FreeSpirit2000 wrote:
I literally hated it. In K-8 I was an average student and as I got into high school, bullying got hectic, I got severly depressed and my grades started to slip. I have been in community college and now I have more self esteem and finally started to actually apply myself in my classes and am hoping to transfer to a 4 year college when the time comes.
true. very true. i felt the same way about being a student all my way into high school in east coast PA where people were homophobic even at a young age and of course there began that new bullying trend in which even the most straight and well meaning students, especially soft spoken, were pushed around the most and called gay. GAY. i'd like to know who in the world started that trend. maybe it was that line in the Nirvana song All Apologies ("what else can i say/everyone is gay)--or at least halfway through the heyday of the trend people learned to fight it through knowing the song, who knows. But anyway everyone hopefully catches my gist that it's hard to dodge that trend, with being called other names a problem itself alone.
and community college is my situation as well, which is only better because i moved back west for personal reasons but even though i'm not growing a quickly building friendship circle (rather it's pretty null) i am surviving. although i will admit that even if you have the most forgiving professors not every subject is easy to pass, and having manic depression which has affected me quite a bit is currently biting me at the back from not concentrating well in math, and also causing me to switch out of my graphic design major. everyone has a different story, but i'm sure most of ours have crossed paths in similarity in one way or another.
12 Feb 2011, 9:24 pm
