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Stressed Out Students

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited December 2011
Are you a stressed out student?

Do you work with stressed out students like me and Owly do?
Willow, are your kids old enough to be stressed out?

The last week of the semester = STRESSED OUT STUDENTS. I think they are so cute and funny. Coming at me with their "I was up all night studying for Bio" or whatever. Get used to it, sonny! I've had ten years more schooling than you and it don't get no better!

I'm just sittin' here eatin' apples meetin' with stressed out students! "Here let me write your paper outline for you! POOR DEAR"

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  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    It's been 2+ years since school for me and I still have active PTSD about it

    Thanks, now I have to relive it
  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    My kids are not stressed out. They are PUMPED for SANTA to come and GIVE THEM VIDEO GAMES!!

    I am slightly stressed about getting their report cards finished but also PUMPED for SANTA to come and GIVE ME GARMENTS TO WARM MY BODY UP! GOOD FLEECE JACKET PLEASE, SANTA! SNOW BOOTS PLEASE!! DOWN VEST THANK YOU!
  • 12341234
    When does the stress start? Fifth grade? Junior High?
  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    I think Middle School. That's when they start having end of term exams and stuff.
  • DeathDeath
    edited December 2011
    I should probably be more stressed out than I am, but I have been pretty responsible these past few weeks so I'm in pretty good shape. I am old and have learned to say "No! I can't go out drinking all weekend because I want that to be a possibility in the future when I have money because I was awesome and responsible and got good at the thing I want to do!". That being said, I am totally going to employ the traditional post college finals equation this weekend.
    GRASS + BOOZE + FRIENDSHIP + LATE NIGHT BURRITOS = GOOD TIMES
    minus (probably) the grass and plus my deteriorating ability to recover well from that sort of behavior.

  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    My first clear memory of school stress was seeing the math homework of someone a grade above me while on the bus. I freaked out inside because I could not imagine ever being able to understand what the hell was going on with that.

    Standardized tests were also stressful at first because they would get us in the auditorium and tell us how important it was. After taking a few of them, I realized they were super easy, though.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Me: Montessori school, 2nd grade, "the snake game" (something to do with beads and counting, i.e. Math).

    Teacher: "Yours Truly now it's your turn"

    Me: [Vision grows dim and ringing in ears commences] "[HYSTERICAL SOBBING]" [I am taken to the nurse's office, where I am inexplicably given a scrap of felt with googly eyes glued to it, just to hold, for comfort. My mother is called and comes to get me and I spend the afternoon on the couch with a washcloth on my forehead]

    AND......SCENE!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I remember when my long battle with myself began

    1st grade
    Decide not to take homework home
    I put the chair on the desk as a gesture of completion....."I am done for the day"
  • MarcusMarcus
    Pretty punk for a squirt.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    you know me
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Wow, and I thought Montessori was the lowest stress of all schools.
  • LelandLeland
    In my last two years of high school, my problem was a certain lack of stress that would lead me to the delusion that I had more or less finished my project even though, by many empirical standards, an argument could be made that I had not really started to work on it until the day it was due. This led to some complicated and exhausting work sessions.
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    My sister had ulcers as a SECOND GRADER!

    In elementary school, I insisted on spending my last precious week or two of summer pounding the workbooks my mom bought us because "how could I possibly start a new grade soon? I don't remember anything!" Earliest memory of that was the second/third grade transition.





  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I think mine was also 2nd to 3rd grade. Monumental times.
  • LelandLeland
    They told me I was good at school so I didn't worry about it. Bad lesson, kind of.
  • lml__0_0__lmllml__0_0__lml
    edited December 2011
    lunch
  • DeathDeath
    I'm currently stressed about this Art History test I'm about to take. I had to memorize 48 terms and 156 pieces of art! It's a good idea to not sleep very well the night before the test right? Get real anxious? Eat Frosted Flakes for breakfast?
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Art history test! I love it! It's like... a law test or a biology test for art students. Did you do flash cards? I bet you'll get an A
  • DeathDeath
    I did use flashcards. I had a bit of a mishap and read the wrong time for the final!, but luckily I showed up an hour early and the teacher was really nice and gave me the test anyways. I was a bit flustered so I don't think I did as well as I hoped, but I studied HARD so I think I still did pretty well.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I flew to San Francisco at 8am this morning and 9 different people/very smart engineers innerviewed me for half an hour each and then I flew back to Portland at 8pm. It was kind of like a test. I don't think I did that well.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Cool thing, Mayhem! I bet you'll get an A.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    good job Al-rod!!!!
    I recently did something similar and I know how brutal and exhausting it is.
    But I bet you did good and they liked you!!!!
  • 12341234
    @YoursTruly How much you wanna bet?
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Once again I must clarify to you, Mike, that I was using "I bet" colloquially, as an idiom simply meaning "I imagine that" or "I believe it's probably true that" or even "I reckon," and not as a literal wager.

    I will not be betting on Alex's life at this time.
  • 12341234
    @YoursTruly I must once again point out that the idea that you believe something is probably true is in fact a fantastic reason to bet on it. What if we just make it a small bet?

    For example, you will bet me $5 that Alex gets an offer from said company. I will give you two to one odds. If he gets an offer, I give you $10!

    Every reckoning is an opportunity for a literal wager.
    Betting makes clear the murky waters of opinion.
    Why guess for fun when you can guess for money?
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Mike wants to bet 2-1 odds that I don't get an offer!
    How's that for TRUST AUTHENTICATION?
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited December 2011
    I just started reading Walden by Thoreau. Is this still taught in school?

    It turns out this guy is a total munch! I want to beat him. He wrote this while drunk, right? Why didn't anyone edit it???

    Burn this book!!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    yeah I've never liked Thoreau.

    In high school it was like boys who liked Thoreau were just one tiny step above boys who liked Bukowski, in terms of the list of boys you should Run Screaming From And Do Not French
  • freddyfreddy
    I'd like to add to that "Run Screaming From And Do Not French" list:

    Herman Hesse
    Jack Kerouac
    Ayn Rand
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    YES!!!

    Except that I personally would french Ayn... I mean did you know she ran from Russia to Hollywood to write screenplays? Gotta love her....
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited December 2011
    My Ayn pusher was in high school: I was a freshman, she was a senior, we were in Speech & Debate class, she had long red hair and wore a black leather jacket every day, and she was a black belt in karate, and she was like "I think you should read this..." **Lets me peep her Atlas Shrugged**

    It made my sophomore year English teacher SO PISSED. I kept wondering why she would correct my pronunciation of bourgeoisie and proletariat (I didn't mispronounce them, either).

    Did you guys hear about how they printed the DVD for Atlas Shrugged as "the inspiring tale of altruism" or whatever
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Wait, why is Thoreau as bad as Bukowski and Kerouac? I liked him a lot in 10th grade because I felt a real connection with nature and a desire to buck against the conformity of the crappy people around me in the South. I was very nice to the girl that I frenched around that time.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    What about the guys who liked Douglas Coupland? #shampooplanet #generationx #lifeaftergod #microserfs
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I read two of those in college. What's wrong with me? :(
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited December 2011
    Thoreau is not a bad person, nor are the kind of boys who loved him in high school. He's just a TEDIOUS BORING NARCISSISTIC PRICK!!!!! Oh we get it, with the shoes you knitted yourself from cobwebs or whatever! QUIT TALKING ABOUT GRASS.

    In my experience the kind of high school boy who is super into Thoreau is basically just a dude who doesn't want to brush his teeth or take a shower. I speak with love, and in retrospect, as I went to hippie boarding school and basically everyone there including me was really into Thoreau.

    Recently there was a great New Yorker cartoon, depicting two frogs hanging out by a pond. One of them's saying to the other: "Walden's great when Thoreau's not around."

    Strongly agree with Freddy's additional list.

    I've never read D. Coupland
  • DeathDeath
    edited December 2011
    High five on dissing all the authors dissed so far.

    "QUIT TALKING ABOUT GRASS" - Yours Truly on Thoreau

    One of the best Spencer's Gift-esque t-shirts I ever saw was one that read "Friends don't let friends read Ayn Rand."

    A couple times in my life I have met girls who are super into Bukowski and I just don't know what to think. It's like...I worked with a guy at the library who was a gay black practicing mormon named Lauren. People are very confusing.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    hehe I <3 Coupland

    Thoreau's ideas are fine, but he's so arrogant! I feel as though if I were to meet him in life, he would be a shifty creep who wouldn't look you in the eye.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Yes, exactly!!!

    I am also not a huge Whitman fan. Really all the American transcendentalists, it's like, I get what they're doing and conceptually I think it's awesome but the actual work is just insufferable.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Except no, his ideas are not fine actually

    I mostly disagree with everything he says

    He hates clothes
    His whole thing is so racist
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Except no, his ideas are not fine actually

    I mostly disagree with everything he says

    He hates clothes
    His whole thing is so racist
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    good calls. I guess I just meant, like, "look how awesome nature is, lets live in nature more." But the racist stuff, not to mention how FUCKING MISOGYNIST it all is, does not help matters much.

    I'm so sick of Whitman. We get it! You have an amazing erection! HOW WONDERFUL
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    edited December 2011
    Didn't Thoreau's mom bring him food EVERY DAY that he was at Walden Pond? I may be wrong, but even with sleep deprivation I remember hearing something about this. Way to be super off the grid, bro!

    One time (not super recently, but within the 21st century) I was about to get with a dude, and at nearly the last second I said " Wait, wait, I have a question for you - are you into Ayn Rand?"

    Luckily, he was not.

  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I hate Barbara Kingsolver.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Also Amy Tan.
  • DeathDeath
    Shakespeare
  • DeathDeath
    jk
  • DeathDeath
    sortof
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited December 2011
    Kingsolver has such wonderful shit and then such dumb shit.

    Animal Vegetable Mineral was awesome

    Great call ED, I remember something about this too. And even if it's not true (of Thoreau and his mom) I think there's something TRUTHY about it, like that's what you picture happening as you're slogging through On Walden Pond or whatever

    I think so far we have neglected to mention one of the Ultimate Do-Not-Frenchers, up there with Bukowski in my personal Never-Nerver Canon:

    JACK KEROUAC!!!!!

    http://onthebrod.com/

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    there's a certain Bro'd out or deeply macho-worshipping vibe here, on our list, even the Ayn Rand (perhaps especially the Ayn Rand, actually).

    I think the imperative to not date machismo-worshipping 18 year olds is a pretty good imperative

    HOWEVER I would also add TOM ROBBINS, who is a whole other can of worms
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    Geez, guys, I guess teens should just avoid dudes who read.
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