Reliving my schooling. Rebooting my life.
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At the age of 28, I went back to kindergarten. I needed to get my life back on track, and I wanted to start over from the very beginning.
Over several months, I repeated my education, from kindergarten to college. I spent the months that followed learning how to grow up. I'm still learning.
This site is a place for me to tell my story of education, and for you to tell yours: our experiences past and present, and our vision for how it could look in the future.
— Melia Dicker
lynnie
November 7th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I actually don’t remember having a Dooney & Burke bag in high school…
Alicia C.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I don’t know you lynnie, but I HAVE to give you props for that comment! I thought the same thing! I know some girls had purses in our day, but for the most part I think we all just had backpacks. I know no one with a $200 purse wore it to school. This makes me think that (the long debated subject of) uniform dress should just be rule…
Melia
November 7th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Wow, I wouldn’t have known that the purse was so pricey. Ahh, yes, some of the SV kids have quite the wardrobe, or fancy-pants cars. I hope people don’t assume that all private school kids are Mr. & Ms. Moneybags. My lunch hours spent in the school library doing work-study say otherwise!
Mr. Hsu
November 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I had a full length locker in high school. It made no sense because the books all congregated at the bottom of the locker, leaving the top 90% of the locker unused.
lynnie
November 10th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
It had to be said Alicia! Our lockers were divided into 4 rows, bottom row was freshman, row above that was for sophomore students and so on. They were small so I ended up stowing some stuff where I worked on campus; in the library. MUCH bigger area.
Siobhan
November 16th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Awww, bottom locker hell! I’m SO glad I only had to deal with that for one year. I made sure to come to book-buying/locker-getting day EARLY for the other 3 years.
Melia
November 18th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I had a bottom locker freshman year that was located right next to the entrance to the algebra room. So I’d not only get hit in the head by the top locker, but also by the classroom door.
My best friend and I shared a full-length locker sophomore year, and we had an evolving collage of ridiculous images from teen magazines. We enjoyed cutting out photos of our classmates’ heads and sticking them on other people’s bodies (a cowboy, a pro wrestler, Gumby, etc.). This activity still makes me laugh no matter what.
Mom
November 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Bottom lockers are so California. Where I grew up on the East Coast, we had heavy winter coats, boots, hats, and scarves to store, so everyone had a full-length locker. I still have nightmares about not being able to remember my locker combination.