Freelance journalist, burner, raver and vandweller.

I read news so you don’t have to (but you still should).

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • There are so many issues with my educational experience that I don’t know where to start. I was sent to the principal’s office for claiming negative numbers existed in first grade. The next year, my parents enrolled me in a night class at ASU for intermediate algebra. Back in elementary school, best they could do was sixth-grade math – i.e., not even prealgebra. It took six years – until eighth grade – for me to progress in math from when I was fucking 7.

    By high school, I was considered an excellent math student, and I was told two specific things from other departments: Don’t go into writing or publication design – you’re a math student who’s terrible at both.

    Of course, when I won national awards for both and rubbed their noses in it when back home visiting my parents, they tried to do the whole “we knew you had it in you all along” thing.

    Yeah, no. I don’t like regurgitative analysis of 19th-century works, and your yearbook design sucks. That’s on you, not me.