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Jun. 26th, 2005 04:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaFive things I would tell my sixteen year old self:
1. Make a point of getting really good grades in college. You know what you want to study, which is more than most high school--hell, college--students know. Do whatever you can--notetakers, tape recorders, bugging the teacher if you take a trip to the Land of Chocolate and miss something about Proto-Indo-European, Ritalin. Don't be despondent when one method doesn't work, keep trying. You can get more than B's and C's. You just are scared that you will fail and fail again if you do something different.
2. You are not going to be trapped under the same roof as that abusive asshole stepfather forever.
3. You can't run away on $5 and some tapes to sell.
4. Find new ways to keep moving. Oh, and resist the temptation to gorge on chicken fingers and chocolate muffins.
5. What, your favorite zine won't publish you? Your clever little article on Harvard Square got bumped for a above-drinking-age writer's piece? That's why you submit more articles to other places.
1. Make a point of getting really good grades in college. You know what you want to study, which is more than most high school--hell, college--students know. Do whatever you can--notetakers, tape recorders, bugging the teacher if you take a trip to the Land of Chocolate and miss something about Proto-Indo-European, Ritalin. Don't be despondent when one method doesn't work, keep trying. You can get more than B's and C's. You just are scared that you will fail and fail again if you do something different.
2. You are not going to be trapped under the same roof as that abusive asshole stepfather forever.
3. You can't run away on $5 and some tapes to sell.
4. Find new ways to keep moving. Oh, and resist the temptation to gorge on chicken fingers and chocolate muffins.
5. What, your favorite zine won't publish you? Your clever little article on Harvard Square got bumped for a above-drinking-age writer's piece? That's why you submit more articles to other places.
