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Person. Filmmaker.Ninja.

[itskyalenotkyle]

When your music producer wants you to raise the bar…#KnowYourPresidents

[kingrudegyalchina]

OOOOOOOOOOWWWW THIS SHIT FIYAAAHH!!

[kingrudegyalchina]

[yinx1]

Imma show this to my class.

[sipnsyphe]

Lmfao but why this shit hype as hell tho

[symphonicseauxl]

THIS BUMP

[kingrudegyalchina]

It’s back !!

[eeveedream]

I’m so glad this is back on my dash.

[regularshow-adventuretime]

[thinkingaboutmarchingbandducks]

[kechi]

Love it!

[kechi]

"What is photography? This is photography." #newyork #photooftheday #photography #ithacacollege #ithaca

[kechi]

"The Dog Days Are Over" #ithacacollege #ithaca #rain #weather #summer #lastdaysofsummer #sunset #newyork

[kechi]

"The TriBeCa Grand Hotel" #nyc #tribeca #film #filmmakers

[kechi]

"A Big Thumbs Up to Good Weather Out Here in Ithaca." #ithaca #ithacacollege #naturallands #icnl

[thinkingaboutmarchingbandducks]

[kechi]

Love it!

[thehellofitall-deactivated20210]

[coolguyhat]

American school system

[greatmommadragon]

just so you know, the ‘gifted area’ isn’t much fun either

I saw your tags and I would really like to comment with personal story if you don’t mind.

The gifted area really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The children all look like they’re smiling, sure, but let’s be real— they go home and stress and cry. 

I was a “gifted and talented” kid, and it was far from this. My whole life, things were harder because I was expected to be better. I was expected to be reading higher-level books, but the school didn’t allow me to read higher-level books because it was “unfair” to the other students. Teachers subconsciously graded me harder than other students, even on things I was not “gifted” in, like math (a subject in which I have always struggled). We had extra homework and extra tests. In my program, we were removed from regular classes once a week to learn bonus material. Not only were we expected to learn the bonus material, but we were expected to make up the missed material and pass the tests on it; only no one was there to teach us the material we missed, because we were expected to already know it. It was pounded into my brain every day of my life from the moment I started school that I had to be perfect, and if I wasn’t perfect it was the result of some character flaw. If an average student got a B, it was cause for celebration, but if I got an A I was simply meeting expectations. If an average student got a D, it was sad and they needed extra help and it was the teachers fault for not helping them; if I got a B or a C, it was the end of the world and clearly there was something wrong with me. I was slacking, or goofing off, or expecting the teachers to just “hand” the A to me because I was “special”. 

I skipped a grade because I was “gifted.” When I tell people of this, they assume I must be a “genius.” You don’t know how many times I’ve heard people tell me, “Wow, you must be really smart or something. You’re a genius.”

Fast forward to college. I was told I should go to Yale or Harvard. But I didn’t want to. I wanted to go to college somewhere where I could learn but also enjoy myself. People make fun of me for my choice of school because someone as “gifted” as me could have “done so much better.”

This “genius” can’t pass Intro to Biology 1010, because no one ever taught her proper studying techniques—they just assumed she already knew. This “genius” cries herself to sleep over a B in an difficult science class. This genius faces crippling anxiety because she knows she’ll never measure up to people’s expectations of her. This “genius” sometimes cuts herself because the pressure to be perfect is too much for her. This “genius” feels like throwing herself off a building if she gets anything less than a B, because she’s been taught her whole life that if she doesn’t get perfect grades it is some sort of character flaw; she must be a worthless idiot.

I don’t know what it’s like to be in the “Nothing Special” area but being gifted is no walk in the park as the cartoon suggests. We both face challenges; they are different challenges, but they are both challenges.

[perhapsmorepersonalperhapsn-blog]

This is so accurate.

[billciipher]

"It was pounded into my brain every day of my life from the moment I started school that I had to be perfect, and if I wasn’t perfect it was the result of some character flaw." god thank you

[melody-ofthe-stars]

I started reading at an early age, and I absorbed so much information that classes were easy for me. I put almost no effort into school because I didn’t have to. Fast forward to them skipping me ahead a grade. I tanked my grades because now that I actually had to work, I discovered no one had ever shown me how. Everyone got progressively more and more mad at me for failing classes because I had no idea what was going on. Worse still, my skills only applied to english and literature, so in things like math, I was expected to get it easily but it made as much sense to me as greek did.

[sizvideos]

Video - Source: Siz iOS app

[kechi]

"Movie Night is Every Night" #ifccenter #ifc #newyork #nyc

[regularshow-adventuretime]

[lildcup]

Deadass

[jensenacklesruinedmylife]

whoop, there it is.

[edwardspoonhands]

Today, I literally googled “Why are Obama’s approval ratings so low” because i was super confused. I mean, I know there are things not to like, I know there are frustrations on both sides but things have gotten measurably better. And now, after fifty years of failed sanctions against Cuba we have a dialogue again? With the Pope’s help? That’s just awesome.

[pjmin]

list of things to do after Naruto ends:

reread naruto

rewatch naruto

rewatch all 10 naruto movies

cry

reread naruto for a third time

eat a bowl of ramen while crying bc naruto is over

die

[kechi]

"Friday Night Sunset" #ithaca #ithacacollege #sunset #newyork

[kechi]

"This Beautiful Black Cat Crossed My Path and Walked Me To Work! Thank You, Kitty!" #ithacat #ithacacollege #halloween #supernatural #blackcat #cat #hashtags #superstition #sailormoon

[kechi]

"Cornell has its Own Zip Code!" #cornell #ithacacollege #wonderfulday #autumn #cloudy #hillsonhills