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Day One
After the stress of results day, finalizing your university admin and ensuring that you definitely have a roof to sleep under in the city you are studying in, the days leading up to your first day of fresher’s week loom hazily over an endless, stressful stretch of weeks. It’s a dizzying feeling waking up each day growing closer to that crucial first day. You know from previous experiences how daunting it can be trying to mix in with the crowds. Anxiety grows within your shadow and hangs around you like a bad smell. No one wants to know you if you give into your anxiety and you are too familiar with that painfully numbing feeling of being a social outcast. You remember the groups of friends within both your class and year at high school; each one surrounded by a glass barrier and each one barring you from a group of friends unless you have the essential tools to break through. All you can do is look as your confidence suffocates within your stomach and your heart collapses in on itself. You learn quickly whilst you roam aimlessly in a sea of faces the rules of survival. Never smile or look too happy at school otherwise you will be labelled a freak. Never wear anything out of the ordinary or else you’ll be called an emo. Never participate in class or you’ll be called a teacher’s pet. Confine your opinions to the most basic and popular so that you can follow around groups within the school. Try to find at least one other awkward kid to talk to alone so that you can let a little of yourself out. Be on some form of social media so that you can at least try to follow the discussions happening in class (there is a risk that you’ll be cyber bullied but surely that’s a risk you’d be willing to take). This is surviving but barely living. They say being bullied is the worst thing to happen to a person at high school but it is not the single worst thing. It shares the throne with loneliness. If bullying is happening to you directly, you can tell the teacher about it and the problem can be dug from the ground like a weed. Loneliness is a completely other problem but often a by product. The teacher can punish a bully but cannot force people to like you and people liking you out of pity is no substitute for a real friend.
By Connlaodh McDonagh7 years ago in Education
As Big As It Goes: Origami Art. Top Story - October 2017.
I slapped the giant piece of canvas onto the table, making half the class jump in surprise. It was early Wednesday morning, just a few weeks before summer vacation. Heat radiated off the blacktop of the basketball courts outside the art room. I couldn’t wait to start.
By Dalan Hartmann7 years ago in Education
How To Be Good at School
I watch her face glow with defiance as her jaw tightens to restrain her voice. Not hours later, I hear her screaming down the hallway, octaves above her usual pitch, with frustration. Our AP Literature teacher will never know the passionate disagreement she feels towards his analysis of The Stranger. He will never know that she believes the book to be closer held to Marxist theory, because she will never tell him that she sees no evidence supporting Mersault’s existentialism. Confinements and prescriptions struggle to infiltrate her imaginative ideation, but her headstrong skull refuses to let anything in or out. Her mask is built firmly with steel and she is sealed shut within. She clings to individuality underlying her fraudulent educational ideology.
By Amelia Clare Wright7 years ago in Education
Special Education in 2017
Today's education for students who have disabilities still has not improved enough to truly help them. Supposedly there are laws in place, but just try to challenge something that is wrong and see if they help you. They don't. All students who have disabilities have a right to privacy. No student should ever be forced into a situation where they are made to feel uncomfortable. How would you feel if your doctor told everyone that you have a disease? Students who have disabilities have advisors that are assigned to help them. The problem is that these advisors really have no authority to correct something if anything goes wrong. There is always a boss of a boss that is higher up than they are, so where does it end when students run into problems with a class? What should be solved in a few days turns into weeks of waiting. When this happens it adversely affects the students who are having problems.
By Lilli Adams7 years ago in Education