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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • You’re fucked you should give up. That was sarcasm.

    You’re fine, friend. I know the feeling. I dropped out of high school when some credits weren’t gonna transfer and I was gonna graduate late. I got my GED and started college classes during the second semester of my senior year. Guess what? I didn’t finish that either. I work in tech, where you can be self-taught and make a nice living; that isn’t true for most industries, I’m just saying there’s no requirement that we approach education as a cookie cutter absolute.

    You know who else is graduating late? People your age who took a year off to travel abroad. People who had tuition struggles. People who fell on hard times and had to take time off. People who had a family member get sick and they had to care for them. Literally tons of people.

    You’re frustrated and that’s valid. But it’s really a very small issue in the grand scheme of your life. You’re also at an age where things like that feel more important than they really are. Keep your head down. Study. Use the extra time this summer to try to get some experience at an internship or work on some way of furthering your knowledge in your field so you can be first out of the gate when you graduate. Get a tutor if you think that will help. You got this.









  • Gozani said juvenile probation affects a young person’s whole family. Gozani, who used to represent children on probation as a staff attorney with Bay Area Legal Aid’s Youth Justice Team, says she’s met parents who lost jobs trying to keep up with all the meetings and appointments they had to make sure their kids met.

    I absolutely believe this. It’s similar to the idea that being poor costs more money than being rich. I remember when I ran out of plates and was living on the edge of covering rent. I couldn’t save enough for dishware because I kept having to buy disposable plates. My brother once described being unable to pay an overdue electric bill because he kept having to buy candles for light. Desperate situations keep people desperate.

    Fortunately, neither of us is in such a bad place anymore, fwiw.