This month and next, millions of American youths are going to do something that most of us never have to ever again: Step into a classroom, and write down the most tortured prose that they and their hormone/flakka
Whether it’s in the form of actual paper buried in the back of your closet or a file sitting safely on your hard drive, odds are you have something deeply, horribly, painfully regrettable and written in a time when earnestness was all you knew. So why not dig ‘em up, bare your teenage soul below, and then thank god we never have to do this ever again.
Here, I’ll start.
Age: 17
Class: 1960s (?)
Title: The Graduate and the American Dream:
Age: 15
Class: English
Title: Huck’s Battle for Morality
Age: 15
Class: English
Title: Gospel Response Journals
Age: 16
Class: Intro to Sociology
Title: None.
And last but not least, a poem.
Age: 16
Class: Poetry: A Survey
Title: Very, very bad.
Now it’s your turn. And then let’s never speak of this again.
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