Uncovering It All

           Over the past semester, I've written essays and blogs that perfectly encapsulate my raw ideas on a subject. Like, when I wrote about The Awakening  by Kate Chopin, I decided to share my opinions that literally no one asked for. Not only did the piece reflect my thoughts on it when I first read it, but it still does now. And my other blog about trauma and how it impacts college apps. And the other about Othello sucking as a person. And, as I scroll back to the rest of my past blogs, I still agree with what I've written in almost all of my pieces. It's definitely a little crazy thinking about it, because I always feel completely different when I look back on last year. Hell, I feel like a new person after a week. But, seeing all of my ideas through the past half year and beyond has shown me that while I continue to keep growing physically and emotionally, my opinions continue to stay the exact same: is it because I'm actually always right...

When I was first introduced to school at the old age of four, my mom told me three things: one, that I have to go even when I don’t want to; two, that if she got a call from the school nurse during the middle of the school day and had to come pick me up only to find out I was faking, she would be pissed (having previously learned from my two older siblings); and three, objectively the most important of all, that school would prepare us for the real world - though I would argue my mother’s anger still reigns supreme. And so, I walked into Kindergarten not knowing what hell I was getting myself into. Homework assignment after homework assignment, I’ve grown up alongside the developing school system believing that what I was learning would genuinely help me foster necessary skills for my future. Yet, the closer I get to graduating high school and entering college (thank god), the more I realize the school system failed me even more than my self-respect. Think about it, with all that’s g...