Hello everyone! I'm Jia.

My educational map is inside the attachment.

One or the Other

I grew up in a middle class home with a family who believed that I was destined to be great. With that set predisposition, I was placed on an assembly line of the public education system and before I knew it I was already separated from the other students. My ideas were in more demand than the others and I was marketed to the adult audience as gifted unlike all the other kids who were marketed to their fellow classmates as cool. Luckily, my parents didn’t neglect my artistic side and I didn’t have a problem with making friends unlike all the other nerds. Once again, I was separated from another group of students and I began to be a rare commodity. But I wasn’t the only one transforming; the environment around me was too. Every time I moved onto the next level of education, the student body became more diverse. When I reached high school, all the products of Battle Creek Public Schools collided with each other. We were then packaged and labeled over the four years. This was our last stop before we were all shipped out to the colleges and jobs. 

Everyone -

In my map in addition to the road I have taken, I include possible alternates and other elements (in my youth) that affect my education. I hope it isn't too confusing.

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Hi everyone!  I'm new to serendip, but as we talked about yesterday in class, I've uploaded my map of education.  I added it as an attachment to this post, so I'm pretty sure you'll have to click it if you want to see it.  If there is anything you can't read or have questions about, feel free to ask :)!

As you map your "access to education" this weekend, look to
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Kamila, Age 1: Sleeping without mommy, school of crying

Kamila Age 2: Potty training, school of hello kitty mini toilet seat

Kamila Age 3: Eating without getting anything on myself, school of sage old person aka grandma

Kamila Age 4:  First plane ride, school of mommy's lap

Kamila Age 5: learning english, school of mommy

Kamila Age 6: adding and subtracting, school of candy

Kamila Age 7: pretending my halloween costume didn't rip during the halloween costume parade, school of life

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Kamila Age 16: How to drive, school of worried father and 

Kamila Age 17: How to pretend that I love learning about the same things we learned about on college tours,

school of senioritis.

There are many milestones missing but only because those were my VERY active years. Everyday I learned something new. As things calmed down, the learning process slowed down as well but bigger things were explored, life skills. School was my place for learning theoritical things not practical things, thus I have no major memories of it.

Education in school pales in comparison to education in the real world. There are things that cannot be learned from a book but must be learned the hard way. Self confidence for one, one cannot learn self confidence from a book, one must learn self confidence from life experiences (and hard knocks). I, like every teenage girl, struggled with my self image for that brief horrible time in my adolesence. It took not school but personal experiences to teach me that I indeed was beautiful.