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[bread_and_roses]

today started so fucking well. i slept in, missed math, and took the bus to school around nine. i had two consecutive classes in old hall, so i really could have waited until 11:30 to come in, but whatever. however last period, i had the most sapping political discussion in a long time. it was about people arrested for bring dehydrated

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[peacelovehappy]

i've been feeling the same A LOT recently (only now i'm paying to be in school) every time i talk to callista, or gillian or all the other folks not in school they seem so much happier, so much more alive.

i'm back in boston, you wanna go contra dancing tonight?

[bread_and_roses]

um, fuck yeah? i am going to hampshire tomorrow, so i don't know if i can, but i will definitely try.

[peacelovehappy]

awsome, gimmie a call, or i'll call you or something. if you're in lexington or arlington i might be driving (why is concord so annoing to get to on the T?) so i could give you a ride.

[duello]

I think the question you do have to ask is whether you'll be able to have a happy life with an extremely menial job, uncomfortable living arrangements, etc. Because what with college being the "new high school" or whatever, there really aren't any even decent-paying jobs for high school dropouts. If you think you'll be able to manage with no money, then more power to you, because high school does not "better" you in any real way. (I personally enjoy scholarship, like, the real kind where you study what you want, so I'm hanging on until college.) But it does allow you to make more than the minimum wage, so... consider that.

[bread_and_roses]

there aren't good paying jobs for college graduates. and i never said i din't want to go to college. i just am saying it isn't certain, you know? like i don't want to out and say, "i WILL go to college" cause i am sick of that being the only way to live.

[xpressed]

noah, i know EXACTLY how you feel. i could have written this entry last year. i could have written it yesterday

[ibitepeople]

Here's my view on this. No matter how much of an idealistic world we wish to live in, the world just doesn't fucking exist. As for the whole adult thing, it really is the environment in which you grow up in, and especially for you being a UU and you are given so much freedom in YRUU, but then in everyday life you are restricted so much. My life is much different, at home, at church, and even somewhat in school, I have a great deal of freedom and my voice is heard. However much I would love to just leave school at the end of this year and just travel the world and fight for causes I believe in, that is not a realistic future. So instead I'm slaving over college applications, but I'm applying to colleges that I will be free to choose what I want to study, where I can design my own major, where I can travel to other schools to take classes (i.e. mt holyoke and smith, yay 5 college consortium). I will be stuck with college loans, and fuck, graduate school loans, but what I figure, is that even though I will end up with a mortgage and

[yttrium]

I was talking with my dad about how burnt out I am from school, and how I'm not the only one, and I mentioned you, and my dad said "there's so many things a smart kid like noah could do instead of wasting his time in high school".