Many, many many people I run into from Stuyvestant now strike me as either still or newly deeply unhappy. And they tend to look at me like I have three heads. Why should I be happy? With this?
I'm struck that the reality that SAT scores don't matter much after college doesn't set in.
The thing about the girls in this article is that they have such rich cultural lives, however enforced - will they be able to recreate or continue that joy later, or will they drop out and become stoners just to get a break? Will they only associate it with achievement?
Our after-school drama program won awards, but I am forever indebted to our director for imbuing us with this secret (which, I believe, led to the awards): "If you are having fun, the audience will have fun. They will not care if you screw up. They probably won't even notice." It liberated us from this competetive edge. For better and, you know, for worse.
I'm glad that girl went for more Latin even though she was "supposed" to take a science. Yay Latin.
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Date: 2007-04-01 04:35 pm (UTC)The thing about the girls in this article is that they have such rich cultural lives, however enforced - will they be able to recreate or continue that joy later, or will they drop out and become stoners just to get a break? Will they only associate it with achievement?
Our after-school drama program won awards, but I am forever indebted to our director for imbuing us with this secret (which, I believe, led to the awards): "If you are having fun, the audience will have fun. They will not care if you screw up. They probably won't even notice." It liberated us from this competetive edge. For better and, you know, for worse.
I'm glad that girl went for more Latin even though she was "supposed" to take a science. Yay Latin.