Live to Tell the Tale

Day 13: Favorite group project

There was this one English project freshman year where we had to make Romeo-and-Juliet-esque skits. I was in a group with Andrew Tran, Sean Lee, Alex Eager, and Nicholas Chung. Andrew wrote the entire script by himself - thank you Andrew :D - giving it a bug-project spin, and it was great. I still have it in a folder in my email LOL. I’ll never forget how Alex slapped Andrew right across the face and everyone’s shocked reaction to it. That was a completely feel-good project during a pretty feel-good year, so it makes it onto my list of favorites.

The Spanish video projects from last year and this year were also tons of fun. Despite the amount of effort they took and the time they consumed, I got to work with fun people and always had a great time filming.

# 30 Day Senior Challenge

# Day 13

Day 12: Hardest you ever legitimately studied

The class that I tried the hardest in was probably Honors Biology, second semester. After getting like D’s on the first couple tests, Alan’s mom introduced me to Chavez, a current AP Bio teacher who taught regular at the time. I started joining Alan’s tutoring sessions with Chavez just before first semester ended. She was a great tutor, managing to encompass multiple months’ worth of material into just a few hours, while making it interesting and easy to understand. For the first time, I actually felt like I understood the content. With new-found motivation, I legitly studied my ass off second semester and got an A in the class. Honors Bio wasn’t even challenging anymore. It’s so much easier to learn when you’re actually enjoying yourself.

# 30 Day Senior Challenge

# Day 12

I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now: More words dedicated to people who will never dedicate a single thing to me.

Thought Catalog (Charlotte Green)

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dead-end-generation:

So I got sent to the dean today for wearing this top. My study tech teacher said that I was “exploiting” myself and that it could be a distraction to the other students. I got up out of my seat and told her that I wasn’t going to listen to her dress codes. In a way, she was being misogynist and slut shaming and I think that’s wrong. I will continue to wear what I want and nobody can tell me not to. The fact that womens bodies are sexualized and objectified so much angers me and that’s the reason why this happened. I’m going to wear what I want, how I want, when I want and that’s it.

I was there, reblog the shit out of this guys

I’m a guy. I can’t wear a shirt like this either, even though I’m not going to be wearing a bra. it’s dress code. It’s not slut shaming. You can’t show your bra like that at most jobs. why should you at school? Yes sexism is wrong and all that, but you can’t get ‘angry at the patriarchy” because you can’t show your undergarments in public. I’m not going to wear jeans with a rip in the side or the front that show off my flowery boxers, because that’s just not appropriate for school. Have some professionalism. You can wear whatever you like at home or with your friends or whatever, yes, but school prepares you for real life.

At work you can’t have this attitude of “I wear the fuck ever I want.” and expect to keep your job. School is the same way because it’s trying to teach you that lesson. That’s unrealistic; almost any job you get is going to have someone tell you what to wear or what to do because you work for them and you represent their company. If you don’t look the way they need you to look, that makes them look bad. A tattoo parlor probably isn’t going to hire someone who dresses like a nun and a top company isn’t going to hire someone who comes to work in a tank top that shows off her bra or a guy that shows off his ballsack.

You can’t blame patriarchy for this, I’m sorry. You can’t blame sexism for this. If I wore booty shorts and you could almost see my balls through my semi transparent flowery goddamn boxers, I would get in the same amount of trouble as you, and it’s within good reason.