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How I Found Out I Had a Learning Disability
All my life, I thought I was normal. I thought I was just like everyone else, when in fact, I was not. I was different. I processed things differently than my peers. It took me longer to remember things, and to repeat back instructions. I was held back a grade without really understanding why, except that I needed to improve my social skills. I was always put in front of the class room for lectures, and always sat at a certain side of the room. I always mistook the word a friend said to a word I thought they said. I'd repeated back sentences that didn't make sense out loud to the person in front of me, which in return, they always gave me quizzical looks. Sometimes they'd laugh and say, "Noo! That's not what I said at all!" I always had to ask, "What? Huh? Can you repeat that?" many times within a lecture or story being told. I got frustrated not knowing what's going on and why I always felt different than everyone around me.
By Juliana Pedri6 years ago in Education
Why AP Classes Aren’t Worth It
After a full school year of hard work, late nights, and stressful days, many people did not receive the credit they had worked so hard for. Despite the good grades many of them had, they simply did not fit the rubric of the AP® test in the end. I had managed to pass the exam, but I watched as many of my friends and classmates, who in my opinion were more deserving, looked at their score and found that they had not made the cut. In fact only 58.3% of my peers that I surveyed actually passed the test. I found myself wondering what the point of the AP® test was and why we even had to take it. We all had already worked hard for the grade we received in the class, what more was there to prove? AP® classes should be treated as equals to college classes; there should not be more work than college classes and there should be no more poorly conceived standardized tests.
By Medea Walker6 years ago in Education
My Biggest Decision in College Made Me a Statistic
Around two years ago, I made the biggest decision of my life. This decision is more common than you'd think, but to me, it felt freeing like I'd grown some wings and soared. However, it also felt so wrong because I thought, "What would people think?"
By Barbara Cioch6 years ago in Education
Celebrities Who Went to Catholic School
Celebrities are just like us. Yes, they really are—shocker, I know. And even if you think Justin Bieber is an angel summoned from heaven...he's still human like us. And many celebrities attended school before becoming huge in Hollywood. Whether they grew up to be phenomenal singers or extraordinary actors, everyone started off on the same route, which is going to school.
By Rachel Blanchard6 years ago in Education
Highly Successful Billionaires That Didn't Finish College. Top Story - February 2018.
Some of the most wealthy and successful billionaires that didn't finish college might shock you. With people worth upwards of $60 billion, each of these billionaires have dropped out of at least one college, maybe even three, or simply did not take the higher education route.
By Olivia Amber6 years ago in Education
Learn Graphic Design Without College (or Debt)
Skillshare is an online learning community aimed at graphic designers, techies and artists. There are thousands of classes available for you to take and each one guides you through, step-by-step in the design process.
By Sugar CreekWriter6 years ago in Education
What to Know About Your First Year of University
I am about to cross the finish line for my completing my first year of university. I am a Bachelor of Science student with little knowledge of what I will do with my Bachelor degree when I get out in four years. And that is perfectly OK. These four years (and maybe a couple more) are all about you. Not about what your parents want, or your peers think are cool. This is for you to find out who you really are, who you want to be, and what kind of career you want to peruse for the rest of your life. University can seem extremely scary, new school, new friends, big city, maybe even a new country. But that is OK, because change can be good. You could meet your best friends for life, maybe even fall in love and you experience many new crazy things.
By Brynn Bast6 years ago in Education
Why I Had to Leave College in My Freshman Year
It is the second semester of my freshmen year of college. We have gotten snow a couple times and everyone has the flu. And I mean everyone. Including me. It's the fifth week of classes and I can honestly say I've only been to probably ten of my classes this semester. The university has posters put up all around campus saying that if you feel sick in any way to go back to your dorm.
By Laura Lowman6 years ago in Education
5 Signs It's Time to Quit Homeschooling
So as you may know, I signed my little girl up for public school 5 days ago. It was scary, it was heartbreaking (for me, anyway) and I felt like a big, fat, hairy, stinky, ugly failure. Just one day before I hit my absolute breaking point, I was still a total homeschool fanatic with absolutely zero thoughts of putting my kids into public school. YES, I made this decision in about 5 minutes on the very Friday night that I published my first article, typed it up, and made it official for the whole world to see.
By Sugar CreekWriter6 years ago in Education