Alexandra Robbins Quotes
In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school
The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.
Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.
Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.
How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?
Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.
Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.
He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.
The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.
Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.
In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.
I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.
