Hello :) It's weird to think that anyone, anywhere could be reading this.

I am currently a ninth-grade Creative Writing Major at School of the Arts.   Generally, everything here will basically be about what we're doing in class.

I would say, as a reader, I'm a fantasist and a realist. I enjoy reading things that could happen in my life or that are happening in the world around me. On the opposite side, I love reading things that I know exist just in the pages of that book. Dystopian  novels, (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Divergent Series, The Maze Runner, etc.) are my absolute favorites.They're just really fascinating to me. Knowing we as humans could get to a point where our society is so bad that we could eventually reach that point stumps me.
A couple weeks ago, we started The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. I'm currently on chapter 23, and so far I can say I love this book. It definitely goes down as one of my favorite novels I've ever read. The story is about a young girl named Julia whose life turns upside when she learns the Earth is turning slower and slower each day. She goes through family, friend, and personal struggles which are shaping her into a more independent person. When I first started reading, I was unsure of how I would feel about it. I thought it would be a stereotypical little girl learning new things and coming into her own. Now, though, I know it's much deeper than that. Sure, it does have those stereotypical elements of a little girl just finding herself, it goes deeper, it actually shows her struggles, It let's us know exactly how she's feeling.

This is very much so a drastic turn from the novel, but I'd like to talk about the public education system. The idea of students going to school for free is a great thing, but to say students who complain about the actual system itself are ungrateful completely dismisses everything they go through for them to say these things. Some adults don't realize this, but school is stressful, especially in a system where passing tests is valued more than actually learning anything. Students are expected to drill this information into their head and do well on the test. If you don't do good on the test you "obviously" didn't study or pay attention to any of the lessons. Which isn't true in some cases. Some people, like me, no matter how hard they study are just bad at taking tests. In summation, the way we put so much stress on tests is not an necessarily an accurate to measure students knowledge. I mean, why are we even measuring how well they can memorize things from a text book?