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| 31 Dec 2013 02:52 PM |
You go to school so you can learn about a multitude of subjects and practice applying them to real-world scenarios, and learning social skills by talking to people and making friends to study and hang out with. Why are school communities seemingly transformed into rat-races to the top of the mountain, gauging popularity using some sort of invisible "Popularity chart" judging based on hairstyle, snobbish and inconsiderate attitude, and the oh, so importance of having the newest gadget, which you use to waste your time and intelligence on.
Quite personally, I go to school to sit down, learn, chat, and do my own studies in conjunction with the curriculum of knowledge provided for me. I know, I know, I sound like those grandpas who complain about the current generation, who are oblivious to just how similar their generation was, but, we are STILL in a chaotic, unsettling atmosphere with "dominant" cliques that "set the standard" and purposefully misdirect our attention from what is really important to our lives, our economy, and our overall well-being.
Why can't we, as students, encourage happy, healthy, productive relationships with people who thirst for knowledge just as much, if not more, than we do? Why not set ourselves up for a luxurious and peaceful life doing what you were put on this Earth to do? But no, instead we blind ourselves thinking that our social status at these educational facilities have any importance whatsoever on our lives; this is a lie brought on by generations of misguided kids with nothing better to do than to damn themselves from a good education that is being GIVEN to them.
I would to hear your opinions on this as well; thank you. |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:52 PM |
tldr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KZ1TsgCWj0 / RT's Meerkat |
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Keldogon
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:52 PM |
| Guess you were the unpopular one |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:52 PM |
| You're fun at college parties. |
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VLEV
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Mhanko
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:53 PM |
| Some do it since it their reputation. |
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pokita
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:53 PM |
| are there actual schools where this happens? I thought this only happened in those crappy tv shows |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:53 PM |
becase you only live once
have some fun |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:53 PM |
tl;dr
reason for that is modern world k
now go hang urself k |
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bio111
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jjj344
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:54 PM |
| I'm popular and yet I get good grades. |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:55 PM |
@rosted
I can have fun without harming my education in the process. I love to play games. I love to hang out with my friends, go to church, learn about extracurricular things with other kids my age. That's healthy. |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:55 PM |
let me guess
you're the kid who never went to the parties |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:56 PM |
@JJ
How, exactly, did you gain that popularity?
If you're a cool person to hang with, have good friends, good grades (and actually utilize the knowledge, don't forget), and are overall a good role-model, I think it's easy to become a popular person. |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:57 PM |
@un
I'm not in college. I'm an eighth grader with almost no friends except a few good ones in the school. Not many good parties I know of. |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:57 PM |
eh
the two factors, popularity & studies, have no correlation really
im really not trying to brag or anything, but i am popular at my school, but i don't let it get in the way of studies
in fact when i have friends who skip class and just don't try, i encourage them
i think it depends on your community mostly, but usually you'd be surprised at how lame the "cool kids" are |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:58 PM |
*tips fedora*
you're just one of those annoying kids that hates any social interaction at all |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:58 PM |
@cong
parties are stupid lol
i'd much rather stay home and play music and draw or something than go to the stereotypical highschool party |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:58 PM |
@Kitty
You encourage people not to try? Is that correct? |
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| 31 Dec 2013 02:59 PM |
i've never been to any party other than birthday parties and that was when i was younger
is that bad?
get the shotgun, i'll handle this |
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| 31 Dec 2013 03:00 PM |
@Pixel
Most of my friends are at church. Almost everyone likes me there. They like to brag about how smart I am most of the time, and I'm not bragging, but I'm using this to prove my point; where do you go to get smart? Exactly. It pays off. Gradually, but it does. |
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| 31 Dec 2013 03:01 PM |
@Inter
First off, cool username.
And really, it isn't. It's not a necessity. But I'd say at least a few really good friends are. If you can't find any, just keep using your best judgement and only pick the good apples in the bunch. |
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