So I know every one had finals this year and were probably stressed out. As was I, but this year I learned something. I learned that stressing and getting mad about all the work all the studying all the late nights doesn’t do anything good for you and is only goanna make you stress more.
Young people increasingly see gender as not just limited to male and female. But the torchbearers of gender fluidity aren’t just celebrities or politicians, but kids. But schools are still catching up with the needs of gender nonconforming students.
I asked my teacher to go to the bathroom and he said yes. As I ran out of the classroom I heard so much laughter. I ran to the nearest bathroom but it only had one stall and someone was already in it. “Bruhh why!” I said.
The summer before I began middle school, my family moved from Antioch, a diverse town with a reputation for high…
I’m living in a rush and taking all the small things for granted because I don’t think that it’s a part of the big picture. Trying to capture that makes me forget the elegance of focusing on all the really sweet small stuff that makes up this big picture I strive for.
One day, my teacher instructed us all to participate in a game where you stand in line and step up if a certain question applies to who you are, and step back if it doesn’t. The teacher said step up if you love to read. As I looked down the line of my 25 classmates, I noticed that everyone was still — like lumps.
I woke up to a text message saying I had to kill a classmate within a week or I would…
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One of the hardest things in high school is not having a computer at home. And for me it’s not…
