Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

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  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

So what's school like for you?

Professor_Zoom's picture

Well, I just got into my freshman year at the Waldorf High school in charlotte, and it's much easier than I expected.
Well, there's less homework anyway.
And this school is tiny.
46 students.
Not in my class, but in the entire school.
So you might think that since there are so little of us that we'd all get along. (actually, I doubt anyone is thinking that)
Well, if you DID think that, then you would be wrong.
However, you most likely didn't, so...what I just said was basically useless, except to imply the point that it's not all fine and dandy. Which of course none of you believed for a minute.
But I digress.
Basically, school for me is meaningless, at least until a one-month period where w-
where we get to write novellas.
Sorry, I was interrupted by the imagined sound of the school laughing when I said "period". Yeah, they'll do that.
But I really can't wait until it comes time t-
Yeah, there they are, taking "come" out of context, yet again.
It's almost like they've imprinted themselves on my brain, to the point where I flinch every time I use said words, and whirl around, expecting laughter, or "that's what she said!"

Are they witty, or what?
I might write a formal letter to everyone, asking when and why they killed off irony, sarcasm, cynicism, the parody, dark humor, satire, and all that other great stuff.
But wait! I do have one friend who isn't like the rest of them!
At least, not all the time.
And that's good enough for me, because I can make it through the day now.
I just have to:
a) ignore the idiots
b)hold the idiots in contempt
c)humiliate the idiots
d)All of the above! ^^

Wow, that totally didn't turn into a rant there. Sorry.

Sometimes it's better to

Sometimes it's better to imagine them, the tormentors, the way they will appear in 10 years time. Look at "Bowling for Columbine" where one of the creaters of "South Park" who was an admitted outsider pointed out all the winners were selling insurance and look where he ended up....

WALDARF!

I do a curriculum called Oak Meadow and it's based of the waldarf school. WALDAFT SCHOOLS RULE THE WORLD!
*smilez*
Peace,
Mango
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P.S. are you coming to the YWP conference?

Aryka Petelle's picture

Wait till you get to Junior

Wait till you get to Junior Year.
At Mount Abraham Union (my school) we have 169 kids in my grade alone.
But their slightly getting smaller.
Anyway, I used to hear that Junior year was the hardest achademic year that I was going to go through.
And now I believe it.
I don't know if that's what it's going to be like for you in Waldarf, but it's an idea.
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein

starmo93's picture

School

i am so glad the idiots in my school aren't the only ones. Seriously, anything you say will be turned into a stupid sex joke. They got into that whole "that's what she said" thing, too. I can't believe in a few wks i have to go back 2 school and deal w. these people. Plus, it'll be even worse now that we are in high school. Oh, joy joy... :|
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