The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Category: school

  • Thoughts on Amish/Mennonites and Education

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I walked into town. It was a perfect, crisp fall day. Everywhere I looked there were either Amish people, or people staring at the Amish. A big yellow school bus roared up the street. It was full of adorable Amish children, with their bonnets and bowl cuts, peeking out the windows. Now I was staring…

  • Graduation

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    For seven years I’ve been composing graduation blog posts in my head. For seven years I’ve been waiting for the day when I could say, “I struggled through chronic illness and depression, I never bought myself new clothes except for a couple times, like for a friend’s wedding, I went to four different colleges, I…

  • MOP April 13: Vindication

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I was pretty bad at academic writing when I started college, which was hard on my ego. I mean, I’d published a book and stuff, how dare my teachers make notes in the margins of my papers telling me to take a writing class? Humph. Still, being of a practical frame of mind, I signed…

  • Stress

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I understand that stress is a normal/needed biological reaction, but doesn’t it seem a little ridiculous to you that our body has the same reaction to schoolwork as it does to being chased by a bear? I go to great lengths to decrease the level of stress in my life. I take a lighter course…

  • What We Do for Extra Credit

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I gotta say, dressing up and lip-syncing to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is the weirdest thing I’ve ever done for extra credit. I posted this picture on Facebook and multiple people asked me for the full story. Goodness. How do I even begin to explain that class? I guess I should have known what I…