It feels like you’ve been in high school for your entire life. (I definitely have been). (post publishing edit: this is probably the most scatter brained, incomplete thing I’ve posted to date) But it’s only been 4 years, and 4 years (perspective makes a difference) is really not that long. Because you change and develop…
Why do we let the tyranny of mainstream school systems rank us and tell us how successful we are going to be in life? Because I can guarantee when you’re writing for the Times no one’s going to care if you got a C in calculus. And when you’re a behavioral therapist you wont lose clients because…
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Lately I’ve been really preoccupied with what feels like an existential crisis. Now, ever since I was very young I have memories of instances during the day when I would be sort of taken-a-back by moments of existential realization and almost depersonalization (though that sounds a bit drastic.. but the same sort of detached feeling).…
I don’t know how everyone else’s school does it, but at the lovely private Connecticut prep school that I attend (28 more days!!) if you take an AP course, you take the AP exam. No questions allowed asked. But whether you are taking the AP exam on your own terms or because of school policy,…
The most common thing I get asked these days is “well, what are you going to do if you’re not in school?”. (This is probably going to be a boring none relatable post as I try very hard to make some actual plans for the future.) To be perfectly honest with you (I think we’ve reached…
From the perspective of a young person only just looking in at the big bad world; holy shit, life is over. Not to be stereotypical, but the average 18 year old can’t imagine how life will be tomorrow, let alone in 4 or 5 years time after college spits us out and we have to…
I look at art more as an expression and a feeling than as a concrete finished project. A friend came to me today talking about realism paintings on the internet. Basically she was noticing that a lot of the comments were really ignorant. People (some not all obviously) think it’s not art because its just…
Logically, teenage (girls) get sappy and sentimental when it’s time for them to move on out and into the real world. While 29 days away from graduation I still don’t have the pang in my chest when I think about leaving high school behind forever, basically every other girl in my class does. And I…
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