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i wrote this last semester:

School is a part of the real world. We all know its benefits in varying degrees. It is the place where you have to survive amid the rest of the naively intelligent beings. It was where groupthink may have first developed. Where popularity became a contest, where the boys first form “boys club” and where children who just want to sit and take it all in are called outcasts. School is the time when you are judged by what you do and by what you don’t do. You are forced to find self-validation.

You are always in school.