Students criticize, complain about, and degrade teachers incessantly. We are always talking about how they take too long to grade our papers, assign us too much homework, and seemingly plot against us...
If you give a mouse a cookie, he’ll want a glass of milk. In a similarly greedy fashion, if you give students finals before winter break, they’ll want half-days. The only difference in these two scenarios...
I like to think that I am a nice person. Whether or not this is true, I’ll never know. But in the past few days, let’s be honest, in the past few weeks, I have found myself taking everything I have...
I don’t love Christmas.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against it, but I don’t tend to get that warm and fuzzy feeling because it’s twenty degrees outside and I suddenly owe every person...
Students were in a panic. Everywhere I looked, confusion and alarm was seen on the faces in the cafeteria. I was no different- my disappointment was mixed with fear for the unknown future- what were we...
You walk into class, and it's the middle of the day, just after lunch. You're tired, and to be honest, you really don't want to do anything. You're thrilled to see that the teacher’s not there. After...
Sixth period (APUSH) was my favorite class of the day junior year.
Maybe it is because I love history. Maybe it is because that meant I only had two classes left of the day.
But probably, it is because...
National elections dominate the media, social networking, and conversational hype. Support for particular candidates is seen across the nation with yard signs, car decals, shirts, billboards, commercials,...
Life without noise; the account of a twitterless high schooler.
Hashtags, subtweets, retweets, mentions, following (or stalking); it’s all foreign to me. Still stuck in the good ol’ days of Facebook,...
