Dear Vicky, One of the drawbacks of such a small class size is that you have a limited pool of peers to be influenced by, to draw inspiration from and to compare yourself with.
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18 Truths I Learned By 18 Years Old
1. You don’t understand someone’s struggle until it has happened to you. Even then, all you have is one personal account. One page of writing, a roll of film, a 7:21 video, even a blog post isn’t sufficient to explain the experience. You could fill a book with thoughts. 2. Some life pursuits are stumps.Continue reading “18 Truths I Learned By 18 Years Old”
To My Sister, On Her First Day of Sophomore Year
soph·o·mor·ic: adjective: having or showing a lack of emotional maturity: foolish and immature What a hopeful outlook society has adopted for a high school student’s second year of high school! Before year 9 you won’t take this advice very seriously because you won’t really know what I’m talking about. Every year you’ll read this letter againContinue reading “To My Sister, On Her First Day of Sophomore Year”
Get Cultured With Me: Summer Reading 2.0
I’m going to read a bunch of books this summer, and I intend to blog about as many as I possibly can. Think not so much full-length literary reviews, but rather, reflections and personal revelations that arrive as actions progress, characters develop, and plots thicken. It’s like summer reading, but I’m in charge of theContinue reading “Get Cultured With Me: Summer Reading 2.0”
Guest Post: Departure
It feels like just days ago I was a timid little kid, fresh, green, young, inexperienced,taking my first steps through these unfamiliar halls,cowering in the shadows of the seasoned veterans.These gates seemed so high and imposing,walls like a prison, thick, sturdy, inescapable.The faces I saw and voices I heard as I trudged alonggrew dull andContinue reading “Guest Post: Departure”
Guest Post: A Little Too Much
Being the horribly nosy person that I am, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation the other day in my school hallway. Two girls were standing in the middle of the hallway, making everything suck for everyone else. They were loudly discussing the pointlessness of the classes we had to take and the triviality ofContinue reading “Guest Post: A Little Too Much”
Seven Final Thoughts about Senior Year (Graduation Edition)
One final blog post about senior year and graduating, I promise. 1) I think I have finally figured out why the college process can induce so much stress. The essence of college admissions is comparison, the root of all unhappiness. Without comparing students to one another, colleges wouldn’t be able to coherently choose candidates for admission,Continue reading “Seven Final Thoughts about Senior Year (Graduation Edition)”
Guest Posts Rock, and You Should Consider Submitting One
Guest posts are magical, and if you check out the ones that I have already posted on this blog under “Other Voices,” you might understand why. Never Stationary is just my tiny slice of the huge internet pie; the gathering of people sharing their opinions is replicated constantly, and all over this terrain. New blogsContinue reading “Guest Posts Rock, and You Should Consider Submitting One”
Frozen is Proof of Disney’s Emergence into the 21st Century
So many reviews have been written on Disney’s Frozen that I don’t think an ordinary movie review by myself would contribute much of significance, especially since said reviews touch on movie-related concepts of which I only have a rudimentary understanding. I’ll talk about this movie from the point of view of a normal high school studentContinue reading “Frozen is Proof of Disney’s Emergence into the 21st Century”
My Race Is a Tattoo
This is a guest post written for Afro Girl Talks. Read the original here. Your race is a permanent tattoo that people can see from far away, and before they’ve seen the whites of your eyes, they’ve started to identify you. When though, do they start to make something of it? When I was in pre-school,Continue reading “My Race Is a Tattoo”
Cat Zhang 