04 Sep, 2008
Posted by: Michael In: Rants
I was one of those foolish high schoolers that took upwards of four AP classes a year in 11th and 12th grade. My school was just structured that way - if you were in the top-most track, you were pretty much expected to take AP English, AP Math, AP Government, etc. And honestly, I didn’t [...]
25 Aug, 2008
Posted by: Michael In: General
As I walked down my hall in Weinstein (my dorm) yesterday, I discovered that there are no less than four Michaels living in my hall. There’s me, there’s the Michael across from my room, the Michael by the elevator, and the Michael to the left of the stairs. I honestly hate having the fourth most [...]
24 Aug, 2008
Posted by: Michael In: General
The past few months have been kind of surreal for me. For the entire summer, I couldn’t understand why everyone was so anxious about getting to college. I mean sure, I was excited too - but not excited to leave everything I’d become over the past nine years in Charlottesville. There were places in Charlottesville [...]
19 Aug, 2008
Posted by: Michael In: General
Now, I know it’s not really nice to laugh at the plights of seven-year-olds, but as I was turning on to my street today and saw that Louisa County School Bus dropping off an elementary schooler, I couldn’t help but think “HA! Never again!” My days of public education are finally, blissfully over.
Probably the lowest [...]
14 Aug, 2008
Posted by: Michael In: Silly
Going to college gives you a lot of opportunities. There are the parties. There are the drugs. There are the lectures to blow off. Not to mention all of the other “illegal” opporunities hormones and a lack of parental supervision open up to our young, impressionable minds. But despite how tantalizing that list already sounds, [...]