This year I'm in my last year at high school, I need to succeed to study music next year! I don't need to get really great results this year to go to the music institute all I need is to succeed! People are always telling me "you need to kill yourself working" but I don't think so! All I need is to do what's necessary! My parents and all those around me like put so much hope in me, they believe I have to get the best marks but I don't want to work so much I hate school it makes me sad! There are some subjects I really like (arabic-french-english-deutsh-philosophy and history) but I don't like the rest! I don't know should I study or just do what I can and concentrate on my music and my band! My dream is to get to that music school that's all, and I'll have to take an exam to get there! and graduating is necessary too but just graduating they don't look at the result, but they look at how much talented you are! I hate school, tell me what should I do please!!! thanks!
Stick it out. It's your last year, and it will fly by. But yes, you will have to work extremely hard if you want to be successful, especially in music. You won't get anywhere without hardwork. It may even end up you not going into a musical career after you finished at the institute, because it's so hard to get a good job within the industry. You may want to think of doing something slightly more practical, but don't destroy your aspirations over it. Think practical, but still push towards your dreams.
I know how you feel. everyone around me is telling me how smart i am and how I have potential and all this crap, and I could be getting A's and I know it. But I really don't care. I want to do something vocational (hopefully dance) which doesn't include some snobby place like yale or whatever. I'm SO not taking any 9-5 b.s. office jobs. ever. just not my thing, I wouldn't be able to stand it. i don't care how good the money is. But just stick it out, like the above poster said, it'll be worth it when you get to study music! besides, it's your last year anyway. And if you can do this, you can always use some other college as a backup plan because you know you could get accepted if you needed to.
Hey you don't need education make music. But you shouldn't risk your life becose your bored. I say go in that study thing.
Find what's right for you. But musical education does not equal musical success. Just make sure you understand that.
exacxtly! but the thing is I'm not motivated with school! I work so hard with music but I don't care about school!
I do understand! probably you thought I want to make music because I hate school!no! It's because I can't see myself anywhere else but in that domain! Music is my life! music is everything for me!
To the OP: your situation sounds hauntingly familiar to mine last year, except replace the music with writing. ALL I wanted to was write. Up until senior year, I worked my ass off to get the grades expected of me, even though I hated it. But when senior year rolled around...I felt like I was wasting so much time. School is necessary only to a point. 12th grade felt like busy work to me. I wasn't learning anything I needed. Two hours of chemistry homework a night - knowing I'd NEVER go into anything remotely chemistry related - was such a waste of time. By second semester I decided I didn't care and flew through that class with a 0%. Luckily my mom is awesome, and literally gave me permission to fail it. I spent every chemistry period working on my writing. No, I didn't get the grade. But I got a hell of a lot accomplished on the novel I was working on. Of course, if you have your heart set on a certain college, you'll have to maintain the grades they want. But the bottom line is....for people going into artistic fields...grades mean NOTHING. Do what it takes to succeed/graduate, but don't break your back on math homework if that time could be best utitlized on your music. I get people telling me all the time to be more reasonable about my dreams, and at least get a back-up degree or something. I don't see why I should be more "reasonable"...they're called dreams for a reason. If you want to succeed at music, then put as much of your energy into succeeding as you can. Don't waste a second of your life trying to live up to expectations that aren't your own. Succeeding or failing in the music world will not depend on your letter grade in american history... Anyway, just my (long) two cents. Even if the chance of success is minimal, the fact that you KNOW what you want to do with your life puts you light years ahead of many people. Dreams are fun to have.
okey-dokey, i get you.... i went to art school. i did not take any math in college, i took one science class and a couple literature/philosophy/psychology classes. that's it. in a semester, 6/7 out of 8 classes would be art/art history/art appreciation classes. it was a lot of work. wait, let me repeat that- IT WAS A LOT OF WORK. art school/music school.... those places are crazy. they will push you. so you'd better stay in shape. keep up with all your classes. this might be your last chance to get some in-depth info on how the physical world operates (SCIENCE) and how we can measure that (MATH). learn what you can now, just try to absorb some of it, because it sucks to be ignorant. if you don't want to put any effort into these subjects, at least pay some attention. that way when a kid asks you questions about how the world works, you won't feel dumb. and you'd better spend ALL of the energy that you would've put towards getting decent grades in those "throwaway" courses into your music. you should still be working!!! last year of high school isn't for slacking.... what good is that when you get to music school and it's insane amounts of work? you'll be overwhelmed! my college was known as art bootcamp. the group of people that i had all my crazy freshman art classes with started with about 30 students. by the end of the school year, we had 11. people thought it would be easy.... hahahahaha!!!
also sounds like "senioritis" when the end is....so....close...yet...so....far...away.... look at it this way. You like to travel, but who likes buying the ticket/gas/car repairs? but it's part of the game. You are SO close. stick it out, get better than just the basics in grades, and keep reaching for music school. which will kick your ass.
At my school you are already accepted (hopefully) into whatever college your going to and know what your doing before the second semester, so its really only half a year. I thought it was like that in alot of schools, and if it is in yours than you really only have a quarter year left
