THE UNEXPECTED UPSIDE OF... A HOMESCHOOLED EDUCATION
It was my first day of school. I was 18.
By Hannah Long
high-school bathroom stall, but crowdsourced by the entire Internet.) Once I was dumped into a class of disaffected college students, I was not the least bit shy. I sat at the front and asked an obnoxious number of questions. I felt like I was on safari in a strange land. What were normal students like? Would I fit in? When would the dreaded Marxist
My panic began to ebb. I wasn’t sure what it all meant, but I could Google it later. Googling is a great tool when you go to school at home and don’t have schoolmates. Growing up, it was my No. 1 method for translating unfamiliar peer slang. Thanks to Urban Dictionary, I often learned more than I bargained for. (If you’re unfamiliar with that particular resource, imagine the wall of a
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