College Chronicles

I signed up to receive free care packages from my high school, and completely forgot. The first one came in the mail today; of course it’s just some small stuff, but I was still surprised. There was a mesh laundry bag, some candy, hot cocoa packet, popcorn packet, emergen-c packets, and a hand-written card from my 12th grade Bible teacher. I hope they do this for my entire freshman year of college- it was such a neat surprise!

Today in English a fight broke out between some white kid in my class and a Hawaiian guy. It started over something really trivial, but eventually it escalated until the white kid had the nerve to blurt out a slur against him.

I expected my (also white) teacher to just scold him briefly and move on, but to my (pleasant) surprise she got on a long-winded rant about racism and sent that kid straight to the office.

I love how my English teacher is constantly talking about how we in fact don’t live in a post-racist society, and if you think we do, then you’re completely ignorant. 

Call me a cynic but I can’t and won’t take jr. high/high school relationships seriously.

1) You’re probably going to break up in the next week.

2) You’re going to end up going to different colleges unless you both have the same college you want to go to (which is rare but rad).

3) Even then, when you get out in the real world things are hella different (not to mention how they think high school is like the center of their world like surprise this is literally only 4 years of the 70 you have on this earth).

4) Your hormones are running around like they just had 10 shots of caffeine. How you feel now will change.

5) When you’re a teen, you usually fall in love with the idea of being in love. I’ve seen my friends date a bunch of people that don’t even have that much in common with them and OH SURPRISE THEY BROKE UP AFTER A COUPLE MONTHS IF EVEN THAT.

6) You’re like 14. What the hell. In comparison to your whole life, you’re still like an embryo.

7) People who obsess over “OMG LOVE CRUSHES GAH” usually end up having their grades suffer over it. Get your head in the game. College is more important than who you’re going to the fall ball with.

8) You’ve been dating for like a month, you’re not in love. They’re not your soulmate. Pipe down.

9) People expect to meet this great wonderful guy in high school. But newsflash: literally 80% of guys in high school are assholes/not mature/honestly just wait like 10 years you could do so much better. Same goes for girls in high school. I know what you do. Again, hormones make everyone an angsty bitch. Not the time for relationships.

I’m stopping here for now.