Jack of All Trades, Master of None

Right now, my answer when people ask me what I want to do after high school is "be a jack of all trades." For some reason, this just doesn't cut it. Because I guess 'following your dreams' stops being relevant when you become a teenager, along with 'doing anything you put your mind to' and 'believing in yourself.'

How To Be Less Obnoxious: A Note to the Girl in the Library

Hello, girl in the library who I don't know. Even though I have no sweet clue who you are, I can hear you yelling about "charizard and squirtle! charizard and squirtle!" from the other end of the room. And this is a big library.

Keyword here? Library. You're supposed to be quiet in the library. I know, I know, we call it the "learning center" now, but still. Some people still use it to work and to read and to study, not to play card games. You can still play all the games you want in here, but you can't expect to be respected if you don't respect anyone else.

Please, please be a little bit quieter. You really don't need to yell about the things that you're relling about, and you don't need to run around. Other people are trying to accomplish things, and it's very difficult when you (and your friends, for that matter) are hollering about pokemon and dragons and spells.

So for everyone else out there who decides to loud in libraries too, please don't. We respect you by not bothering you, so you should respect us too and try not to bother us.

Sincerely,
The Girl at the Other End of the Library with the Lacey Cardigan.

The Death of the High School Library

At my high school, we no longer have a library. The room is still there, but most of the books are gone, replaced with extra workspace and computers. It's no longer called a library, it's the "learning center." Funny thing is though, nobody really uses it as a learning center. They either use it as a library (HA) or they're in there socializing and playing games on the computers, because since it isn't a "library" anymore they don't have to be quiet.

Video Games

The truth is, I love video games. I have ever since my first gameboy that I played pokemon on all the time as a child. I'll probably never stop loving games, and for some reason, people find it strange.

My boyfriend is older than me and plays a lot of video games, nobody questions him. Nobody questions his brother, who is even older still, and nobody questions their friends. However, when I am seen frequently playing video games, I'm asked things like "but didn't you grow out of those things?" and "Do you really still play that?" Why is it that I'm expected to grow out of video games? I didn't even think that was possible!