Humans Of Westlake Academy

Meredith Brown's personal project. Inspired by but not affiliated with Humans Of New York.

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"What I struggle with is balancing. Because I like to watch movies and I like to hang out with all my people, but I also want to get good grades and I wanna get into college."

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"Just have more fun. A lot of the time people are serious, and it's boring. Respect everyone and everything. But if you can, have fun. That's what I try to do."

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"I learned a lot about the racial bias of children whose parents teach them to like a certain skin color. It was really eye-opening"

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"Stay true to yourself. As cliché as that sounds, if you don't stay true to yourself then somewhere along the road you're probably going to end up really hating what you're doing or what direction your life is going in."

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"Westlake opens up a different way to teaching. It teaches me to be open-minded and listen to what other people have to say."

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"Just be creative and go beyond the limits because that's what we do [at Westlake]."

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"I finished a chapter in this book I'm writing"

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"I have learned so many things about the learner profile traits that I didn't know before and Westlake has helped me learn so much through the years. I don't know if they have the learner profile traits at other schools and I don't think I would be as open-minded as I am I didn't go here"