[ AUDIENCE: JANG MANWOL ]

[dormheads]

Comments

week 0, monday

[dormheads]

You could just do the work in the time it takes you to try to figure out how to cheat the system, you know.

[lifeless]

How do you know that I'm NOT doing the work? I'm good at multi-tasking. I run a hotel back home and everything.

[dormheads]

Why ask for tips and tricks if you're doing the work?

[lifeless]

I want to do both. I will exhaust every possibility if it means I can achieve victory. I want to drink something that's not soda pop and wear a style that's not dark academia.

[dormheads]

I appreciate your determination, but try not to get tunnel vision.

If you want one new outfit, give me a voucher. If you want a closet, you'll have to wait until you've got more.

We get extra credit, right? Do it. It's school. If they have something for you to do, try to do it. Tasks, activities, extra credit, anything that comes up. Do it as soon as you can. Talking to me helps you.

[lifeless]

[luke these are not the lifehacks she was looking for]

Fine. If talking to you is supposed to help, then do a task with me.

[????]

[dormheads]

Uh. Which one?

[lifeless]

Tell me what your ideal future looks like, Luke.
Besides graduating.
I'll make it fair and talk about something besides getting to eat caviar.

[dormheads]

[it takes a bit for the reluctant reply to come in.]

I want to take the college entrance exam and pass. I want to prove I can do it even if I've made a mistake.

I'm not thinking much more ahead than that. I have to get there first. So for right now, my ideal future is mastering the entrance exam.

[lifeless]

[i can't believe luke is from a kdrama about school

As much as Manwol is suspicious of the dorm heads and is 90% sure they're just different forms of God playing yet another trick on her -- this reply is so very. Normal. Human. It tells her a lot, even if it is still school-related.]

You sound just like someone I know.
Do you have a lot left to master?

[dormheads]

[:thinking:]

Yeah. I have two more years of high school after this one. If I can make it through those two years, I won't even be able to take the exam.

[lifeless]

Hey, that's not so bad! I like your odds. Two years is nothing compared to thirty.

[u can fit so much studying in this studious student]

📣📣 I'm rooting for you. Who knows? If you succeed, then some of that luck might rub off on the rest of us.

[dormheads]

Uh. Thanks. I guess.

You guys aren't doing bad.

[lifeless]

You mean compared to the other houses? Or because you thought that we'd be really terrible at this?

[why are there so many weirdos in the fall house, huh luke]

[dormheads]

[looks at fall dorm and then looks at luke hm]

I think Sally is having a tough time with Summer Dorm, so yeah. I was expecting most of you to be wild, or something.

[lifeless]

[WHO IS LUKE.JPG]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I can be super well-behaved when there's something in it for me. [says manwol, who emailed luke for cheat codes] That's actually my ideal future! Getting what I want no matter what I have to do.

[dormheads]

Sounds like you should have done the strength task instead of the ideal future task.

Is getting what you want really that important?

[lifeless]

I guess, but I was more interested in what you would say. A person's dream future says a lot about them.

[like how luke is a nerd AND NOTHING ELSE!!!]

Of course. If I have to suffer, then I should at least get what I want in the end.

[dormheads]

[wow?]

That's a strange way of looking at it.

[lifeless]

What's your way then?

[dormheads]

I was that way before. I thought if I was going to work to the bone, I deserved what I wanted.

I thought I could do anything. I thought I was better than everyone.

But it's different now.

sweating

[lifeless]

[INTERESTING.JPG]

What exactly changed?

haha

[dormheads]

I failed a class.

[lifeless]

That's not as detailed as I'd like, but I can see how that would humble you.
Some people are strong enough to acknowledge their own flaws. Unfortunately, I've never been good at that sort of thing.

week 3, thurs

[darksubverted]

Don't waste it on that. Someone already asked me to do it.