there’s such an unhealthy stigma, especially in academic communities, surrounding taking time off or dropping out. putting education above your health and well-being isn’t okay and should not be the standard. obviously there are positives to school/college/uni, but the environment created by the education system can be so horrifically damaging in so many ways, and demonising stepping away from or leaving it only makes it worse. as much as education is important, your health and well-being are infinitely more so.
it is okay to take breaks. it’s okay to take a year off. it’s okay to leave if that’s what you need to do. dropping out does not make you stupid, nor does it make you a failure. take care of yourself first and foremost. traditional education is not the only way to learn.
Tag: school
Someone give me some slang words I need them for an assignment and my mind has gone blank
Nevermind I’m gonna use “simp”
Someone give me some slang words I need them for an assignment and my mind has gone blank
Let’s play a game called “this professor’s political views are hard to discern, let’s try to figure it out”
never understood the whole showing up at your high school reunion revenge fantasy cause like really? high school?? I don’t want anyone from that time in my life to have any idea where I am or what I’m doing. do not perceive me I am dead to you and you are dead to me
The internet was better when it was pbskids.org only. Once you move from the .orgs to the .coms and the .nets and worst of all the .edus its way less fun and there are significantly fewer, like staggeringly fewer, cyberchase games.
to everyone else in school right now:
please use sparknotes. please use khan academy. please listen to school house rock songs and watch the history of the entire world i guess and tim and moby and bill nye. any documentary you watch in class can be found somewhere online with a quick google. get your books from project gutenberg and z-lib. download textbooks off the internet whenever you can find them. use desmos for a free online graphing calculator. if you’re learning something and you don’t get it look up the wikipedia page on it and put it into simple english to get the gist, then put it back into regular english to get the full story. cheat if you have to. school sucks so bad rn and if you’re like me and you get all your materials secondhand or from the lost and found, online resources are really useful rn; all of the above have helped me pass a class in some way, and i hope they can help you too.
stay inside and stay safe. best of luck to all the students out there.
i used sparknotes for every fucking book i was supposed to read last semester. FUCK this online school garbage, you deserve all the shortcuts you can get
Humans, unharrassed, actually LOVE to learn. About anything and everything.
What high schools (in the USA and possibly elsewhere, I’ve only been to school here) do is make something so exciting and natural- learning- into pain and drudgery, hours and hours of mindless busywork for very little actual information received, pure regurgitation without understanding, with taskmasters to monitor and punish you if you do it in any way they don’t like.
Left to ourselves, without pain and punishments and enforcers grinding our noses, we seek out learning like bees to flowers.
ifesbob 