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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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![]() stereotypically asian i will never be like the part-timers at harvard who are part-time entrepreneurs d1 soccer players scientific researchers and award-winning artists only sometimes loving math i will never be like the mathematicians at
stanford who discovered a love for math at age 4 qualified for aime at age 12 and wrote papers on some theorem i’d never even heard of twice cut from the basketball team i will never be like the athletes at duke who dunk after going through the legs confidently turn around after a three and hoist an mvp trophy 3 years in a row grammar-loving, not-an-author i will never be like the writers at brown who murder their darlings use enjambment to evoke and know shakespeare’s 18th sonnet by heart memorizing covid variant code names i will never be like the pre-meds at johns hopkins who want to find a cure for cancer alzheimers and prevent the next global pandemic tone-deaf, pitch-blind i will never be like the musicians at juilliard who have perfect pitch performed la campanella at age 4 and play everything by ear loving technology, hating computer science i will never be like the engineers at mit who achieved usaco platinum writes code for a fortune 500 and has scripts for everything untalented dumb short boring shortsighted distasteful illogical i will never be enough Comments are closed.
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