KayzCorner

I’ve always prided myself on being at least somewhat intelligent. I was the annoying kid in elementary and middle school who rarely ever studied and still walked away with nearly perfect grades in all subjects. Being homeschooled from Kindergarten to 7 th grade meant that I could learn at a variety of grade levels, being taught a grade above my age level in all subjects except math, which I was taught at grade level, and reading, which I was at an advanced level so my parents had me reading adult and teen level books and writing book reports by the age of 8. The only area I didn’t seem to excel was math and so I avoided it like the plague. While I did alright in school, I didn’t really begin to care about grades until around my senior year of high school, worried about getting into a college. I didn’t really have to worry, I was accepted into every school I applied to and I was offered some small scholarships to all of them. My plans changed drastically when my sister died and though...

Many people will be starting or have already started school for this year. This will be the first year since the age of five I won’t be going to school this fall. It is so strange to think that that part of my life is behind me. While I still plan on pursuing a master’s degree, the fact that I am not starting school this week is a stark reminder of the fact that my life has irrevocably changed. However, this post is not about my nostalgia for academia; rather, I figured given my experience with school and the fact that I did quite well in school, that I could give some advice for getting through the school year. Start studying for tests early. I know, a lot of people say this and it is easy to absently not your head and proceed to ignore them, but honestly it is great advice. If you take detailed notes and study them frequently you will remember the information a lot better than if you cram the night before or even heaven forbid the day of an exam.   Don’t just read and ...

When I was younger, one of my high school teachers had a small, framed motivational poster that read “Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is costly,” for some reason or another that always struck me. At first looking at it made me annoyed, I thought it just another one of those quotes claiming that younger people know absolutely nothing and older, more experienced individuals knew everything. As a teenager, nothing was more irritating than individual looking down on you and minimizing your abilities due to your age; however, as time went on I realized that it didn’t necessarily mean that. My older sister died in a car accident in October of my senior year of high school. She had been my life line and I felt completely lost without her; to be honest, sometimes I still feel lost without her. We had both struggled with mental health issues in high school we understood each other in a way that most of the people around us were unable to. We lived in the same house, experi...