Mark, if you have to, they will 'probably let you take the test over again, until you get it right, won't they? That is what they do with 'driving tests,' so why should it be any different?

And tell your sister, 'In your deepest masculine voice' to 'Blast off!' Look her in the eye, and say it very loudly! That usually 'gains respect' even if it is a 'reluctant one' for the time being!

My brother and I used to 'fight like cats and dogs!" It went on for so many years, until like you say, we both matured! We are 'much closer today' than we were growing up!

All the projects we can redo but not the tests. This isn't a certification tyoe class it's just your run-of-the-mill learning class.
Oh, I'm over the shit with Kris, but thanks for the advice.

Well, did you get the test results back yet? You may have 'passed it.' 

I'll Know my grade tomarrow,

And Yeah I think I did better then I first thought.

Well 'THATS' GOOD!' I hope so!  I 'Love your colorful new 'picture logo!"

Thanks, It represents St. Mark. Also it just looks cool

Not to sound too much like a greeting card, but life does have it's ups and downs, believe it or not. You are what 22 years old? Not to sound too much like your sister, but do you know where your life is leading you? Your life seems to be leading you towards welding, but you must do something with that knowledge in the future, since you're so keen on it. There are many challenges in life. Although, working in the food industry may sound nice (...or not), if you don't want to do that forever, you have a great opportunity at your college to make a difference and an impact in your life. Taking classes as though your future depended on it is exactly the way it sounds. I'm sorry about your mid-term, but look at it this way: You still have a month and a half to make a difference in your grade. Take it and make it your own time. In life to succeed is to fail and to fail is too succeed, that is how us humans learn (see any psychology book and prove me wrong). Don't take a failure and make it that, take a failure, mistake, or problem, and learn. It's not the end of the world, it just seems like it is. As for your sister, Krissy, she cares for you and wants to see you succeed in life, all people who care for you would want that for you, if they don't want that you know they never cared in the first place. She wants you to rethink your life may be because she just wants you to think about where you're going what your doing and have a plan in order to find yourself in a better place than where you are now. She's not just bitching at you. She's your f*king sister. She loves you and wouldn't want you to feel uncomfortable or in a place you don't want to be in.

Please take my words of kindness, for that is what I hope they are to you, and reflect, or you could also take my words and believe all of it is complete and utter bullshit and get on with whatever it is that you do. Either way, life consists of choices and our free will to make those decisions, I hope you are making the right ones. I wish you the best.

-Margret

Where do I begin. Well, first, thank you for all the words of advice.
Very few people realize how many doors open for a person when they get a trade. I like my current job, but it's just that; a job. Welding will me a very siccessful future when I can go anywhere in the world, literally the world, and find a well paying  job. If  I don't want to that I have the trade and I can be easily self-employed. with a trade I could even tell he boss off and find the same work in a month or so (I know because my uncle's done it beore)
You suggested I take courses to make a plan or whatever. Well, I've done that before, for the past three years to be exact. I wasted a lot of time and money in those three years. I have something I really like in welding and I plan to make something of myself with it.
(On a side note you made me smile when you call Kris "Krissy" no one has called her that since we were kids and the only person who did was my mom and little sister)
I have no problem with Kris' concern for me but she did it in all the worng ways. Firstly, she had no idea how these things work (for instince her asking me about a degree when a degree n welding is actually useless and a joke). She was just being difficult like hse always is.
You said "she loves you and wouldn't want to feel uncomfortable or in a place you don't want to be in". This may very well be her feelings, but as far as I am concerned it is a mute point when she has not a single clue what she is talking about. I will have more freedom and a better life in a career in the trades then most college drads with a masters degree. If I am not "incomfortable right now I don't think I will I will be when I am working forty hours a week makins $35-40 an hour (that is the average for a welder working today with all the certifications). This all ges back to what I said earliet that she has a false perseption that I am limiting myself whe I am laying the groundwork for the kind of life I have always wanted.

I also think I probably did better on the midterm then I thought.

Opps there were a lot of typoes in that last one. Hope you still got the jist of it though.

I did get the jist of what you were saying, but I still hope you took my opinions and my words to heart. You seem like a good man Mark, and I think life should reflect the goodness of a person.

Yeah I did. The thing is I literally wasted three years of my life because of the attitude my sister has. Now, I'm finally on the right track and I don't like hearing about how I should be making sure I'm making the "right choice".