[Read more…] about Same Old FearsRunning over the same old ground, what have we found? Same old fears…
– Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
High School = High Pressure?
I go to a particularly competitive public high school, where anything short of an A is deemed “not good enough”, where students are constantly competing against one another, even if they’re unaware that they’re doing so. Everyone here is nothing short of amazing, and yet almost none of them believe so. Many have gaping holes in their development, holes where self-confidence and the ability to relax would usually be found.
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My Experience and Thoughts on The COVID-19 Pandemic
This situation hasn’t been going at all like I had expected…
When they announced the closure of our school, smack in the middle of the year, we all felt a sense of excitement and promise. I felt a slight prick of fear, but it was alleviated by my friends’ surprisingly optimistic reactions. We had been hearing about COVID-19, but our teen sense of invincibility made the topic seem like a foreign concept, something that would never even reach our little bubble in New Jersey.
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