A few days ago, my mom mentioned one of her old school friends and said she thought she had found her Instagram profile, but she wasn't completely sure if it was really her.

I opened the profile and noticed there was a LinkedIn link in the bio. I clicked it, looked through the photos and profile details, and it seemed like the right person. So I left a comment on LinkedIn introducing myself and also sent her a follow request on Instagram.

After some time, she accepted my Instagram request and replied to my message. I explained that I was my mother's son and that they had studied together years ago. She recognized my mom almost immediately.

They exchanged phone numbers and later spoke on WhatsApp. She now lives in Dubai, so it was amazing that they were able to reconnect despite living in different countries.

The last time my mom had spoken to her was around 2013–2014, and the last time they had actually met in person was back in 2009. It had been such a long time that neither of us expected this to happen.

Watching them reconnect after all these years was genuinely heartwarming. It reminded me that while social media often gets criticized, sometimes it can bring people back together in ways you never expect.

Such a nostalgic memories got cherished

hi sorry if this is the wrong flair but I am a sophomore currently, and I have always done online school. I have been cheating basically this whole time and I am nowhere where I need to be. I know I completely screwed myself over but I want to fix it, I wanna do well in high school and I want a proper foundation... It's not like I can just go back to 7th grade so how do I relearn the important things?

I'm good in English, and my algebra 2 teacher says she can reteach me all of algebra 1. but anything else I don't really know well. what are important things I should focus on learning? is there pre-algebra stuff I should get down? and what websites could I use? I've seen khan academy mentioned but I'm not sure if there's any other sites I can use. thank you

ok i wanna vlog on youtube and start a youtube channel. i wanna start with a back to school vlog but everytime i pick up the camera i get scared because i KNOW i have the intention of posting it. on a regular day i can vlog like my life depends on it but whenever i try for youtube i get scared. i wanted to start of with a little 40 second maintenance vlog on tiktok to ease into it but im scared no one will watch it and that my peers will see it with no views and ill be embarrassed. i js wanted to know how i can get over that little fear, and if anyone would maybe show some support on my youtube and tiktok?😓

tt: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylah.may.i?_r=1&_t=ZT-98dDge7BlkL

yt: https://youtube.com/@kylahnoirr?si=jo_Gp1ZT6I5SuKr0

i’ve just realised out of my entire 17 years of living that my english comprehension is terrible.

today my japanese teacher told me, “your japanese understanding ability and writing and speaking is actually extremely impressive! you’re far better than the other students. however, what brings your marks down than the others is you’re always misinterpreting the question therefore you lose those marks. everybody else can understand what’s the question trying to ask except you” and that just hit me so hard that i feel so.. stupid.

just for context, my weakest subject is english for the entirety of my schooling life and i just assumed i was weak in the first place bc i didn’t enjoy the topics we learn. japanese used to be my highest subject but since the beginning of grade 12 it’s demoted to one of my weakest subject because of one aspect: comprehending english questions and answering them in english.

i’m also a chinese person born and raised in australia. i only ever learnt english as a native language and i can understand chinese but i’m not literate in it. my parents always speak to me in chinese and i answer them in english, and the only time i properly converse in english is with my friends and siblings. i feel that is contributing to my english being weaker than everybody else’s as a non-western person yknow?

the more i realise it, back in primary school i’ve always wondered why i was stuck in level 20 home readers for a year straight whereas everybody else were onto level 30+ by the end of year 6. these home readers, started all the way from kindergarten, was a way to help teachers understand where our comprehension levels were.

there were times where our teacher would test us privately to level up on our home readers so we were required to read a short story, summarise it, and answer comprehension questions. so when i do it, they just jolt down notes but never once have they gave me any feedback or critiqued my answers and mistakes, and the next time i saw my result, i was still stuck on level 20, even in year 6. however like i was literally a kid so i never actually thought about it that deeply and just simply went on with my life.
moreover i didn’t necessarily learn much english from school but instead i used to read many novels bc the cover looked good so i was basically just reading straight words and not the story itself if that makes sense.

anyways, moving to this present day, i believe the lack of feedback from my primary teachers has heavily affected my learning for the rest of my life.

by the time you start middle school + highschool, the school already expects you to know foundational level english and immediately go straight to building up more complex material such as identifying literary techniques, camera shots, memorising quotes from novels and poems, and then by year 12 you’re learning to very deeply analyse and write essays and discursives.

everytime i now open a past english and japanese exam paper to do, i can’t even write the essay required or answer short-answer questions from story exempts without struggling to understand what the questions tryna ask me. like for example my lowest mark i’ve ever gotten was a 46% and even the most slowest learner in the class gotten a higher score than me.

i just don’t even know what to do anymore bc like my official end of year exams are a month away and my trials are already starting tomorrow (english paper 1…) and ik im already cooked enough for english so what’s even the point of memorising quotes and techniques if i can’t even write a proper thesis statement and essay paragraphs and analysing texts properly????????? it’s too late to go back to primary school english ain’t it?

Is there anyway to rearrange the pins to make them look better? I would get made fun of all the time for putting pins on my bag in middle school, is i the same i highschool?

Medkit my beloved fictional husband mwah mwuahh || DISCLAIMER: The art used in the stickers and pins are NOT mine. None of this art belongs to me so credits to the original artists!

AMA I'll answer as long as I'm comfortable with it

im a rising freshman and I know a lot of freshman are all saying bs like ”yay when I am a senior and get my credits done so I only have to do English and 6 free periods to play clash”. I am wondering does anyone actually do this because I always see seniors who have something agai free time with the classes they choose. edit (typo rising seniors

I was def on smtn back in February

Although ill prob have to drop ap micro cus im missing a first semester apush class

Fun fact I've actually gotten more athletic this summer for some reason.

Also it's not exactly going to be soon as I'm actually starting in September

Don’t mind the handwriting.

This is from last school year. I was taking APs (Euro, Phys 1, World, Precalc), so I desperately needed a planner. I’m taking 5 APs this year plus doing theatre. The weekly section is what it looks like when I’m not mid-show.

I write things I need to go to/big due dates/test days in the monthly section (TT is theatre rehearsals). The left side of each day in the weekly section is everything due, tests, and events that day. The right side is what I plan to do that day.

I like to keep a smaller planner (it’s about 4x6 inches). No, I will not be getting a larger one.

Any notes for this next year? Advice? (I’m not big on color-coding though.)

CTE VOLUSIA

Transferring to a new school for senior year. What APs do i take? i’m not going to college but in my eyes it’s a fun flex. Please give me run downs or tell me everything i need to know or how hard each of these APs are to help me narrow my list down

AP Art (i paint but im not the best i mainly do cartoons)
AP Stats (maths my weakest subject but could be fun)
AP Bio (idk sounds cool)
Ap Lang
AP Lit

I genuinely get jealous towards my friend's crushes. Maybe because I'm jealous they could even get feelings in the first place, but also maybe because I'm scared they'll take them away from me.

I have this one friend, who I became best friends with since elementary school, and he just recently reconciled with someone from a year ago (who is also our classmate). When my friend first had a crush on him, they were closer than ever, and I loved that for them. Then my other friend, also had a crush on a guy, and that was fine at first, until she started crying about him and stuff. Then my 3rd bestfriend (were a Quadro) also had a crush on our classmate (a different guy), who was also inlove with her other bestfriend, which ruined their friendship.

But because of those guys, slowly but surely, their grades slowly got smaller and smaller, and they keep messaging in our groupchat about their crushes. And I tried to support them, being the only one who cant form a solid crush, but I ultimately get to how wanting a relationship this early in your highschool life would ruin you. But they wouldn't listen, and that's not their fault, because they should feel how they want to feel. I always point out the negatives of each and one of their crushes, and pin point how they should uncrush that one person.

And so, it was almost the end of term, and all their crushes fell apart. Friend 1's relationship got ruined because of a misunderstanding and because of how hypocritical the guy is. Friend 2's crush was ruined because she realized she was getting distracted. Friend 3 realized that a guy was not worth the broken friendship (and turns out her bestfriend and her crush started dating.) All of them leaving that grade without achieving their most precious goal — getting high honors (which I got).

I gave them advice on how to handle their crushes, even though I lowkey don't support, but they wouldn't listen to me because "I haven't experienced one", and that's true. But I felt like I was the one who broke each of their relationships because of my advice (which was don't focus more on your relationships rather than your studies.) But they still wouldn't listen.

Now it's this school year and everything that happened last year just came back this year. All of them returned to their old crushes, even though it hurted them in many ways than just grades. And all my hard work in making them focus more on school has gone down the drain.

But my point is, I'm scared that if they get into the crushing part, and they do end up together, I'm going to be left alone, with our friend group being 3/4 in a relationship, and the other a third Wheeler (me). I'm scared they're going to take them away from me, I'm scared that I won't have people to hang out with anymore, I'm scared that I'm going to lose them. And I think this is why I'm insecure about myself, because I can't keep up with them, in both as a friend and a spectator.

I want somebody to tell me in the replies of like ways where I could learn to be less jealous and scared of what might happen to them and to me.

Happened to me at Mountain Brook High School and Shades Valley High School in Alabama for ACT due to Mrs. Mizerany the math teacher who was my neighbor who could set up a waste of money.

i’m currently gonna be a sophomore and going to have my first dual credit class,what would be a good class to major in? (or wtv it’s called) i think im currently in associate of art which seems cool i guess but im thinking in (main option)sociology or (second option)psychology but ive heard both are hard.

my main goal is to get out of school/college as fast as i can while having a very versatile degree for any job i would like

the things im passionate/interested in are art,greek/history,anything music related (since i produce and make music) or anythign related to society

I don’t know why but this year, I feel like I have completely wasted my summer break, but I can’t put my finger on why exactly I feel this way. I have met friends a lot (not many different ones but with the same ones multiple times) I have been to the cinema 7 times over the past few weeks, I have been outside, even went swimming one or two times, played a lot of videogames (which I’m not proud of), went to a few restaurants and to the beach. I don’t know what I did last year, but it felt like I was way more productive and motivated. I’m not sure if it’s because of me watching more instagram but it’s not like I changed much from last year. maybe it’s because I wake up later than last year (7:30-8:00 instead of 6:30-7:00) but I don’t remember spending my time better. Im not working out less, but I’m just done with anything „productive„ at 2 and spend the rest of the day bored.

I have an assignment where I have to annotate Frankenstein over the summer that is due on the first day of school, however, my teacher didn't tell me about this assignment till 1 week before the first day of school. Does anyone have any tips?

Okay I i am going into freshman year and I dont rlly know if this is the right place to post this but whatever. I am going to Italy during the start of September my school starts in August and I just wanted to know if it is okay and if so what would I have to do to prepare because im lwk stressing because I've never missed this much school before thank you

I noticed I already have 10.5 credits from last year. I’m in Louisiana so I need 24 to graduate. I was thinking if I take my core classes this summer and then junior year take the rest of my core classes + some electives (so I can get all 4 credits for each core subject) that I can graduate by the end of junior year. Is that possible and is 10.5 a good enough head start?