So, I want to be an activist and a writer. For a variety of reasons, I am now incapable of going to normal high school and I will be for about the next year or so. Once I am able to, I plan to study at two year and then move up to regular college and then university. This is what my aunt and uncle did and now they have their PhDs and are college professors so I should be able to turn out okay with this program. Before I can do that, I am, with parental consent, doing a sort of self directed studying in substitute of regular high school. I am absolutely amazing at teaching myself subjects (figured out how to read at two, in fact) so I should be able to manage it, with a bit of help from my family when I have a particularly difficult time with a concept and some feedback too. Some things, like social skills, will probably require either going to a group for it or asking my mom to teach me. I sort of have deficient "life skills" and I need to learn that too. I have organized a list of things to learn by their function so there is some overlap. I showed this to my mom and she added a few things. My dad is going to have his input but I think I should get as many opinions as possible to fill in any gap of learning. Here are the things I am either going to teach myself with parental help, go to a group to learn or have my mom teach me:
Learning to live:
1. Organization
2. Personal development
3. Cleaning, cooking, fixing
4. Exercising
5. Social skills
Learning to write:
1. Literature from different cultures
2. Elements of story writing
3. Elements of poetry
4. Writing practice
5. Literature on different genres
6. Literature on different themes
7. Essay practice
8. Sociology
9. Psychology
10. Mythology
11. Religion
12. Philosophy
Learning to be an activist:
1. Foreign language
a. Spanish
b. French
c. Arabic
2. Political science
3. Heterodox economics
4. Environmental science
5. Gender studies
6. History of political struggles
7. Sociology
8. Psychology
9. In depth American history
10. Religion
11. Philosophy
12. Geography and world politics
General education
1. General history
2. Critical thinking
3. Geography and world politics
Don't worry about my ability to learn a lot of stuff, trust me I can learn things very fast , with unfortunately the exception of social skills and organization, and I'm planning to be learning seven days a week with no vacations, and for about eight to ten hours a day, with exceptions made for certain situations (seeing a friend occasionally, having to go to a long activist thing, etc.) I'm pretty determined to learn to be a good writer and activist, as you can see.
27 Apr 2010, 7:56 pm
