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Expectations vs Reality; Trinity's Blog #1

5/10/2024

My whole life, I’ve had to live up to higher expectations. Mostly towards my siblings. You see, I grew up being the only girl in my family, besides my mother. I don’t know why that gave me higher expectations than my brothers, but unfortunately it did. I don’t know whether to say I’m happy or sad about it...

Empowering Education, The perfect name; Max's Blog #2

5/10/2024

In all honesty, when I first heard the name Empowering Education, I thought it was just a catchy title for the organization. But, as I finally completed the first portion of my passion project, I realized its meaning. My project originated from my grandfather's victimization due to a criminal telephone scam during the summer. My grandfather, “Popples,” we call him, received a phone call from a distressed, recognizable voice...

Growing up; Talia's Blog #2

5/10/2024

When you’re in elementary school, they’re preparing you for middle school. They force the idea by reminding you how there’s no “easy way out” and you must work for what you earn. When you’re in middle school, they’re preparing you for high school. They instill more fears with the difficulty of your course load. In high school, they try to prepare us for college and our lives after. My upcoming junior meeting is supposed to help me figure out what school I want to go to and what I want to major in, yet, I never truly faced the reality of what this all meant until the summer of 2023...

Contentment; Maggie's Blog #2

5/10/2024

Throughout high school I have strived to do better than my best and pushed myself far beyond what I ever imagined. Still I find myself constantly dissatisfied with my achievements, and finding ways for me to be unhappy with what I have accomplished. The textbook definition for contentment is “state of happiness and satisfaction”. But just because I’m not satisfied, does that mean I am not in a state of happiness?...

What freshman year taught me; Daniela's Blog #2

5/10/2024

Freshman year was quite a transition year from middle school into high school. Not only was it the first year of high school, which is typically a milestone for some people, it was also going to be the first year of school that would be normal ever since the Covid-19 pandemic. My first year of high school was a rollercoaster in and of itself as I not only developed as a person and who I am, but it also taught me some really valuable lessons...

Porcelain Perfection; Amelia's Blog #2

5/10/2024

Like a porcelain doll, I have spent my life feeling as though I was placed on a shelf to admire. My first memory of school is from kindergarten. We were taking tests for Spanish class, and most of my classmates couldn’t read yet so the aide was reading the exam aloud. I knew how to read and took the test on my own, not following her pace...

Time is not the enemy; Micah's Blog #7

5/10/2024

Opened eyes to my dark room, harboring the silhouette of posters and my chair neatly pushed into my desk. Observing the ceiling, I see it painted with cracks from the shadows made by the streetlamp’s light across my house. It peered through the upper gap in my shades; “an abstract design made from the lens of tree branches” I thought, yet it remained still, fitting equally in each corner...

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