O'Connor Week 14

Someday people are going to write political allegories about what happened in my generation of history and that is so cool.

P.S. I spelled my last name right ;) I'm on a roll.

Pickersgill Week 14

Stop, turn, reverse

Stop, turn, reverse.

Don't get caught in a loop

jrottger week 13

I don't know which is worse, feeling sad all the time or feeling happy sometimes.

Caplan - Week 13

Some smart guy once said, "I think before I am."

I don't do much thinking.

But I do a hell of a lot of existing.

Kotary Week Thirteen

Snitches get stitches, but I haven't snitched?

Thea 14

With some bears, all you can do if you meet one is die. I think its grizzly bears. Like you can punch it or run if you want, but it won't matter. They'll get you. Nothing you can do about it.

Thea 13

Patriotism is a shield the inarticulate hide behind.

Pickersgill Week 13

Silly words
What do you think
You're doing?
Well, sine you're heading who knows where
I may as well follow you there.

Week 13- E Killian

A girl was sitting, back slumped against the wall, headphones in ears. Her friend approaches her, and she leans into ask her a question. "Are you listening to the Talking Heads?" the friend asked.

And She Was.

Cajolet - Week 13

Apparently Sweden has gotten so good at recycling that they have literally run out of trash in their entire country. If only we could all have such problems.

O'Connor Week 13

*puts life on hold just so I can make a playlist that describes my feelings*

Bernard Week 10

I gave my sister a bloody nose once. I felt really proud to make someone bleed their own blood.

jrottger week 12

I needed inspiration and the word inspire just happened to be written on the side of Maryam's leggings.

jrottger week 11

Tangled up in blue (Bob Dylan). That's how I feel right now. Like I'm caught in a mess of blue and I can't seem to find my way out.

Kotary Week Twelve

"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife"
-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

Caplan - Week 12

Turtles don't do much.
Sit, eat, hide, hide, hide some more, move a little.
Then repeat.
They do live about 100 years though.
I'm surprised they don't die of boredom.
I totally get why snapping turtles bite stuff.
Snapping turtles are the only reason people don't use turtles as paperweights and conversation pieces.

This post might just be an embodiment of my turtle ignorance.
But it might not.

Caplan - Week 11

I feel like physics word problems could be easier if they rhymed.

Caplan - Week 10

Why was I late for school today?

Well I was having this AMAZING dream where I was flying through the sky over the Grand Canyon with some kind of electronic rewiring of Chariots of Fire playing in my head.
Then my alarm clock went off, invading my dream in the form of a jumbo jet that knocked me out of the sky. As usual, I subconsciously reached out to shut off the clock. Instead I ended up punching it off the table and shattering it against the wall. Naturally, that didn't really wake me up; I kind of half opened my eyes, didn't see the clock, and assumed I could sleep some more. In this case, til 7:30.

In any case, I'm very sad about how waking up this morning killed my dream and my alarm clock. I think the school needs to reprioritize and understand what this up-before-the-sun thing is costing us. It is literally killing my dreams.

Lutz II Week 9

"So what was the worst moment of this year?"

"The year."

jrottger week 10

Today was just one of those days when you try to call Atlanta, Georgia and get Germany instead. Multiple times.

Kotary Week Eleven

The back of a long haired cat's legs should be called pantaloons or fluffy hams.

Craig 12

"A smile at powerful people." -Me

Week 12 - Diana Cajolet

At a dance convention this past Sunday I watched my acro teacher throw himself out of a second story balcony and then roll to the cement ground. I had said to as a joke, and then he actually did it. Truly death defying and quite impressive.

Craig 11

Daisy sat in a field.

jrottger week 9

I think what I really love about film is taking all the different shots and angles and choosing and fitting them together so that it creates such a beautiful story that when you watch it, all you want to do is crawl inside and live in it.

Kotary Week Ten

"Would your rather have the prince with rockets in his head, or diamonds in is pockets?"
-Wayne Kotary, after listening to Spin Doctors, "Two Princes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6XmNoauuOo

Lutz II Week 8

       All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
 All succ and no play             makes you a dull boy
       All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
All succ and no play makes you a dull boy    All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
 All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
       All succ and no       play makes you a dull boy    All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
 All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
       All succ and no play makes you a dull boy   All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
 All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
       All succ and      no play makes you a dull boy   All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
 All succ and no play makes you a dull boy
       All              succ and no play makes you a dull boy

Craig 10

Once when I was young a boy convinced me that he was an alien and that his home planet had exploded leaving him stranded on earth. Later that week my mom told me that his parents were getting a divorce.

Week 9 Bernard

Being force fed noodles to death isn't the worst thing that could happen.

Thea 12

"Ah yes, your red-headed goddess. Hair as red as the rust on my dagger, eyes like the dried blood in the meat markets! Will she ever notice you? or shall you remain alone, pinning for all eternity!"
"Shut up Alán."

jrottger week 8

In my opinion, one of the best feelings in the world is being so engrossed in reading a book that every  time you put it down and try to do something productive, it invariably ends up back in your hands after only a few minutes.

Gillis Week 12

Lies are like houses. They all need good foundations.

Week 11 Mathew

"You wanna party? It's 500 dollars to kissing and 10,000 dollars for snuggling. End of list."

Liz Lemon

Week 10 Mathew

Apple changed its peach emoji to look less like a butt!

Week 12 Mathew

You hauled your cookies all the way to the beach for some guy!?
-My Sister in Grease

Week 12 E Killian

"So I'm allergic to apples, and I can feel my throat closing up, but it's so good."

- Some girl in my psych class who was eating a big ol' granny smith.

Week 11 Killian

Did you know? Donald Trump spelt backwards is "Idiot".

Pickersgill Week 12

What if we lived in a world where

Everything was at a slant

And walking tilted was the norm?

Pickersgill week 11

The letters look a little strange

But hold it up to a mirror

And it makes perfect sense.

Week 10 E Killian ;)

"All depictions of death are typically male."
"Well, we need more women in the workforce."

Pickersgill Week 10

I feel better already.

And all i did was bounce some words off a wall.

O'Connor Week 12

God is real, unless declared integer.

Gillis Week 11

I would've quoted my pal Rohit, but it was too raunchy and R-rated even for Creative Writing.

Sabnis Week 11

I'm a protein freak.

Lutz II Week 7

Everything that happens is from now on

Thea 11

I just want to sit them down and make sure they know how wrong they are, and how stupid they are being, and how using their opinions to hurt people isn't ok.

O'Conner Week 11

Why can't it start snowing as soon as Thanksgiving is over? It's pretty much Christmastime, but the weather is not making me feel like I'm in a winter wonderland. If there's no snow on the ground this Christmas (again) I'm probably going to be very mad. But not really because it's Christmas.

Week 11 - Diana Cajolet

Black Friday is a commercial day that brings out animalistic characteristics. I find this kind of strange because those characteristics were probably meant for hunting for food, not for hunting down sale items at the mall.

O'Connor Week 10

A dance with her is a dance with the devil. A day with her is a trip to hell. A taste of her is a burn on your tongue.

Week 10 - Diana Cajolet

17 is such an irrelevant birthday. Your 16th birthday is your sweet sixteen, your 18th birthday is when you're a legal adult, and your 17th birthday is just another year. Congrats, you didn't die for a whole 365 days.

Mathew Week 9

I found Kathleen Bernard walking through the woods with a lawn chair and a plastic bag. She is one of the only people I know who leads an interesting life in Westford, MA, USA.

Week 9 Gillis

While I enjoy listening to music, I've realized I tend to understand lyrics better when I'm sad.

Sabnis Week 9

I was hoping for a B on my history quiz but got an A. She better drop some points.

Caplan - Week 9

I think therefore I am.
I don't think therefore I am non-existent?

Week 9 - Diana Cajolet

My neighbor got attacked by a rabid skunk, my chickens killed another chicken, and another one of my neighbors shot a raccoon in his back yard. What a week of wildlife adventures.

Week 9 Killian

"Alright, thx 4 electing me prez, plz like and subscribe 4 more!"

Pickersgill Week 8

"I'm not afraid. I just like to wear the covers on my head sometimes. They're really cozy."

Craig Week 9

Told to cut pictures from magazines starring women who are so thin you have to squint to find them.

Craig Week 8

knock kneed and buck toothed

O'Connor Week 9

"I ate an astronaut for brunch." -Dan Wilson

Caplan - Week 8

Its surprising how long the third day of a three day weekend can be when Neflix is down.

Thea 10

Death lays a gentle hand on the clawing demon's
shoulder,
silencing his murderous cackle,
his victim sobbing as blood
flows.
Death drifts in front of the torturer
shielding his victim from the red
eyes,
and lifts them up,
to bring them into the safe east.

Pickersgill week 9

 It’s funny that when people think of skating, and of a skater’s future, their minds immediately jump to olympics and triple jumps. I see neither of these in my future, and I honestly never wanted to. But skating may be something I don’t let go when I go to college. Maybe I’ll take up dance, or writing, or biology or linguistics. Maybe I let it be something I leave behind when I turn the page to this new chapter. Or maybe I’ll turn it into something I can just do forever. But I don’t want it to be the only thing in my life. It’s not my only passion. There shouldn’t be only room for one passion in someone’s life, should there? It makes me sad when one of someone’s passions forces them to be put in a box, unable to even touch anything else. Or maybe the reality is that more than one is just a lot to do, and trying to do it all would just burn someone out.  

E Killian Week 8

Living with Gatsby Haloween Specshul

GATBSY throws a brick at the window.
DORRIS: GaaaAAATSBYYYYYY!!!!!
GATSBY: Happy Halloween Old Sport

Reid 8

what is it about landscapes that makes them so beautiful? The most beautiful are big and in comparison empty, showing mostly air and sky. Why is this emptiness so attractive?

Kotary Week Nine

There was one scene with Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, where Harry had taken polyjuice potion, and turned into Crabbe. He was still wearing glasses, and his excuse was "reading?" Draco responded with "Reading? ...I Didn't know you could read", and walked away. The best part of the scene was that Tom Felton had forgotten his lines, so that all of his lines were improvised.

Thea 9

Shout out to Person D for giving me the idea to start the Equality Gang. Your subtle insults and obvious hate for everything I believe in were a constant inspiration.

Pickersgill week 7

I love rain.
Not the stupid, miserable, drizzly kind
But the kind that happens when it really decides to rain.
 It's the kind that I love to listen to and the kind that I can dance in.
It's the kind that makes me feel cozy
Once I'm all dry and warm inside.

I like it best at night.

Kotary Week Eight

The 1970s movie Salem's Lot made Ben Mears' girlfriend Susan the Lois Lane of the Movie.

Kotary Week Seven

My sister believes that I should be this character in Beauty and the Beast. This is the character who has their wig ripped off in the first ten minutes of the film, acts air-headed, and then isn't seen for the rest of the movie.

Week 7 Bernard

Family get-togethers must be really easy when your parents are cousins.

Week 6 Bernard

"Italy is overrated"- Miriam

Caplan - Week 7

Everything is better with a pack of Skittles in your pocket.

Except a test when the teacher thinks they are the answers.

Sabnis Week 7

When someone asks me how I am, I started responding with "better than you".. am I too mean?

Caplan - Week 6

Time is like a river. We might be like leaves on the water, pushed against the rocks and sticks and the stream banks, in a slow uncontrolled drift. Or maybe we are like the rocks, and the sticks and leaves that float down the river are the obstacles we face.

I saw a river today by the way.

Gillis week 7

Some people really know how to take a dump on my good vibes.

Craig 7

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to steal things. Things like coffee and boarding passes.

Week 8 - Diana Cajolet

I've had a half finished application saved on my computer for weeks now. I don't know why I can't bring myself to finish it. It's either laziness or the fear of committing to something that is eight months away.

Week 7 Mathew

"Live every week like its shark week"
-30 Rock

Thea 8

I think I'm terrified.

Week 7 - Diana Cajolet

I've come to the conclusion that I am not good at poetry.

Week 7 E Killian

She was tall, and I was short. I know, like, bad character description, but it's the truth. She was the tallest in the class, and I was the shortest. She could have probably passed for a middle schooler, despite having barley lived a decade on this planet. I could barely reach her shoulders. Lift me up, Elizabeth, I'd think. Let me reach the stars from your shoulders.

O'Connor Week 8

I am personally just more entertained with myself when I am sad or angry, rather than if I was just okay. Strong emotion is fun.

jrottger week 7

Today at the dinner table, my twin sister asked if we ever had a fish that died from jumping into the radiator or if she had just dreamed it. I thought it was a really weird and random thing to ask and I was absolutely positive she had dreamed it.

Me, five seconds later: "OH MY GOD, SHARKY..."

jrottger week 6

For every person there is in this world who will leave you to struggle alone, there is someone who will stay up all night and help you get through it.

Thea 7

We chased out the freshman again. Our territory remains safe!

Lutz II Week 6

i have a good friend in rome called biggus dickus

O'Connor Week 7

In books, there are so many minor characters. For all we know, there could be so many other characters that have much more compelling stories than the main characters. And when other people write about those stories, we get this little thing called fanfiction.

Week 6 Mathew

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

-John Green

E Killian Week 6

Middle School is actually purgatory but with less fire and more pure evil

Craig 5

Inspiration is on strike.

jrottger week 5

Blankets are priceless. You can't put a price on the blanket that you use every day, that you depend upon to keep you warm during power outages and when you have to take the dog out in the winter and you can't find your coat.

Week 6 - Diana Cajolet

True love is when your dog is just as excited to see you when you come out of the shower as they are when you get home after being away for two months.

Pickersgill Week 6

I told my skating coach that math fries my brain.
He suggested a cold towel.

Cristina P week 4

Sometimes it's not a line that separates the sides of a debate or argument.
Sometimes it's a triangle or a square.
Sometimes it's a dodecahedron.

Caplan - Week 5

There's a little Gartner Snake that lives in the tall grass near our mailbox. He's very chill, but he likes the grass long because then he can hide. I see him every time I mow the lawn and I mow around him each time. I can't think of a name for him, which is bad because I think we're on a first name basis by now.

Caplan - Week 4

I'm trying to relearn how to play keyboard.
Its very hard and i'm very bad
Piano lessons when I was little are not coming to me.
My family feels bad for the headphones i wear when i practice.
I think its a good thing though.

Lutz II Week 5

One of the aspects of being a kid I miss the most is being in bed the night before a field trip or christmas and not being able to fall asleep. I remember lying in bed with my eyes wide open, frustratingly wide awake and wanting it to be morning so badly. No matter what I did sleep would never come yet I would blink and it would be morning. I never cherished that feeling. I never delighted in that feeling. Lately I've been missing that feeling more and more.

Gillis Week 6

How can someone "just keep swimming" if they don't know how to swim.

Sables Week 6

If it's combination, why do they call it a combo and not a combi?

Kotary Week Six

Wearing pajamas to school is like wearing formal clothing to McDonalds.

Caplan - Week 3

I think in a past life I might have been smart.

Thea 6

"So I'm not aloud to be frustrated, is that it?! They can joke about this **** and I can't even raise my voice. They can spout racist, sexist BS and I can't be even slightly irritated. They can outright make fun of me and my beliefs, but I'm the one who needs to calm down. Because that's whats fair. Thats not what fair is, and I am DONE."

O'Connor Week 6

What makes someone a good leader? It is not what they say they will do or their cockiness. It is through their actions, leading by example, and their ability to show that they care for the people that they are leading.

O'Connor Week 5

Today a friend told me that all beluga whales are from hell. I asked her why. Her reply was that they are Satan's horses.

Lutz II Week 4

"Yesterday, was that you? Looked just like you. Strange things my imagination might do. Take a breath reflect on what we've been through. Or am I just going crazy 'cause I miss you?"

-Yesterday, Atmosphere

Lutz II Week 3

The freshmen still don't know how to walk. The day of the pep rally I'm gonna get tapped and unleash my inner william wallace and go apeshit

Kotary Week Five

Some quotes from two of my favorite Stephen King  : 

"'Isn't there a frustrated writer inside every English teacher? Or am I wrong about that?'" -11/22/63, Stephen King

"Alone, yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and Hell is only a poor synonym"- Salem's Lot, Stephen King

Gillis Week 5

Tears are basically piss that comes out of our eyes. Disgusting.

Bernard Week 5

wiggly is a wiggly word

E Killian Week 5

"Trick or treat!" said the two children, clad in costume. "Oh!" said Ms. B, "What a cute pair of cops and robbers!" "Haha," said the young girl in a criminal costume. She pulled out a gun. "Now give me all the fucking candy, or I shoot."

Bernard Week 4

how are colors?

Week 3 Killian

(Excerpt from my 2021 sitcom, Living with Gatsby)

DORIS, a 22 year old grad student walks into her apartment after a long day of work. The place is trashed.
DORIS: The place is trashed!
GATSBY, 29, is lying on the couch with a lampshade over his head.
GATSBY: (mildly drunk) Mgggmmm old sport
(HORRENDOUS LAUGH TRACK)
DORRIS: OoooOOh! You better get this cleaned up before Sydney comes back! She'll be PISSED!
GATSBY hits the speed dial button for Nick on his phone. He mumbles "jjjggggg old sport" into the phone and passes out on the couch again.
NICK, arriving at the door: GATSBYYYYYY!! What are you doing?!?!?
GATSBY: I threw a rager last night. Think I made it to first base with Daisy.
NICK: GATSBY!! Clean this up. Dorris will move out if you don't, and then you won't get to live across the street from that girl you like! You'll have to live with TOM instead!!
GATSBY takes the lampshade off of his head, and the camera pans over to an exposed, green lightbulb.

Thea 5

Floating, swimming, dragging, fighting,

tearing, running, walking through the day

Week 5 - Diana Cajolet

"Toothed vagina." - E

E Killian Week 4

A jealous woman hires a deep web hitman (actually hitwoman, but thats not a real word) to kill her coworker's fiancé. The hitman falls in love with her target. It's a romcom, and it stars Hayley Kiyoko as the hitman.

jordan week 4

I hate how I get mad at myself so often for falling asleep. That isn't something I should have to be angry about. It should be something I'm happy about, because sleep keeps me healthy and happy and awake during the day. So I'm basically angry at myself for being healthy.

Mathew Week 5

Richard: Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine for lunch.
Emily: Then buy me a boa and drive me to Reno because I am open for business.
-Gilmore Girls

Mathew Week 4

"I love bread"
-Oprah

O'Connor Week 4

At first I had a serious loathing for Into the Wild. But the more I analyze it, the more I feel as if I can relate to it. Darn Jon Krakauer.

Sabnis Week 4

My dad crushed my dream of becoming a comedian by saying I wasn't funny. Then I got 3000 likes on a comment I posted on ifunny. HA!

Week 4 - Diana Cajolet

Physics is kind of like running repeatedly into a brick wall. It's painful and makes you feel stupid.

Gillis Week 4

All stereotypes come from a little bit of truth.

Thea 4

All of a sudden, every sense screams. Without thinking, I launch myself up, tackling the Princess to the ground. Before the guards even realize what had happened I was standing on her horse, facing the forest.
"Little mage. Strong shackles." A voice rasps form the darkness of the forest. The swords pointed at me turn to the woods.
"Not strong enough." I reply in the language of my people. "The Princess is under my protection. You do not want to face me here." Laughter follows my words, whispering out of the trees. The men around me pale.
"Lies. Locked in your own body," they reply in the same language. I drew myself up to my full height, making myself as intimidating as I can with no weapon and my magic out of reach. Without this damn collar, I would have made my eyes glow, maybe my sword as well. But all I have are my hands. They will have to do.
"I am Aleka Camia." I say as my arm stretches before me. "General of the Eldren, Destroyer of the enemy, Granddaughter of  Chosen. I've seen a god and lived to tell the tale. I have fought your kind countless times and walked away untouched. I  am not one to be taken  lightly."

Reid 4

A man brought in a lottery ticket and won. This is not an uncommon occurrence where I work but he did something different. He only won $3 but after he left, he came back and said "I owe you this" and gave me and a co-worker each $1 and said " I always say I'm gonna share the lottery if I win." Its nice to see someone stick to their convictions when faced with them.

Kotary Week Four

Don't write emails at night, when you are taking cold medicine. You won't get anything you need to get done accomplished, and you sound crazy and incapable in the process.

Week 3 E Killian

A section from my 2021 sitcom, Living with Gatsby. In 2021, The Great Gatsby will become public domain, so naturally, I must make a bad sitcom out of it.

DORRIS, a 22 year old grad school student, walks into her apartment. She is tired after a long day of work. She scans the room, yawning. The place is trashed.
DORRIS: The place is trashed!
GATSBY, 29, is laying on the couch with a lampshade over his head.
DORRIS: (cornily and drawn out) GAAATSBY! Did you throw ANOTHER party?!?
GATSBY: (mildly drunk) Mmgmgmggmn old sport
(Cue horrendous laugh track)
DORRIS: OOooOOOH Gatsby, YOU PARTY ANIMAL!!! YOU better clean this up before....SIDENY gets here! She'll be pissed!
GATSBY hits the speed dial on his phone for Nick. He mumbles "mmgmgmgmgm old sport" into the phone and passses out on the couch.
NICK knocks on the door. DORRIS opens it, and as soon as we see NICK there is a prolonged studio applause.
NICK: (cornily) GAATTTSBY!!!! Sidney's gonna be PISSED!!!! What're you doing!!
GATSBY: Old Sport, I threw a total RAGER last night...it was on fleek....I think I made it to first base with Daisy...
NICK: GATSBY!!! You GOTTA clean this up!!!
GATSBY: Aight, old sport.
He sits up, and takes off the lamp shade. Cut to a lamp without a shade. The light bulb is green. GATSBY slowly puts the lampshade back on. A jazz instrumental version of the theme song plays in the background.

jordan week 3

Every time dad and I drive past the soccer fields, he looks out the window with a sad expression on his face. And every time, its like I'm tearing out a piece of his heart because I know its my fault that he feels so sad.

Craig 4

There was once a woman with laryngitis. She spent the whole day nodding.

Craig 3

We are too old to tear the knees of our jeans open, so we buy them that way. We attempt to remind ourselves of a lighter time when we could count the scars on our knee caps and our worst wounds were from scratching bug bites.

O'Connor Week 3

Why do some things just end? They die out and then where do they go? The energy has to go somewhere.

Caplan - Week 2

Ran over a lemon with the car today. From where, I don't know.
Life gave me lemon, and I drove over it with the car.

Caplan - Week 1

Some guy came into work last Friday telling everyone about how he wants to move back to Pittsburgh. He openly talked about how he liked his life here in Westford, but needs to be back. It kind of made me think about how in a couple of years, I'll be done here. Maybe he left something behind that he couldn't bring here. I'd have to be important I guess. I'm happy with my life here, and I'd leave a lot behind that I'd want see again too.
Moving sucks, but I guess its part of life.

Lutz II Week 2

"In the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream, we must sing."
- Bright Eyes, At the Bottom of Everything

WEEK 3 ANISHA

LIFE IS LIKE A LOOSE TOOTH. YOU HAVE TO TWIST IT REALLY HARD. 

Week 3 Sabnis

I swear if I don't get a duck boat by the time I graduate, someone's gonna get run over again.

Kotary Week Three

My shakespeare line:
*Someone coughs*
"Plague Victim, are you ok?"

Week 3 Gillis

Found out my church mentor stopped dating someone because the guy had ugly hands. She's got her priorities straight.

Week 3

If I were to scatter my ashes. I would put them in a cat box. #felinefriends

Week 2

One always wins when they're digging for gold. You either get gold or boogers.

Kotary Week Two

There should be characters who are both nerdy and funny. Characters like Spiderman and Flash are funny, but also nerds. These characters are hard to write and cast as roles, because there are very fine lines, with difficult senses of humor to understand.

Reid 3

I wonder what it feels like for teachers at the end of the year. Being a senior I somewhat dread not having the meaning friendships I have fostered in teachers but that happens for them every year.

Week 2

The loveliest face I saw this morning was Alisha's. All puffy-eyed in sweats and an oversized t-shirt. She looked extremely homeless. She's my fashion inspo.

Week 3 - Diana Cajolet

Driving on the highway today I saw a fully orange tree. But underneath that tree was a car crash. Horror and beauty blended together.

Thea 3

I think every guy should be lifted up by a girl once in their life, just to make sure they know.

Keely Week 2

I'm homesick for something that doesn't exist anymore.

week 2

"Just another brain on the campus/Just another man in the field/Just another tall pile of papers/Making it crowded in here/...Someone else's words in your mouth... "-Bastille- "Campus"

I walked along the sidewalk, wiping the sweat from my forehead. The sun glared down at me. I glared back.

week 2

Life's what you make it!

Thea 2

"This is the apocalypse," She said, watching the city crumble before her.
"Whoa." He sat down, looking down at the spreading fires. " It's like I'm waking up. I feel it in my bones." The ground rumbled again, buildings falling.
"Enough to make the systems blow," she said, sitting down beside him., pointing to the still standing speakers jutting up from the city streets. Th audio system was still broadcasting, but only one phrase, repeating over and over.
"Welcome to the new age."

Sabnis Week 2

I was called homeless by the one I trusted the most. Now I can move forward knowing that the world is out to get me. There is no love, only betrayal.

Pickersgill Week 2

I did a little dance today.
The ice was fine, the walls a nice normal gray, and I felt in the mood.
It's so weird that in a world so creative, we expect each other to stick to a specific pattern.

O'Connor Week 2

Some people are obsessed with this idea that they need to be able to define love before they can allow themselves to feel it. I disagree with that mindset entirely. In fact, I don't even think that love can be defined.

Week 2 - Diana Cajolet

"What I am about to say is something that I feel like you guys don't understand. Dance is living, breathing, loving. And you should all feel so incredibly blessed to be spending your time being a part of this amazing art form."

Lutz II Week 1

I overheard someone at lunch lecturing another student for not believing in God. It just really stunned me. What gives him the right to tell others what they should believe in? What gives this punk the authority to mock someone because they don't follow their own religion? Learn some religious tolerance dude like damn.

Week 1

I think my super power might be stressing out about everything in my life.

Caplan - Week 1

Some guy came into work last Friday telling everyone about how he wants to move back to Pittsburgh. He openly talked about how he liked his life here in Westford, but needs to be back. It kind of made me think about how in a couple of years, I'll be done here. Maybe he left something behind that he couldn't bring here. I'd have to be important I guess. I'm happy with my life here, and I'd leave a lot behind that I'd want see again too.
Moving sucks, but I guess its part of life.

Kotary Week One

Having a balloon fight on the grounds of a place like a school,  or an office building would make for exciting action for a character. But it wold be a really huge balloon fight, as in it takes place in a fifty story office building, and people use modified balloon launchers, like not just their hands and slingshots, but other launchers especially for this water balloon fight.

Sabnis Week 1

Some people need to learn to mind their own business. I was at a dog park in Chelmsford and this one guy was yelling across the yard at a lady to get her dog off the table even though they are allowed to be on them. He continued to talk trash even after the worker told him to stop.

O'Connor Week 1

I sit in the train compartment, looking out into the never-ending green fields. My head rests on my knees, which are hugged to my chest. It feels odd to be alone after people coddled me all throughout the holiday. Yet it is soothing and gives me a sense of relief.

Gillis Week 1

Every person's life is like a different type of sandwich. Some artificially sweet yet bland, others hardy and full of spice and zest.

Week 1

I learned a fun fact that really inspired me: James A. Garfield was ambidextrous and could write in Latin and Greek at the same time.

Week 1
Plants are freeloaders.

Week 1 Keely

I left my very first library book in the rain. It was a Raggedy Anne story book that I got from the book mobile. After that, I didn't go to the library for a year because my sister told me that I was banned for life. Eventually I discovered her ruse.

week one Thea

Words have power. I imagine a booming voice soaring over a battle field. The voice isn't even forming words I know, or maybe they are so imbibed with power that it overshadows the syllables. It reaches

Reid post 1

Silently she dwells,

an unsung hero.

Seeking no glory

she reflects the pride of another.

She asks for nothing,

but gives everything.

alone she stands guard,

a pale sentinel in the dark.

She shines brightly but often goes unnoticed

Yet weep she does not,

she only pushes and pulls her well of tears,

and watches from a distance

Week 1 E

Last night, I had a realization. An epiphany. What I'm about to say will blow your mind. Here I go. The novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid is literally a modern day Catcher in the Rye. I've been stuck on this for twelve hours. I'm literally still thinking about this. I should write a literary analysis comparing the two.

Week 1 - Diana Cajolet

"I didn't sleep last night so I'm filling up on artificial sleep."
"Yeah well the caffeine will hit you just in time to keep you up all night again."
It's interesting to me how one's efforts to fix something can lead to further damage.

vanessa week 14

honestly Penny is the first horse I've loved since Tree. I still search for him in every horse I meet, and I swear sometimes they're so similar I completely forget that she isn't him.

vanessa week 13

for college, all I want is to go somewhere that I'm happy. Preferably very far away, but if I have to stay in the Northeast I will. I don't want to go to Middlesex, I don't want to have to live alone with my dad for an extra two years. I don't want to be surrounded by people who messed up in high school, and most of all I don't want to be stuck here without everyone I love. My dad wants to force me to go to Middlesex because of "finances" while he has an untouched trust fund created for the sole purpose of sending my sisters and I to college by my grandparents, he just "doesn't want to use it". It's so infuriating having to live with someone who has no regard for you happiness or mental health, and is so incredibly selfish and self serving. He's blatantly favored my sisters over me for our entire lives, and now it's really picked up. Last year when my sister was looking at colleges, he specifically told her to not even THINK about the money. To go wherever she felt happiest without any regard to the tuition cost. Why am I denied that same decency? Why am I not enough for him?

marcotte 14

when i die burry me in whole foods in the produce section as a funny prank

vanessa week 12

this summer is going to be so bittersweet, because right now I feel so whole and happy with my family and friends around me. I know it will end far too soon though, because by the end of August I will be living alone with my least favorite person on the planet and without my best friend and sisters.

marcotte 13

I strive to reach  a new level of petty everyday
 petty things I've done this week
-replied "who's this?" to texts of people when I knew who it was
-bought boyfriend an "I love my girlfriend shirt"
- when mom told me to do the laundry to help her out around the house I washed table cloths that don't even fit our table

Post #14: Rittika

I'm always so damn tired. I thought after APs, the tiredness would dissipate. But, here I am, staying up until 2 AM every single day, even pulling all-nighters at times. When can I read? When can I do other things I care about? School has officially consumed my life.

Natasha #14

There are times I could be described as a pretentious hoe, but I really have nothing to be pretentious about. As I have failed all my classes and personally own nothing of importance. Also, you can decipher from this post I have no sense of grammar. So just ignore me. Plez.

Post #13: Rittika

I'm so sick of this gun violence in America. How can this even happen? How can someone go into a club, carrying two freaking handguns? How can someone go into a concert, with two handguns and a knife? I feel so sorry for all of these poor people. How can these murderers carry through, knowing that they are tearing away the lives of these innocent people?

Post #12: Rittika

Okay. I'm sorry, but America has managed to anger me in the span of minutes. How is it justice if someone who raped an unconscious girl only serves six months in prison?!?! He could be the best swimmer in the world, and I wouldn't give a damn. How are people even justifying him? How is he even trying to defend himself?

Flynn Week 14

When you're about to be a senior in high school and you still feel like a seventh grader :)

Flynn Week 13

Everything just sounds so much more sophisticated in a British accent, even the most vulgar comments.

Flynn Week 12

Why do we kill people who have killed people to show them that killing people is wrong?

Post #14 - ML

SOME PEOPLE ARE SUCH B!!!!!!!!..................................

Marcotte

I wish someone would love me the way Magmaflower loves Briona... is that too much to ask?

Post #13 - ML

If you can make me laugh, you can make me do anything

Post #13 - ML

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.

Post #12 - ML

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams

Post #11 - ML

Boys make me think wild and crazy thoughts and do wild and crazy things. For this I thank them and hate them at the same time...

Marcotte

I am still poor and no one wants to donate to me and I cannot sign up for sugardaddy.com and i dont feel like working and i hate everything

Natasha post #13

Of course I want another dog, there will never be a time I won't. However, even now, while I stare into its soulful eyes, I can see a future not too far in which we're all standing in the vets room and crying until our hearts give out.

vanessa #11

d:"do me a favor and send me the picture of me with makeup on"
v:"i can't i deleted them"
d:"damn, it's all good. have you been doing alright?"
"nvm i know you aren't going to answer so i won't even bother. bye."
"am i a horrible person?"
"take that as a yes"
v:"you know what? FOOK you. just because i didn't say anything doesn't mean anything about my opinion of you, i just don't care enough to talk to you, you still just won't get the FOOKing hint"
d:"nope got it loud and clear sorry"
"i was only asking cause i was thinking about the way i treated you"
"i got the hint awhile ago. i just think all of it is kinda...eh it doesn't matter actually. bye."
v:"obviously didn't get the hint if you've still been trying to talk to me for weeks but ok buddy keep telling yourself that"
d:"trust me i do get the hint, but my thoughts about all it is what makes me not care"

?????WHAT ARE U EVEN SAYING???????

The Death of Men. Plateau. 1431. p.

Post #10 - ML

You must have belief in yourself. You must have the necessary desire to work hard in order to be able to reach out for success. You must seek out inspiration and motivation from those who can guide and support you, especially in moments of self doubt. You must endeavour always to give of your very best, in each and every waking moment, so that achievement becomes just a formality. A new level of personal best is always on the cards if you work stridently and diligently. But if you pull back, withdraw, close down on life’s challenges and all the riches that they can offer then you will be reduced, made less than what you could be. We all have hidden potential, rich reserves to draw on if only we can cultivate the faith of trust and self belief. But no one else can do this work for us, it is our vocation, our mission in life so the sooner we start activating this potential the better.

Post #11 - ML

For the most part, each illness has a specific and optimal medication for treatment. When you have a sore throat you spray the back of your throat with the red spray and it feels better, right? But what about all the illness that isn't cured by medicine. The worst pain is mental and it sometimes doesn't have an identifiable cause. When your heart hurts a little bit or you're just sad and you can't explain why, what's the medication for that? Well you treat sadness by talking to the people you love and laughing and forgetting about all the things that make you sad. Isn't it funny to think that maybe people are drugs? And going along with that, you better believe everyone has their favorite pill.

Post #11: Rittika

After rewatching Harry Potter this week, I have discovered a few things:
1) Ron Weasley is amazing.
2) Tom Felton is REALLY hot.
3) Dumbledore's got style #orderofthepheonix
4) Voldemort's not missing the prophecy, he's missing a nose!
5) Hermione/Emma Watson is on fleek.
6) Harry only cried at the end of the goblet of fire because Cedric turns into a delusional sparkling vampire in the afterlife.
7) SpongeBob deserves a cameo.
8) Am I being Sirius right now? I'm really not sure...

Post #7 - ML

In my personal opinion, one of the nicest thing you can do is walk another person home. This doesn't happen much anymore because we all drive and live so far away that it isn't plausible. Just the concept, of walking another person all the way to their house and just to have to turn around and walk home alone, so you can be with them for those final extra minutes. And it's not something people did because they needed to or feel obliged but just simply because they wanted to. In a way, every kind or generous gesture is like that. For the minutes in which we do those nice things we put another person's happiness above our own. We make sacrifices that make the people we love happy. Sometimes we do it randomly or because doing something good makes us feel good. But the best and most selfless reasoning is doing something for another because their happiness and the making  that sacrifice is worth it. After all that's said and done, we're all just walking each other home.

vanessa #10

men are the worst like you literally led me on and made me think that we were gonna have something??? then you got back with your ex and didn't tell me and now we don't talk??? lmao. hate my life. u suck.

MARCOTTE 11

Don't answer my text I wont answer ur death.

marcotte 9

Nothing makes me want to hang myself more than a chrome book. Why is there a search button where the caps lock should be? Why are they so slow? what sad, shameful, WASTE of a person invented these. they are full of sheesh.

Week 11 Flynn

Kinda really want summer, kinda really don't wanna take finals

Post #10: Rittika

My friend tried to convince me that she exhales helium instead of carbon dioxide... I told her to see a doctor. And invest in a science textbook.

Natasha #12

Straighten your back, dudemens.

Flynn week 10

My last good night's sleep was in the womb tbh. Thx homework :))

Flynn Week 9

Something that I have been learning a lot lately is that you really never know anyone's story. They may seem fine and happy in school, buy you honestly have no idea what's going on internally and at home for them. It's so so so important to be kind to people, sometimes it can even save lives.

Post #9 Natasha

A lady started complaining to a police officer when a somewhat disheveled man stood outside the building for too long. She tried to report that his presence offended her, but ultimately had no reason to really. It brings light to the notion that we're all programmed to fit people in our world, rather than accept them, i think

Post #8 Natasha

I spend a lot of time replicating animal language, it wastes a lot of time. But now I can have deep conversations with my neighbors cat (my dogs are too pretentious and judgmental to deal with). Y'all should try it.

marcott

i dated this boy and i wanted him to break up with me so I made a fake snapchat/fake text plus account and started harassing him. told him his gf (me) was cheating on him, and hated him and all this shiq- to try and get him to breakup with me. it didn't work. HE WAS GONNA GO TO ADMINISTRATION AND REPORT ME. (cause he thought there was someone out for him) I don't really know how to end this story. It's kinda just one of the many stupid things I've done. Oh the snap chat name was @ lover of Africa.

Flynn Week 8

When everyone and everything in this life fails you, take a nap.

Post #9: Rittika

Buzzfeed has just informed me that some Disney teeny-bopper has newly released "Genie in a Bottle"... And changed the words. BUT that's not the main issue. There are now hate comments on Christina's original version (they really should have mentioned that the Disney version was a cheap knockoff... or at least that it was a cover), saying that the teeny-bopper did it better... WHAT IS LIFE?

Also, for comparison purposes–
Teeny-Bopper Version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlLybox4To

Real Version: (which also has a way more epic dance sequence, btw.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIDWgqDBNXA

Post #8: Rittika

His acrimonious words broke me into pieces, like shards of colored glass from a once beautiful vase; how could I possibly love someone who didn't care for anyone but himself?

Gaby week 8

even though I am so excited to start college in the fall, there are a ton things I am going to miss about living at home.

vanessa post 6

i say "give me space"
you say "i still love you vanessa please respond"
...
"i'm really sorry vanessa can you please answer me"
...
"i didn't know that you wanted space sorry"

vanessa post 7

u gotta get over me fam
like really
stop texting me
please
i don't wanna talk

Post 7 Grace

I think more than anything, this year has taught me to be okay with loneliness. That may sound depressing but I think that it will be very useful in the future.

Cailin Week 7

I've narrowed down a simple bucket list for my entire life. Here it goes:

• Travel the world 
• Live in Australia
• Live in California
• Go on a mission trip
• Zip line through a rain forest
• Meet Lisa Kudrow

marcotte 7

instead of an alarm system for my future mansion I will just have 15 hairless cats to keep people out

Flynn Week 7

I'd rather have a few good friends than many fake friends, because four quarters makes more sense than 100 pennies.

rochon 7

my mom told me that since my sister will be in Alabama for our 18th birthday, that we could get our tattoos before the summer starts. I'm getting my tattoo early. The tattoo I've wanted for a whole year now was finally in sight. Best news I've heard in a while.

Post 7: Natasha

It's been hours since it replied. Had she gone too far with the last text? Is it losing interest in her? Are their conversations too mundane? Should she reply? Would back-to-back text be too desperate? 

What is she doing with her life, worrying about what it thinks?

Checking her phone for the umpteenth time, she expected a blank screen.

But there it was.

Arctan: lol, i fell asleep. (7 minutes)

cate 7

One time I called my mom "mrs Puff" by accident and I was so embarrassed that I didn't talk to her for 2 days

Post #7: Rittika

As I was typing up my story, Nickel began to rub my sweater. I looked at her aghast, and incredulously whispered, "Why are you rubbing me?" Nickel looked back at me, lost in thought. All of sudden, she said, "I like that you're breathing."

Later on, my other friend convinced me that Nickel only said this to get closer with my mother. She also told me to inform Nickel that she's ahead of her in the competition for my mom...

I love how my friends are only friends with me, as indirect means to get with my mother. Thanks guys. I love you too. ._.

Gaby week 7

There are only three more weeks until internship which is bittersweet, but mostly sweet.

Week 7~ Aine

"I just don't understand this giant, hairy, lumberjack of a man! He got up in them middle of the night yesterday and ate an entire block of cheese before going back to bed! Who does that?!?"

Week 7- Maya

Think if I just don't fill out all of my scholarship forms then I will still get money?

Post 7 Annie

My horoscope for next week says: "By weeks end, your infatuation with a certain someone will drive you to send them a love note. This is an adorable gesture, but you might not hear back right away." lol all of this is highly unlikely, but I'm interested to see how it's all gonna play out.

Post #7 - Maddie

I'm thankful that I have a comfy bed to sleep on, any type of food I want on my plate, and an open day ahead of me.

Week 6~ Aine

I have an undying hate for math. One day I'll be dead and gone and someone will mention math in the graveyard, and I'll have to come out of the ground and punch them for disturbing my peace.

vanessa post 5

it sucks because I've struggled to pass at least one class every single year and it seems like no matter how hard I try, I'm going to be in the same exact boat this year. I'm terrified that I'm not going to be able to go to a decent college far away from here.

rochon post 5

Wednesday 3/2/16
I already posted this on Instagram but it's an important day:
Today I am 1 year into recovery. Today I am 1 year clean of self-harm. 1 year full of perseverance. 1 year of happiness. I know it may not seem like much but this is honestly such an important day for me. To be completely honest I didn't even think I would make it to my senior year. But I'm so grateful that I made it here. I just want to thank everyone who has stuck by my side and told me that I belong in this world. Thank you for believing in me and loving me even when I could not love myself. It's been a tough road but I'm glad I'm still here. To everyone who has left through my struggle and through this past year: you can kiss my ass. I don't need you in my life anymore. Depression is a serious issue, affecting more people than you are even aware of. Please remember to be kind. It's okay to ask for help, you are not alone in this world, and there are people out there who love you. Darling you'll be okay.

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Natasha: Post 6

Maybe if you didn't run into the rapidly falling brick, you would be okay

post 4 Rochon

"It's not dealing with you. It's making sure my best buddy is okay and safe because I couldn't go through life without you by my side" - me to my friend 

Natasha Post 5

It's so cute when the weather notifications say 'Light showers'. You could imagine Westford going all bubbly and sudsy and pink like one of those scenes from Tom & Jerry. Lel Westford, u cute.

post 6 rochon

thought about life a lot, and how we are all destined for something, i guess it just takes longer for some people

marcotte 6

some woman had the audacity to say to me,"at least your pretty". i would've said back at least your smart but she didn't even seem to have that going for her sooooooooooOoooOoooO

Cailin Week 6

The moment I realized I watch too much friends was when I saw a picture of my best friend and thought it was Jennifer Anniston.

Post #6: Rittika

When I was trying to write a song last year, I wrote the line, "You're so darn nice..." Which is... fine, I guess, but I needed another line to finish the stanza. So I tried to find words that rhymed with nice, and ended up writing a song about rice... I recently came across this song again as I was google-drive surfing.

Rice, rice, rice
You make me feel nice, nice, nice
And you taste good with spice, spice, spice
And you entice, tice, tice

When you come up to me
Holding a big fat bowl of rice
I'm gonna take that bowl of rice
And marry you with lots of spice

Oh baby, it's rice, rice, rice
You make me feel nice, nice, nice
And you taste good with spice, spice, spice
And you've got no lice, lice, lice

My darling, when you got rice
No one else would suffice
Cause you break the ice
No need to roll the dice
Cause I love me some rice

Oh baby, it's rice, rice, rice
And it makes me feel nice, nice, nice
And you entice, tice, tice
Cause baby it's rice, rice, rice
And it's RICEEEEEEEEEE!!!! OWWWWWW!

cate 6

Date ideas:
- chess
- go to a cemetery and make up lives for the dead people
- pie eating contest
- interpretive dance
- jousting
- drive to friends' houses and ask to use their bathroom
- pretend to be amish

week 6 ML

Picture this. One day you wake up and realize that the person you built your whole life around and the one person that truly loves you doesn’t feel that way anymore. Someone who makes you feel like you never have before, so incredibly special and unique, and as though no one in the universe compares to you. Someone who you have spent so much countless time and effort on suddenly just slipping away from you. Imagine that.

Week 6- Maya

I re-watched Peter Pan at the Luna theater this weekend. How did nobody realize how racist that movie is? Enjoyable, yet highly offensive.

Later, I went home and broke out my rollerblades. I wasn't flying like Peter, but I still had a blast.

Overall, it was a very good Sunday.

post 6 vanessa

my sister found out Dr.Phil doesn't support Bernie Sanders and she just texted me "god dammit Dr.Phil. I loved you. You hear me I loved you."

Natasha Post 4

Me: Why don't you come to any of my swim meets?

Father: Why did you fail middle school?

Me:...

marcotte 5

having a yard sale soon. will be selling t shirts, sweatshirts, and sweatpants I have stolen from boys. Gonna get rich.

Cailin Week 5

Every once and a while I say something or do something that so accurately resembles Pheobe from friends and I think I'm okay with that.

Flynn Week 6

A girl and her bed on a Sunday: An Endless Love Affair, written by yours truly.

week 5 ML

my sisters boyfriend is a cop and last night he pulled me over as a joke and I actually started crying. what's gonna happen when I'm really getting pulled over?

Post 6 Grace

If you're wondering how my evening is going, know that I am currently running my hand under cold water because I was making ramen and overshot it when I tried to pour the boiling water into the cup.

Gaby week 6

My parents tried to take away my car, but then they realized that they would have to drive me everywhere. That didn't last long.

Week 4 ML

“It’s the oldest story in the world. One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And that someday is yesterday. And this is your life”

Flynn Week 5

Some days I want to delete all of my social media, other days I obsess over the amount of likes that I get.

Post 5 Grace

Dates come so slowly when you're eagerly awaiting them but so quickly when you're putting them off.

cate 5

This comedian I like lives 20 minutes away in Stow. I've been driving around trying to find him. One day, Chris. One day.

Week 5~ Aine

It takes me far longer than it should for me to realize that I am drowning.

Flynn Week 4

I hate hypocrites. But if you ask me, I love them.

Post 6 Annie

We live in a world where there are staples but also staple removers. It's scary knowing that something that is supposed to be secure, can be removed so easily.

Post #6 - Maddie

I was used to loneliness when I didn't have a puppy. Then when I had her I couldn't remember what loneliness felt like. Now that she's gone, loneliness is the only emotion I feel.

cate 4

I had a hot fudge sundae iced coffee and it was the best thing I've ever tasted but it was filled with chocolate so surprise surprise i still hate myself

Week 5- Maya

If you stay at Panera for four hours, the manager will give you dirty looks.

Gaby week 5

Can we all go back to first grade where nothing was stressful, please?

Post 5 Annie

A 12 year old girl told me she had my first kiss and I got really upset for some reason. I've known her since she was a baby and the realization that she was growing up hit me. I suddenly knew what it was like to be a mother. Sorry Mom.

Post #5: Rittika

F = friend
R = Rittika
PSNTU = Person Sitting Next To Us
PTWIWDP = Person That Walks In Who Doesn't Program

Programming Joke (One Month Ago, in the programming classroom, last block):
(R and F are listening to Eminem as they are coding
F: Hey, don't you think Eminem's a great WRAPPER?
R: Definitely. But I'm not sure if he's an INTEGER or a DOUBLE though.
F: One thing's for sure– he's got a lot of CHARACTER.
PSNTU: Stop. Really. Please stop. It's too early for this...

Programming Joke (Reenacted in AP Chemistry, on a lab day):
F: I stayed up until 2:00 AM, and I'm not even tired!
R: Oh, you poor deluded sleepy person.
F: Don't you mean diluted? ;-)
R: Isn't Eminem a great WRAPPER?
(PTWIWDP walks into the chemistry classroom.)
PTWIWDP: (with enthusiasm) OH MY GOD YES HE'S THE BEST!
(R bursts into hysterics and PTWIWDP stares at R like she's a lunatic. Probably because she is. She's banging F's desk, and F is confused because she didn't hear what PTWIWDP said, so she thinks that R is crazy as well.)
F: It's not that funny, Rittika...
(PSNTU is in the class before R and F's, and looks at them like they're big time nerds, and this is all they do– rehash terrible programming jokes. To be fair, that's not too much of a stretch from the truth...)

Post #5 - Maddie

When I really think about it, my mom helped me grow so much. She was the only one there for me for as long as I have lived. I love her so much.

Post #4 - Maddie

Anything that has a heartbeat deserves respect.

Post 4 Cailin

The return of Full House got me feelin some type of way.

Week 4~ Aine

"Why do you have a garden of only poisonous plants?" "Oh, you know. Just in case."

post #4 vanessa

waiting on a decision that could drastically change your life in a horrible way is way more stressful than I ever thought possible

(update: the results were the ones I didn't want (: (: great (: )

Post #4: Rittika

As I was reminiscing with my friends the other day, I found this beautiful little seventh grade ditty:

*with a fake ukelele playing in the background*
*sung using a terrible country accent*

I was standing by my stand
With my rock band
We ate some pork pie
And lost a single eye
A guy came up to me
And he began to plead
"Can I have some sprinkles?"
I said, "Sure, but after I tinkle"
He looked at me all strange
And I felt so ashamed
And humiliated...

I have very mixed emotions about this.

Post 4 Annie

I recently saw a picture of an obese dog lying on the ground, sleeping, and the caption said "im pretending to be bread." It made me think, what if every time we went to sleep we were just being a loaf of bread baking in an oven we call our bed.

Post 4 Grace

The concept of youth is really strange. I feel like a real person but young people are looked at as almost lesser. Now I am finally being handed a ton of responsibility but I have been conditioned to believe that I won't be able to deal with it.

Week 4- Maya

I'm glad somebody informed me that if I think free college is a good idea, then I can go live in "Nazi Germany."

Flynn week 3

I am currently in the Dominican Republic and am amazed with the people here. Everyone is constantly happy and willing to help. I think that although the US is such a dominant country, we could really use the Dominican and other lower class places as examples, for the people truly appreciate life and have such a positive outlook. 

vanessa post 3

Nessa's Tour of the House

Post #3: Rittika

I can't believe it... I finally found it. I found elephant burlesque! Wait, let me back up to about a month ago.

I was listening to "Feeling Good" (the Michael Buble version) with my good friend, and when the "smooth jazz" came in, she exclaimed, "This is my favorite part, because it sounds exactly like elephant circus music." I cringed at her innocence, and rebuked, "I hate to break it to you, but I'm pretty sure this is kinda like stripper music." She was still adamant, so I decided to take the case to an unbiased party– my bus buddy.

I commented on how we were debating on whether the smooth jazz in the song was stripper music or elephant music. Of course, my bus buddy was of no help, and thought it was actually a combination of both– classy elephant stripper music. Thus, elephant burlesque was born.

Recently, I watched Aladdin (because really, everybody loves Disney), and I had "Friend Like Me" stuck in my head, so my bus buddy and I decided to watch the video. Towards the end, we saw the yellow dancing elephants, and we both simultaneously exclaimed, "ELEPHANT BURLESQUE!" I'm pretty sure half of my bus thinks we're bonkers, but it was pretty satisfying to finally find what we were looking for.

Also, on a completely different note: I'm often concerned with my own (and my friends') mental sanity.

Post 3 Annie

Its possible to miss even the most obnoxious people. As the unfamiliar silence envelopes you and the days go on without a hitch. You start to realize just how much of your day that person was once part of. And maybe the petty chatter and constant bother wasn't so bad after all.

Week 3 - ML

The little things make me so so mad

rochon 3

life is going to throw rocks at you and tell you not to grow, but we will continue to grow, and once we get hit with a rock we will grow even stronger

Cailin Week 3

Walking down the Venice Beach board-walk today I saw a man had set up a booth with a sign that said, "Need Advice? Ask a Satanist!" Seeing this booth caught me by surprise but what shocked me the most was the line of people wanting to ask this guy for advice.

Gaby week 3

My mom showed my boyfriend pictures of me during my first trip to Disney World, why he is still with me I will never know.

Cailin Week 2

Each person who has ever existed and will ever exist perceives the world in a completely unique way. It is important to enjoy your personal experience with out comparing it to others'.

Post 3 Grace

I think I may have decided where I want to go to college next year but this comes with a lot of doubt because last week I had my heart set on somewhere else. I don't know how to predict what will be best for me.

cate #3

What if objects could sweat?

Marcotte 3

babies are so creepy they are a sack of mini organs

Week 3 Maya

I'm in the midst of choosing where I spend the next four years of my life, and yet my only comment was on the quality of the food in the dining hall.

Week 3~ Aine

It occurred to him that his friends seemed to come over more often to see his dog, than to see him.

Cate week 2

When the Jonas Brothers grow up and have families they should be called the Jonas Dads.

Post #3 - Maddie

I really dislike people who think they are better than others. You can be better at skiing than somebody, but no one is entirely, overall, better than someone else. It’s just not possible. Humans are humans. We shouldn’t be competing over who is better.

Gaby- Post 2

I was craving peanut butter and ate way too much.

week 2 marcotte

honey mustard

on my pants

my demise

Week 2: Aine

The pastor of the church was a kindly man who had held his position for many long years. From this he had gained a great deal of knowledge concerning religion of the Christian variety. So, when the fateful day came where his parish baptized its 666th member, who knew exactly what he had to do.

Citizens claimed to have seen him running out of town shouting "You'll never take me alive Satan! I know your games!"

I have such love/hate relationship with New England and its weather. When its hot, I want the cold, and when its cold, I want the heat.

Post #2: Rittika

Just watched Aladdin for the billionth time, and I fall in love with him more and more every single time. Ugh, why do I always fall for fictional characters?

Post 2 Vanessa

Today, February 7th, it's been 4 years since the first time I met you. One and a half of those years have been spent without you, and 14 months of them you've been buried. People always say you're in a better place, but I can't help but wish I was there with you. Maybe I wouldn't feel so dead if you were alive.

Post 2

I'm still trying to be okay with the fact that people are going to leave. People will delete themselves from your life. You might think of them as skyscrapers, but to them you're just a puddle on the street.

Post 2; Natasha

Thomas Paine: 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Me: lol, u wild. wyd.

Post #2 - Maddie

Likes are stupid. Why do most people feel the need to have at least one hundred likes? I don't think those one hundred people love you as much as you should love yourself.

Post #2 - ML

I came home from getting dinner with my friends last night, and I was suddenly overwhelmed by the amount of homework I had to do.  I said to myself “I shouldn’t have gone out tonight.” Once I finally finished my homework I stayed up on my phone texting. It struck me how exhausted I would be the next morning, when it came to my realization that it was past midnight. But then I thought to myself “When I’m 35 and I lay in bed next to my husband at eight o’clock every night I will be glad for all the nights I stayed up late saying the things worth saying”.

Post #2 Maya

I went for a run during the storm, but I was too afraid to run on the road so I just did laps around my neighborhood. There was another man outside walking his dog. I thought he was crazy for being out in the snow, but then I realized that would make me crazy too.

Post 2 Annie

 The prettiest of clouds follow the worst of storms.
As if Mother Nature is trying to teach us something.

Post 2 Grace

Is it bad that my current career aspirations may be influenced by my recent interest in a medical TV show?

Post #1 - Cailin

Salvador the seasonal salamander salivates for seasoned salad.

Post #1 Vanessa

The other my boyfriend gave me a rose when he picked me up from work. I thought about how when you pick a flower, it dies. Roses are supposed to be a symbol of love, but my rose is dying after only a few days. Flowers are beautiful and can bring you joy, and you just ruin it in such a short time. The death of that flower is on your hands, and who gives you the right to destroy something like that? If roses are something to show love, I guess love doesn't have much longevity.

Post #1 Maya

90 minutes seems like a lifetime when you spend it skiing uphill, yet it goes by in a flash when you're watching Wet Hot American Summer. 

Post #1: Natasha

It's...disgusting, how many privileged bigots get away with comments like that. Especially on a daily basis. You'd assume as educators they would condemn that sort of behavior as soon as it occurred. Don't just look away, look at them. Look at yourself. The world is constantly evolving-. I don't need to explain myself. You have been raised in a multicultural society where self segregation is inevitable but working together is as well. What the hell.

Post #1: Rittika

I saw a post online about how Trump is just as bad as Voldemort... That got me thinking, because I never thought anyone could be as bad as He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named or Maleficent, etc.  Because the villains (especially in fantasy or science fiction) are always so blood-chillingly bad, that it's difficult to relate. But what if, what if there are people out there JUST AS BAD AS, or maybe even WORSE than these villains? Maybe I've just been living in this small safety bubble, and I haven't truly ever seen the "bad" in this world. Makes me wonder, what if we're a story with 10% book villains, and 0% book heroes? No one is as good, perfect, and selfless as Harry Potter, or Percy Jackson (though if I close my eyes, sometimes I can delude myself into believing that he's real). It's a losing battle. Maybe that's why the world can never stay in peace– there's no true hero to defeat all of the bad guys.

Post #1 Gaby

I am currently taking playwriting class this semester as well as creative writing. I know, it's a lot of writing but ever since middle school I have loved to write.  The other day in playwriting we were reading peoples work and one play in particular stood out to me. The play was about a woman who got her dream job and it wan't what she thought it would be. I saw a deeper meaning because now that I am trying to figure out a college major I have been reflecting on how many times my "dream job" has changed.

Post #1 Lauren

While walking down Newbury Street in Boston last night I thought to myself; "Imagine if everything you owned could fit into a single shopping cart."

Post 1 Grace

I have been thinking a lot about the concept of money and how everyone's lives revolve around it. Money runs our society now but at one point it didn't even exist. It was created purely to limit the selfishness of humans. That seems really messed up but maybe being selfish is the only way to survive.

Post #1 - Lawlor

I’m not too good at this writing thing. I can’t come up with ideas. What could I possibly write about and elaborate on that could come even close to comparing with everyone else’s work? I know one thing though. At the bottom of every entry I am going to sign it with “Sincerely” and then emotion I’m feeling after it.

Sincerely, Frustration

Aine Week 1

The honor of a dwarf is unshakeable! None would ever sink so low as to cheat an honest challenge! Well.... except at cards.

Post #1 - Maddie

All open book people still have secrets, you just have to read them.

post # 1 rochon

i need to learn to let go of the people who don't care if I wake up in the morning, and the people who don't answer my how are you's? And my check ins to see how there life is going. They don't deserve me in their lives. I'm trying to be okay with that.

Post 1 Annie

I always seem to be hungry. It makes me wonder if maybe I'm not just craving food, but wishing for more in life than what I have now.

post #1 - cate

When I was four years old my mom took me to a swamp and I took home a snapping turtle without her knowing. It lived in my underwear drawer for a week before she discovered it. I wonder what happened to that turtle.

Post #1 Marcotte

I think I have a better chance of getting into prison than college :)

Week 14

I recently found out that my six times great-grandfather is buried in the catacombs in Paris. That's really cool and I feel like that would be sort of fun to visit but if you get lost you're hella dead.

Week 13

Nobody is ever neutral about my self-depricating humor.They either think that it's really funny and respond with something even more self-depricating or they look very concerned and say "That's really not funny you need help." Both are valid I guess.

Brooks Post 15

It's sad how money completely rules this world. Here we are, supposedly the smartestbeings on the planet, and our lives are ruled by little pieces of paper. Are we really the smartest?

Donaher post #last one

I told a pun to a person who hates puns and she said that she'll kill me. I've never felt so proud of myself in my life.

Nelson 15

I was driving down the road, thinking about how much I hate winter and cold weather, when I saw an older man wearing only worn out jeans, sneakers, and a jacket walking to the grocery store in the blistering cold. It is unbelievable how lucky we can be without appreciating it.

Mathews 15

I noticed that I have become really tired. Not like sleepy tired, but just tired of pretty much everything. Maybe it’s because I used up all of my energy in my freshman and sophomore year, when I was really jumpy and probably annoying. Now I am in a state of constantly wanting to sleep or lie down and not do anything for days. It’s gotten to the point where someone will do something like tell me a legitimately funny joke and I will say “Haha that is funny my dude” and then want to sleep for three days straight because of that one event. I wonder if this level of exhaustion is too much.

Jain 15

Was brushing my teeth when I realized a lady bug fell into the water. I stopped and tried to get it out, but it was already swept into the drain. Made me think about how a person close to another person doesn't realize they are in trouble until it is too late. 

Madie 15

My sister dies and I'm upset, but then I wake up and am okay because I realize it was all a dream.
My sister dies in real life and yet I feel the same way, only after I die.

Victoria Lee Post 15

We are all capable of enormous resilience. Being yourself is definitely not easy, even though it should be. You are you. How difficult is that? But what I'm finding out more and more is that we all have to fight to be who we are. Whether you're struggling with expectations from others or with expectations from yourself, or whether life has made you reconsider exactly who you are, we are constantly battling for our true identities. Which is really amazing, because life only seems to try and wreck that identity more and more as you grow older: we get jealous of who other people are and want that for ourselves, an overwhelming expectation can get the better of us, we may have to give up who we are for the need to survive or for the better of others. It always gets tougher to fight for who you are, and we all know that, and yet somehow, we keep fighting. We keep ourselves intact and continue forward, never giving up on who we are. We are all capable of enormous resilience. I think you should credit yourself for that.

Kristen Post 15

A disorganized thought that might turn into a story:
A small town in the woods that seems not to exist in the real world, simply a part of a timeless sense of tranquility. The trees seem more alive than anywhere else, and the people who live in ivy draped cottages smile at each other as they pass on the street. Is it possible to live suspended out of time?

Gregg 15

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”

Cianciolo Week 15

Does stuff just go on infinitely? At one point we had no idea atoms existed. Then we knew atoms existed but not that protons did. Now we believe protons are made up of quarks. But what makes up that? We soon find out that everything is made of these tiny particles with mostly empty space in between, yet they form everything we see and feel. This stuff is pretty interesting.

Madie 14

Once you punish a kid for honesty, they begin to lie.

Victoria Lee Post 14

It's very scary, how people need to lose something important to them in order to change their perspectives or beliefs. Thousands had to die in order for slaves to have a basic right: their freedom, a concept that really shouldn't be hard to grasp. It's scary how strongly we hold to our beliefs, and how we refuse to accept all else.

Hackley 15

• People always complain that there aren't enough hours in the day. Well even if there were more hours we would probably waste them and then complain again.

Sydney Kim Post 15

"Used to dream of outer space, but now they're laughing at our face, saying 'Wake up, you need to make money.'"

-Twenty One Pilots

Why can't we make money as Astronauts?

O'Neal Post 15

Man is still savage in nature. We just have more sophisticated ways of killing and more polite ways of talking about it.

Victoria Lee Post 13

Good intentions aren't always the best way to go about others' lives. Sometimes, your good intentions just don't fit what other people need at the moment.

Nelson 14

I got a fortune cookie that simply said "Don't panic." Easier said than done fortune cookie gods.