kno someone else is taking it too, so that if i have lots of q's n stuffs, i can go and ask them. and then he replied me with but your such a smart girl and i was kinda like...why do u think that i'm smart? cuz i dont go around telling everyone my marks...and i dont really like ppl just *assume* things bout me......so i asked! and this is what he said to me:
well... smarts isn't always about marks..... or doing well in school or stuff...... I have a lot of respect for people who understand people...... I guess you can sort of call it "social smarts"..... that's probably the hardest type of smart to learn.... math is easy... you just follow the formula... it's one way to do it and you can read about it in a book.... social smarts you can't read in a book, you can't sit in a lecture.... it's something you have to learn by experience and if you have ability to understand people....... a lot of people in the world can't do that.......... I know you can.....
and i never thought bout things that way....i always thought bout street smarts..like dont walk in dark alleys at nite by yourself/dont get into cars with strangers.... stuff that mom n dad teach u as little kids. but i never thought bout the "social smarts" like he was talking about. and then he gave another good point...school will only last for a couple more years...7 at the most...but i still have the rest of my life to go out and live...and then school smarts wont help me that much then. and we talked some more....but its so nice to be encouraged sometimes. and i look up to this person *a lot* i dunno if he knows it or not...but i think that we all have someone we look up to, and we take to heart everything that they say. and its really awesome to be encouraged by these ppl.....i guess they can see when i need a little confidence booster. and it's ppl like this that i hope to be like one day. and everytime i think bout these ppl, i remember a quote, i dunno who said it, but it goes like this: friends are God's way of taking care of us and i do thank God for these ppl in my life...and for both of them for taking care of me and lookin out for me :)

(i kno ur reading this..i hope you dont mind that i quoted you........and thanq thanq ^^)