high school pressures
All your mother's talk to me
about how we can't videochat
because you must be in the top ten percent of your class
in order to get into any university
does nothing but makes me feel inadequate.
Because I am a close to straight-A student
a 3.8 student, weighted
and everybody else seems to be pushed into no lives and 5.0s.
And I am not in the top ten percent.
I gave that up in exchange for a life.
But a social life in high school, a life not involving pushing myself past my limits and endless caffeine pills...
at what cost?
Guidance counselors and parents have made me sure that due to my not-good-enough A average (!!!), and lack of funds, I'd be hardpressed to make it in somewhere I want to go, much less to get the scholarships I need.
My only chance, they say, is to bury myself in loans. Loans that will prevent me from dreams.
So I chose a social life. A life for a life.
But I'm tired of their cynicism. I'll get where I want to be. And I will get there without murdering my soul as violently as they suggest.
about how we can't videochat
because you must be in the top ten percent of your class
in order to get into any university
does nothing but makes me feel inadequate.
Because I am a close to straight-A student
a 3.8 student, weighted
and everybody else seems to be pushed into no lives and 5.0s.
And I am not in the top ten percent.
I gave that up in exchange for a life.
But a social life in high school, a life not involving pushing myself past my limits and endless caffeine pills...
at what cost?
Guidance counselors and parents have made me sure that due to my not-good-enough A average (!!!), and lack of funds, I'd be hardpressed to make it in somewhere I want to go, much less to get the scholarships I need.
My only chance, they say, is to bury myself in loans. Loans that will prevent me from dreams.
So I chose a social life. A life for a life.
But I'm tired of their cynicism. I'll get where I want to be. And I will get there without murdering my soul as violently as they suggest.