1. I am no longer in school BUT I will be re-enrolling in college again next year! I graduated high school in 2012. I would consider myself one of the "in-betweeners" maybe? Idk, maybe their is a different term? I played baseball and football my whole life until I destroyed my knee my freshman year but a lot of my friends were "popular" athletes. But I was also in marching band and that's where most of my life-long friends were made. I didn't have straight A's, but also never got below a C and also never studied for anything.
My favorite teacher was Mr. Bozeman. He is (and was 10 years ago) an old geezer that taught history. There was always a joke-but-probably-true-rumor that he went to Woodstock, he knew a lot about seemingly everything, spoke with a deep and calming ASMR-esque voice, and coached me in baseball for at least 5 or 6 of my little league years. As long as I had an A in his class, he seemingly allowed me to sleep in class. After a while, when someone had been sleeping for whatever he calculated as an "acceptable amount of time", he would stop talking about whatever he was talking about and would ask us a question to get our attention. He would say "Dallas, what did you eat for dinner with your family last night?" or "Do you wake yourself up in the mornings or do your parents? Why is that? Do they go to work before you wake up for school?" Basically, he would ask random, seemingly innocent questions to gain a better perspective of his student's home lives. He never raised his voice once, never showed impatience or anger, and I often heard stories of him forgiving missing assignments and curving test scores because of struggles in peoples home lives, often offering extra time or his famous "papers" that he would offer us to complete. He knew I was a huge Denver Broncos fan so when I completely forgot to bring in a homework assignment, he told me to write a one page paper about the current state of the Broncos and what I would do to improve them as a team. Again, these papers would be based on his understanding of us and always trying to be personable with us.
2. I still play NCAA 14, although it's not "bad" by any means, it can be considered very bad by today's standards. They are finally rebooting NCAA football next year though! I also play a lot of Tarkov, which has been in Beta for like 6 years or something? You can throw Smite in there too, not necessarily a bad game but definitely a toxic community.
3. There is a chance I may have.
4. My favorite song changes so much. I'll admit, I have a very mainstream taste in music, but I listen to pretty much anything. For the longest time my favorite artists were Drake (Take Care era) and Luke Bryan. Then I had my Wiz/Mac Miller phase. I still listen to all of them, but with a healthy dose of Metal/Screamo/Alt stuff. People often ask me why I listen to such depressing music.
Now, if you happened to read my response and have to urge to respond, my question to you is this: What about school makes it so oppressive?
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Edited by Panzer I: 8/12/2022 11:04:18 PMSchool? The environment of shuffling through white halls, teachers droning on, demanding silence. My current school tends to be better than most, except for the rules. I got shoved into a private school one year, and I stuck around because some of the kids were chill, and since then I've been obligated to stay behind with my buddies, and the school's rules are ridiculous or annoying and many of the teachers they bring in (they loose many, many teachers because most other schools in the area are just... better.) get progressively worse each year. We lack the bullying problem that permeates most public schools in America, but every single time my grade (27 kids total, and I know all of them) in particular figures out some way to have fun, the administration finds a way to squash it. I would like to mention, school isn't as bad as I wrote up there. I am a fan of dramatization.