Caitlin- Week 5

School teaches us so many things that we never use in real life. It’s pretty frustrating sometimes. I wish we could learn real life skills and not useless formulas and facts. I also wish school was more about learning and making mistakes, and less about memorization. School feels like it’s just about passing the class and not about learning. I’ve left some classes at the end of the year and thought to myself, what did I even learn? All I remember is figuring out how to get the grade and move on. I wish school was less focused on just the grade, and more about actually learning and taking something away from it. 

Athena - Week 5

So I bought heels for cotillion. The thing is, I’m smart, I know that heels will hurt my feet and I will end up barefoot, but a part of me was just like, I need to have heels. So I bought some, knowing full-well that I am going to regret it. I think I’m crazy.

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It's scary how fast high school has gone by. Everyone told me that it would feel like no time at all, but I didn't believe them until senior year. I'm glad I'm almost done with school, but I also have regrets about not spending more time with my friends and giving up all my time to school. I'm trying to make up for it now, but I worry that I don't have enough time.

Week Five

I love Rex Orange County. My favorite song of his 'Never Had the Balls'. All his songs just hit me every time and I feel like I can hear his emotion in them, this is the first celebrity I have ever idolized. I think It’s super strange when people obsess over ‘famous’ people, although, on a much smaller level I can relate just a little bit now. 

Aastha - Week 5

When I was younger, I thought that feeling pain so another wouldn't have to was one of the noblest things a person could do. Bollywood movies taught me that. I imagined the picture-perfect couple brought together by pain. Now the world seems more complicated. I don't want anybody to feel pain. I don't think partners would feel any good at their partner's pain. But now, now I don't understand the meaning of being noble and if putting yourself in harm is noble in all cases. Or if it's just stupid. 

Lea Mezz - Week 5

Everyone knows that college students love to party. Most know that a lot of times adults are not interested in parting anymore. Adults want to have kids and settle down (sometimes). Kids want to have fun and don’t want there to be any consequences for their actions. It amazes me how with age the mind grows and changes over time to want different things. Obviously in some rare cases their is an outlier but for most part within the different periods of our lives we all usually want the same thing. 

Week 5

This weekend I was with the side of my family we rarely see.  It was for my little cousin's birthday party. It was really nice to see everyone that I don't really see. My older cousin just got back from London and I didn't even know she went! Except after seeing everyone me and my cousins made a plan to go visit my other cousin that could not come to the party. It was really nice to see everyone.

Week 5

I was at Market Basket yesterday and my mom told me to try not to touch my face and that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to wash our hands when we got home… just to be safe. I was thinking about the effects of the virus and the high mortality rate for elderly people. Not that the government would do this, but if they did somehow totally accidentally spread corona to reduce the growing elderly population, their plan has been quite successful. With all the medical advancements being made, the life expectancy rate in America is getting higher and higher, so there’s a lot of elderlies that are living much longer than anticipated which is greatly contributing to overpopulation. All I’m saying is it’s quite cOnVeNienT that a virus that doesn’t kill most of the population except for older people popped up out of nowhere. Just an observation. 

Scott Week 5

While playing Dead by Daylight I understood that the game represents our oppressive economy as one big fish is coming to kill the rest of the smaller fish.

The other day in reflection myself, my relationships, and my future, I jotted down three rules I can hope to live by, what I decided was most important for my actions and attitude towards life was, to 1). Never be late, 2). Money is meant to be spent, and is not everything 3). Always be able to laugh at tough times. Although cliche I do value these and I hope I can improve upon many things as a person.

Cole - Week 4

People need to stop expecting the passionate stories they're looking for to come from corporations that only care about making a quick buck and pleasing their shareholders, and instead indulge in and promote the work of their peers.

Week 3

“Just do your best” people say. What exactly is your best? This week has been really rough and I’ve felt so weighed down but I feel like I’ve been doing everything I can. Honestly though, I’m sure I could have done a bit more. What is someone’s best? Everyone can always do a little better, unless they’ve pushed themselves to the edge and are prepared to jump off. Isn’t your best technically your breaking point? Is that what someone wants you to get to when they say to do your best?

Week 2

Something I noticed in France that I’d never really experienced anywhere else was the bluntness of the French. When I told the mom I liked eggs for breakfast she replied with absolutely no filter: What??? Eggs??? Pfff no no no…

Lea Mezz - Week 4

I love learning how I can get away with doing things that others around me never could. I find usually that if you act like you are doing nothing wrong, no one will ever question you. Dress the part, look the part and act the part. Most of the time it works. And just it case it doesn’t, always have an exit strategy. Always be asking yourself, if this doesn’t work out in my favor what am I going to do and are the potential consequences worth the potential reward. Life is a balancing test.

Aastha - Week 4

The brain is a truly amazing and terrifying thing. It makes us who we are yet it is the only one who knows our greatest fear and our greatest weakness. I don’t like horror movies. Not because of the scary things within the movie itself. But the convoluted scenarios my brain creates after watching such things. Jump scares aren’t terrible but the things my brain creates are terrifying. 

Week 4

My mom gave me some really good advice the other day. Never say the words I assume. Apparently, my mom's first boss had given her a long angry lecture after she had used that word choice. It was random advice, but good advice too.

Week Four

When I got back from France, I noticed how different the French dressed from Americans. I didn't see a single pair of sweatpants the entire trip, unless I was looking at the Americans. Seriously. I wonder how American culture evolved into such a relaxed state.

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It always makes me sad when I buy a used book and see a message written inside the front cover from a person who gave it away as a gift. I wonder what caused the person to give the book away; if they grew distant from the person who gave it to them or it brought back bad memories for them. Maybe they never liked the gift and accepted it out of obligation only to discard it later.

Week 4

People are really fascinating, especially the way they interact. Since around seventh grade, it’s puzzled me, the concept of friendship. Like, when we’re young, we have friends because our parents decide that we should be friends because our parents are friends. But as we get older, sometimes, that is no longer enough. With personality changes and differing interests, what defines friendship? Now, the thing that most interests me, is that I have friends, really good friends, yet I still question what friendship is. Perhaps I have already found the answer, because are my friends still the ones from childhood? No, they are not, so perhaps I can rule out the time in which you have been friends. But on the other hand, if friendship is something commenced by something shared, then by that logic, my friends shouldn’t be my friends, because we have nothing in common. Furthermore, there is that whole saying of opposites attract, and so if that’s a quantifier for friendship or how it begins, then everything I know about friendship goes right out the window, and I’m right back to where I began, questioning: What is friendship? How does it begin? And if nothing changes, what makes it end?

Scott Week 4

A TSA lady told me, You got to have fun on this job, or something along those lines, and I feel like that's a good thing to live by, you can’t enjoy yourself unless you have a little fun.

Week 4 Caitlin G

“The goal isn’t to life forever. It’s to create something that will”. I think this is a very interesting concept, that is actually pretty accurate. No one can live forever, but those who are able to leave a lasting legacy and a positive influence on others are truly never forgotten. 

Week 4

I watched my step-siblings argue over who got to give their father’s 5 dollar bill to a performer in a restaurant a few days ago. Such gratuity can only be considered valuable if you give up your own money, otherwise it’s no longer a private message of appreciation and rather a public statement of your generosity. It disgusts me that some people in this world will only offer assistance when they know they’re being watched. Offering their hand to a man stuck in a ditch 5 meters deep when they have a rope 10 meters long, or giving spare change to the roadside performer on camera while the homeless mother in the alley starves.

Scott Week 3

They say good things can come from bad things but when my grandma died I didn’t see much. That was until it caused us as a whole family to get closer which ended up being a good thing out of this and whole situation